The phrase "reductive reading" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a way of interpreting or understanding something in a simplified or narrow manner, potentially oversimplifying or overlooking important aspects. One example of using this phrase could be: "The critic's reductive reading of the novel failed to take into account the complex themes and character development present in the text."
A reductive reading would be that this is the inevitable result of growing up in East Molesey, Surrey.
It's a reductive reading — it's a very short story — but it is also an opposition that persists in the media, even into the digital era.
The narrative's remarkable construction, through which its ambitions "to talk through the way it was shaped" are so brilliantly realised, was – when it first emerged – subjected to precisely the reductive reading against which it militates.
(Scott) 'Trishna' (R, 1 48, in English and Hindi) Michael Winterbottom's redo of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," set in contemporary India and starring a wan Freida Pinto, owes a bit to Bollywood and too much to the director's reductive reading of Hardy's novel.
Just that such a reductive reading could belie other significant political difference between the two candidates.
Not that such a reductive reading was either the message or point of the ALL CAPS Pajiba piece, which as previously stated, definitely conveyed a very understandable sentiment.
From certain angles, the city the Joker threatens looks like New York, but it would be reductive to read the film too directly through the prism of 9/11 and its aftermath.
To be reductive — do read the whole thing — Graves carefully documented how Andrew W.K. has repeatedly been treated as an artist with infinite leeway to reinvent himself, while Lana del Rey is constantly fighting the idea that she is a construct, and somehow invalid.
The reductive biographical reading of fiction is the least interesting.
A treatment of the Leopold and Loeb murder case, Mr. Kalin's black-and-white film, filled with deliberately anachronistic details, was the first to deal explicitly with the killers' homosexuality, and does so in ways that escape any reductive political reading.
Dripping with vitriol and offensive, reductive imagery, The Junior Hockey Bible reads like a sexual assault guide book.
