Reductive in a sentence

Many modern philosophers of mind adopt either a reductive or non-reductive physicalist position, maintaining in their different ways that the mind is not something separate from the body.

Physicalism can be reductive or non-reductive.

Each poet brought their unique voice, perspective, and lived experiences to their work, and to pick just one as the ‘best’ could be reductive.

Freud’s reductive developmental stages, as well as his damning views on femininity, I would happily leave behind.

He found Modernism cold and post–Modernism reductive.

Some might say reductive.

The admittedly reductive math would leave nearly $4 billion for services like mental health treatment.

The vast majority of modern domestic adoptions are open, meaning the first parents — the term birth parents is sometimes considered reductive — remain in the child’s life in at least some capacity.

His command over Hindi, and the rhythms of his speech are so hypnotic that we get swept away, but even an actor of Tripathi’s calibre can’t do much with such a reductive script.

Iodine helps lower the risk for reductive stress that may lead to chronic diseases, such as diabetes, atherosclerosis and arthritis.

Mr Johnson called the “reductive” argument an attempt to “isolate and insulate one narrow issue in the case from all the rest of the evidence”.

That may sound reductive, but the first game from developer sunset visitor does so much with this often-derided genre that it’s endlessly impressive.

This doesn’t mean grappling with reductive questions of the sort implied by Farage and Johnson.

At the same time, a canon that acknowledges the achievements of only these artists is a reductive, racist, misogynist, and, let’s face it, boring, canon.

From the outside, a small country that played reductive football failed to win any of their five matches, and only scored twice.

And thank you so much for understanding that to talk about this particular character, or even at this point most female characters in film as 'strong women' is reductive.

But I think it is reductive to say a movie will be straightwashed if Elton isn’t screwing somebody.

But part of it isn't and that's what I'm saying and it's maybe a little reductive or whatever to to explain that.

Foraging in “the scrap heap of history”, the title poem traces the origins of race science and various means of classification, condemning the “white noose” of its reductive assumptions.

Hawley throws a lot at the screen, including a gun, a distraction (Pearl Amanda Dickson), a little piquant showboating (from Ellen Burstyn as Lucy’s grandmother) and some reductive ideas about women and power.