Sentence examples for reductive picture from inspiring English sources
"reductive picture" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used to describe a simplistic or oversimplified understanding of a complex topic or situation. It can also refer to a distorted or biased portrayal of something. Example: The politician's speech painted a reductive picture of the current economic climate, ignoring important factors and failing to provide a comprehensive solution.
So conceived, this critique of Cognitivism is continuous with Bratman's critique of Davidson's early reductive picture of intention.
Finally, though, because of its obvious, reductive condescension, the picture is a half-hour too long.
All representational art works like this, from ancient Greek vase paintings to Picasso's cartoon babes, but few artists have ever explored the reductive essentials of picturing the world as relentlessly as Julian Opie.
We need only look to viral news website the Chive's recent use of one woman's anorexia recovery pictures as proof of how reductive this logic is: the pictures were used in reverse, as evidence of an "amazing" weight-loss story.
IT'S sort of like haiku, very reductive," he said of writing to match the pictures Mr. Burns and his researchers come up with.
But to read the book would involve analysis, which is reductive thought; the range of nuance in these pictures is irreducible and overwhelming.
Of course, film as a medium is also reductive.
One conceivable picture, although remains to be seen, is that the ETC provides the reductive force for the possible iron-catalyzed artemisinin activation.
But there is also a reductive side to this process: the expanses of color and texture in Mr. Fair's pictures often bring to mind slick, printed versions of Abstract Expressionist painting.
Reductive accounts of the period pinpoint these trends as coalescing in a 1977 group exhibition called "Pictures" at Artist's Space in SoHo, an event that has also come to define a "generation".
