But, not to be the most reductive human being, people find it very frustrating how reductive I can be, but we're all gonna get devoured by the sun soon.
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It would be nice, but also reductive … and ridiculous.
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They're much more reductive, which is ... I blame Twitter.
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It would be reductive but accurate to call it 'robotic.
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I know that's reductive, but I don't think it's unfair.
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Music history — and especially jazz history — is perhaps more reductive.
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I'm not entirely comfortable with how reductive it has become.
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I am not interested in being a reductive formal artist.
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The franchise fatigue argument, on the other hand, feels reductive.
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This is true, strictly speaking, but it's also strangely reductive.
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When people say that, that is very reductive to me.
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In another movie, this divide might seem reductive, even reactionary.
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It's indulgent, but to call it "bad" would be reductive.
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To her it was reductive; to me it was inspiring.
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That's a convenient, if reductive, way of thinking about it.
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It can be a frustratingly reductive vision of world peace.
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That physical appearance is the only basis of attraction is reductive.
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Sometimes, a loaded term like "right-wing" can be needlessly reductive.
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Again, I really want to avoid this reductive, mono-causal explanation.
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Yet the tar and bird metaphors are reductive, labored and repetitive.
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This might be a reductive way of looking at the Oscars.
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You do not have to make it as reductive as it is.
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Dismantling the reductive Gay Best Friend trope is not a new conversation.
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Thinking about it solely in terms of clunky digital assistants seems reductive.
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"The minimalist reductive style comes down to a single thesis," Robles said.
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If the setup seems a bit reductive and possibly condescending, just wait.
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They are an aggregate of pathologies whose representation only reinforces reductive ideas.
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"It's very reductive to say 'They lied, they lied,'" Ms. Novick said.
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It's obviously reductive to attribute the outcome of any election specifically to Facebook.
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It's because they are so reductive about how we assign blame to people.
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In their books, both Yergeau and Rodas counter reductive clinical assumptions about autism.
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He is more likely to be a psychopath, but even that is reductive.
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Directly comparing is often needlessly reductive, but in this case, it feels useful.
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If anything, though, merely weighing Guardiola's worth in gold and silverware is reductive.
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JS: You employ a reductive set of elements to make your recent work.
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Is medical aid in dying a reductive response to a highly complex problem?
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I don't mean to be reductive about Stanley's process, but it's not baroque.
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Nevertheless, it would be reductive to dismiss this art show as empty propaganda.
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The Byzantines were, to be somewhat reductive, not terribly keen on sporting events.
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Others criticized her brazen language and reductive use of identity politics as a platform.
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Sleek and reductive, these are windows that could be spec'd for a stylish bunker.
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Sure, these gendered portrayals may be reductive, but the video makes a good point.
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I don't believe science necessarily leads to reductive explanations nor that it levels individuality.
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Calling Hayao Miyazaki the "Walt Disney of Japan" is reductive, but not entirely inaccurate.
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Including "female-friendly" among your qualifying parameters might seem reductive in a job search.
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That fantasy was pretty reductive, and women's place in the fantasy became more unreal.
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While that's no doubt part of what's going on, it's also far too reductive.
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Indeed, many of the photos feature extremely reductive and inaccurate portrayals of the condition.
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For too long, people have tolerated [ARTIST] and their trite, reductive take on [GENRE].
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Still, I loathed the thought of seeing white liberals chant rote and reductive slogans.
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Linking it solely to mental health is reductive and doesn't tell the whole story.
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In part, that's because the theory these devices were built on was too reductive.
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However, that approach is reductive, and in some cases, actively harmful in my opinion.
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Hip-hop was reductive compared to the string-drenched soul of the late 60s.
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The reductive answer to the question of "why" is that homeless people don't vote.
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But journalism's reductive picture of society makes America more polarized and feeds the extremes.
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It can be a frustratingly reductive vision, an Occam's razor theory of world peace.
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This is correct, but it's reductive to construe it as a strict either/or.
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I also want to return to your other concern about the reductive potential of neuroaesthetics.
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Not only is "political correctness" invoked to reinforce prejudices, it is often simplistic and reductive.
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The horizontal bands of muted pastel colors evoke Agnes Martin, Minimalism, and reductive geometric painting.
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In his review, Roger Ebert called the movie "Twilight for boys," which is rather reductive.
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Because of this progression, the notion of the 'gay icon' feels both outdated and reductive.
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To be extremely reductive, it's kind of like 24 but with a lot more reading.
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The reality is that boiling down Apple's design to those two contradictory explanations is reductive.
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Lawson's subjects resist any reductive or sociological reading we might try to apply to them.
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However, some were quick to point out that the theme seemed reductive and unrealistic.—Dr.
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In spite of CoorDown's good intentions, its message was simultaneously received as equalizing and reductive.
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But it would be reductive and totally sexist to remember Loose as simply Timbaland's triumph.
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There was an interesting reductive quality to punk rock compared progressive rock and psychedelic music.
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This room is a condensed exploration of how protean and adventurous reductive aesthetics can be.
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Describing oneself in terms of a "type" strikes some people as pretty reductive—stupid, even.
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That sort of reductive logic leads down a very dangerous -- and, unfortunately, well-worn -- path.
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The reductive version is simpler and easier to abuse: Fact is fiction, and anything goes.
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The second is reductive, ignoring the evolution and success of market-based approaches to impact.
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Kandinsky's formal experiments with reductive woodcuts, Courtney said, particularly helped pave the road towards abstraction.
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Mr Curtis: Well, you are being reductive because placebos are actually as powerful as real things.
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" Madonna expressed her feelings on the tune year later, telling ABC News the song "feels reductive.
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It was still reductive of her career in general and her thoughts on MMA specifically, though.
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Noble thinks that the tag, when considered in connection with the venue, proves a tad reductive.
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I know it's a reductive, stupid question, but I've actually listened to some very good responses.
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Overall, the study suggests that the way we talk about "religion" is overly reductive and simplistic.
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While his use of bandages lends itself to this reading, I think it becomes too reductive.
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That comparison isn't too reductive, as "Injustice 2" comes from the same Chicago-based NetherRealm Studios.
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Maybe the execution wasn't the greatest and some songs were too reductive, but I like that.
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But there's something cathartic about its Purple America spirit, contrived and reductive as it can be.
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In fact, the two are presented as cut from the same cloth in Kushner's reductive narration.
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But at the same time, there is something reductive about the last third of the book.
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To represent this span of human history as a set of simple stripes may seem reductive.
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It is too easy and reductive to see this painting simply as a rejection of abstraction.
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The idea that our affection and esteem must manifest itself in yet another sweater is reductive.
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FB: I love them, and they help me not to see this in really reductive ways.
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That always seemed reductive, but Grizzly Bear have always been a hard band to pin down.
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Identity in Acker is in a tension with the reductive, what is seen, what is said.
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But did the women of the movement simply embrace these reductive roles, as Greer seems to argue?
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They always like to make it into ... I find it completely, the whole thing reductive and ridiculous.
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Yet however reductive, these design miniatures still help form our idea of what the future can be.
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Video games (and future virtual reality simulations) can only give us a reductive version of these experiences.
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And such reductive labels encourage people to judge off stereotypes and assumptions rather than complexity and depth.
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But the plot's reductive pretense revolved around the fact that some of the suitors were secretly straight.
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Yet in Kamaiyah's case, the familiar story is awfully reductive, and it's one she's eager to avoid.
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Jennifer eats the men who lust after her, turning that aforementioned reductive view of her against them.
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I don't think you're being reductive but I think you're reflecting the managerial dryness of our time.
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And though it may be somewhat reductive to say it, it's still the truth: Men make more.
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The deeply complex relationship to water and horizon is engaged in complex, evocative, and never reductive ways.
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"It feels reductive," Madonna said of Gaga's song "Born This Way" in an interview with ABC News.
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Secondly, writing off years of post-recession uncertainty, and increasing (and often overwhelming) student debt, is reductive.
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Geminis tend to have big personalities, which makes them easy targets for reductive, albeit pretty funny, stereotypes.
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But the question also isn't quite as black and white as that reductive take makes it seem.
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Critics have also taken issue with the reductive ways other POC characters were portrayed on the show.
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The idea of being lectured or chastised for behaving in a certain way feels alienating and reductive.
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It's not only that she wants to defend her novels from reductive comparisons to her own life.
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Kaufman is still sometimes referred to as a cult comic, a category that skews reductive decades later.
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The reductive discussion of the report described it as a plan to eliminate initiatives for these children.
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And of course, these are only two (reductive) examples of potentially useful metrics for public health responders.
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We must remain vigilant against easy, reductive frameworks, perhaps especially those that appeal to our own biases.
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Hate-pieces, mean hashtags, reductive eye-rolling at his various stances, a nit-picking of every quote.
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But much too often it presents the most cartoonish and reductive picture of a very intricate world.
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If the article was simple and reductive, the conversation that followed tended to break down in negativity.
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It is reductive to think that blackness, as it is represented in art, should be only symbolic.
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If I have any other complaint about the book, it is that it is somewhat psychologically reductive.
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Even if these displays were reductive or exoticising, these clubs were early incubators of global cultural exchanges.
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But I think that we managed it without being too maudlin or saccharine or reductive or simplistic.
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For this reason it is reductive to see his work through the single lens of his suicide.
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But that doesn't mean that I am so reductive as to be unable to have broader conversations.
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The reductive idea of being "just like them"—of being a cis copy—is growing ever dated.
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But to assume Dockery's character Letty is that is too easy, too reductive, and possibly just plain wrong.
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Otis Jones proves that painting's parameters continue to be commodious — even reductive painting has not been used up.
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I think I've been more declarative with how I think and feel, but that can also feel reductive.
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In the most reductive version of the new biologism, life is programmed, and culture is simply the interface.
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But the things that make the explanation "parsimonious and simple," as Yglesias put it, also make it reductive.
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But these heterosexual tropes are pretty reductive and fail to take into account that women like sex, too.
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But that's a very reductive description of what the monarch and the president are likely to talk about.
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But we should celebrate their achievements as Americans this winter without co-opting their stories into reductive narratives.
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It's a reductive look at the complexity of female friendships that's not unwatchable, but struggles to be compelling.
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This seems reductive, and has a modestly deflating effect on both a fine performance and a fine production.
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It feels reductive to call it an exploration of the limits of a medium to describe an experience.
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It sounds dumb and maybe kind of reductive, but if you own your phone, you own your phone.
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However, the image was condemned by critics as a reductive misrepresentation of an entire culture and personal legacy.
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This group also disliked the idea of equating menstruation with womanhood, which they saw as reductive gender essentialism.
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Despite, or perhaps because of this reductive vocabulary of forms, her paintings radiate with an earthy, open intensity.
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The suggestion is "you're obligated to tell both sides of the story," and that's very reductive to me.
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To be reductive: there's no point selling your shiny new iPhone to the world if it doesn't work.
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And many images of young Arabs and North Africans in Western media are, to put it kindly, reductive.
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While we have more opportunities, the historical context has not shifted significantly, and that is troubling and reductive.
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Think Lord of the Rings if it was dropped into the Gossip Girl universe (and a lot less reductive.)
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I'm no fan of Perry's — his portrayal of Black women is annoying at best, and harmfully reductive at worst.
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I think it's lazy, reductive, and I don't know a single writer or a single artist who likes it.
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But it also means not letting reductive headlines about spending get the better of you or get you down.
