| 单词 | reductive |
| 例句 | I know only that I will never see him again, and that anything I can say or offer by way of his present life might well be taken as reductive and suspect. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Biographical events transmute into art so straightforwardly as to render the account of Melville's creativity strangely literal, even reductive. The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z I was worried that they would feel that they were being very reductively or even cheekily decimated in the mainstream press. Ben Marcus: Jonathan Franzen’s cultural commentary is really embarrassing 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z But the tyranny of the positive portrayal is just as reductive as the stereotype. Kumail Nanjiani Didn’t Know He Was Playing the Bad Guy 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Please be advised that the award ceremonies that follow are liable to be garish and vapid, shamelessly self-satisfied and arguably reductive in rubber-stamping the credentials of major Hollywood movies at the expense of everything else. Oscars 2013: which films will prevail? 2013-01-08T11:54:30Z This dichotomy, the idea that the world can be divided neatly into people who lead with their hearts and those who lead with their heads, can feel reductive. In Louise Glück’s New Book, Infant Twins Offer Contrary Worldviews 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Good slang words are the opposite of reductive. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z “This wasn’t a bunch of cute people in flowered smocks talking on the porch,” Ms. Headly said, invoking a reductive stereotype of Ms. Henley’s métier in a recent phone interview. Arts & Leisure: In ?The Jacksonian,? Beth Henley Confronts Violence 2012-01-13T04:47:33Z At worst, we have a story that conforms to the West’s reductive attitudes about the developing world. Review | Dave Eggers’s ‘The Parade’ is a heartbreaking work of staggering cynicism 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z He originally sourced pine from local lumberyards, and the resulting pieces were simple and reductive. Two Donald Judd chairs reunited with a Judd desk via joint Huntington, LACMA acquisition 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Suggesting a man can’t possibly like having his nails done is a disappointingly reductive take on gender from Izzard, who was once so determined to tear down stereotypes about masculinity. Let’s drop the gender stereotypes – we are all non-binary 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Whether it’s a revolution or a renaissance, perhaps we’ve entered the era of Black Film Is . . ., when reductive definitions no longer apply, and artists are finally free to fill in the blanks however they please. ‘Madea,’ ‘Moonlight’ and the multitudes contained in black film 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The show also depicts other cultures reductively, as when Ms. Leonhart becomes the seductive “Dark Spanish Lady,” or when she and Ms. Azucena vocalize Native American chants in “Cry of the Thunderbird.” Review: A Runaway Slave Rides West in ‘Cross That River’ 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Parks falls prey to such reductive shorthand because his career defies categorisation. Van Dyke Parks: 'I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery' 2013-05-09T17:30:01Z “The reductive nature nowadays of most journalism is very frustrating.” Cillian Murphy: ‘It is getting absurd with the dumbing down' 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Sheridan’s shows are often characterized as “red-state” viewing — a reductive take given that “Yellowstone” was the highest-rated drama on television last season. In ‘Tulsa King,’ Sylvester Stallone Tries Something New: Being Himself 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z No one aside from the cast and crew knows whether this is how their story concludes, but if it is, I doubt the writers will make that ending feel typical or reductive. Prepare for a lovely last "Reservation Dogs" ride, circling back to where its cinematic trip began 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps she was trying too hard to define herself against the reductive term, fashion photographer. Corinne Day 2010-09-04T23:07:00Z Some of her views on matrimony and parenting might strike certain readers as reductive or overly black and white. Going Solo: An Author Chooses — and Celebrates — Life Without a Partner or Kids 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z But to be reductive about it, the Mod ideal boils down not just to a kind of neurotic self‑respect, but an emphasis on sharpness, an attention to detail, and everything being just so. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-03-14T10:00:01Z And the world depicted in “Café Müller” does strike me as reductive, too similar to the fatalism of “Rite.” Review: Haunted by Ghosts and Rites of Pina Bausch’s Past 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z She explains, “That it is possible to hold this paradox as part of my daily reality points to the reductive and narrow-minded nature of Rick Santorum’s assertions that prenatal testing increases the number of abortions.” Motherlode Blog: Mother of Child With Down Syndrome: Prenatal Counseling, Not Prenatal Testing, Is the Issue 2012-03-02T17:06:47Z In these, the cause and effect of how the media shaped the perception of the victims and perpetrators of these cases via reductive headlines is made clear. "Trial by Media" summarizes but doesn't challenge how coverage fuels drama in landmark cases 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z They remind me of old 1970s film posters for Italian movies, with their cartoon-like reductive style. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z I say “almost” because Morrison wrote for black people, though there’s no propaganda in her work, nothing reductive. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Raw reductive power is the voice of this town. Treme: season one, episode five 2011-03-20T11:45:00Z But Ms. Bontecou called that view inaccurate and reductive, and she bristled at any suggestion that her work had feminist motivations. Lee Bontecou, Acclaimed Creator of Wall-Mounted Art, Dies at 91 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Truitt’s work can seem standoffish when juxtaposed with more assertive sculptures, and more reductive forms of “minimalism.” Review | An artist who stood apart from D.C. intrigue and the New York whirl 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z This is not reductive; it is the whole point, according to Netflix. Check her out: how Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit thrills with fashion 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z But as the paintball scene helps establish early, the series forgoes the usual reductive clichés about reservation life — the show is neither pitying, nor mysticizing — in favor of a nuanced and comic realism. ‘Reservation Dogs’ Uses Humor, Not Magic, to Conjure Native Culture 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Watch the full film Nosferatu’s influence over cinema is so significant that something as reductive as a remake seems utterly unnecessary. Nosferaaarghtu: why they shouldn't remake Dracula's best film outing 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Partly, that has to do with the new costumes, but viewed within the lens of this rambling premiere, even “Rodeo” feels stunted and reductive — dressed in bright colors with nowhere to go. Review: Justin Peck Runs Out of Steam in ‘Copland Dance Episodes’ 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Still, she says, she has been disappointed by how reductive some of the coverage has been. 'Sex addiction can happen to anyone': author Erica Garza sheds light on a female taboo 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z But using reductive caricatures — complete with phlegmatic performances — to send that message is perhaps not the best way, because it turns something with modern-day implications into distant allegory. 'The Notebook' is a chilling but reductive World War II tale 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z I understand the points being made here, but the premise is unfair and reductive. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z His art can seem reductive, but the longer you look at it, the more you notice the options it leaves open. Art Review: Following a Painter?s Options Beyond the Canvas 2011-08-04T22:00:30Z Many of stories told by the media have sympathized either with the protesters or with the police, thus setting up an “us versus them” dynamic that feels reductive. “He shouldn’t be up there with Martin Luther King”: A mural of Freddie Gray with the civil rights leader provokes disgust, on my ride-along with the Baltimore Police 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z It seemed reductive to boil down the suppers, red-wine-stained kisses, whispered secrets, adventures and grievances and confidences we shared, the sheer everything of a relationship, to a shag. 