Ingalls writes fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness.
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Aravena likes to use the word "irreducible" to describe Elemental's approach.
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Good art is irreducible to attitudes, and great art demolishes them.
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Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it.
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A bigger obstacle was controlling for the irreducible complexity of human behavior.
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What makes Flake's rendition unique is the irreducible nature of his criticisms.
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A snapshot that ends up feeling like a panorama, irreducible and immersive.
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Certainly, I was aware of the larger concerns, the irrational, irreducible elements.
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Mr Maher sets out five "essential and irreducible features" that define Salafi-Jihadism.
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She prefers words that approach the irreducible facticity of her beloved baseball statistics.
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But in all of those formats, the secret, irreducible unit is the act.
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Amidst the fumbling of words, Hiller carefully indicates the irreducible nature of these experiences.
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But that ossified core, that irreducible and unretractable thing that's leftover, what is it?
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To my parents, the irreducible core of my identity was being Pakistani and being Muslim.
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It's an irreducible tension that's never quite resolved, because resolution would be beside the point.
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Censorship may limit what can be seen and told, but these narratives are irreducible to stereotype.
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I recognized them for what they were, irrational and irreducible, as uncanny as they were compelling.
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Like all of Kono's characters, she invites our deep and sustained interest but remains ultimately irreducible.
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The point of the essay is that there's an irreducible conflict between orthodox Christianity and political liberalism.
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It is this monumental — and irreducible — fact that sets 'bio-moms' apart from other superbly qualified parents.
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These layers of specificity find an irreducible counterpoint in "Well (elh version)," an ordinary glass of water.
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"This is an irreducible conflict as far as (the Maoists) are concerned," said Ajai Sahni, ICM executive director.
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He has argued that consciousness is a fundamental and irreducible feature of the cosmos (an idea known as panpsychism).
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A computer as witless as I am—how can we maintain our irreducible humanity in the face of that?
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We do not tend to think of personality tests as akin to works of art: unique, complex, irreducible, infinitely signifying.
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"Une Vie Exemplaire," Floc'h A succinct and comprehensive guide for living made up of irreducible bite-size wisdoms, exquisitely illustrated.
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Soccer hooliganism is fighting for an irreducible reason: supporters of one team fight another because they are supporting different teams.
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Simply because having a baby in America costs a lot of money, the link between abortion and economics is irreducible.
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The Declaration of Independence holds its truths to be "self-evident" — axiomatic, irreducible, not needing justification because they justify themselves.
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Billy is an irreducible figure, grounded in the same sort of elemental silliness that keeps kids up at sleepover parties.
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But, as Kipnis explained, while the two are intrinsically linked, their individual work contains irreducible effects specific to their discipline.
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That measure will help "cover, by the end of 2019, operating expenditures as well as irreducible expenditures for public infrastructure", it said.
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Trump's decision to lie about his commitment to facts may be the most irreducible statement he's ever made about his own character.
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Almost any type of investing requires us to accept irreducible uncertainty: Risk that, in the end, we just can't get rid of.
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The aspects of his temperament held up for mockery — the hyper-intellectualism, the snobbery, the irreducible Jewishness — doubled as weapons of seduction.
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"All really good writing is mysterious, because it's irreducible," Offill said, but there was general agreement that "Jesus' Son" is especially so.
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Heat and empty space in her work defeat modernity, defeat logic, technology and even love, throwing us back upon our irreducible selves.
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None of which was an issue for the three improvising guitarists on the bill, each a distinct and irreducible highlight of the evening.
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It turns out that the job of a real financial adviser involves helping people make important decisions in the face of irreducible uncertainty.
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But some say that simply revealing the rules is insufficient, because formal criteria can never capture the irreducible moral and political decisions moderators make.
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New phenomena in classical physics have uncanny similarities to quantum puzzles, and we know that their workings have nothing to do with irreducible randomness.
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The wave function "combines—or binds—distant particles into a single irreducible reality," as Sheldon Goldstein, a mathematician and physicist at Rutgers University, has written.
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" But he also says the tax cut that was enacted late 2017 was "the irreducible minimum of what we needed to turn our economy around.
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She pitches changeup after deadpan changeup early on, mimicking the fantasy-logic of various types of business rhetoric while weaving together a stranger, irreducible structure.
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At a time when conceptual art ruled, it took guts to claim that, in fact, color is concept, and perhaps the irreducible core of painting.
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It is an important step toward cleaning up the mess that exists at Guantánamo, and reducing the so-called irreducible minimum who remain in limbo.
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Orlean's work in general has that elusive quality to it: exquisitely written, consistently entertaining and irreducible to anything so obvious and pedestrian as a theme.
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But there is a certain probability that is irreducible, that something may happen to us, despite our best intentions, despite everything we try to do.
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Strong, sovereign nations, he said, can join together to fight common threats and constitute the irreducible building blocks of world institutions like the United Nations.
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The first is that of Carl Nielsen: burrow into yourself until you hit gold, producing an irreducible, sui-generis style that communicates your essential self.
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The provision could help close the facility, he added, as detainees who are part of the so-called "irreducible minimum" could plead guilty in civilian court.
