Sentence examples for would be reductive from inspiring English sources

But that would be reductive.

I'm not sure if that would clarify anything, and I'm quite sure it would be reductive.

It would be reductive and misleading simply to describe Jesus as a leftie.

I don't want to list a point-by-point response – that would be reductive – but anyone who knows me will know that I take this very very seriously.

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.

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.

And I could just as easily write off Ionesco's questioning of "normal" behaviour as a precursor to RD Laingian hippy psycho-babble - but that would be wilfully reductive.

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

While the Galaxy S6 certainly has iPhone-style cues, it would be overly reductive to say it's at all a clone or copy.

Such an account of meaning determination would be "partially reductive" (Ginsborg 2011a, 230; 249): it would combine a naturalist component with a non-semantic but normative (and minimally intentional) component.

In sum, accepting as we do that obesity can have various causes, some assuredly behavioral and not all of which are associated with how one has been socialized into eating, it would be frankly reductive to link it all to mere nutritional ignorance alone.