'What were her knickers like?': the truth about trying an open relationship 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z The term "black art" is only reductive if you choose to see it as such, says McMorris. RCA Black and the table that thinks it's a woman 2011-08-23T20:59:01Z Often directors simply cut it, which seems to me reductive. Nine Hours of Shakespeare 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z To say it was to clean myself of drink or drugs is a bit reductive. Johnny Marr: ‘When the Smiths went to No 1, we were surviving off crisps, chocolate and Coca-Cola’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z 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. ‘Judy’ Review: The Singer (Disaster, Legend) at Rainbow’s End 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z But thanks to a new study on the roots of relationship conflict, this belief — which now seems not only reductive, but also blatantly sexist — might start to recede from view. No, daughters do not cause divorce 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The dark, brooding, yet boyish good looks that gave him his reductive “Latin lover” tag have turned into something more mature. Antonio Banderas: ‘I don’t want to live my life like I’m already dead’ 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z The reductive sensationalism turned out to be useful when Walker applied for a job at a private college that was trying to rehabilitate a reputation for discrimination. ‘How to Make a Slave’ Offers Restless, Brilliant Thoughts About Race 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Glazer was flattered but also admitted the parallel was “reductive”. Broad City stars: 'Comparing us to Girls is reductive' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The problem with forging a cast-iron relationship between life and art is that it can become absurdly reductive. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-02T07:01:17Z The basic message — that the medieval world was full of sensory indulgence — is reductive, and was probably tailored to casual visitors. Medieval Europeans had noses, eyes and ears — and they used them 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Her book, a closely observed portrait of three such women, avoids reductive theories to show the movement in its disturbing diversity. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Trouble With the Curve is equally as reductive. Trouble With the Curve: A Solid Hit for Clint Eastwood 2012-09-20T12:00:21Z Scenes between them are summarised by a narrator before being enacted, as though this were a silent film requiring expository inter-titles, which only emphasises the reductive simplification of their story. Mack and Mabel – review 2012-07-13T14:38:35Z Some critics found the images too unsparing and reductive. Hilla Becher, Photographer Who Chronicled Industrial Scenery, Dies at 81 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z But the movie’s decontextualized and disturbingly ill-considered use of Fascism is reductive and finally grotesque. ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Puppets and Power 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z 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. Review: In ‘The Fits,’ a Graceful Tale of a Girl Who Follows Her Own Beat 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Such reductive form is characteristic of the work here, whether figurative or functional. Humble ceramics in a stunning installation at Blum & Poe 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z This year, for instance, after a long hiatus, Yann Martel published Beatrice and Virgil, a woefully reductive, clumsy and disrespectful allegory. Real-life tragedies for real-life cash 2010-08-13T08:13:00Z He preferred his plays to speak directly to those willing to listen without the need for reductive rationales. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z With so many story lines and characters, there is always the risk of melodrama and cliche, but Haigh is never reductive in her plotting or characterization. ‘Heat & Light’ is the best fracking novel ever 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z It allows her, for example, to highlight at once in a single work the reductive ways in which pop culture and the media depict Black women, and their true beauty and multiplicity. The Many Layers of Lorna Simpson 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z If you physically handed an article to a friend, or even emailed it, it’s doubtful you would sum it up with one reductive word. Future Tense: On Internet Slang, IMHO 2014-03-28T19:52:44Z The movie treats illness as a series of contrivances, an engine that keeps the plot pistoning forward, and the result of this approach is a film that feels lifeless, or worse, reductive. ‘Broken Diamonds’ Review: Illness as a Narrative Convenience 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z It’s a reductive way of thinking about these admired shows, I’ll admit. Kennedy Center’s Broadway-bound ‘Gigi,’ starring Vanessa Hudgens, affirms its undistinguished status 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z As a means of conveying the reductive nature of sexual obsession, the limited focus may be apt but it inevitably impoverishes the narrative and, in certain crucial respects, dehumanises it. The Divine Comedy by Craig Raine ? review 2012-02-10T22:35:01Z "This is at some level a totally challenging show - by definition reductive on one hand and on the other a distillation of many of the countries and people and characters we've seen." Mideast political minefield keeps 'Tyrant' producer nimble 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the word is also reductive, and understandably disliked by many addicts. Debunking Alcoholics Anonymous: Behind the myths of recovery 2014-04-05T18:00:00Z Designs can be so reductive and simplistic, and sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z This is a great shame: it's reductive, and antithetical to what literature is about. Novels don't need to be 'nice' 2010-10-19T10:46:00Z It's just, sometimes the conversation about women at the awards shows becomes so reductive and small, it's embarrassing. Three women in 'Hot Pursuit' of laughs -- and audience and respect 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z And there’s the whole red-is-the-symbol-of-war/anger/toughness color psychology side of things, which is a little reductive and basic. Republican Debate Has Candidates Seeing Red 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The writing is often lazy and reductive in ways that suggest the book is meant for immediate consumption rather than durability. Andy Warhol, Superstar 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Trigger Warning: Colonialism,’ seems a bit reductive, but there should be a way that we acknowledge that what we’re going to read will have a significant impact.” Trigger Warnings and the Novelist's Mind 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z It’s a reassuring, if temptingly reductive, message, consonant with recent war films that have rejected boo-yah bellicosity for more restrained portraits of military operators as principled, highly skilled professionals. ‘13 Hours,’ Benghazi and the slippery definition of ‘political’ 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Some argue that releasing films this way diminishes film as an art form and results in movies being, as Nolan wrote in his essay, "thrown in with other endeavors under the reductive term 'content.' " 'Snowpiercer,' VOD and the future of film distribution 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z “He was in tune with white, mainstream America, but he struggled to present the creations of black artists in a way that wasn’t stereotypical or reductive.” Sarah Vaughan finally gets the biography she deserves 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z But the Young-Edwards version of the Faust story defies reductive theorizing. 