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Definition of reductive in English: reductiveadjective rɪˈdʌktɪvrəˈdəktɪv 1Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude. such a conclusion by itself would be reductive Example sentencesExamples - It's a reductive attitude that sells Scotland short and it's one I detest.
- Furthermore, the underlying suggestion of an inherent connection between physicality and culture seems awkwardly reductive.
- I thought we were getting overly reductive and simplistic.
- Any professors worthy of the title have strong views, of course, but they should also have a keen sense that those views may be wrong, or based on incomplete evidence, or highly reductive.
- I think people want the discourse to be elevated a little bit, to be a little more challenging with your subject matter, and with your characters, and not reductive about them.
- What is bad about all terror is when it is attached to religious and political abstractions and reductive myths that keep veering away from history and sense.
- Crass, cheap, reductive and - if viewed in a certain light - even rather homophobic?
- Their speech is poor, short, simplistic, and reductive of the complexity of the situation.
- Not only is this view reductive, it reinscribes the ethnocentrism of the Britain's imperialist past under the guise of making a ‘safer’ present through the same war-mongering means.
- Science, he argues, is necessarily reductive, and reductive science undermines humanist ideas about phenomena such as consciousness or free will.
- The need to escape the reductive view of sex work as only a career is another important theme in the book, which is developed in the chapters on France, Brazil, Lima, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.
- It is the kind of film that, without being overly simplistic or reductive, you could show to a sixth grade class of students and they would clearly understand ‘what's going down.’
- However, most of the major statements on critical pedagogy reinscribe a more reductive view of power in the classroom.
- He had retreated into a reductive cynicism, whose one belief, and satirical tactic, argued that behind every purportedly noble trend lurked greed, lust or madness.
- This might be too reductive, but there always seems to be a man, a woman and a child as the central axis.
- The imagination, ethics, and, ultimately, logic itself demand a less reductive view.
- But such a view is surely reductive: Young has not only been actively releasing albums throughout the 90s and into the 00s, but several of them been unexpectedly solid as well.
- The comparisons Malick makes are simplistic and reductive.
- We commonly understand stereotyping as a negative and reductive way of reinforcing power relations, eg: ‘Men are better at maths and science than women.’
- ‘It's the most reductive story in the song,’ says Marcus.
- 1.1 (with reference to art) minimal.
he combines his reductive abstract shapes with a rippled surface Example sentencesExamples - Powers's reductive designs playfully reference early works in abstract painting while breaking new territory with their highly creative use of materials.
- Later, in Los Angeles, he gave up painting - reductive abstractions whose compositions suggest some formal relationship to his later work in photography.
- His reductive abstract style, while increasingly planar and hard-edged, remained connected to aspects of the observed world.
- The reductive austerities of Minimalism were followed by a wide range of art movements that brought the body forcefully back into art - although not by the standard mimetic means.
- Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Lundeberg kept pace with her husband, who had developed his own manner of reductive abstraction based on forms of the human body.
- How is it that Max Cole's large acrylic paintings manage to look so fresh in the context of four full decades of reductive abstraction?
- What then is the difference between Minimalism and other expressions of the reductive sensibility?
- Intending a duet of complementary forms, both artists used organic materials to create compositions that are spare and reductive, without overlapping or extraneous elements.
- Perhaps it was the sheer variety of painting styles employed in these abstract paintings that made them seem somewhat imitative and reductive.
- Emphatically framed by the terrace walls, the Inland Sea looks painted, while Sugimoto's black-and-white photos are so reductive that they evoke abstract paintings.
- Her paintings are executed in vibrant palettes and flat, broad shapes, their reductive surfaces reminiscent of advertising billboards, as well as the cool, illustrative portraits of Alex Katz.
- His figures are made from reductive shapes - circles, squares, cones - that create a kind of shorthand of the body in much the same way that a cartoonist might employ characterisation techniques.
- Deeton's new works might be described as reductive minimalism for those who don't like reductive minimalism.
- Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of reductive minimalism.
- There is a reductive, Minimalist character to this work as well.
- Painting came off best, taking two primary directions: reductive abstraction and figurative work characterized by a dispassionate folksiness.
- Six subsequent landscapes become successively more reductive, as both the fiver and the horizon are eliminated from view.
- Jones is a master of the reductive impulse, a maker of rigorously crafted geometric abstractions that function as emblems of energy, generators of metaphor.
- The richly textured geometric shapes and reductive ground recall certain works by Nicholson, while the fractured landscape elements hint at Nash.
- Heard carelessly, this sound/music may not impress, its apparent minimalism striking the listener as overly reductive.
2Relating to chemical reduction. the reductive elimination of acetyl iodide Example sentencesExamples - Malic enzyme catalyses the reductive decarboxylation of malate to pyruvate.
- Their contention, supported by the evidence of Professor Baldwin, is that both oxidative and reductive pathways involve the enol.
- This pair may accept a proton either in the oxidative or reductive phase, which in turn causes release of a proton to the water pool.
- NO, with its unpaired electron, is a free radical capable of undergoing various oxidative and reductive reactions, whereas CO is relatively inert.
- Coke, which is pyrolyzed from coal in the coke oven, is a reductive reactant used in steel plants.