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While some tarot fans believe this approach to readings is too reductive, we'd rather think of it as efficient.
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Yeah. But I also think it's sort of reductive to call that a whole kind of part of music.
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Cat-and-mouse is almost a reductive way of describing it—it's the game that actors dream to play.
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They are grouped in categories of gestural, geometric, reductive, and "eccentric" abstraction, supplemented with fabric arts, ceramics, and decoration.
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It may be a bit reductive, but there is a process to it that can be roughly blocked out.
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Delia Kropp: I started to realize the kinds of stories being given to us were often exploitative and reductive.
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Was it, for want of being reductive, as cool a world as it seems to an outsider like myself?
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These small moments help the larger themes cleave to the narrative in a way that feels illustrative, not reductive.
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She's right to highlight those perils, to denounce the tribalism and reductive scientific materialism that can motivate ancestry searches.
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Because far too often they are used in a manner reductive of that complexity and slighting of those interconnections.
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Still, as is often the case with reductive reasoning, the "remake" label stuck in the mind of many moviegoers.
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While Pollock's form of applying paint led to stain painting, Mullican's reductive application did not exert a similar influence.
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That way, you can regain your self-respect, but at the cost of a reductive understanding of your responsibilities.
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I don't think most of the people making these arguments are that reductive, I think they're a lot more sophisticated in what they're saying [about] how privilege operates along different dimensions in our society, but the way it's actually talked about appears very reductive, and I think that's a really significant problem.
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The whole "it's a feature not a company, it's a this, not a company," I also find those very reductive.
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When I talk with people, particularly Christians, but others as well, many people reject the reductive nature of those terms.
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Surely in 2018, we've moved beyond the reductive stereotype that gay guys have "superior" taste to their straight male counterparts?
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Of course, it would be reductive to say every night out resembling the above is wholly hedonistic, self-destructive behavior.
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It almost feels reductive to call Fortnite a battle royale game — really, it's becoming every game ever, all at once.
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It's the kind of stark, reductive imagery that can also help an esoteric issue cut through the modern media roar.
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Dissecting someone's star quality can feel reductive, but never more so with someone like Ryder, whose appeal can defy definition.
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When such a reductive statement is casually made, it tends to erase an entire community's unique cultural and historical experience.
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The whole "it's a feature not a company, it's a this not a company," I also find those very reductive.
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It would be as reductive to call Wendell Berry a conservationist as it would be to call him an essayist.
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"Some Sextets," she said, could "be a way to challenge and complicate the more reductive interpretations" of Ms. Rainer's legacy.
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It would be reductive to call Patrick Roger, a Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman of France), a simple chocolatier.
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As history, though, it's another story — at once tendentious and undercooked, proposing a reductive, essentially conspiratorial account of recent events.
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This is precisely the sort of dangerous, reductive thinking that encourages people to discontinue their medications, often to disastrous effect.
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I've always been struck by the sensationalist and reductive way that sixties and seventies cults are portrayed in the media.
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There is nothing played-out or reductive about this genre-bending debut, which is equal parts memoir and high fantasy.
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Class reductive leftism is a figment of the political imagination roused by those who have made their peace with neoliberalism.
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Why didn't they see it, weren't geniuses what ... I mean, I'm being reductive there but you know what I mean.
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I think people have been very reductive about the First Amendment, especially when it comes to these social media companies.
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Reductive models of biology and restrictive understandings of the distinction between sex and gender are used in defence of this position.
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In the end, it may be reductive to point to one single film and credit it for sparking an entire movement.
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What do you do if there are 100 people in the room, and one of them thinks your work is "reductive"?
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He also insinuates that hip hop is a popular vehicle for anger, a viewpoint that is reductive, racially insensitive, and harmful.
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Their conclusion is a tad reductive for some tastes—like saying anyone with an Apple Mac could come up with "Satisfaction".
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It might sound reductive or even eking on offensive, but in his own words, Robert Yang makes "obscenely gay" art games.
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Zecevic specifically chose not to offer testing, which she says can be reductive in terms of a woman's overall reproductive health.
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We probably don't need to say why that's unfair and reductive — so we'll let the stars do the talking for us.
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We're continually pushing back against monolithic or reductive notions of what it means to be queer and/or trans* and Muslim.
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That includes being specific and rigorous about the terms of the demands, and not accepting a reductive, simplistic version of them.
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Perhaps you'll pass the time wondering whether Hollywood needs to give the reductive, crazy, sex-obsessed female character a permanent rest.
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For many, the reduction of the waist persistently reflects a reductive view of femininity, limited to a va-va-voom outline.
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When we speak about something in the abstract, we take concrete instances and average them into generalized — and necessarily reductive — concepts.
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Answers. We tend to think of sex in pretty reductive terms—almost as though the human body were a vending machine.
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That's a pretty reductive view, but it also is what ended up making Lady Gaga a hell of a 2017 headliner.
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It's in every reductive editorial that place the entire blame for Donald Trump's victory on the Rust Belt's white working class.
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If Latin trap has a Future or Quavo however, keeping in mind such comparisons are reductive and cheap, it's Bad Bunny.
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I loved playing these songs live, just because it was this reductive way of keeping rhythm and people were slightly confused.
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The "All Lives Matter" response has been perceived by some to use reductive reasoning to trivialize the problems specifically facing blacks.
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But his reductive approach poses a false choice between an idealized order of noble sovereign nations and a totalitarian global government.
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However, I think that using time to measure the quality of one's spiritual growth is reductive, and can actually refute progress.
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This reductive but not unsophisticated style sought to express "the gentle vibration of things," as Modersohn-Becker wrote in her journal.
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Duran masterfully keeps a lot of balls in the air in this and the other paintings, never becoming formulaic or reductive.
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" At the same time, it seems reductive to expect Asian-American chefs to make food that somehow reflects their personal "story.
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Some, however, criticized the film for a reductive take on racial issues, and the Shirley family denounced it as inaccurate. 4.
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To be tremendously reductive, "Warzone" feels like a much larger scale version of a team-based "Call of Duty" death match.
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Still, it would be reductive to think of the current state of the music industry as being such a simple binary.
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It feels reductive and merciless, informed too much by the very aspects of our culture that have become deadening to you.
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It feels crass and reductive to say that Lenny's hospital room has, essentially, been staked out by an army of stans.
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"I think in the complex ecosystem of admissions, these one-note arguments are reductive, problematic and probably off-kilter," he said.
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In the closing "Ocean Park" section of the exhibit, Katy Rothkopf wisely included Matisse's radically reductive "French Window at Collioure" (1914).
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I'll be honest, sometimes video game tangibles are tough to pin down with words, to the point that descriptions sound reductive.
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After Elghobashy and Meawad's beach volley debut, further reductive discussions of "culture clashes" ensued with an underlying tone of gendered Islamophobia.
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Jones has taken an abstract, reductive possibility and made something fresh and austerely sensual (or is it sensually austere) out of it.
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The British pop star is "low-key misogynistic", she argued, peddling "reductive revenge songs" and "romanticising women's bodies from the male gaze".
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In contrast to the endeavors of many New York abstract artists, Gechtoff never became reductive nor did she make all-over paintings.
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Those who work in the industry especially may have problems with the reductive portrayals of some very real and highly problematic issues.
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Again, having training in cultural sensitivities is necessary — but it's not as effective when that training consists of reductive stereotypes about minorities.
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So, why are we still relying on this reductive metric as the main arbiter of whether or not a food is "healthy"?
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Its beginnings as a Vita-only series provided a reductive path, especially as Sony continues to shuffle the platform to the shadows.
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On the one hand, we need to recognize that kind of achievement, but on the other, it can feel a little reductive.
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At best, they're annoying and reductive; at worst, they can limit a person's potential (in their own mind and those of others).
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That's completely fine if they want to do that, but I felt that was a completely reductive approach to music in general.
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We don't need reductive narratives that paint Black single mothers or other single female caretakers as pitifully less-equipped to raise children.
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Shrill requires no frills, no overt progressive messaging, no reductive characterization, and no extraordinary plot to find inherent value in Annie's story.
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Other scientists found that the branching tunnels of Messor sancta ants closely resemble the elegantly reductive street structures found in unplanned cities.
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Which is not what ... I mean that's a ... I understand that that's a reductive way of saying it, but ... No, it's not.
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Similarly, the artist, curator, editor, and writer Julie Ault presents objects in a way that makes it difficult to make reductive explanations.
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Beyond a monthly banner celebration, more than a political target, the Latinx identity deserves more than a reductive narrative with damaging stereotypes.
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Paul, I saw you on a panel yesterday where the moderator called the show "a comedy without jokes," which seemed really reductive.
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But after 15 hours of "Aus Licht" last weekend — about half the cycle — that reductive portrait was finally, fully shattered for me.
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Even when high-profile, visible black women speak truth to power they are subjected to reductive micro-aggressions that minimize their message.
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They were merely themselves, in a way that might pose a challenge to reductive mainstream ideas about disabled bodies, needs, and personalities.
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The problem with this reductive approach is that it masks how well the series maps to the messiness that is adult life.
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Maybe you can even beat him to the punch with your own logistically reductive tweet about what you just saw on television.
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It would be reductive to attribute that to one cause; it is the result, in all likelihood, of a confluence of factors.
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Some of the most popular starter packs do address ethnicity, nationality, and religion, in a way that's reductive but not especially malicious.
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That reductive portrayal of mothers is everywhere, and Adrienne Rich's Of Women Born beautifully explains the harm that myth can do to women.
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It's easy to see this shift as the heart of the problem, but arguing that "original ideas good" and "sequels bad" is reductive.
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It's reductive and cynical because it paints a picture of the Middle East as perpetually at war because people there are just different.
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Last year, the movie Arrival, which is, to be reductive, about aliens and language, brought the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis to a large audience.
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Unlike Roosevelt's and Reagan's projects, it appears too reductive to survive in a two-party system in which success depends on coalition-building.
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At the risk of being reductive, there's very little to say about Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night other than this: it is good.
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Health bars, which truncate all the nuances of physical injury into cold, basic graphics, are a reductive way of representing a character's status.
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" D. Patrick Rodgers, editor of the alt weekly Nashville Scene and contributor to VICE, says the scene "feels reductive, objectifying, and vaguely sexist.
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Regrettably still something of an unknown quantity in the larger music world, he's frequently tagged as a "songwriter's songwriter," or something equally reductive.
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It is common practice to think of the Greeks as noble thinkers, and the Romans as barbarians, but that is far too reductive.
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It's a reductive analysis that will lead you quickly into the rigorous debate over who gets to decide what Southern food really is.
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Trump's reductive and distorted misuse of facts and flawed logic come also at a time when the NATO allies need exactly the opposite.
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Reductive arguments that "taking a knee" during the National Anthem disrespects the military and the flag assume a "whites only" experience of America.
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"Well, it just got very reductive," he said, adding: The 220 election had just happened, and there was a lot of raw emotion.
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Just as not all Latinxs love tacos or dance salsa, it is reductive and simplistic to assume all Latinxs share one political perspective.
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This is a reductive understanding of an author who not only cherished individual subjectivity, but also valorized the transcendent power of collective action.
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That said, on Tuesday night, it looked like the simplistic and reductive account actually provides a pretty good shorthand for what's going on.
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It's clear early on that the movie's subject, no less reductive as an explanation for suicide, is Neal's inability to communicate with Maya.
