Sentence examples for was reductionist from inspiring English sources

To reduce this intricacy to a simple set of chemical inputs, as Liebig's followers did, was reductionist science at its worst.

"The emerging story was reductionist, flat, even somewhat trite in its characterization of the two brothers, one bad, one good," Kaczynski writes in his new memoir, Every Last Tie, out this week from Duke University Press.

The health of the soil, the health of what grew in it, and the health of those who ate what grew in it were "one great subject". To reduce this intricacy to a simple set of chemical inputs, as Liebig's followers did, was reductionist science at its worst.

Humor is reductionist, and to be funny she reduced "wife" to a list of chores.

"I don't see how nature can be reductionist," Spenser whispered to Heather.

Business should do more to reduce its impact, and not do less by just being reductionist.

Let's concede that this kind of comparison can be reductionist.

"It would be reductionist to suggest there's a rerun going on," Mr. de Blasio said.

Their function is reductionist: bringing complex data down to the simple level of numbers — zeros and ones.

But it is reductionist chemistry rather than biology that has ruled our industrial agriculture for more than half a century.

Updike's view of ordinary Americans may be reductionist or genteel, but at least he has one.