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Directed with care by Lee Sunday Evans, this irreducible, transcendent "Macbeth" commands engagement as it plumbs the internal life of these characters, revealing their fragile emotions.
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The irreducible core of their dispute is the question of legal abortion — whether it represents progress or regress, a necessary human right or a grave evil.
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But what they suggest, unlike the octagons, is that as long as they're really inextricable, several incomplete attempts can merge into one perfect, irreducible new shape.
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Why should humans all choose roughly the same places to identify transitions, when color is just photons, irreducible quanta of light on a continuous spectrum of wavelengths?
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It arose out of one of the most mundane domestic circumstances—the fact that the members of a family often differ in tiny but stubbornly irreducible ways.
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Which is just to say that while states and districts have real leans and real tendency, there is an irreducible element of chance and unpredictability to politics.
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The one irreducible fact of this bizarre election is this: The only way Donald Trump does not become president of the United States is if Hillary Clinton does.
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"I am reduced to my irreducible self," the poet and essayist Wendell Berry wrote in "An Entrance to the Woods," after camping alone along Kentucky's Red River Gorge.
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"'Battles Won' is a brand idea that taps into the irreducible essence of the Marine Corps, which is the fighting spirit of the Marine," said Marines spokesman Gunnery Sgt.
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But tax and accounting issues needed tackling so that the "irreducible core" of hard-to-transition Libor contracts would be as small as possible for tackling later, Bailey said.
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Following invigorating back-to-back talks, The Creators Project caught up with Doug Aitken to talk mystery, dead tech, and the importance of experiencing things at their most irreducible.
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From there, it is only a short jump to the endlessly malleable politics of Trump, in which the only irreducible fact is whether someone voted for him or didn't.
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It is an irresistible type of research: to step through the repeating mirror, the infinite replication of the digital screen, and touch and taste with our own singular irreducible bodies.
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Often people invoke policy goals in order to get things done; what's at stake is whether these tragedies should be regarded as irreducible lightning strikes or problems with potential solutions.
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"We do not foreclose the possibility that a future plaintiff may be able to show clear injury-in-fact that satisfies the irreducible constitutional minimum of standing," the court said.
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Although Uslé belongs to a younger, postmodern generation as opposed to these venerated modernist masters, he too wanted to make what Rothko called a "naked painting," something basic and irreducible.
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That something is not their love of football, nor their sense of selfhood, nor even a common language, but rather an irreducible bond of commonality – a fierce affinity of the soul.
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Thinkers since ancient Greece, if not before, have found themselves obsessed with the true nature of the senses; even modern philosophers get tripped up discussing qualia, the irreducible stuff of consciousness.
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Together, the gradated bands, which seem be reflecting light off the surface, and the flat, solidly colored bands juxtaposed against them form the "nucleus" or most central, irreducible part of each painting.
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As he sees it, if race becomes an irreducible category in politics, rather than being incorporated into universal claims of justice, it's a weapon that can be picked up and used by anyone.
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Berlin's answer was that Tolstoy was a fox who thought he was a hedgehog: He wanted to have a general system, but what he demonstrated instead was the teeming and irreducible complexity of war.
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Add to this the fact that he seems to have at his disposal a number of styles and ways of applying paint, and it becomes apparent that there is something irreducible about Williams's work.
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Perhaps the best I can do is to say that Laura is irreducible to example, that she is more complex than any structure of words, that she develops even as the words remain fixed.
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Peterson says that IQ is a single, irreducible heritable trait, and then argues that smart people have more cognitively difficult, higher-paying jobs, while people with IQs below 83 have no place in modern society.
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Step 2: Acknowledge that there is a serious problem on the left when it comes to speech, and that protecting the speech rights of all Americans is an irreducible and non-negotiable principle of liberalism.
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Success is almost certainly a matter of irreducible uncertainty; winners sit in Taleb's fat tail — which means even the best investors aren't able to deploy too much in the way of data to guide their decision.
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The irreducible worth of every person, the insistence that every life is precious, the radical and necessary notion that we are part of a single human family — that is the story that we all must tell.
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No matter how fearsome the political and cultural affronts that history produces might become, our last, irreducible possession, which would be plain to us if we were suddenly placed upon a barren desert, is respect for human dignity.
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But her piece doesn't address what happens to those inmates she refers to as the "irreducible minimum"—men supposedly too dangerous to be released to a foreign government—beyond relocating them to a supermax prison on U.S. soil.
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Young people in New York have a tendency to treat these convenience stores like magical realms, a unique expression of New York's nonstop bustle and irreducible strangeness, instead of the ordinary feature of any urban landscape that they are.
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If Minimalism was about getting down to irreducible essentials, the limit – Carl Andre placing bricks or sheets of lead on the floor of a pristine white cube – Plimack Mangold went one step further and got down to the floor itself.
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One common response to this view is that A.I. experts are particularly worried about learning machines, and that something about the complexity of these systems gives rise to emergent properties that are metaphysically irreducible to the sum of their parts.