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Researchers in a wide variety of fields — from psychology to public health — are increasingly pushing back against the reductive schema of the past.
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The reductive public image of the nun as existing to serve the priest and to pray quietly also undercuts those who speak up.
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This is an argument from analogy, of course, and arguments from analogy inevitably falter because they're reductive: The analogues are never perfectly equivalent.
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Soulages is not a reductive painter, but an artist who enlarges our sense of tradition by demonstrating the infinite potential of a single pigment.
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Night shows that language itself is more supple than reductive ideas of feeling or essence, which either instrumentalize language or try to surpass it.
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The widely loathed Perlmutter (now severed from all moviemaking decisions, praise Odin) was being reductive, but he's not wrong about those movies being disastrous.
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Her character motivation is a little reductive, driven as she is to outshine men in the field, but Apte's performance is cleverer than that.
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Someday, maybe we'll recognize that queer is actually the norm, and the notion of static sexual identities will be seen as austere and reductive.
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It's too reductive, to my mind, to imply that she simply gave up her own drive and hopes for the sake of a man.
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Telling people to chill out feels reductive, especially for those in jobs with less flexibility, people who are elderly, and people with preexisting conditions.
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It'd be a stretch to say Sandler has lowered himself to cater to the reductive internet age that's produced Logan Paul and Bhad Bhabie.
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When pulling apart the band's discography, it can feel reductive to compartmentalize it all, especially when the band never relegates themselves into different genres.
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I hate to be reductive, but friendship animates The Narrow Door like a friendship does a life: there, always, sometimes nearer or further away.
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"This reductive idea that their success comes at our expense, or our success comes at their expense, is just not accurate," Mr. Plepler said.
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"History is almost always written by the victors," Jawaharlal Nehru famously wrote, and like most highly reductive, irresistibly catchy phrases, it's not completely wrong.
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There are big houses and small grower-producers, oxidative and reductive styles, all of which is enough to stop any party before it begins.
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Upon first glance, Reductress stories look like the kind of, well, reductive posts that content mills churn out with the aim of infesting Facebook.
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Which leads to the most important way in which that earlier description is reductive: You aren't only playing as an astronaut or an archeologist.
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Last year's Under the same sun Latin American art survey at the Guggenheim was highly criticized for its purportedly reductive treatment of the subject matter.
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Though the word 'quirky' is increasingly loaded — the label is gendered, and often parallels the reductive "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" stereotype — it seems applicable here.
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Do you (a) say something about his genius and how he'll be missed, or (b) something reductive and insulting to the man and his fans?
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Bennet–esque caricatures — obsessed with their children's matrimonial prospects — and while this resonates with a lot of young South Asians, to me it seemed reductive.
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This isn't inaccurate per se, but it is reductive to the scope of the human experience, which Osman does a nuanced job of showing. —K.
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And I, like this writer at The Establishment think that he has a good girl/bad girl complex that is super reductive and well… basic.
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At the press preview, Dewey-Hagborg commented on the dangers of the reductive frameworks for identity that police, forensic scientists, and the media often employ.
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Which would imply giving users the ability to access perspectives far-flung from their own, rather that helping people retreat into reductive digital comfort zones.
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Hearing you talk, I feel that calling you a photographer would be reductive or is it that being a photographer is more than taking pictures?
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It's only a little reductive to say that Bellow spent the first half of his career describing himself and the second half describing his friends.
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Beginning in the early 22019s, Marden worked his way out of Minimalism and reductive painting by merging two sides of his practice – painting and drawing.
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And it would be reductive to proclaim Annie Hall's gender politics "feminist," but at the very least, there's quite a bit of nuance to them.
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The brooding cut doesn't fit neatly in any categorical box—Sade-fronting-Radiohead comparisons are inevitable, but reductive—and for Soto Voce, that's the point.
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But it would be foolish to take the results of that necessarily reductive exercise as a final verdict on all possible versions of the treatment.
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A new book injects nuance into reductive historical interpretations of how the Cold War affected global art in the second half of the 21979th century.
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The works are shown in a nimble, nonchronological suite of galleries, and some of its century-spanning juxtapositions are bracing; others feel reductive, even dilletantish.
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Is it because he is not conclusively reductive in terms of color and does not end up with the same color that he started with?
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Responding to readers, the author of a recent Op-Ed about "Trump Country" says that we must remain vigilant against easy, reductive frameworks and labels.
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By concentrating on detail, which is a central feature of Takenaga's work, she has gone against the reductive tendencies of Minimalism that still haunt painting.
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But his painterly black-and-white images, which include everything from candid street shots to world-historical events like Gandhi's funeral, are anything but reductive.
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The works are shown in a nimble, nonchronological suite of galleries, and some of its century-spanning juxtapositions are bracing; others feel reductive, even dilettantish.
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By dividing a movie on this topic between France and Israel, Ms. Fairrie implicitly turns anti-Israel sentiment into a reductive scapegoat for anti-Semitism.
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But his book does provide some useful insights into the dangers of propaganda — and its reliance upon mangled facts; false claims; and reductive, Manichaean storytelling.
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And then I realized — what bugs me about The Hunger Games is not really the series itself; it's the entire ponderous, reductive discourse it launched.
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Attempting to cover all of Japanese comics in a single exhibition, rather than zeroing in on particular aspects, feels almost like an arrogant and reductive exercise.
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I would never want to make a propaganda film — for something, against something — just because I think they're simplistic and reductive and the world is complicated.
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But rather than help the viewer to gather or otherwise simplify what she is viewing, the texts in Jarman's Blue are constructive, not reductive; they complicate.
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After all of the progress that the franchise made with this season of The Bachelorette, they just set themselves back a few steps with reductive stereotypes.
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" With Maud Lewis, the McMichael encourages a nuanced appreciation for an artist whose work has long been attached to reductive descriptors like "child-like" and "primitive.
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I was excited for this movie from the minute I saw the first trailer, but I was worried about a reductive portrayal of the iconic singer.
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In the Trump era it is easy, and definitely reductive, to see everything as either a product/reflection of or rebellion against a quintessential American rottenness.
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Now 17, Gavin is the cherubic face of a reductive, dirty debate about trans people's right to exist in public spaces without hostility, harassment and violence.
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Though Krasner often invited art historians to interpret her work biographically, she was too resourceful an artist for those reductive readings to overshadow her art's complexity.
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Of course, a criticism about the idea of witchcraft as self-care is that it can come off as commodifying, culturally appropriative, and just plain reductive.
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Trump's limited vocabulary reflects a limited intellectual capacity that gives way to reductive solutions to big problems and tribal phobias that pit us against one another.
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We're lucky that Starr Figura didn't succumb to this reductive impulse when she curated the show now on view, Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934–1954.
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Seen together, her objects lose some of their strangeness, and the installation of a dozen or more sculptures in some galleries here has a reductive effect.
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The works are shown in a nimble, non-chronological suite of galleries, and some of its century-spanning juxtapositions are bracing; others feel reductive, even dilletantish.
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While "what are you?" may seem like a reductive question, it is in fact one many mixed-race people have had to answer far too often.
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By concentrating on detail, which is a central feature of Barbara Takenaga's work, she has gone against the reductive tendencies of Minimalism that still haunt painting.
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Today, we are more likely to avoid such reductive binaries, to acknowledge that even the most objective photographs are inseparable from the identity of their makers.
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It's about how Offred navigates the complexities of desire, which is why the reductive aspect of the many flashbacks to her relationship with Luke is surprising.
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While all the artists in "Room" are female, neither Lord nor Coles sees anything as reductive as a feminine gaze or approach running through the show.
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And the solution is so painfully obvious it feels almost reductive to point it out: Make it legal to build more housing that houses more people.
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The revelation was classic Murphy kookiness presented in a way that wasn't a harmful stereotype, showing queer people can be villainous without being reductive about sexuality.
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Alternatively, they may even resign themselves to endure this harmful and reductive behavior to avoid the annoyance and frustration of having to correct those around them.
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To call Holter a singer-songwriter feels reductive, given the wide-ranging abstract soundscapes she creates with a nearly endless array of instruments and electronic tools.
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Reductive Action: The Trump administration, through Jeff Sessions' Justice Department, is exploring the possibility of taking affirmative action admission policies that supposedly discriminate against white applicants.
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While postmodernism rightfully dispensed with the critical requirement of hewing to a logical and often reductive program, it also opened the floodgates to arbitrariness and pastiche.
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However, it is reductive and inaccurate to claim that all treatment of black suffering by white cultural producers is driven by commercial interests and sadistic voyeurism.
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Worse still, Bill Clinton's speech included an offensive, reductive mention of the American Muslim community that seemed to imply its only value is in countering terrorism.
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Fröbe-Kapteyn, while avoiding the categorization of artist, belongs to the flipside of the reductive impulse running through modernism that culminated in Minimalism and paint-as-paint.
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Elements of both hooks are present, but those are ultimately reductive takes, ways of distilling a complex film simmering with ideas into something more simple and palatable.
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How we might understand this vision without it becoming simplistic or reductive is just one of the reasons I keep looking at and thinking about Winters's art.
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The Economist: I hope you don't think I'm being reductive, but it sounds as if religion is a bit of a placebo when it comes to mortality.
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"She wouldn't look me in the eye and tell me that I was reductive or whatever," Gaga says, admitting she learned about the diss while watching television.
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"Ghettoside has been accused of being too reductive by hanging so much on the narrow issue of homicide clearances, which is a fair criticism," Leovy told me.
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In fact, you could even distill their realms of influence down to a word or two (it might be a little reductive, but it can be done).
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The miracle of the movie is that, like Toni, it transcends blunt, reductive categorization partly because it's free of political sloganeering, finger wagging and force-fed lessons.
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Wye Oak recently released "Tween," a collection of songs made between its third and fourth albums: in reductive terms, a document of transition from guitars to synthesizers.
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It's a canard of an argument, designed to turn a complex issue into a reductive black-and-white debate where no one can come to any agreement.
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But to analyze the biennial — a gathering of 90 artists from around the world, not all contemporary — in this light feels at times forced and even reductive.
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Earlier this year, one of the endless array of reductive takes about millennials made the rounds online, this one regarding my generation's tendency to eschew home ownership.
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A singular view on LGBTQ politics is not only reductive, but can also be dangerous, leading to insensitivity toward other differences such as ethnicity, religion, and class.
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The exhibition corrects this reductive caricature, examining the way the push and pull between tradition and technology, individual and collective, have shaped the culture in unique ways.
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However, it's most clearly a sharp indictment of the reductive roles some men assign the women in their lives, robbing them of any sense of agency or respect.
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Stripped down but smoothly persisting as transcendent concord, this embodiment of a general longing for sweeping synthesis became the central motivating ideal of orthodox Modernism's unified, reductive model.
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If the first third of the exhibit is about reductive ways of being seen, the rest of the exhibit expands the sitters' gaze to extend in both directions.
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While that's ultimately reductive — it ignores the well-rounded characters, breakneck pacing, and impressive performances — there's no denying that the references are part of the show's essential charm.
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While some critics claim that the museum is reductive or even a so-called "sham," it shouldn't minimize the richness of the stories the museum brings to light.
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That's reductive, but this is an election cycle based on simple, sweeping statements: Mexicans are rapists, Trump's a racist, Bernie Sander is a sexist, Hillary Clinton is corrupt.
