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"It's way too reductive to just think publishing has a constrained future," he said.

It would be too reductive to blame Gloucester's travails these days on the dilution by professionalism of their tribal culture.

Disappointed to see @TheEllenShow making a joke out of @NICKIMINAJ's butt, as if that's not founded on centuries of racism and misogynoir Vox called the sketch "too reductive to make any kind of point.

Although it may seem too reductive to describe people's perceptions by a scalar variable x, many topics can actually be projected to a one-dimensional struggle between two extreme, opposite options.

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It would be too reductive, however, to think that the sense of beauty occurs because of the activation of this structure alone.

Brigitte Woischnik, who co-edited the catalogue for a Leiter retrospective in Hamburg last year, dubbed him "the Promenader", which deftly suggests his relaxed but utterly attentive approach to street photography, a term that now seems too reductive when applied to his work.

Then she went to graduate school, but she found the statistical and analytical approach to animals too reductive.

Tom Baker roars his way through a rollicking account of the golden age of swords-and-sandals, an era when no historical representation was too reductive and no beard too unconvincing to merit a green light from cinema's moneymen.

Our general language surrounding mental health doesn't ever feel quite right, either – consider the phrase "nervous breakdown", a pair of words that feel both too sensationalist and reductive to describe an evolving disorder whose myriad symptoms can include insomnia, rigid anxiety, panic, intense gut discomfort, weight loss, total lack of libido and body tremors.

That's a fascinating psychological profile, but Biskind makes the odd choice of claiming that psychology is "too reductive" for this macho project: he's not going to try to understand the man, only "describe" him.

To try to pin marital unhappiness on the times is too reductive, and Haag's method — which entails interviewing about 50 people, and using online surveys, and going undercover on Web sites as a married person looking for an affair, and taking out a fake personal ad in The New York Review of Books — yields fairly predictable, repetitive and uninteresting anecdotes.

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