Definition of reductive in US English: reductiveadjectiverəˈdəktivrəˈdəktɪv 1Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude. such a conclusion by itself would be reductive Example sentencesExamples - Their speech is poor, short, simplistic, and reductive of the complexity of the situation.
- The comparisons Malick makes are simplistic and reductive.
- The imagination, ethics, and, ultimately, logic itself demand a less reductive view.
- Furthermore, the underlying suggestion of an inherent connection between physicality and culture seems awkwardly reductive.
- Crass, cheap, reductive and - if viewed in a certain light - even rather homophobic?
- He had retreated into a reductive cynicism, whose one belief, and satirical tactic, argued that behind every purportedly noble trend lurked greed, lust or madness.
- But such a view is surely reductive: Young has not only been actively releasing albums throughout the 90s and into the 00s, but several of them been unexpectedly solid as well.
- We commonly understand stereotyping as a negative and reductive way of reinforcing power relations, eg: ‘Men are better at maths and science than women.’
- Science, he argues, is necessarily reductive, and reductive science undermines humanist ideas about phenomena such as consciousness or free will.
- The need to escape the reductive view of sex work as only a career is another important theme in the book, which is developed in the chapters on France, Brazil, Lima, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.
- It's a reductive attitude that sells Scotland short and it's one I detest.
- This might be too reductive, but there always seems to be a man, a woman and a child as the central axis.
- ‘It's the most reductive story in the song,’ says Marcus.
- Any professors worthy of the title have strong views, of course, but they should also have a keen sense that those views may be wrong, or based on incomplete evidence, or highly reductive.
- What is bad about all terror is when it is attached to religious and political abstractions and reductive myths that keep veering away from history and sense.
- I thought we were getting overly reductive and simplistic.
- However, most of the major statements on critical pedagogy reinscribe a more reductive view of power in the classroom.
- I think people want the discourse to be elevated a little bit, to be a little more challenging with your subject matter, and with your characters, and not reductive about them.
- It is the kind of film that, without being overly simplistic or reductive, you could show to a sixth grade class of students and they would clearly understand ‘what's going down.’
- Not only is this view reductive, it reinscribes the ethnocentrism of the Britain's imperialist past under the guise of making a ‘safer’ present through the same war-mongering means.
- 1.1 (with reference to art) minimal.
he combines his reductive abstract shapes with a rippled surface Example sentencesExamples - Intending a duet of complementary forms, both artists used organic materials to create compositions that are spare and reductive, without overlapping or extraneous elements.
- Deeton's new works might be described as reductive minimalism for those who don't like reductive minimalism.
- Heard carelessly, this sound/music may not impress, its apparent minimalism striking the listener as overly reductive.
- There is a reductive, Minimalist character to this work as well.
- The reductive austerities of Minimalism were followed by a wide range of art movements that brought the body forcefully back into art - although not by the standard mimetic means.
- Her paintings are executed in vibrant palettes and flat, broad shapes, their reductive surfaces reminiscent of advertising billboards, as well as the cool, illustrative portraits of Alex Katz.
- His reductive abstract style, while increasingly planar and hard-edged, remained connected to aspects of the observed world.
- Later, in Los Angeles, he gave up painting - reductive abstractions whose compositions suggest some formal relationship to his later work in photography.
- Jones is a master of the reductive impulse, a maker of rigorously crafted geometric abstractions that function as emblems of energy, generators of metaphor.
- Six subsequent landscapes become successively more reductive, as both the fiver and the horizon are eliminated from view.
- Emphatically framed by the terrace walls, the Inland Sea looks painted, while Sugimoto's black-and-white photos are so reductive that they evoke abstract paintings.
- What then is the difference between Minimalism and other expressions of the reductive sensibility?
- The richly textured geometric shapes and reductive ground recall certain works by Nicholson, while the fractured landscape elements hint at Nash.
- Powers's reductive designs playfully reference early works in abstract painting while breaking new territory with their highly creative use of materials.
- Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of reductive minimalism.
- Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Lundeberg kept pace with her husband, who had developed his own manner of reductive abstraction based on forms of the human body.
- Perhaps it was the sheer variety of painting styles employed in these abstract paintings that made them seem somewhat imitative and reductive.
- Painting came off best, taking two primary directions: reductive abstraction and figurative work characterized by a dispassionate folksiness.
- His figures are made from reductive shapes - circles, squares, cones - that create a kind of shorthand of the body in much the same way that a cartoonist might employ characterisation techniques.
- How is it that Max Cole's large acrylic paintings manage to look so fresh in the context of four full decades of reductive abstraction?
2Relating to chemical reduction. Example sentencesExamples - Coke, which is pyrolyzed from coal in the coke oven, is a reductive reactant used in steel plants.
- NO, with its unpaired electron, is a free radical capable of undergoing various oxidative and reductive reactions, whereas CO is relatively inert.
- Malic enzyme catalyses the reductive decarboxylation of malate to pyruvate.
- Their contention, supported by the evidence of Professor Baldwin, is that both oxidative and reductive pathways involve the enol.
- This pair may accept a proton either in the oxidative or reductive phase, which in turn causes release of a proton to the water pool.
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