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Some might be inclined to call the new Laura Mercier Prismatic Glow palette the latest addition to the unicorn makeup category, but we're afraid that would be reductive.
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It's not reductive to call Crazy Rich Asians a lush, delightful rom-com; but if you've had a certain set of cultural experiences, it's also so much more.
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But it felt like a stale stunt, ~reductive~, if you will, and Gaga spent entirety of the 2011 show in drag, dressed as her alter-ego Jo Calderone.
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Some have said that symbols of the march like feminist T-shirt slogans and pink "pussy hats" reinforce white feminism and are reductive of the current feminist movement.
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Liz West / Flickr But thinking of chickens merely as a walking foodstuff is reductive, telling us more about human exploitation than the qualities of our feathered best friends.
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Though it's reductive to draw a straight line from Spiritualism to Williamson, the author-candidate does continue a tradition of occultism (broadly constituted) as connected to social activism.
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Pink & White films, like The Crash Pad and Snapshot, stand in sharp contrast to mainstream porn, which tends to compartmentalize diversity in racist, sexist, homophobic, and reductive terms.
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I don't think that the binary nature of code, meaning its yes/no aspect, is any more or less reductive than the letters in any alphabet's notating language.
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As an outsider, it's easy to look at Napalm Death's output and derisively say all their music sounds the same, but that's not only reductive, it's patently false.
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There's no reductive and grossly vicarious football-as-war metaphors because these people know what from; their team histories and alumni role are written in smoke and blood.
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The song shows the L.A. native's ability to write about complicated issues—in this case, mental health struggles—in a way that's bright and direct but never reductive.
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Ms. Walker gets all this — perhaps better than most, given that her work has long been criticized by prominent artists, black and white, who say it is reductive.
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But this is so reductive, sanding off all of Outer Wilds most unique edges in order to sell something frighteningly fresh in the comfortable uniform of the familiar.
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But that's my point, it is incredibly reductive and we don't have a lot of conversations about ... HR: It's interesting, as Black Stacey ... Yes, I am Black Stacey.
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Mangold is not a reductive artist, but one who found a way to work with basic elements (color, line, and shape) that could not be reduced any further.
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But the cause is also doubling as a way for Fitz to get back in Olivia's life, which feels so reductive of something that is an actual, real problem.
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Like Trump, I am getting better and better at "telling it like it is," but in an appallingly reductive way that yields no insight or wisdom or real truth.
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Perhaps because "Asian-American" is almost painfully reductive, nearly two-thirds of Asian-Americans identify with their specific ethnicity and not with this broader label, according to AAPI Data.
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Instead, Republicans are facing a potentially catastrophic outcome: Politics is complicated, but in this case, a fairly simple and reductive answer is clearly correct: Republicans' problem is Donald Trump.
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Marketers now hope to sell stuff to kids born after 1995—so-called Generation Z. And this latest demographic designation is just as removed and reductive as any other.
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How political can these films be when, by letting the good guys triumph in a reductive conflict, they inevitably retract their moral complexity and compromise their advocation for change?
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That's understandable on its face— Foxtrot has a compelling backstory, and is difficult to dispute as their finest work, pound for pound—but is more than a little reductive.
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But it's also inherently reductive, practically encouraging filmmakers to avoid telling stories that can't be neatly summed up in the span of a two minute and thirty second trailer.
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But having played it the way I did, I can't help but feel that through its reductive gameplay, Falcon Age distracts itself from the compelling themes it initially introduced.
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Almost everyone chose an is: 'freedom', 'a mirage', 'nothing anything that these guys have said yet', perhaps demonstrating how easy it is to be reductive about far-reaching technologies.
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The work appeals to the sensory and imaginary and, therefore, it's reductive of the viewer to look only objectively at the color of the subjects in Yiadom-Boakye's paintings.
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Their story was imprinted onto me as a series of reductive but indelible brush strokes: one woman shouting at the media, another woman weeping just beyond the ice rink.
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In its obsessive imitation of lived spaces and hopeful utopianism, the Pittsburgh apartment laments the absence of Iranians while alluding to other types of presence beyond reductive national narratives.
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It's woman in jeopardy meets woman on the verge, a reductive brand of thriller from another decade, freshened here only with the addition of a plot element involving Facebook.
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" The comments did not sit well with a lot of prominent gun control activists, who found them demeaning, reductive, and in the case of #NeverAgain leader Cameron Kasky, "hilarious.
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The script by Anthony McCarten ("Darkest Hour") can seem contrived and reductive at times, but it gives maximum latitude to the actors, who are a riveting study in contrasts.
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Mr. Zuckerberg wasn't having any of it when he addressed analysts on his earnings call, keeping up the same arguments that I called lightweight and reductive in a recent column.
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Winters's use of different models and diverse strata is the opposite of reductive painting, Color Field painting, Pop Art, and Conceptual Art, which dominated the art world for many decades.
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When he came across the story of Christine Chubbuck on the internet — a five-line reductive sentence saying "most shocking" whatever it was — he had this profound reaction to it.
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We've heard the arguments justifying these reductive depictions of women in these kind of games already, and they mostly come down to historical accuracy or the excuse of archetypal characters.
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The 90-year-old has spent half a century creating mirrored mosaics, reverse-glass painting, and works on paper that pull from Persian interior decoration and 20th Century reductive abstraction.
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Like "video nasty" or "slasher films," torture porn is an inherently negative and reductive term—it fuses pornography and torture, rendering any film with this label as cheap and dismissible.
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Considering the fact that so many women in the world are unhappy with their bodies, immediately dismissing these kinds of confidence-boosting exercises as pointless trends seems a little reductive.
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It does not feel reductive to read fiction through this prism, nor will you find the numbing sameness Nunez's narrator deplores — in fact, these books deliver us from numbing sameness.
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By the time I came to know her, Ms. Le Guin had made peace with the nature of her legacy, and with the reductive effects of the passage of time.
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Is it reasonable to treat Gaines's and APAN's reductive analysis of the conditions in Boyle Heights as superior to the inductive, experiential knowledge that forges local on-the-ground resistance?
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Ford Motor CEO Jim Hackett recently said the automaker is analyzing ways to potentially reduce the costs of vehicles through "reductive design," or including fewer features to keep prices low.
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It would be reductive to claim that this is entirely a result of the readability of classical Chinese, but I think it's reasonable to propose that there is some influence.
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But the explanatory power of neurobiology is so appealing that the basic tenets of the brain-disease model have seeped into public consciousness, popularizing a somewhat reductive understanding of addiction.
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But the factors that drive young men and women to adopt Salafi jihadism are diverse and hard to parse: militants reach an overwhelmingly reductive idea by complex and twisted paths.
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Perhaps one answer is that any viable critique of violence will not arrive from any singular, sovereign academic who might offer reductive explanations of its causes and propose orthodox solutions.
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Without it we think short term in a manner that is both reductive and repetitive: we build again and again in floodplains, we anticipate the storm but not the destruction.
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With its rumpled disk of black amid a patterned field of subtly varied greens and a neutralized orange, "No Recall" (2017, 71-by-43 inches) is relatively simple, even reductive.
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"Girl" or equivalent is a repeatedly invoked as needless preface – girl band, female-fronted, lady drummer – the epithet cruelly reductive and signifying the presumed anomaly of a woman playing music.
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In one scene, police officers mistake her for a sex worker, reflecting a reductive stereotype; in another, hospital staff ask for her "real name," as in her birth name or deadname.
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With Nasir being an American-born, Pakistani Muslim, the show goes out of its way to show characters responding to race in a negative or reductive way toward him and others.
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Ben could be described as a handsome dork with a romantic streak and Alice as a cool extrovert with a not-so-secret tender side, but those descriptions seem too reductive.
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In the film's reductive take on things, Gray represents the influence of politicians on the FBI, Sullivan the FBI's sordid past, and Felt all that is good and righteous about it.
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Oyeyemi has written five novels, including the acclaimed "Boy, Snow, Bird," a recasting of "Snow White," though to categorize any of her work simply as "fairy-tale retellings" would be reductive.
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He once again calls that conflict a "war for the soul of Islam" — this is false, and it is both worrying reductive and cringe-inducingly tasteless to make it about Islam.
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I feel like there's maybe something about this whole glorious and storied culture being defined by a reality television program that seems a little cheap or, as Madonna would say, reductive.
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Q. "Transfers" takes issue with the idea that poor students should be forced to produce reductive narratives of their challenging lives as a kind of poverty porn, for college admissions offices.
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It would be far too reductive to claim that 'queer nightlife for women in the capital is totally dead these days and that's a bad thing,' because it's not that simple.
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They are, at times, brutal and ruthless and violent in ways that cast in stark relief the reductive portrayal of women in so many of the stories that populate our canon.
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Yes, a performance-artist may be unfair, exaggerated, reductive in his targeting of (usually foolish) adversaries, but he is always entertaining; one never looks away, one simply stares, listens, admires, applauds.
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For this project, conscientious effort was made to tap the visual potential of the neighborhood and its people without resorting to reductive imagery that emphasizes the negative aspects of a location.
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It might seem contradictory that Karl Lagerfeld would both choose to surround himself with interesting ideas and people, but also have odiously reductive opinions about the women and men who he clothed.
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Los Angeles collective Visual Communications (cheekily abbreviated VC) produced independent films documenting the lives and histories of Asian Americans that served as a counterpoint to the villainous or reductive stereotypes of Hollywood.
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As Sarah Menkedick reminds us, the continual potshots taken at the personal essay form — as the lazy, nonliterary exposure of trauma and identity — are reductive, and arguably just symptoms of condescending reading.
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Johnson was giving me a tour of their collection of periodicals' furniture' and art—Hollowell's painting' a reductive yellow abstraction of a bodily form' was perched in the middle of the mantel.
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As Cabello shape-shifted from the unremarkable EDM pop sound of her early solo career to "Havana," it looked like she might simply be the latest singer to follow that reductive trajectory.
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Their major reason for existence, after all, is largely based on being reductive and divisive — arguing that the only way Muslims can protect their interests and exert influence is through violent jihad.
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If we think of what Anthony Caro, Serra, or Carl Andre were doing in the mid-1970s, it is clear that Hunt was never interested in pursuing a reductive or formalist approach.
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Reporters and fans often describe women in music as "badass," which has always felt, at least to me, like a reductive way of capturing the awesome power of women who make music.
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A reductive answer would dismiss Mr Trump's admiration as nothing more than a shallow worship of celebrity and success, with a special fondness for the strutting braggadocio that was Mr Ali's trademark.
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The head of the bishops' conference at the time, Wilton D. Gregory, the bishop of Belleville, Illinois—named the archbishop of Washington last week—presented the report in reductive, Church-protecting terms.
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That's reductive if you want it to be; no head coach is ever a note-perfect replica of his predecessor, not even ones like Helfrich who serve as the previous coach's coordinator.
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Facebook's censorship of a 44-year-old prize-winning photo suggests that the company still has a phenomenally reductive understanding of this responsibility, despite its incredible influence over the world's news readership.
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On her website, Kiona's recommendations for travellers wanting to avoid "basic bitch behavior" include acknowledging and learning about the Indigenous Peoples in the area you're visiting and staying away from reductive 'country counting.
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If you're committed to protecting the health of the planet then donate to the Union of Concerned Scientists in their fight against the EPA's reductive directive and advocate for fact-based environmental policies.
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" He continues: "Certainly, this is a far different kind of creature feature from Bong's The Host, although audiences can't help but recognize the same mix of over-the-top flamboyance and reductive philosophy.
