Sentence examples for seems reductive from inspiring English sources

If that seems reductive, it's because soundbites are, but they're no less significant for that.

Its simple finger-pointing at the egoism and materialism of the complacent bourgeoisie seems reductive.

Yet to quantify De Bruyne's influence only in figures seems reductive.

People tell me I'm white and I believe them …" Yet to bang on about race every time Jacobs-Jenkins's name comes up seems reductive, trite and an injustice.

If this is the one point of "Ike and Dick" that seems reductive, that's because Frank has already assembled a panoply of additional reasons for those ambivalent tears.

To see the Clash purely as a musical force seems reductive to say the least, but that's how they seemed to be viewed these days, as part of the great rock continuum, rather than a brief attempt to rupture that same continuum.

The term has come to seem reductive, even though it can be applied to books by Dostoyevsky, Faulkner and Richard Price.

His art can seem reductive, but the longer you look at it, the more you notice the options it leaves open.

And that's where Wiseman's art turns analytical: from the bewildering multiplicity of phenomena, he keenly and patiently focusses in on, and, from his vast amount of footage (often a hundred or more hours), distills the action such that, far from seeming reductive or limited, it seems to be the very essence of an institution.

Cutting down the sprawling catalog of Bowie is no mean feat, of course, but having so many selections only represent the classic-rock-canon-approved slice of the man's work seemed reductive; there was more to Bowie's appeal than face paint and flashy jumpsuits, as any of the eulogies that have poured forth since his death on 10 January could have shown.

This may seem reductive but reaction norm models based on three PC scores gave poorer goodness of fit in terms of the BIC.