2010-01-29T06:14:00Z Mary Karr, the author who has written about her battle with sobriety, said in a recent interview on the Web site “The Fix” that shows like “Celebrity Rehab” are reductive. Dr. Drew Pinsky, Physician and Media Star 2013-06-07T20:50:32Z These reductive, hasty readings—But the chorus says “U.S.A.” A Springsteen Cover Band Is a Fitting Choice for Trump’s Inauguration 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The idea that antipathy toward music, admiration for Malcolm X, and attraction to militancy go together is, of course, terribly reductive. The Music of Malcolm X 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Thurston Clarke’s patchy and often reductive new book, “JFK’s Last Hundred Days,” draws heavily on the Dallek and Reeves books, while attempting to advance variations on arguments made by Sorensen and Schlesinger. Books of The Times: ‘JFK’s Last Hundred Days,’ by Thurston Clarke 2013-08-12T21:23:16Z The whole project sounds destined to reinscribe stereotypes about young women — just as Golding’s original presents the most reductive vision of young men. Perspective | No, dudes, we don’t need your all-girl version of ‘Lord of the Flies’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The film is a tad reductive, leaning too heavily on currently fashionable explanations for why lonely white men resort to violence. ‘Ted K’ Review: An Eerie Descent 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Those books or poems often strike me as simplistic, or reductive . Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z It's almost as if the central argument of this piece is "auteurs: they don't make 'em like they used to," a reductive and juvenile attempt at a truism that bears little understanding of film history. 2009-12-31T20:21:00Z I knew that that was an unfair, maybe reductive way to look at the women who participate. "How to Fix a Pageant" director on 2022 Miss USA scandal: "It was clear something was not right" 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z How much of your own personal reading these days — or ever — is “pegged to the news,” to use a reductive phrase? Times Critics Discuss 2020 in Books, From ‘Pandemic Blur’ to Favorite Discoveries 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Both images, she said, are wrongheaded and reductive. Race Remixed: Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice 2011-07-05T16:59:30Z I think it's still a reductive way to deal with the period. Elvis Mitchell: The success of Black '70s films was "the dirty little secret of American cinema" 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Surd, in truth, seems to capture something essential about Mr. Wiley, his distrust of reductive explanations. Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z 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. ‘How Propaganda Works’ Is a Timely Reminder for a Post-Truth Age 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z A minute in, he's settled on the reductive nickname "Scooter" for Coby. Stuart Heritage's Screen burn: Undercover Boss USA 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z “This reductive idea that their success comes at our expense, or our success comes at their expense, is just not accurate,” Mr. Plepler said. HBO and Netflix, Reluctant Rivals, Party Down After Winning 23 Emmys Apiece 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The show’s structural organization is reductive, simplifying art’s layered density. LACMA's uneven new Picasso and Rivera show reveals an unprecedented, must-see discovery 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The father's nature turns the boy turns hard, and harsh, without melodramatics or reductive explanations. Cannes: Malick's cosmic film debuts — at last — to boos, cheers 2011-05-16T14:17:20Z People think of Elgar in a reductive way. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Other scientists found that the branching tunnels of Messor sancta ants closely resemble the elegantly reductive street structures found in unplanned cities. Trails and error 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z All together, the vision of femininity soft girls evoke can be seen as dispiritingly retrograde – a kittenish broadcast of reductive tropes from a generation older feminists probably hoped would grow up more enlightened. TikTok's soft girls: could a hyper-cute aesthetic be a symbol of empowerment? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z A character besotted with them — especially reductive trauma-filled ones — colludes in her own miniaturization. Review: In ‘The Saviour,’ Past Trauma Is Very Much Present 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z But elsewhere his analysis was both reductive and unedifying. Edinburgh fringe hecklers should exit stage left and right 2010-09-03T16:03:00Z It’s unfair in the way that any preconception is unfair: it’s reductive and snide, but is based in truth. MGMT’s Self-Titled New Album: Big Promises, Little Results 2013-09-17T23:43:41Z “It’s very reductive to say ‘They lied, they lied,’” Ms. Novick said. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Tackle the Vietnam War 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z But when Trump uses Chicago as a poster child for murder and mayhem, it’s not true and it’s so reductive. ‘City So Real’ Makes Chicago the Lead in a National Drama 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z It also trucks in paradox and, at its best, acts as a hedge against over-simplistic and reductive notions of society and of person. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z To that point: Every biographical narrative can be said to be inherently reductive and exploitative. In Defense of ‘Diana,’ the Show We Didn’t Deserve 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z This is a reductive and unproductive idea, of course, but it is probably somewhat true—though the group also inspired plenty of young black artists, too. The Tribe Flies High Like a Dove 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Where the film’s archival footage demonstrates the limits of respectability politics, “Anthem” ends u being overly respectable — and inevitably reductive. ‘Anthem’ Review: Flying High 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z It would be reductive to label Insecure the black Girls but, like Dunham, Rae writes, directs and stars in her show. Lena Dunham’s Girls: the show that turned TV upside down 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z As for the reductive logic that sees people merge cauliflower cheese and macaroni cheese, all that does is ruin two incredible dishes. How to eat: macaroni cheese 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Even in its most diminished or reductive form, this queenly twofer has inspired plays, operas and dance dramas, and especially movies and television shows. A Bloody Rivalry for the Throne, This Time With Margot Robbie 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z 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. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The most reductive recording in the exhibition is of someone saying merely, “bar-o-me-ter,” lolling on every syllable, over and over. American History Museum gives voice to inventor Bell 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z But I think that we managed it without being too maudlin or saccharine or reductive or simplistic. The Stars of ‘Homeland’ Get Their Final Debriefing 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Eavesdrop on a conversation as it surges through the digital crowd, and more often than not it is reductive and redundant. First: The Twitter Trap 2011-05-18T20:53:46Z The other side is constantly either demonised or presented in a most reductive, simplistic and hysterical way. 9/11 film explores divided loyalties 2013-05-10T05:36:38Z It wasn’t until after university, when I got a job designing kitchenware for Grand Designs and Jamie Oliver, that I understood that that direction might be too reductive for me. ‘We were let loose’: my art school days, by Peter Blake, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Steve McQueen and more 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z The statement tempers the reductive power of the AP video gone viral, which in a few moments of close-up uneasiness, can obscure her nuances. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The thought that I stand for all of The Post — a newsroom of over a thousand journalists — is, of course, quite reductive. Perspective | One country, endless dishes: A love letter to Indian cuisine 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z As Harper would say, isn’t it a bit reductive? 