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It makes Simon's gayness feel at once liberating and reductive: There is no mistaking that this is a gay kid, but that's practically the only thing about him that matters to this movie.
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In many cases they go above and beyond in their basic-ness, making sure that the cast, crew, and editing are all in collusion to push whatever reductive storyline they've come up with.
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Widespread broadband internet, reliable wifi, and YouTube's relentless expansion into new territories—not a nostalgic return to chugging guitar riffs, Hot Topic bracelets, and a reductive view of mental health—was at play.
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But artist Jo Yardley actively fights that reductive perception of the medium with a charming, realistic recreation of 20s Berlin, which filmmaker Pepa Cometa turned into a wonderful montage you can watch below.
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So often it feels like the things we make are only allowed to be about our trans-ness, and more often than not about that as a struggle, and it feels so reductive.
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Thinking about a piece of music as its own locus, an almost physical space to live in and move through, is less reductive than thinking about it as an example of a genre.
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"Through juxtaposing historical and contemporary art and adopting a conceptual approach, The World Is Sound erodes the false binaries of 'East and West' and challenges the concepts underlying these reductive categories," Lee stated.
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If you discount Gravity — or even if you don't — and you're of a mind to be reductive, you can fit most of her roles into a generically bland girl/wife-next-door mode.
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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.
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It was praised in some quarters as groundbreaking and criticized in others as reductive, Pollyannaish and accommodationist — condemned, in short, for glossing over the stark realities of life that black Americans faced daily.
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Men, bad; women, good — its feminism is irritatingly reductive, but it does make the movie topical fodder especially in 2018, a year that has reminded us that feminism speaks in many different voices.
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It was from that kind of frustration, finding [it] incredibly difficult just to get the information into our heads to then make jokes about it, when we realized we needed to do something reductive.
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I rolled my eyes at some of the film's reductive depictions of the '60s, and its love story between Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) that seemed too fast to be true.
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Often enough, the "I" in Kahn's poems antagonizes reductive categorization by becoming a plenum of contradictory attributes rather than resting passively in a state of "thinghood": I don't give a fuck About the sun.
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On the one hand, I think we definitely need to celebrate women breaking into a very male space, but on the other, I sometimes wonder if the label "female filmmaker" is a little reductive.
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It's reductive to go back to a time when only one bloodline was fit to rule, and the dragons will ensure a return to the bad old days of ceaseless Aegons and fiery wars.
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It would be reductive to claim that media self-interest, or any other single incentive, explains anything as vast and diffuse as political media by itself, and I noted as much in the article.
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He speaks up so lucidly and passionately for his reductive view that, when the dialogue was at last published—first in German, and long after Diderot's death—his position was taken for the author's.
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What it isn't is an appropriate term for a straight couple that sometimes swaps clothes, and using such a specific label to describe a seemingly gender binary-focused fashion trend is reductive, at best.
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Their color schemes — with a contrasting mix of browns and bright, flat color — and compositions, based on chopped-up circles and rectangles, feels appropriate for the post-Vietnam War era, which championed reductive transparency.
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Claws is the latest in a long line of shows and films that upend reductive stereotypes about fashion by using it as a tool to illuminate the many ways women relate to the world.
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The real Mayer wasn't much taller than Garland, whose mother — missing in action here — was loathsome, details that might complicate the movie's reductive vision of power and abuse, victimization and survival, women and men.
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Because I played many, many different kinds of people, and I think in this industry one can be a little reductive and say, 'You're playing gay,' 'You're playing the same thing over and over again.
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Two victims' family members forgave Roof at his bond hearing soon after the shooting, setting off a broader narrative about the black community's capacity for forgiveness instead of anger that has been dismissed as reductive.
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While Kris Wolf knows the idea that Japan is the Mecca for women in the wrestling business is reductive and dishonest, she still found empowerment in the purity of a stiff kick to the ribs.
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But before all of that even has a chance to go down, it happens in the script—the very first keystroke that could make her a well-rounded individual, or a reductive pile of cliché.
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Try if you like: Black-ish Yes, it feels a little reductive to compare Survivor's Remorse to Black-ish — they're two of the only comedies on TV with majority-black casts — but hear us out.
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It's not reductive to use everything we know from a scientific perspective as we attempt to grasp what happens in the brain when we look at a painting or listen to a piece of music.
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He is not a reductive painter, but an artist who enlarges our sense of tradition by demonstrating the infinite potential of a single pigment, collapsing the distinctions between painting and drawing, or gesture and surface.
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As an autistic person myself, the simplistic narrative about someone on the spectrum overcoming their tragic condition to do something remarkable (or even average) bothers me because it's reductive at best and often wildly incorrect.
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It was always going to be a tricky gig, though — any media portraying African cultures has to grapple with the centuries of reductive and stereotypical portrayals that have long warped Western viewpoints of the continent.
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However, I imagine they would be better situated in Brancusi's Studio in front of the Centre Pompidou, as Constantin Brâncuși's reductive configurations are much closer to Balenciaga's lyrical but unembellished, inky shapes than Bourdelle's sculpture.
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But wholly accepting the modern reductive message of Pride makes us blind to the fact that the mechanics of success in America are still so selective and precarious when it comes to Black trans women.
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Though its narrator ultimately rejects Tyler's reductive, destructive view of the world, his enhanced sense of empathy amounts to being less of a jerk to the one woman in his life at the last minute.
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But the fact that Dre was perceived by his peers as a pain in the ass for wanting to take the trial seriously while a white woman is literally applauded as a hero seems reductive.
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Speaking of which... - Making an issue out of something as facile as not loving the tone of a publication you think is dumb and reductive is uh kinda counter-productive in this moment in media.
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From such is-it-art oddities it was only a short step to the next new interesting thing, Conceptualism, which, at its most reductive, consisted of weighty ideas typed out on thin sheets of paper.
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I'm not sure if playwrights, novelists, and poets are critical of slogans, catchphrases, and the like because they're reductive or because they resonate for a general audience in ways that long-form writing does not.
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Though the definition at which Eva eventually arrives — "We cared, but not enough" — rings true, this charming novel derives its power less from its author's reductive attempts at answers and more from her restless questioning.
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In Ed Sheeran’s case, he’ll write reductive revenge songs that are low-key misogynistic while slurring in interviews about all the women who’ve been kind enough to fuck him.
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Instead, they are political activists, some more disaffected than others, in pursuit of independence for Kashmir in one instance and an end to the persecution of Muslims in another (though this is a reductive summary).
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This is reductive to the point of parody, but in general there are two kinds of science fiction: the kind that uses science to interrogate fiction, and the kind that uses fiction to interrogate science.
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Treating someone's mental illness as their primary decision-maker is reductive, and fuels the notion that people are defined by, and incapable of overcoming, their diagnosis — when it's just one part of a multifaceted identity.
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Even if Kahlo's iconographic celebrity (her brows, her flower crowns) is frustratingly reductive, it's still possible to see how such style provides her with agency, where her own face and body are a primary canvas.
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I do not mean to encourage reductive thinking — that we are either only selfish or only selfless — since life is so much more nuanced than to classify experience as only one thing and not another.
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Mr. Puck himself resisted reductive terms for his cooking — "It's not as simple as adding ginger and soy sauce — and voilà, Asian fusion," he told The Huffington Post — but that is, in fact, what happened.
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It's such a reductive representation of a moment when an estimated 17 million lives were snuffed out — including roughly two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population, plus members of other groups deemed as "inferior" by the Nazis.
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Fresh Off the Boat actress Constance Wu summarized the problem in a single tweet: To parade little kids on stage w/no speaking lines merely to be the butt of a racist joke is reductive & gross.
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And drag only becomes more pointedly political in an environment where an illegitimate regime seeks — picking just one example — to impose reductive and cruel ideas about gender that fly in the face of gender's proven complexity.
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Although she seems to share something with the reductive impulse of the Minimalists or, in Europe, the Zero group, Mikus is an anomaly that established a different set of terms by which to experience her art.
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And while that might make a pleasing experience for individuals who wants to disengage from wider global realities, it's reductive for society as a whole if lots of people start retreating into rose-tinted filter bubbles.
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Cherry-picking win-loss records can be reductive, of course, but Winston's teams also demonstrated an offensive balance and overall facility to shrug off self-inflicted wounds that FSU hasn't otherwise experienced in the Fisher era.
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Her style is this great, not-at-all-reductive mix of traditionally masculine and feminine clothing, which seems to be a nod to the fact that she's the rare woman in a very male-dominated world.
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It takes everything complicated and frustrating about life and lust and boils it all down to one, easy-to-digest image of two people relaxing against a Chevy, sharing an alcoholic beverage in matching plaid. Reductive?
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It's an extremely harmful and reductive image when applied to the country as a whole but it's also representative of groups that actually exist and deserve to be critiqued rather than merely ignored or pushed aside.
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But given how some male artists have called upon similar imagery and entendres to define women entirely by their body parts, it's still refreshing to watch Monáe remix the sentiment to be empowering rather than reductive.
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At the risk of sounding reductive, this is similar to the jump from standard definition to high definition about 24 years ago, though the increase in quality is going to be less noticeable to the layman.
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The characters are smart enough to know how reductive these personas are; "GLOW" is smart enough to show how fiercely owning these roles — which, at least, give women power-bombing agency — can be liberating, even subversive.
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The platform offers endless choices, virtual connections and access to a world of information, but what this major-domo of the "internet of things" may deliver is reductive banter, mindless consumerism and a universe of trivia.
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It feels painfully reductive to believe everything boils down to simply the state of James or not-James for any team in the Eastern Conference, and this was, objectively, the biggest opportunity anyone had on paper.
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Now, some users are deploying the hashtag to cheer on their favorite films in the run-up to next week's nominations; while just as many are pointing to the myriad problems wrapped up in the reductive phrase.
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The foundation upon which Jones has built his art is reductive painting and painting-as-object, which dominated much of the art world's attention between the mid-1960s and early '70s, when he was a young artist.
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Quilty's images often push past the reductive narratives propagated by news organizations (when Afghanistan gets mentioned at all) and he is honest about the challenges in documenting scenes in a complicated country with radically different customs. —K.
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The film is credited with an uptick in public interest in the Civil War — though some historians have found the account of the war presented in the film by historian Shelby Foote to be romanticized and reductive.
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All Raise has also drawn criticism from some prominent women, most notably Freada Kapor Klein, who see the focus on increasing those numbers as too reductive and not considerate enough of racial justice issues and socioeconomic status.
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As for testosterone, only the most reductive observer would claim that absolute levels of the hormone "cause" behaviour, so it is not surprising when Ms Fine explains that its effects on brains and bodies is more nuanced.
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But breaking it down into those kind of singular moments seems reductive, because more than anything else, Secrets of the Empire legitimately feels like starring in a Star Wars movie or TV show of your very own.
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In her much-tweeted-about acceptance speech, Portman eviscerated Hollywood predators, reductive myths about women in the workforce, and those who uphold systems in all industries that repress women and allow their oppressors and abusers to thrive.
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One of the things that you talk about is that in propaganda in particular — and this is also from the Hitler section of your book — that reductive, emotionally engaging rhetoric works a lot better than complex thought.
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When Democrats have finished with their hysterical, reductive finger-pointing at Russia, they would do well to think about how they can get back to offering solutions capable of helping them to win again among average Americans.