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I could say more — about trauma, sex, paradox, magic — but only at the cost of further reducing this irreducible novel, which seeks instead to spread its readers beyond their borders with its fertile intelligence and its even more abundant heart.
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Intelligent design theorists will protest that they do have good reason for thinking evolutionary theory inadequate: for example, the appearance in the biological world of "irreducible complexity," intricate systems that couldn't have arisen through a series of stepwise alterations as evolutionary theory requires.
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From its shape and symbols, one can see that this hollow stone in which grains were ground is irreducible to its alimentary function and is rather part of a world of meanings, skills, rights, which people used to recognize themselves and feel at home.
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And her dividend, her irreducible, like violet down, thrown to the seals, starfish, wolf spiders on the edge-of-Pacific floor, I like to follow her from matter into matter, my little quester, as if she went to sea in a pea-green boat.
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My father was too ill to speak by then, but he still had bright, happy, expressive eyes — they remained bright until his final days — and the look on his face in that moment has become one of the irreducible landmarks of my interior life.
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They argue that the Lib Dems did so badly in last year's general election, tumbling to eight parliamentary seats, partly because they lack an irreducible core of voters who identify with the party, whose allegiance is such that it can be mobilised even in tough electoral times.
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Here, however, Harker quotes the biologist Michael Behe, perhaps the most sophisticated advocate of intelligent design, who has admitted that even in the case of an apparently irreducible complex system, "one cannot definitively rule out the possibility of an indirect, circuitous route" by which it was produced.
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In the alternative and true story rehearsed by many, human difference is irreducible, and there is no "neutral observation language" (a term of the philosopher Thomas Kuhn's in his 1962 book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions") that can bridge, soften, blur and even erase the differences.
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In the meantime, you must keep going, aware that should you feel chills every now and then, or an uncanny tingling in your blood, goosebumps, you must look closely at whatever might be advancing in whatever form, as those waves of irreducible longing wash over you.
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Far more than the people who think hip-hop is run by the Illuminati or that vaccines give your children autism, the flat earthers seem to be tapping into something real, the sense that there's a vast and irreducible wrongness about the world and the way we view it.
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It was what Democrats have been trying to avoid throughout this entire primary season: the idea that there's an irreducible conflict between emphasizing economic inequality and emphasizing issues of "identity politics" — the disadvantages faced by people whose race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or (dis)ability isn't the one society prefers.
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In the meantime, the irreducible stories of individuals, such as the one Jamison tells about herself—the great and prickly autobiographies of addicts struggling to understand their thrall and teaching us about ourselves in ways beyond what they intend—may be the best balm against our inadequacy that we have.
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No matter how the poem has been constructed, when poiesis has been achieved, the words of the poem leap spontaneously to a new interactive level (irreducible to any previous level), a level representing the self-organization of a cry emanating from nowhere and no one, but pervading all of language.
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" Metahaven tells The Creators Project, "The technological mega-structure that the film hints at is a phenomenon which distorts, deforms, and reproduces reality in its own image: YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and other interfacial regimes and platforms enable and condition propaganda, and at the same time make it irreducible to the State.
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A despairing vision to be sure, though Christopher Hitchens pointed out that Orwell's own commitment in his life to continually seek "elusive but verifiable truth" was a testament to human tenacity and "that tiny, irreducible core of the human personality that somehow manages to put up a resistance to deceit and coercion."
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Here's another way to see the trend: On the second point, about predicting an open Arctic sea, a new study concludes that the chaotic nature of climate puts big fundamental limits — an irreducible two-decade-wide window — on efforts to forecast when the Arctic Ocean could be essentially free of ice in late summer.
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"Miami" is an older song of his, but now that he's signed to G.O.O.D. Music, it's being revived for his major-label debut EP, "GOOD Job, You Found Me." On this remix, he even nudges Pusha T, he of the irreducible snarl, toward a stop-start flow that sounds like boasts being delivered backward.
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Though its tone is almost always calmly descriptive, whatever it describes is always somehow something else and not itself, even when it comes to things like, oh, say, "the fine / loose earth, and the powdered gypsum, / the powdered lime and the unsized stone" — materials that for some other kind of poet might be avatars of irreducible is-ness.
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Like Mishan, I grew up in an Asian-American household in Honolulu (both of us were in fact editors on our high school's newspaper, albeit a few years apart), and like her, I understand that to be Asian in America is to carry the burden of a special foreignness, one irreducible even by multiple generations of citizenship.
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In fact, the one irreducible character trait of a Trump Lawyer is that he or she is willing to take on Trump as a client, one who often either doesn't solicit their advice or simply ignores it; who subverts their legal strategy on national television; who requires them to deny facts that he has confirmed and confirm facts that he has denied; who won't stop tweeting inflammatory, threatening and clearly false statements.
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You'd be a little emo too if the irreducible unit of your job involved juggling variables including not only the choice of coffee bean and how long it was roasted, but also water pressure, water temperature, total coffee mass, size of individual coffee grains (ranging from 114 to 2124 μm—that's grind setting), and the degree to which those grains are packed together, all working to optimally extract the more than 21.1,210 different molecules that contribute to taste and smell.
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