'If cocaine's everywhere, I missed the memo': Industry as seen by a banker 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The work is mostly mixed media, which suits the show’s aesthetic: stark and reductive, yet abundant in its range of materials. Review | In the galleries: University of Maryland spotlights six former students 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Now, by all means accuse me of enjoying the sound of my own critical faculties, but this seems a tad reductive. Noises off 2010-05-12T16:47:00Z It is not to be reductive about religion to accept that these three categories have a certain amount in common. The transfiguration of Philip K Dick 2011-08-23T07:00:02Z In terms of art comprehension, he added, “I’m sure it will be reductive.” Art.sy Is Mapping the World of Art on the Web 2012-10-08T20:57:27Z Yet Mr. Mesquita’s piece is often a reductive, reactive work in which vibrant colors and hysteria — mainly from the women, of course — create a glossy vehemence that rarely extends past the scrim. Dance Review: Mimulus Cia de Dança Presents ‘Dolores’ at the Joyce 2014-02-28T22:41:17Z In another movie, this divide might seem reductive, even reactionary. ‘Lost Girls’ Review: Honoring the Gone Girls, With Sorrow and Rage 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z In this reductive vision, Puerto Ricans are rendered helpless victims of Hurricane Maria, while Dominicans and Haitians are enemies locked in a never-ending historical battle. Two New Documentaries Give Caribbean Stories the Depths They Deserve 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z The work's central ambivalence is that the isolation of a single memory is reductive, given that it is the sum total of our memories and experiences that constitute our lives. After Life 2010-05-16T20:30:00Z In this reductive view of relationships, men spend a lot of time in lounge chairs watching sports; women overreact to just about everything. Review: ‘Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Live!’ 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z But even when female characters are developed outside of these reductive tropes, often the writing eventually flattens and diminishes them again. Hell Hath No Fury 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The reductive palette, which many other artists would adopt, was taken as a sign of existential seriousness. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z 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. Review: ‘Spiral’ Chronicles the Impact of Prejudice on Everyday Lives 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “This is using one particular food or nutrient as a reductive explanation for diseases and problems that are very complicated and have multiple causes,” she says. Potatoes get a bad rap. They don’t deserve it. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z "Biochemistry and hormones drive our behaviour," he writes reductively, assuring us that we are merely slaves to the antic nanoreactions of our neurobiology. Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar by Robert Lustig – review 2013-01-25T10:00:01Z Boal and Bigelow, meanwhile, said it was too reductive to read the film as drawing a line between the harsh interrogation and the successful targeting of the bin Laden. Movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ stokes debate on CIA torture 2012-12-15T03:44:31Z But before you reductively cite "The Handmaid's Tale" as a frame of reference reconsider what it implies. No, we're not living "The Handmaid's Tale" – it's worse, and a show highlighting how was passed over 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z This is the sting in the rising buzz of 1990s nostalgia: It feels like retroactively giving in to those reductive media representations. Riff: ?My So-Called Adulthood? 2011-08-07T04:15:28Z For many philosophers, such a label indicates a resistance to reductive materialism without an acceptance of Cartesian dualism – René Descartes' view that in some respects, the mind stands separate from the body. Brian O'Shaughnessy obituary 2010-07-14T17:13:00Z DeConnick has a personal mission to put an end to such reductive characterizations of women in pop culture. Meet Captain Marvel: Fighter Pilot, Feminist and Marvel's Big Gamble 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z This, then, is a book that explicitly addresses intersectionality, even if Srinivasan is dissatisfied with the common — and reductive — understanding of the term. ‘The Right to Sex’ Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Magnus Plessen moves against the reductive provisional trend he helped create by making increasingly intricate paintings of richer color, form and complexity. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z To call it goth would be disrespectfully reductive. Esben and the Witch; Trophy Wife ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:35Z It's reductive to suggest Thackery is "good" or "bad," but as a lead character it makes a statement that he can be so off-putting and so admirable at the same time, doesn't it? Clive Owen on 'The Knick,' complicated roles and that mustache 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z For Tony, who is the product of a world where women are viewed in reductive terms, the song lets us know that he sees Stephanie as someone outside his orbit. How deep is our love for "Saturday Night Fever," which changed how John Travolta and disco were seen 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z This seems reductive, and has a modestly deflating effect on both a fine performance and a fine production. Review: Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘King and Country’ at BAM 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z But there is also a reductive side to this process: the expanses of color and texture in Mr. Fair’s pictures often bring to mind slick, printed versions of Abstract Expressionist painting. Art Review: An Artful Environmental Impact Statement 2011-01-13T22:44:37Z Because wine appeals mostly to taste and smell, to be offered only a view of the subject is inevitably reductive. Italian Wine Museums Appeal to the Intellect, but Not the Palate 2010-12-28T00:06:02Z Can you tell when a wine is corked, cooked, reductive or otherwise flawed? Your cabernet smells like cabbage. Can it be saved? 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Never mind that this notion is reductive and plain wrong — or so argues the art historian Francesca Fiorani in her new book, “The Shadow Drawing.” What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z It's a very special particular culture and place, but it is reductive for anyone to say, "I am a thing, and am defined by these cultural attributes." "Every Day in Kaimuki" filmmakers on questioning contentment: "Are you happy or is this just easy?" 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z 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. Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Professor Shapiro, author of “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?,” called Mr. Emmerich “a charming man and a great filmmaker” but said that his approach was reductively anti-intellectual, and dangerously so. Roland Emmerich?s ?Anonymous? Seeks to Unmask Shakespeare 2011-10-22T03:03:02Z Maybe her success made Casselberry feel left out, so he reached for the most reductive word for women that he knows. Lonnae O’Neal: A black girl, a white guy and an inexplicable tweet 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Macdonald’s work “is an antidote to so much romantic, reductive writing about the natural world as pristine, secret, uninhabited — as a convenient blank canvas for the hero’s journey of self-discovery.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z And this can feel so reductive, so constrictive, so patently untrue. Do you want poptimism? Or do you want the truth? 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z “Come Fly Away” is a reductive show; its view of human nature is very limited indeed. Isherwood and Macaulay Spar Over ?Come Fly Away? 2010-03-31T22:26:00Z She also discovers that she is allowed to live in her body and think her thoughts without referring back to an assortment of reductive female types. The Final Season of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Should Be a Novel 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z It’s a relief that we are mostly spared the reductive explanations of the characters’ histories, though the actors clearly have them. | 'The Divide': ?The Divide,? Directed by Xavier Gens - Review 2012-01-12T22:45:21Z The good guys — the Texians — are good, and the bad guys are reductive figures who exist to be hated. Review: ‘Texas Rising,’ a Mini-Series on Alamo Aftermath With Dialogue to Forget 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z But Susan Abulhawa’s third novel, “Against the Loveless World,” disproves this reductive hyperbole, artfully looping together comings and goings, entrances and exoduses, burials and birthdays in a humming narrative of human movement. A Beautiful, Urgent Novel of the Palestinian Struggle 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The Taylor dancers, above all, need to be challenged with choreography that doesn’t merely echo Mr. Taylor’s workmanship in reductive ways, but also shows their range and imagination. Critic’s Notebook: Paul Taylor Dance at Koch Theater 2014-03-23T21:28:46Z "It's a very reductive understanding of Catholicism. The tradition is much richer and more interesting than that." On abortion, "religious leaders should be asking for your forgiveness" — not the other way around 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z That’s harsh and also conveniently reductive: Jasmine may be guilty of a great deal, including blinkered entitlement, but the world of big money in which she moved played its role. Movie Review: Cate Blanchett Stars in Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’ 2013-07-25T16:13:31Z Nonsensical aphorisms about people of different colors point to the reductive nature of racial stereotypes but also reveal how embedded they are. William Pope.L returns to L.A. with twin gallery shows focused on race 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z But you write memoir, and this book is a memoir, but you manage to defy that reductive categorization. "I'm not getting over violence against women": Rebecca Solnit discusses her new anti-memoir 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z It seems almost reductive to note, but the movie business is often its own worst enemy. '22 Jump Street': Phil Lord, Chris Miller are a fresh brand in comedy 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “Smiley Suicide” is not just a critique of enforced, artificial happiness or racism, but of the generic, reductive nature of symbols. What lies beneath the grinning visage in 'Smiley Suicide' 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z In it, Iggy describes his desire to write short, reductive lyrics and to never, ever write like Bob Dylan. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I shy away from sex in my films. It makes me nervous’ 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z “Boys will be boys” is such a glib-sounding statement, such a reductive description of personality traits. Perspective | We need to talk about why mass shooters are almost always men 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The result is a show that isn’t reductively “racial” but includes race on a spectrum of meanings that runs from polemical to personal and poetic. Glenn Ligon Rethinks the Color Line in the Show ‘Blue Black’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z In the face of a current spate of mediocre climate change productions it could be easy to settle once again on this reductive conclusion. Stage chemistry: the marriage of science and theatre is going strong 2011-03-09T14:13:20Z Defining women by their relationships to other people is reductive, misogynist, and alienating to women who do not define ourselves exclusively by our relationships to others. Stop calling us wives and moms 2013-02-13T22:18:00Z It's so much that labeling her Bikini Kill's leader is woefully reductive. 25 great rockumentaries every music (and movie) fan should see 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z “Not to be reductive,” he tweeted, “but Everything Everywhere All At Once is the generational trauma slam dunk film this season.” How ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Helps to Heal Generational Trauma 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “Subject” just speaks the questions out loud, turning them into reductive fodder for talking heads. ‘Subject’ Review: A Question of Ethics 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z It’s reductive and dim-witted to assume that one particular audience will respond in the same way to a piece of art, despite their overwhelming majority. Call me by the wrong name: how studios are still trying to straight-wash gay films 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z 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. A Bold New Landing for Modern Art at the National Gallery 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “Part of honoring someone is being open to that person not being just one, reductive thing.” Montgomery Clift: the untold story of Hollywood's misunderstood star 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z “Some Sextets,” she said, could “be a way to challenge and complicate the more reductive interpretations” of Ms. Rainer’s legacy. Yvonne Rainer Revives Her ‘Mattress Monster’ Dance 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z It does a disservice to Mr. Smee’s complex analysis to reductively seek a common denominator in these four cases. ‘The Art of Rivalry’ Dissects Four Jostling Pairs of Artists 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z He’s often remembered, reductively, as a tortured genius. ‘Jaco,’ a Documentary About the Jazz Musician Jaco Pastorius 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z These beautifully reductive grids speak in a shared language, as if pages of their private correspondence. What to see in L.A. galleries: Betye Saar, Tom Knechtel, Kay Sekimachi 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The novel paints a very nuanced portrait of President Nixon, but let’s be reductive for a moment: How would you sum him up in 50 words or less? ArtsBeat: Thomas Mallon on the Fact and Fiction of 'Watergate' 2012-02-22T16:00:18Z Mr. Amis’s musings about this era tend to be overly familiar, or dubious and reductive. Books of The Times: Martin Amis Dissects the Sexual Revolution in ?The Pregnant Widow? 2010-05-10T21:51:00Z It seems reductive to tie Didion so tightly to death, but it’s there even in her recipe book. Frozen in time: Joan Didion in her California kitchen, October 1972 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z The reductive biographical reading of fiction is the least interesting. Good sex in literature: why is it so hard to find? 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z A top-secret soldiers’ mission, fanatical missionaries, Somali pirates and a pessimistic parrot challenge the reductive way that Westerners view the developing world and the divide between different cultures. The 99-Seat Beat: An Actors' Gang 'Carnival,' a riff on 'Heart of Darkness' and more 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Ghobash explains the differences among Muslims by describing Islam as a pyramid: “The fundamentalist, reductive, ‘authentic’ Muslims are at the top with the loudest voices and the clearest plan. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Two Books About Muslim Identity 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The most recent pieces, dated to this year, are both some of his densest and his most reductive. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z If there’s a thread connecting their work, it is that “none of us have reductive views” of black identity, she said. ?Pariah? Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. 2011-12-23T18:57:21Z Performing with the mandated neutrality, the women revealed the dance’s reductive clarity. Dance Review: Yvonne Rainer Retrospective at Dia:Beacon 2012-02-27T23:17:52Z Ms. Spencer said that labeling the film was not just a turnoff for some audiences, but also unfairly reductive. Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z His drawings are reductive — whole stems are sometimes omitted — but they are also uncannily descriptive. Art Review: Ellsworth Kelly’s Plant Drawings at the Met 2012-06-07T20:16:13Z They are an aggregate of pathologies whose representation only reinforces reductive ideas. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z “This is precisely why I keep coming up against reductive and even trivializing interpretations, however lovingly meant,” she writes. ‘In the Eye of the Wild,’ a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z But such responses can overshadow or diminish the complexity of a subject, narrowing into a reductive meme or hashtag rather than opening up a thoughtful debate. On Social Media, Some Are Susceptible to Internet Outrage 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Despite playful winks to their source, archetypes are reductive. Review | Anna Solomon’s ‘Book of V’ will please fans of ‘The Hours’ with its sprawling take on a biblical tale 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Part of me wants to dismiss my evaluations of the way my partners treat my tits, and the theoretical loss of them, as reductive. My shazam boobs 2012-12-11T01:00:00Z But part of it isn't and that's what I'm saying and it's maybe a little reductive or whatever to to explain that. "#MeToo was our rehearsal space": An interview with Shelly Oria 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z That’s why its blandly reductive simplicity is all the more unfortunate. “Patriots Day,” a Police Procedural for the Age of Surveillance 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z The products read like Product, with a design so reductive there could be anything in there. Are You Cleaning Enough? Celebrities Want to Help. 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z This is a sign of what textbooks might call “reductive winemaking,” a technique of minimizing the wine’s exposure to oxygen during production. Oregon Chardonnay Escapes the Buttery Clichés 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z As filmmakers, trolling through the articles and the headlines and the way she was discussed and spoken about was extremely reductive and brutal. Sinéad O'Connor "refused to play the game": "Nothing Compares" filmmaker on the bold non-conformist 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Our culture, ever on the lookout for easy, unambiguous answers to the predicament of being flawed and often unhappy humans, is a sucker for all-encompassing, reductive paradigms like “addiction” and, more recently, “trauma.” Will We Ever Understand Addiction? 