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" Of his stated preference for Asian women, Moix added, "It's perhaps sad and reductive for the women I go out with, but the Asian type is sufficiently rich, large, and infinite for me not to be ashamed.
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There is no place in the field of African art for such a reductive view of art scholarship according to which qualified and dedicated scholars like Kristen should be disqualified by her being white, and a woman.
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Do you think with Trump, and some of the things he has done that people find indefensible — like refusing (at first) to disavow David Duke — that the "both sides" construct is too reductive for this political climate?
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Viewing them as the braying ball of coke-snorting, expense-fiddling, bonus-receiving brokers and bankers who seemingly single-handedly sent the entire world into an economic head-spin is both a bit reductive and really cathartic.
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So, it's worth mentioning here that talking about "evangelical theology" is necessarily a bit reductive; within different evangelical churches and even on a church-to-church level, there are differences in emphasis on particular doctrines or ideas.
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Allowing that to define his legacy is not only reductive but is also missing the larger point: Like so many other black and brown youth from his community, Nipsey was shaped by forces far beyond his control.
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Watching so many people from so many different backgrounds embrace their power and redefine their worth outside of what our ignorant and reductive society deems their value to be... is the most beautiful part of my career.
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In the interview, Mr. Salvini said that it was "probably a reductive vision" to lump him in with other nationalists like Mr. Orban and Marine Le Pen in France based solely on their shared opposition to migration.
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This is reductive, of course — de Kooning and others would continue to have long and successful careers after the arrival of Johns — but his work did dramatically reimagine the possibilities of what could happen on a canvas.
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The steps that he took in his work toward reduction, his elimination of what he felt was unnecessary, set him on a trajectory that shares little with the reductive impulses we associate with Minimalism and geometric abstraction.
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There's a tendency to think that it's a reductive thing to mention that I'm black and that I'm the first black woman, and there are people who say, 'No, no, no, that's just part of who you are.
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But even though I've been comforted and inspired by the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, I've also been frustrated with how much the biggest gender reckoning in recent memory has been driven by reductive conversations about men vs. women.
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The above timeline is reductive, but the general contours of that time between 29/211 and the financial crisis feel real: a weird, jagged, ephemeral cultural period that preceded a major outpouring of creativity on a mass scale.
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He was a supreme example of an uncompromising artist, arguing — mainly through his work, but in principled and prickly interviews as well — against reductive definitions of what a musician of his training and background could or should do.
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The works fall into two categories of codification: those in which the hard-edge forms lend themselves to a retroactive feminist interpretation, and those that cannot be subsumed under a reductive feminist reading, however tempting it may be.
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These parallels have been criticized as being reductive, juvenile and politically useless — Donald Trump is a real human being capable of inflicting real harm and Voldemort is a made-up snake man from a YA series, after all.
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I guess that's the main reason it's now spread all over the internet—not because of the quality of the work but more because of the consumerist and reductive perspective blogs like Design You Trust put out there.
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After examining the rendering of "Bouquet of Tulips," it is apparent to me that this is a shiny red herring used to justify the dumbing-down of art, bending art toward the low hanging fruit of reductive simplification.
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Mason's theory that Hooded Justice retired because he didn't want his secret identity to be found can now be read as incredibly reductive, or missing the real point of why Hooded Justice would want to go into hiding.
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Likewise, Mitchell's "Returned, Canada Series" (1977) recalls an increasingly passé, reductive position in which it seemed possible to describe the entirety of a vast country's snowy expanses and snowdrifts in terms of squares and rectangles of smeared paint.
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In 1966, during a two-month visit to New York City, Venet's metaphysical and metaphorical nihilism was deepened by his encounter with American puritanical Minimalism, and he consequently incorporated it into his "just-the facts-ma'am" reductive style.
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Looser is careful to avoid any claims that are attractive in their sweep but reductive in their implications, like the idea that Jane Austen had a single all-encompassing brand in one decade and another in the next.
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While Republican candidates can't seem to agree on which of them will be the strictest with the amnesty-seeking, anchor-baby delivering criminals who jumped the border into the U.S. This reductive and tone-deaf narrative is alienating.
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But through the beautiful simplicity of its interview-driven format, Greenfield-Sanders's film manages to avoid reductive stereotypes in its portrayal of trans lives by giving the trans community power to tell its stories in their own voices.
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But that is, and always has been, a reductive way of looking at the way Toronto's artists have been able to embrace the hard-bitten truths of life and being human; proving that they are more resilient and durable.
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It'd be reductive, though, as Gomez is as much a successful recording artist as these two dudes and doesn't really deserve to be discussed in the same manner one would a piece of property that's being squabbled over. That?
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This has in turn reduced the amount of organic matter the marshes produce, which acts as a counterweight to another reductive process, the constant settling and compacting of the organic platform that raises the marshland above the water table.
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I don't like the word 'objectification' when it's used in a very reductive way because feminism sometimes forgets that we are bodies and that beauty is a thing; in the end of the book, I tried to communicate this.
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Meanwhile, some companies — such as BrewDog, which rolled out what it said was a satirical "beer for girls" called Pink IPA— have been criticized for using the day to advertise to women in what some consider a reductive manner.
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So instead of yelling at your Aunt Jennifer about how reductive that question is, or going on a rant about the dozens of Tinder messages that never amounted to anything, we've come up with a handful of pithy responses.
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Assertive women who don't play by the rules present a threat to the order of things; fabricating a narrative that plays them off against each other in reductive and stereotypical roles is a way to take away that autonomy.
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The belief that depression is caused by a deficiency of serotonin in the brain is reductive and not really an answer, but the internet loves to tell you you're depressed because your brain doesn't have enough happy juice nonetheless.
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If anyone is guilty of the kind of reductive thinking Coker is concerned about before they start watching, the show is more than capable of standing up for itself, even if it takes a while to find its momentum.
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A number of visitors to Burckhardt's studio, after seeing these paintings, have mentioned Pacific Northwest art and the American science fiction film, Transformers (2007), and the toys it was based on as possible inspirations, but this seems too reductive.
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Keeping to a highly subjective route, he seems able to shuttle convincingly between the austere space of the artistically reductive and the emotionally charged arena of darker human experience, discovering along the way many disturbing links between the two.
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This is exactly why making premature comparisons between the two was so reductive, and ultimately it will always be careless to make such grand parallels on the evidence of even a full season, let alone a few choice games.
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If we compare her with other women artists from the 1960s working in a reductive vein, Eleanore Mikus seems to have thoroughly vanished, more so than her peers, and often isn't included in surveys or textbooks of that period.
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And the burden, like it or not, now falls on whites in power to show some vision, broaden the paradigms, do something transformative to what remains a mostly reductive view of black and brown people among predominantly white audiences.
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And there's also something inherently reductive about taking a medium with the vast potential of virtual reality, and turning it into something you just mess around with for a couple of minutes while waiting for a movie to start.
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When sex is conflated with gender, it can be harmfully reductive, especially for transgender, intersex, and non-binary people who must then fight the expectations of their assigned sex to have their true gender identities recognized on state documents.
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" At the same time, Greer's assessment of Madonna's skillset feels, well, reductive–to borrow a term that Madonna deployed when asked about perceived musical similarities between her 1989 hit "Express Yourself" and Lady Gaga's 2011 single "Born This Way.
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No, I don't think that you can be either enlightened or reductive to the point where you make final decisions, because you really will, one will, eliminate the possibility of surprise and touching people with great stories and characters.
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And I'm sorry, this is really reductive and not a just question to ask you, but I ask it because I haven't met many women who've seen the movie: Did you have any other perspective on it than that?
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In the wake of Minimalism, Uslé's ability to make an ongoing series of reductive paintings that do not suffer by comparison with the work of artists such as Brice Marden, Robert Ryman and Frank Stella is something to celebrate.
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It's reductive, unhelpful, poorly thought out, not entirely true, and banging on about it makes you sound like the worst kind of Yes I Have Read the New Statesman Have YOU Ever Heard of Owen Jones kind of sixth-former.
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"I definitely had moments where I went into a bad headspace when trying to determine why they were an ineffective leader," Fabi says, adding that she had to resist reductive reasoning that suggested her boss's reactions were tied to her gender.
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Writing for Slate in 2011, James Lundberg was deeply critical of the way in which the documentary presented a reductive view of the war to generations of viewers, and primarily used the tactic of heady emotional manipulation to do it.
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Without being reductive or essentialist, is what you do with Horseback a kind of response to assumptions that Appalachian art and artists must always be one way, or fit a preconceived notion of what kind of art comes from that area?
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This isn't necessarily a criticism—it would be both reductive and harmful to try and police the way a person chooses to express themselves and it's positive that they are rejecting gendered shackles and encouraging others to do the same.
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Writer Ida C. Benedetto claims that the ancient practice of astrology was based on rigorous data providing insight on real-world events, but modern psychology turned it into a reductive, woo-woo construct that focuses on our personalities and internal life.
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If, say, The Skimm actually decided to forego the links that accompany all of their newsletters, they truly would be creating a reductive space to make the news dumber for people who might not get it in many other ways.
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Which brings me back to my initial question: Why is it that people refuse to accept this reductive perspective on most aspects of our lives, yet they adopt it without batting an eye when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
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The No. 47-ranked player is pretty much living out a Cinderella story of her own, but reductive female character tropes aside, the on-court match-up between Halep and Ostapenko's games is really why this final is so exciting.
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He describes his recent work as freer, "in that one idea can simultaneously develop into a reductive and an opulent piece, both of which are part of the same narrative" — the result of a dream that is still becoming true.
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Consider the harshly reductive house that the 48-year-old architect Bolle Tham's firm built for his family: From the outside it resembles army barracks, with an exterior of local plaster, colored with carbon and troweled smooth atop a masonry core.
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Caryn Wilson, a senior editor for politics, recommends its argument that Singleton's film "Poetic Justice" was an answer to critics who said his portrayal of black women in the Oscar-nominated film "Boyz N the Hood" was one-note and reductive.
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While the timeline of Midhat's life offered a natural framing for the book, Hammad was also interested in exploring a point of view that showed "the complexity of Palestinian life" and avoided reductive characterizations of Palestinians as either militants or victims.
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De Cárdenas won't pin down his aesthetic — ''that would be reductive,'' he says — but his work, which also includes furniture design and residential projects, has a highly graphic and sculptural quality, influenced by everything from 17th-century literature to '80s movies.
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In fact, contrary to the ham-fistedness of Afropolitanism's rejection of what it deems reductive and primitive (and "local"), Osula's refashioning of African identity through the treasured and beloved family photograph is as tender as it seeks to be confrontational.
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It's incredibly disappointing to see that the public conversation around Cuba is still so polarizing and reductive after 60 years, particularly because of the common-sense approach President Barack Obama took in initiating a rapprochement with Cuba in late 2014.
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This is super reductive, but it goes a little something like, this, which is that, the feelings that we can't tolerate inside are defended against and kind of split off and then extruded out, like projected out onto other people.
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I know this is reductive, even verging on stereotypical; lots of trans women are short, and plenty of cis women—from Megan Thee Stallion and the tall girl from Tall Girl to Elizabeth Debicki and Peppa Pig—are perfectly statuesque.
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Yeah, it's a bit reductive and premature to talk about the Oscars race, but I'm going to anyway: If there is any justice, Foxx and Nelson will be walking the red carpet at the Dolby Theater together next year. —A.
