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  • s  characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment
    their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere

  • Edwards is many things a little dull, wrong on Iraq, hopelessly reductive on the economy (there are many more than two Americas).
  • To judge from this appallingly reductive weepie, Wellesley College in 1953 was more close-minded than Selma, Alabama.
  • On one hand, my colleague's view of Sinatra as scourge of baby boomers the anti-Judy Collins, if you will is a crude caricature of a complex artist, as reductive as any neo .
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  • Miles Franklin in ABC Online
    Arts funding decisions should be made on evidence of talent and the assessment of the originality of the project ...... without regard to any reductive analysis of content,the Miles Franklin Award winner said in a statement.
  • James Reston Jr in Newsday
    An overhead grid of screens shows history, changes scenery and creates the live close-ups in what Reston describes as "all their reductive power."
  • Joe Carnahan in Los Angeles Times
    It does represent some sort of paradigm shift in how we view the things that influence us,says writer-director Joe Carnahan, whose "Smokin' Aces" hits theaters this month, "without the reductive thinking of 'That's just trash.' "

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