Their views of life were reductive and depreciabory. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This is certainly true in the case of Abelard and Ockham, whom we earlier identified as reductive realists. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Relations] Reference
The mosaic artists in Tunisia created these faces according to the same kind of reductive thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Pixel Knowledge] Reference
By the term "reductive," Dr. Adams is simply objecting to any kind of systematic or theoretical thinking about literature. From Wordnik.com. [Shrinking Literature] Reference
All are "reductive," for that is what we ask of theories: that they reduce or compress variegated data into general principles. From Wordnik.com. [Shrinking Literature] Reference
Most of your posts reveal you to be open-minded and respectful, but this kind of reductive assertion is exactly what polarizes this issue. From Wordnik.com. [jesus h.] Reference
The only way to answer this kind of reductive "why". From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
One must know how their body works before applying any kind of reductive cure-all to their living plan. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
Anabolism is essentially a '' reductive '' process, meaning that it consumes energy-rich electrons to create molecular bonds. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
I just figured I’d use the same kind of reductive techniques that republicans all appear to be limited to …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Frist and Torture: What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?] Reference
I thought we'd come miles from such reductive remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
So much of the conversation is reductive, and simplistic. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Digest: McCainPedia Launches, But Is It Really A Wiki?] Reference
That's Chairman Steele's reductive take on people of color?. From Wordnik.com. [John Ridley: Michael Steele Gets Funky for the RNC] Reference
(Obviously there was also race-baiting, no need to be reductive.). From Wordnik.com. [Tennessee Jew-Baiter Loses Primary In Landslide] Reference
I simply think your reductive comment was silly and, well, reductive. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: Hillary's Tough Talk Towards Iran Is "Reflective Of George Bush"] Reference
I think it's reductive and it doesn't celebrate or encourage innovation. From Wordnik.com. [Will Gompertz: 'We're brought up to be intimidated by art'] Reference
Don't mean to be reductive, but Maggie Williams is African-American, no?. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking: Hillary Top Staff Being Reshuffled; Solis Doyle Replaced As Campaign Manager] Reference
It's a false binary, reductive signs created for the media's convenience. From Wordnik.com. [More Polling Deflates Notion Of Left "Angry" With Obama's Cabinet Picks] Reference
Frankly, this argument, evasive and reductive as it is, is simply beneath you. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Majority To Left Of Democrats On Iraq] Reference
For women, more so than for men, simply "medicalizing" the problem is too reductive. From Wordnik.com. [The Science Of Women & Sex] Reference
I mean, that would be very reductive, and I don't think that any of us would say that. From Wordnik.com. [In Memoriam: Sweet, Sad Rocker Vic Chesnutt] Reference
It seems a thankless project, too, destined to draw accusations of reductive analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Single definition of American Woman proves elusive at Costume Institute] Reference
Then there are the reductive diagnoses of the mentally ill in movies like Spellbound and Psycho. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Illness at the Movies] Reference
The rebuttal that this exhibition gracefully offers is that Truitt's art is anything but reductive. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart Of The Matter] Reference
Perhaps she was trying too hard to define herself against the reductive term, fashion photographer. From Wordnik.com. [Corinne Day: she added grit to the glamour of fashion photography] Reference
It abhors comforting dogma and eschews reductive myth; it understands history as a process rather than an end. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Meets World] Reference
What young Hannibal endures during the war is enough to psychologically maim any child, but Harris is never reductive. From Wordnik.com. [The Ravenous Doctor Is In. Again] Reference
How do you respond to the inevitable charges that tiki is an insulting, reductive appropriation of Polynesian culture?. From Wordnik.com. [Stefan Beck: The Grog Days of Summer (PHOTOS)] Reference
And although I don't want to be reductive, I think that her existence is, first and foremost, obviously, the life of poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Biography Speculates Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy] Reference
It is also sadly and strangely reductive; other things fall away and there is only that -- the long days, the lamp-lit nights. From Wordnik.com. [A Legacy, Not A Blueprint] Reference
But the point is to have I think a reductive and narrow and simplistic understanding of that term misses the use of it by history. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2007] Reference
And Gene Koo writes that Obama's "non-reductive rhetoric" means his inaugural speech can't be boiled-down to sound-bit ready clips. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Digest: Through the Wormhole, Into the White House] Reference
It's a total reductive simplicity that does nothing to diminish the impact of the music, which actually sounds fuller at some points. From Wordnik.com. [Synchronicity] Reference
It's getting so refined and so reductive that it's getting to the point where there are 700 shows and 11 people are watching each one. From Wordnik.com. [A Q&A with Conan O'Brien] Reference
Enter OpenCongress's new MyPoliticalNotebook -- what is, to be reductive, basically a political-themed Delicious meets Google Notebook. From Wordnik.com. [Tools for the Political Pack Rat] Reference
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