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This is reductive for obvious classist reasons but also because intelligence comes in various forms; furthermore, discriminating against suitors because they didn't spend four years accumulating debt isn't an identity or a sexual orientation, it's a limiting preference deserving of scrutiny.
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" Madonna said Gaga's song sounded "familiar" and felt "reductive," but Gaga insisted she didn't intentionally reference the Madonna anthem, telling NME in 2011: "If you put the songs next to each other, side by side, the only similarities are the chord progressions.
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Despite attempting some greater semblance of the elusive nuance lost in reductive social media commentaries, the film feels consistently more committed to contextualizing Dolezal's racial identity as emerging from a site of trauma than explicitly acknowledging its roots in privilege, power, and domination.
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Natasha Lennard, the author of the new book Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life, which will be published by Verso Books on April 30, has grown tired of arguing over the term and frustrated with the reductive way in which it's discussed.
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On the other, reducing her killers to the punchline of a violent smorgasbord laced with campy humor feels somewhat reductive of a horribly vicious crime that took the lives of five real people on that night in August, nearly 50 years ago.
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While early abstraction artists, such as Mondrian and Malevich, aspired toward a pure visual language — which paved the way for the reductive drive of Minimalism — af Klint started off as an impure artist and seemed to have remained so until her death.
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By psychology, I mean delicate, nuanced, non-reductive efforts to connect an artist's life with his or her art; I mean the posing of questions as to how inner streams of feeling find external expression in objects of aesthetic value and originality.
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If we compare her with other women artists from the 225s working in a reductive vein (Jo Baer, for example), Mikus seems to have thoroughly vanished, more so than her peers, and often isn't included in surveys or textbooks of that period.
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In a reductive way, the HomePod is sensing what kinds of surfaces make up your room and compensating for them to eliminate echo and unwanted reverberation and to determine what slices of audio are best served by playing off of their nature.
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The English-language service of Al-Jazeera, a broadcaster, was cheered by refugee-rights campaigners last summer when it vowed to stop calling the people streaming across the Aegean "migrants", a "reductive" word it said enabled "hate speech and thinly veiled racism".
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While "Small World" might be seen as conveying a progressive message about global unity in the context of its time, the insanely reductive representations it made of world culture and ethnicities in the process are jaw-dropping from a modern vantage point.
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A facile reading of the current production of "Three Tall Women" would be that Albee was a misogynist, but that would be reductive: what if the person you were supposed to love the most was detestable, and happened to be a woman?
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His arc is the plot's central pillar and it quickly becomes clear that his most important decisions amount to a choice between the reductive, pop-cultural renditions of MLK and Malcolm X, between Moses-like peaceful protest and unrestrained action movie violence.
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For now, the company actually has a fairly reductive model: it focuses on one style and brings variation in by way of a seemingly endless combination of lens and frame colors, include collaborations with famous personalities and brands to produce specific styles.
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"I put the criticisms down to a very reductive identity politics," said Ashraf Jamal, the former editor of Art Africa magazine, referring to a tendency for Afro-centric art fairs to emphasize black empowerment rather than focus on the quality of the work.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO Clever enough to be funny and provocative but not smart enough to anticipate the think pieces it'll engender (if people bother to pay attention), the new single from Lil Dicky and Chris Brown delivers a progressive premise in reductive garb.
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Caryn Wilson, a senior editor for politics, recommends its argument that Mr. Singleton's film "Poetic Justice" was an answer to critics who said his portrayal of black women in the Oscar-nominated film "Boyz N the Hood" was one-note and reductive.
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The Houston gallery Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino (A1) has canvases by Mercedes Pardo (8823-2005), a Venezuelan painter whose dark, moody colors — she mixed her own pigments — and off-kilter geometric compositions set her apart from painters working with more reductive shapes and forms.
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It's hard to know what Sontag would have thought about a more deliberately queer reading of her life and work; she might have seen it as a symptom of politics taking over art, or a reductive distortion of the richness of her writing.
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As to melding it with your personal aesthetic, statement pieces that command the room like works of art can look great in a reductive environment — and even better than in a house full of the stuff (no offense to Mom and Dad).
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They are also places where you are reduced to your marketability or threat-level, where the length of your facial hair can be a deal-breaker, where you are seen, and hence see yourself, in reductive labels – never as 'just a bloke called Dave.
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We have witnessed an explosion of scholarship, exhibitions, and initiatives which have challenged this reductive characterization of Latinx art, including the founding of the US Latinx Forum (USLAF) and the establishment of the very first scholarly journal dedicated to Latin American and Latinx art history.
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"The degree of monstering of trans people, reductive arguments, and downright misinformation in the press over the past few months is something to be condemned," says Helen Belcher of Trans Media Watch, a charity that seeks to improve media coverage of trans and intersex issues.
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Rob, Austin, and Patrick try to untangle their own feelings on difficulty and accessibility in games, pushing at the boundaries of those terms until they find something that feels more representative and less reductive than the shorthand we've all been using in this conversation.
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If the excerpts of conversation you've seen between me and my husband make you feel as though this bot was written around a simplistic and reductive understanding of the desires of people who read fan fiction and soft-core porn, you may be right!
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But saying that this is a record addressed to or about Dr. Luke, specifically, feels reductive; instead, it's a more nuanced look at how a woman is crawling out from under the label of "victim" without erasing swaths of her personality or character or history.
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Skepticism about teen movie conventions fed the entire Not Another Teen Movie parody franchise through the aughts, which mocked everything from the reductive black best friend stereotype to the "transformation" of the already-hot girl in glasses into the heroine dating the high school hunk.
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Only a few moments felt reductive: During "La Llorona," nothing was wrong, per se, with Mr. Lloyd's soft, onrushing whispers, or the deep, pillowlike feeling of the rhythm section, or the warm blankets of guitar, but cumulatively, it felt like a bedtime story for adults.
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It can feel reductive to try and explain away the power of pop with science, but it's also clear that our obsession with songs about heartbreak exists because they help us digest, process and move on from a situation we have found ourselves in.
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Atheism, however, is not a single identity, ideology, or set of practices, and to speak of it that way is as reductive as speaking of "religion" rather than of Judaism, Buddhism, or Christianity—or, even more usefully, of Reform Judaism, Mahayana Buddhism, or Pentecostalism.
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It is a mistake to turn intersex people into a kind of "test case" to back up trans people, both because it's reductive of intersex people's experiences and because it wrongly implies that trans people's gender identities have anything to do with their genitals.
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The absence of these self-determining African voices has left a void, and an opportunity for non-African filmmakers to impose a fanciful view of the continent: "a reductive mode of representation that we see in most European and American films, frankly," says Sanogo.
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But this claim coming whence it did was really comical: The Brexiteers are on the right, and yet they were espousing what was once called "vulgar-Marxism," the trite and reductive—and wholly false—belief that people are driven primarily by material economic motives.
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That's one of the reasons why so many people, on the left and the right, were moved last election cycle -- because you had people who were engaging larger battles and bigger conversations than some of the narrow policy conversations that can be wonky and reductive.
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The artist continues to answer this pressing question in her most recent exhibition, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: Crossroads at David Nolan (March 18–April 30, 2016), while also reminding us that we should resist — or at least question — our tendency toward reductive readings.
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On one hand, that's a lot of gay-coded tropes that are reductive and often played for laughs; on the other hand, Sylvando is constantly valorized in the game's plot as courageous, skilled, and generally just more wise than everyone else on the team.
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" Which I realize is unfair and reductive, because there are real and legal definitions of intellectual property that I am not personally educated in, and it's hard to say at what level a plot point is more "baseball novel cliché" than "stolen baseball novel cliché.
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It's tempting to say that the novel written by Eugene Allen is an attempt to create an alternate, ameliorative reality, to enfold the trauma of both Allens — and of the traumatized nation — but that's probably a reductive reading of this fiendishly convoluted and complex novel.
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And if that sounds reductive, it's only compared to the way we've so mythologized the idea of the lone (and predominantly male) creative; it's still a pretty big deal to see these ideas about simulating hardship and labor embraced on such a grand scale.
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"This pattern of overheated, ill-considered and reductive attacks, playing out on social media and in the press, has failed to address these issues with the nuance, sensitivity and seriousness that they deserve," Mr. Ben-Ami said Monday in a statement, after Ms. Omar apologized.
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The show, organized by the gallery's Director and Curator Hyewon Yi, presents ample evidence that Leigh is a major, albeit under-recognized, American sculptor who has transformed the Minimalist penchant for reductive form and flat-footed fabrication into something of exquisite lightness, sensuality and grace.
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It was broken down into easy-to-follow steps and had reminders as basic as "wash all the produce," which while reductive to some, I can assure you is extremely helpful if you are cooking while watching television or working on a bottle of wine, or both.
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Indeed, the Australian debate has become so heated, reductive and polarised that some Chinese-Australian academics––and even non-Chinese scholars of China––feel increasingly hesitant to challenge the discourse of campus infiltration by the Chinese Communist Party for fear of being themselves labelled as its stooges.
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Without being reductive, a leather jacket becomes simply leather ("After the Pope Party," 2016); and without altering the integrity of its design, a floor fan becomes simply portable, billowing out a draped white fabric affixed to two upright steel poles ("I Just Want To Be Wonderful," 2016).
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The bottom line is that even though Donald Trump Jr.'s comment is most certainly reductive of Syrian refugees, a multifaceted group of 11 million or so people, using the rainbow as a metaphor for the immigrants that make up America at large would be pretty apt.
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This is haphazard and reductive, but also how people attempt to sort mature players who seem "ready to contribute"—something that's tough to say about anyone making the jump to the best basketball league in the world—from those who are seen as riskier, less-developed projects.
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But somewhere along the line it all got a little reductive, and the idea of festival dressing slowly became commodified, with just about every fast fashion brand offering up its own ready-made selection of what you should be wearing to watch Kanye West in a field.
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Comedy, she says, is the business of creating and then puncturing tension, and as such, it is both reductive — a joke ends as soon as the comedian can relieve the tension and get a laugh, not when the actual events described in the joke end — and manipulative.
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One of this year's most heralded jazz artists, the Chicago-based drummer Makaya McCraven, has made a point of pushing back against any reductive narrative of succession; he likes to emphasize the communal aspects of his art, and all the ways jazz history forms a continuum.
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While some have been present in occasional regional surveys — primarily at institutions like the Asia Society and the Queens Museum (where the influential 1997 exhibition "Out of India" helped introduce contemporary art from the subcontinent to U.S. audiences) — Jain believes those group shows were often reductive.
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But screenwriters Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse commit precisely the same sin of reductive thinking and crude stereotyping when they make "The Hunt" a crypto-class war, ignoring the inconvenient truth that most of the voters who tipped the election in 2016 were relatively well-off.
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The response to the scene from fans was swift and strong, with many especially disappointed that the scene sat alongside the arc of the character Jay (Jason Mantzoukas) working out that he's bisexual, including a song that took a much less reductive look at sexual preferences.
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Establishing no clear stylistic or aesthetic position, Schwabsky seems more interested in philosophically examining what painting is and can become through an observer's encounter, citing the reductive formalist definition Maurice Denis offered in 1890, of pigment applied to (usually) flat planes by whatever means conceptually necessary.
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Shot on 16-millimeter, "Autumn" (1972) is in some ways the most radically reductive film of the quartet, taking place almost entirely in an editing room where a still from "Winter" and a schedule for the Anthology Film Archives can be seen pasted on the wall.