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z While Bard fans were rightly appalled by such a reductive condemnation, you could feel some sympathy for Glass — especially if you’d seen this uneven production. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ Parini isn’t reticent about what he sees as the weaknesses of many viewpoints, observing that the literalism of evangelical Protestantism leads to “a limited vision that is both reductive and — in my opinion — dangerous.” Jay Parini on the complexities and contradictions of Jesus 2014-01-15T22:18:32Z The director for this version is Michel Hazanavicius, who charmed Cannes in 2011 with “The Artist” and here paves a road to hell with good intentions, miscasting, reductive politics and dreadful writing. Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Enlivens Cannes 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The drama is not remotely reductive or patronising; on the other hand, it was full of imaginative storytelling, ambitious dance and music and complex characterisation. Theatre in education needs to get back to basics 2011-04-13T16:03:19Z Sony Pictures’ study guide is keen to reinforce this reductive view of what the plays are about, encouraging students to search Shakespeare’s works for “messages that may have been included as propaganda and considered seditious.” Op-Ed Contributor: Hollywood Dishonors the Bard 2011-10-17T04:18:07Z Stories about this kind of crime often focus on the dead girl — to be painfully reductive, again — and what she means. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z That they are merely egg containers would seem boringly reductive, in a biology-is-destiny way, except that it’s such an interesting answer to science fiction’s big question: Who creates life? The History Lurking Behind “Orphan Black” 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The same goes for Monáe and R&B. It's part of the mix on The ArchAndroid but it's uselessly reductive as a general description. Albums of 2010, No 1: Janelle Mon?e - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) 2010-12-17T00:05:02Z Though the premiere of “Heart of a Soldier” is timed for the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, its creators consider it reductive to pigeonhole it as a “9/11 opera.” ?Heart of a Soldier,? Opera About Rick Rescorla, 9/11 Hero 2011-09-04T03:00:09Z We talk about good guys and bad guys, but it's reductive. A Minute With: Ralph Fiennes on Dickens, Shakespeare and Bond 2013-12-24T10:25:37Z Mr. Zizek’s daisy-chained improvisations amount to an argument on behalf of unseen depths, but it risks monotony and becoming as reductive as it can be seductive. Movie Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:00:08Z Instead the story of her personal heritage, and its erasure within her own family, reveals the reductive power of the white gaze to flatten the complexities of Black lineage. Morgan Jerkins Heads Down South in Search of Her Black Identity 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z The characters could write themselves — cannibal cop, scam-artist murderer, teenage black widow — but in Carr's hands, they become more than what reductive headlines claim. "I Love You, Now Die" and what we think we know about teenage girls 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z There are big houses and small grower-producers, oxidative and reductive styles, all of which is enough to stop any party before it begins. Rosé Champagne Brings the Holiday Joy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z "I want every kid to see themselves in a book, and by taking a reductive view of a certain story, you are diminishing their lived experience." Why you shouldn’t censor your teen’s reading (even the sex and violence) 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z These reductive accounts actually helped entrench, among even liberals, an ahistorical outlook on the non-west while confirming the western supremacist disdain for it. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z Many in the craft community objected to the characterisation, calling it othering and reductive. 'White supremacy': popular knitting website Ravelry bans support for Trump 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z This web is ever pressing, particularly at this juncture, when so much of what passes for Christian sentiment is reductive and illegitimately recruited for political and economic motives. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z This opening conceit dissolves quickly and the early pages of Pang’s book race through Sun’s childhood and, at the same time, survey decades of Chinese history in passages that are sometimes sweeping and reductive. The Alarming Human Toll of Cheap Stuff ‘Made in China’ 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z While the film is let down by its plot, it is much too smart for reductive visions of “the other.” Movie Review: In ‘Postales,’ a Family Finds More Than Souvenirs Abroad 2013-07-26T00:05:50Z 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. Review: In Netflix’s ‘GLOW,’ Empowerment Comes Through Power Slams 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Hew too close to the original material and you’re considered reductive. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling on Barbie and Kenergy 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z This reductive coverage affected how some viewed her. Why women really don’t get to host late-night TV 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z “It’s funny, but it’s also reductive,” he says. PCP to psychedelic fish: uncover the stories behind the world's strangest drugs 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z To put it reductively, if you get sick right now, you may feel shame or be shamed. Is It Just Us or Does Everyone Have a Cold Right Now? 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z So, does he worry about being typecast as the neurotic Jewish guy, one of Hollywood's most beloved and reductive tropes? Jesse Eisenberg: 'Acting forces me to be social' 2013-07-04T15:58:10Z One could perhaps excuse this sort of reductive, gender-essentialist thinking because a man wrote it in 411 BC, but even this was insultingly limited for its time. Withholding sex is not the answer to abortion bans: The spectacle of celebrity "pro-choice" activism 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z There’s something surprisingly uniform and a little reductive in this female reaction. ‘Notes on an Execution’ Isn’t Your Typical Serial Killer Novel 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Unruly and sometimes unwieldy, the story of a gang-banger’s girlfriend who begins a sex strike in order to bring gun violence to an end resists facile finger-pointing or reductive easy answers. The best movies of 2015: ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Love & Mercy,’ ‘Creed’ make the top 10 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z “But that feels reductive or hackneyed. I’m liking and feeling energized by designers like Willie who are not in their camp.” Willie Norris Has Some Words For Us 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z And it is in utilising this very real story, told with a deeply personal twist, that Mills intends to move from that annoyingly reductive indie pool, into something that resembles whatever "mainstream" is. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z My biggest thing is to ensure that it’s not seen in a reductive lens, like, “It’s just this trans memoir.” Janet Mock’s advice to media: “See trans people as people” 2014-02-06T00:00:00Z It makes you realise how linear and reductive memory is. George Saunders: My desktop 2013-04-22T11:56:00Z 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. The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z It feels reductive to call "Black Widow" a highly satisfying female revenge fantasy — not when the movie goes to great lengths to treat its male, human trafficking antagonist as a small and ultimately unimportant man. “Black Widow” challenges treatment of women without biological families as disposable 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z And if that sounds too reductive, remember we crawled from the swamp. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z But the Classic Stage Company’s production of “Double Falsehood” takes this reductive impulse to a new level. | 'Double Falsehood': Shakespearean Plot Twists, Maybe Even by Shakespeare 2011-03-27T23:37:01Z Hollywood has forever fed into reductive and tiresome stereotypes of women as either mothers or molls, usually identified by their feelings towards kids. The Witches at 30: a horror film for children that continues to terrify 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z All logos are reductive, but the bold color, the pithiness, the implication of first-name familiarity and, yes, the exclamation point made this the great pop-art image of the campaign. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Or reductive notions of race that make a black man, even the Purple One, a criminal? When humor shifts to unease: How Eric Yahnker turns pop culture into pointed art 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z As history, though, it’s another story — at once tendentious and undercooked, proposing a reductive, essentially conspiratorial account of recent events. ‘Vice’ Review: Dick Cheney and the Negative Great Man Theory of History 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z And while they took different approaches for the gala — austerity for Bell, melodrama for Miller — both ballets had a way of sliding into a hole of reductive mediocrity. Review: The Costume Dramas of New York City Ballet 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z His icons are so reductive, they just stimulate chatter instead of sustained looking. Marc Quinn's giant baby sculpture infantilises art 2013-01-21T13:41:50Z "It was a challenge to capture that nuance, because I really didn't want to simplify him or for it to be a reductive portrait." Rory Kennedy recounts the 1975 fall of Saigon in new film 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z It feels even less necessary given recent horrifying tales of Hollywood harassment, abuse and reductive objectification. The Girlfriend Experience: a welcome return for TV's most audacious drama 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z It somehow gets worse from there, framing Rhimes’s work through the lens of a reductive and racist caricature. Melissa Harris-Perry perfectly parodies the New York Times’s “Angry Black Woman” article 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z I wanted to ask if you felt trepidation in publishing, though I'm not sure if this is a reductive question. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z That’s why the film’s reductive presentation of it is all the more disheartening and frustrating. The Reductive Narrative Tactics of “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Smith stood on one side of the stage, never looking up, getting to what is now the reductive essence of his once wild side. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z But even these comparisons are reductive — in both directions. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z “It’s reductive, and yet warm and comfortable,” says Knight of the Altai aesthetic. | Altai 2013-04-17T21:19:45Z Both dealt in a wilfully reductive version of rock music, and both had to face the consequences of honing their sound to perfection early in their career. Mot?rhead: The W?rld Is Yours ? review 2011-01-06T15:00:01Z “It can seem reductive,” she added, recalling those early rehearsals, “but I was trying to find movements that I liked.” Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Early Works at Lincoln Center 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z “It’s clearly reductive of a larger scheme. He’s asking, ‘What’s the thing that needs to be here that makes this phrase happen?’ Jazz Musicians Unite With One Goal: Celebrating Frank Kimbrough 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z And while it would be too reductive to say that this led me to spend a number of years as a sex worker, I do believe that it was an ingredient in the mix. My inappropriate relationship 2013-03-24T01:00:00Z So, it does look at things like cultural appropriation and racism in the industry and the ways we can commodify and talk about racial identity in very reductive terms. "My editors were just egging me on": "Yellowface" author on depicting the cutthroat publishing world 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z But you wonder if this view — the commercial versus the personal, the blockbuster versus the experimental art film — is as reductive as the 1970s model. George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits 2012-01-17T16:33:29Z Spare and reductive, they draw upon observations of the everyday, within the home and natural landscape. Painters Fred Reichman and Eleanor Ray, attuned to the humble beauty of the everyday 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z A wine is said to be “reductive” when it develops sulfury odors. Your cabernet smells like cabbage. Can it be saved? 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Neuroscience is wheeled in to explain teenage behaviour in reductive ways. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Audience members only gradually siphoned off as the repetitive, reductive evening wore on. Dance Review: Mechanics and Grace Found in Small Tasks 2011-01-20T22:01:58Z But the revival of “And Baby Makes Seven” at the New Ohio Theater, in partnership with Purpleman Theater, offers another reason: The central conceit is reductive, repetitive and extremely off-putting. Theater Review: Paula Vogel’s ‘And Baby Makes Seven’ Is Revived 2014-03-25T21:55:51Z It’s a facile and reductive view of a character who, in the novel, is tormented by a force beyond creative crisis or mental illness. “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” Reviewed: Richard Linklater’s Narrow View of a Creator in Crisis 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z It can be revealing, yes, but it is also almost always reductive: a reflection of our desire to get closer more than any organic intention to listen or to tell. Mixed feelings on Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z But the strenuousness of the effort shows, and the results, it seems to me, are unconvincing and at times dismayingly reductive. Review | Two centuries after John Keats’s death, his famous odes are still sparking new discussions 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z That may be rational, but it's also dramatically reductive, erasing the teasing ambiguities of Henry James's novella and Myfanwy Piper's libretto, and putting only a rather banal case-study of Victorian female hysteria in their place. The Turn of the Screw - review 2010-10-06T13:30:00Z As an exploration of child development, “Switched at Birth” is as reductive as its title. Critic?s Notebook: A Television Family Tree That Bears Surprising Fruit 2011-06-13T22:30:18Z The conditional quality of novel speech, applicable only to particular characters, enables the novel to be acute without being reductive. An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Yet “Frank” cannot help putting Frank Sidebottom squarely in the long cinematic queue of misunderstood, perhaps doomed geniuses, and such stature can also be reductive despite the skills of the filmmakers. 'Frank' Riffs on the Pop Curiosity Frank Sidebottom 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Asked if that felt annoying, Madonna responded, "It felt reductive." Madonna not totally sharing the love with Lady Gaga? 2012-01-13T19:43:36Z 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. Review: ‘Unforgettable’ Serves Up Yet Another Crazy Ex 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z But I think that including the marginalized in the larger story isn’t to take a reductive view, it’s to take a more expansive one. “Westworld” is woke: Just like on the HBO show, technology is widening the gulf between haves and have-nots 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z If the setup seems a bit reductive and possibly condescending, just wait. Review: ‘Dan Cody’s Yacht’ Sells Upward Mobility for Dummies 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Are you being reductive in your answers or just boring? Fuller House: Tanner family nostalgia doesn't make redundant sitcom better 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z “Everything that I do as a picture book writer is reductive,” Willems said, reflecting on what writing his first libretto taught him, aside from the importance of placing consonants carefully. Mo Willems Finds Yet Another Way to Entertain Kids: Opera 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z 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. