Sentence examples for to be reductive from inspiring English sources

I know you don't want to be reductive.

But then, it's tricky to be reductive about her work, which is part of its joy.

Classification along a single line is bound to be reductive and inappropriate.

So if this orthodox Labour take on earning tends to be reductive, what about the notion of belonging?

It is not to be reductive about religion to accept that these three categories have a certain amount in common.

Chess is clearly a subtext of Endgame – his biographer Deirdre Bair says Beckett was clear on this point – but it is difficult to be reductive.

"One of the things we don't want to do is be reductive," he said, "or ignore the redundancies and follies of American policy".

NM It would be reductive to say it was entirely down to extreme Australian incompetence, but their sugar-paper middle-order, erratic bowlers and muddled selection were certainly key factors.

However, it can be reductive to say that every effect of these drugs is only due to HR reduction.

It would be reductive to say that these are just the Suede fans of old; he is very much generating a brand new following for his solo work.

There are multiple forces at play here, so it would be reductive to pin the decay of these sites on a single cause.