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And it would surely rankle authors such as Brent Hayes Edwards, Jennifer Lena, Allen Lowe, Kristine M. McCusker, Ann Powers, Alex Ross, Elijah Wald and others who have written probing, eye-opening works of music history untainted by reductive traditionalism or capitulation to tropes and clichéd thinking.
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What stands out in the most positive way is that Paris, Capital of Fashion avoided acknowledging the way Instagram and social media have reshaped the fetishization of Frenchness in a way that is visually dull, reductive, and borderline racist in its lily-white idea of Frenchness.
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It feels reductive to call Los Espookys magical realism, both because it's so much funnier than that term would normally imply and because essentially every project that somehow involves Latin America gets dubbed "magical realism" at one point or another, whether the moniker fits or not.
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Yes, there was something disingenuous in his regarding me as a "guest," but there was also something crass and reductive in my calling myself a customer, especially after he'd gone to all the trouble of practically putting on a bathrobe so we could both feel more at home.
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In the case of Ms. Evans, it is partly her posture — head high, shoulders back, eyes seemingly looking beyond the chaos in front of her to a better place — but, though it may sound reductive, in her photo, as in all of them, it is also the clothes.
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Ceramics are ever-present in Asia Week, and the objects on view at Zetterquist (3 East 66th Street) reveal the deep history of the medium in China, while offering a modern take: Much of the spare, reductive work looks as if it were created in the last century.
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One other contrast worth mentioning: Both the Maffini and Picariello bottles were made in what's often termed a reductive style of winemaking, in which the juice and wine are protected from oxygen as much as possible throughout the process, which contributes to the sense of liveliness and clean aromatics.
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Small in size but jolting in impact, the portrait bears hints of ghastly blackface caricature, but turns them around into astute ironies of a self-aware, unconquerable character—not an "identity," a term that is as reductive in art as it is in politics, and which Marshall bursts beyond.
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Desan has many crudely reductive theories—the most insistent being that Montaigne wrote essays about the world right now because he was covering up the truth that in the past his family were merchants, not lords—but he is a master of the micro-history of sixteenth-century Bordeaux.
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But overwhelming fandom does have a tendency to make things crass and reductive—if the pope is an inadvertent influencer, then the church is his sponsor, greedily reaping the rewards of Lenny's personal magnetism but terrified when that power grows too attached to the specific personage of Lenny Belardo.
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And when the Obama administration tried to portray its deportation efforts as focusing on "criminal aliens," Gutierrez lifted up cases of immigrants who'd been "criminalized" for minor offenses like broken taillights — refusing to give into the framing of "deport felons, not families" that many immigration activists found reductive.
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"Looking back now, I do feel like some parts of it were reductive of Chinese culture, and that it sort of plays into some gender stereotypes — Mulan is heroic because she exhibits more 'masculine' traits, like being brave and fighting in a war, and being fairly tomboy-ish," she says.
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Journalist Courtney Martin refers to "the reductive seduction of other people's problems," in an essay in which she points out that it would be absurd for a Ugandan college student who saw a mass shooting in the US to decide to go to the United States to get gun legislation passed.
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We shouldn't feel any niggling sense of obligation to be grateful for any representation we can get, even when it's mediocre or reductive or just something that isn't your cup of tea — but I do feel it, and I resent it even as I'm not able to entirely let it go.
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Though this isn't always the most positive thing in the world, and reductive retromania is symptomatic of artistic and social malaise, it does mean the artists who are adored but not quite fawned over, can burble away on the back burner, boiling back into view when the mood strikes them.
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In its repetition, "sorrow conquers everything" becomes at once an absurdly reductive dictum and quite possibly a hard-won truth; a snippet of folk wisdom; a subtitle in a grainy art-house offering of the 1950s or '60s; an angsty adolescent's diary entry; or the second line of a melancholy haiku.
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Do I sometimes hurt and harm myself, do I abuse the unearned cultural privilege of whiteness, do I take the labor of others for granted, have I sometimes exploited a reductive iteration of gender theory to avoid serious moral engagement, do I have a troubled relationship with my body, yes.
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"I don't think that you can be either enlightened or reductive to the point where you make final decisions [about greenlighting a show], because you really will, one will, eliminate the possibility of surprise and touching people with great stories and characters," Sapan said on the latest episode of Recode Media.
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Science was "social," then, not merely because it was performed by people (this, he thought, was a reductive misunderstanding of the word "social"); rather, science was social because it brought together a multitude of human and nonhuman entities and harnessed their collective power to act on and transform the world.
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Crucially, it recognized the impact of storytelling on how we understand our own lives, helping to reveal the terribly reductive nature of certain old stories, in which women found themselves turned into plot devices or dead bodies, and people of color often looked in vain for recognizable versions of themselves.
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"I think more than anything else, he had come up with a reductive message that people could interpret as their own personal dog whistle if they wanted, about what kind of America they wanted restored and what was insufficient about the current America that needed to be undone," he said.
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"These really reductive black-and-white compositions about form and shape were important precursors to many things, including Minimalism," said the Paul Kasmin gallery director Laura Lester, noting in particular that Donald Judd, in a 1962 review in Arts Magazine, discussed his admiration for Davis and his influence on Pop art.
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What must not be lost, as is often the case with the reductive labels we stitch to such works, is how love is at the core of this funny, beautiful novel — a father's love situated firmly in the jaws of a racist society that threatens to swallow everyone in different ways.
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But as such, ideas seeped into popular culture and merged with the narcissism of the "Me Decade" [and] also led to a more reductive form of relativism that allowed people to insist that their opinions were just as valid as objective truths verified by scientific evidence or serious investigative reporting.
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Works as diverse as pottery, Crow Ledger drawings and a model Cheyenne tipi cover are shown together with contemporary works, such as Wendy Red Star's iconic "Four Seasons," an ironic tetralogy of self-portraits in which the artist poses amidst emphatically kitschy Native Americana props, mocking reductive Western stereotypes of complex indigenous cultures.
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While categorising certain sorts of managers and fans as hipsters is undeniably 'a thing' these days, there's a strong argument for it being a reductive way to dismiss the game's most compelling tacticians and personalities, the people who admire them, and basically anyone who doesn't meet the standards of the accepted footballing norm.
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Despite the fact that it's housed on the same network that airs beacons of TV diversity in the form of Scandal, black-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, and How to Get Away with Murder, the Bachelor franchise seems to be hanging on to the reductive practice of centering white people in its narrative.
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It's an outdated, reductive portrayal of a character that seems to exist only to serve her boyfriend's wants and needs (or complain about him), and while Woodley does her best to bring some life to the role she can't work miracles when faced with Stone and co-writer Kieran Fitzgerald's torpid script.
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Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad were crucial to the band's success, and some of ABBA's reductive treatment of women may be chalked up to the period in which they were making music, but it probably wouldn't be too far of a reach to say that Andersson and Ulvaeus straight-up hated women.
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In alternating chapters the book also unfolds a history of Jell-O and its highly gendered marketing campaigns, a brief and somewhat reductive examination of 20th-century domesticity, and the story of an outbreak of female mass psychogenic illness that occurred in LeRoy, N.Y., the birthplace of Jell-O and the writer's hometown.
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Over time, the coalition of left-wing skeptics of the prevailing trade policy regime has developed an increasingly sophisticated critique: Because political life is full of dreary reductive binaries, many left-of-center people who are generally strongly critical of Trump have been inclined to praise his criticisms of US trade policy.
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After all, it has made the TV shows and films we watch, and the songs we listen to, infinitely more multi-faceted, and to claim that the huge, indefinable web we call "pop culture" isn't built upon a complex intersection of influences—which often overlap and inform each other—is both reductive and simplistic.
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If I have a daughter later in life, there are many things I'd want for her—health, happiness, the conviction to follow her dreams without being saddled by reductive gender roles—and I'm not entirely clear on how those are exemplified by a snake made of rocks or a rabbit that likes to get stoned.
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I really think we have to catch our collective vocabulary up to the real complexity of these problems, because if we don't, we're left effectively talking about the issue in incredibly reductive ways that, one, isn't helpful for the reasons you describe, but two, I really think discolors the public debate in a certain way.
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Describing what it was like to see Prince live is near-impossible Describing what it was like to see Prince live is near-impossible; an inherently reductive exercise that at its very best can only give a vague impression of the full experience, but a number of thoughts ran through my head that first show.
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We recognize that our counting methods aren't perfect: some of the acts we qualified as "female" actually contain more male-identifying members than female-identifying ones, and distilling the full spectrum of gender identity and expression into two categories is admittedly reductive (though we did indicate the presence of non-binary performers where applicable).
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But in that episode and several others since the 1980s, Mr. Trump's navigation of Washington's corridors of power appears all too familiar in hindsight — fusing showmanship, a reductive approach to ethnicity, shape-shifting policy rationales and gleeful name-dropping into the political currency required to get what he wanted, or at least make headlines trying.
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I would go further and say that her paintings don't emerge solely from Western art — either the optical lineage that begins with Claude Monet and Georges Seurat and passes through Josef Albers to the present, or the reductive lineage that originates with Kazimir Malevich and is redefined by Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and others.
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Maybe most impressive is the fact that the band—which currently features Riverboat Gamblers members Rob Marchant (bass) and Rich Cali (drums) as well as Ben Lance (guitar)—have a sound that references the past in a way that's far more refreshing than it is reductive, sounding more like a celebration than a pity party.
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Kirsch's essay promulgates the assumption that the sole business of critics is to praise or condemn new music, artworks, books and performances — a reductive view of criticism that's further supported by the illustration of Rick Harney's statue of Roger Ebert giving a thumbs up, presumably exercising exactly 50 percent of a critic's possible functions.
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Williams shunned telling those stories in order to amplify the fact that her parents split in early childhood, to make some tenuous link between that and Franklin's own personal relationships as an adult (and her intermittent experiences as a single mother), and to minimize the 76-year-old superstar's accomplishments in favor of reductive gender roles and respectability politics.
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Yet at the same time, the fawning press brings to mind a recent essay about the way art featuring complex, even supposedly unlikable straight white women artists and characters — like Lena Dunham's Girls or Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag — gets praised and universalized as representing larger truths about an entire generation in a way that is ultimately reductive.
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It is a reminder that we as a diverse society need to represent people of all colors and backgrounds in our popular culture so that young men (and women) can see themselves on television and not see reductive stereotypes, to not feel so betrayed when the only actor who looks like them is exposed in this manner.
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They were beautifully done — the scales, especially, were a technical feat, and the materials lush — but such visual tourism feels reductive, and the show was at its best when the connections were the least obvious: in a juicy thick-ribbed cashmere tunic, an astrakhan jacket with a extravagant funnel neck, and second-skin leather pants in all shades.
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And obviously it could have been done with much more delicacy than that—I'm being reductive, but I really wanted this concept in this movie to be more about 'What kind of conversations would this inspire among girlfriends and among friends and how would they sort of talk about their own experiences and their own sexual awakenings.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Nancy Spector, the well-known Guggenheim curator and longtime promoter of Richard Prince, once wrote: If [Prince's] entropic, decentered White Paintings evoke the post Ab-Ex work of Rauschenberg and Twombly,[his] Monochrome Jokes channel the reductive aesthetic of Ellsworth Kelly's colored monochrome fields or Brice Marden's early Minimalist paintings.
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