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.
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.
"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.
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".
Don't let that glib, reductive description put you off, though: Festival of the Dead is a clear progression from the previous two Cut Hands albums – WB still comes up with new ways to make uniquely relentless and unforgiving music, even after 35 years in the game.
This book engages its topic with a breadth and level of detail that will enhance a reader's understanding of Islamic law, while conveying the complexity of a tradition all too often subjected to reductive and essentialized descriptions.
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.
So, when I saw her story, I thought, if that hadn't gotten better, if the medication hadn't worked, if I had been a woman in the seventies, maybe I would have gone over the edge, too". 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.
