Sentence examples for reductive description from inspiring English sources

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Is it not a reductive description.

The two images described above, though, challenge that reductive description.

I hope that Mr. Kehr's reductive description of "The Third Man" will not discourage readers from seeing it.

"Shoegazing" seems a painfully reductive description for what Pinkshinyultrablast do: there are fiddly math-rock rhythms (Umi), wistful electronica (Holy Forest) and a thunderous, frenetic dynamism to their live performance that's more akin to punk than ponderous effects-pedal worship.

Jazz cooperates with Indian music, but that's a reductive description: it's really just improvised song over loose composition, in which rhythm is taken to its boundaries of speed and precision and in other places presented fairly sparsely.

The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes this novel as "one of the key texts of the women's movement of the 1960s", a reductive description that would have infuriated Lessing, partly because she hated to be pigeonholed, and also because she understood fiction to be infinitely more varied and complex than one "movement".

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She's humbled to learn that their marriages work as well as or better than those made in the U.S.A. Her reductive descriptions of dates (and we've all spoken them) are ultimately, reassuringly offset by the admission that she's not so hot herself.

He wanted to get beyond the reductive, five-word description of Chubbuck's final act that you read online, and create a portrait of a person in pain someone who tried her best every day, and then stopped trying.

Being ambitious, capacious books, any attempt at description feels reductive.

It's part of the mix on The ArchAndroid but it's uselessly reductive as a general description.

The label yuppie actually started out as a benign (if reductive) demographic marker, a description of all those young people who were moving back to cities and discovering imported cheese and celebrating the annual arrival of the Beaujolais nouveau.

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