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 5: A Seduction 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Though there are minor fascinations of groupings and geometry, the dance seems, deliberately, another study in oddity — a reductive one. Nederlands Dans Theater Gets Offbeat at the Joyce 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z If you were Bunny Wailer, you too might get a bit cross about the reductive, cartoonish depiction of your religious beliefs. Snoop Lion: Reincarnated – review 2013-04-18T14:29:01Z Of course there’s much more to both artists than those reductive labels; does this album help crack open those perceptions and neutralize them? ArtsBeat: Popcast: Pat Metheny and John Zorn’s Surprising Mind-Meld 2013-05-24T18:47:04Z To be overly reductive, Dostoevsky's moral of the story is that sacrifice and submission – to God, and each other – can save your life. Edward Snowden's study guide to Russian literature 2013-07-28T13:00:00Z I wonder, when you think of it in those very reductive terms, did anybody blink first, or did both sides walk away from that showdown? Meghan Markle "excites controversy" — Andrew Morton on the galvanizing power of the People's Duchess 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Did posing South American verve as the antidote to cold American greed seem like reductive exoticism? 'True Detective' Season 2 Finale Recap: In Search of a Better World 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The art critic Dan Fox, in Frieze magazine, wrote that it performed “the same reductive stereotyping” that Mr. Martens supposedly criticizes, exploiting “art audiences’ desires for work that demonstrates ‘authentic’ political engagement.” Chocolate Sculpture, With a Bitter Taste of Colonialism 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z If she’s looking to overhaul anything on “Pageant Material,” it’s the reductive view some coastal elites hold of her native flyover country. Kacey Musgraves is not here to flatter your progressivism 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The statement tempers the reductive power of the AP video gone viral, which in a few moments of close-up uneasiness, can obscure her nuances. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Wood is both an obsessive and a maverick and, though often described reductively as a street photographer, his work does not sit easily in any tradition. Tom Wood: the people's maverick photographer 2012-10-12T15:29:36Z Meanwhile, it would be reductive to suggest that films about the entertainment industry are inherently trivial or irrelevant to those outside it. La La Land and Hollywood's everlasting love affair with itself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Yet many commentators in the West — some with large media megaphones — are attracted to highly simplistic, overly reductive explanations of Islamic terrorism. “The Islamic State would not be with us today if the United States hadn’t invaded Iraq”: Islam, religion, and the interview Donald Trump and Ted Cruz must read now 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The most reductive observation I can provide about the composer and improvising multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill’s activity at Roulette this weekend is that he debuted some truly exciting new chamber music. Review: Henry Threadgill’s Music From Two Perspectives 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z In nearly every case, neo-Classicism gives way to realism, which yields to the reductive or abstracting tendencies of Modernism. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z Also, Ehrenreich seemingly adopts the reductive position that only Palestinians who resist the occupation deserve respect and sympathy. 'The Way to the Spring' is a sobering look at Palestinian life and resistance in the West Bank 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Somebody from that area is certainly going to see this film as a simplistic or reductive version of what their lives are. Jon Stewart: ‘I’m doing a movie about torture – I’m not being tortured’ 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It's a reductive strategy that ultimately insults viewers' intelligence. Farmworkers ill served by 'Food Chains' 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But he also challenges reductive notions of identity. Juan Felipe Herrera of California to Be Next Poet Laureate 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z That said, running a laundry list of art world situations that have angered people without getting into what might have caused the anger to begin with is pretty reductive in and of itself. Roundup: Hong Kong protest art, Smithsonian redo, Hurricane Mama 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Some people say a reductive wine just needs to be decanted and aerated for a while. Your cabernet smells like cabbage. Can it be saved? 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z The line may have been reductive, but “Imagine no sectarian divisions” doesn’t sing quite as easily. Review | Revisiting ‘Imagine,’ in John Lennon’s own words and pictures 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z This might be a reductive way of looking at the Oscars. Dear Oscars, I Love You. But We Need to Talk. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s reductive to call Tyreese the conscience of “The Walking Dead” but it’s also mostly true. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: Another Road Trip, Another Surprising Turn 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z There was something very satisfying about Mr. Chibnall’s sturdy narrative and also something reductive and claustrophobic about it. ‘Broadchurch,’ a Mystery Series, Returns to BBC America 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Their project of de-acculturating themselves is rendered matter-of-factly, without suspense, since — existing in a half-life of childish patter and reductive reasoning — they didn’t exhibit much tension of personality or emotional intelligence in the first place. To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The post was called othering and imperialistic; her descriptions of India “deeply racist and reductive”. Stitch-up: online sewing community at war over cultural appropriation 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z He also does not like the “reductive thinking” of a woke culture run amok. Director Joe Mantello, Broadway’s Invisible Wizard 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z It was a contradictory experience, creative and reductive. Music Review: The Songs of William Onyeabor, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-05-04T21:29:33Z With his creative reductive techniques, Vhils helped push the boundaries of outdoor art in Lisbon and internationally. On the streets of arty Lisbon, the city becomes the canvas 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z This was more true of my first collection, but I was aware of all the ways people — even well-intentioned people or people who think they were being complimentary — see that in a reductive way. Short Stories Need a Defender. She’s Ready. 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z Indie authors can fight the reductive “lazy” tag by upholding strict community standards that honor both authors and readers. Can self-publishing win respect? 2012-08-27T16:26:00Z This was rock at its most basic and reductive: it felt incredibly vital and alive, at a time when most guitar music seems moribund. The best pop event of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:06Z They perpetuate reductive ideas about reggaeton, obscuring the prismatic conditions of its past and present. Reggaeton’s History Is Complex. A New Podcast Helps Us Listen That Way. 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Ng’s strategic benevolence is aimed at promoting her peers, of course, but also at fixing skewed, reductive notions of representation. Celeste Ng Is More Than a Novelist 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The same reductive thinking happens in families, where we discount our loved ones’ inner worlds and where confirmation bias runs rampant. The Idealized, Introverted Wives of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fiction 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z He was making reductive monochrome works — horizontal and vertical canvases in a range of subdued tones of oil paint thickened with melted beeswax. Brice Marden: A Legacy Beyond the Monochromes 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z But as we move away from such reductive notions of conservatism, there has been a resurgence of interest in composers from that heritage. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z In fact, the two are presented as cut from the same cloth in Kushner’s reductive narration. A Wild West Story About the Early Internet and Sex.com 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z If smartphones and laptop screens are still performance spaces, they are reductive ones. Intimacy Is Overrated: Concerts in the Livestream Era 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Superficially people may attach that philosophy to what I do, but it’s a very reductive way of reading what I’m about. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z The Boston Bombing tragedy highlights our intense obsession to know a suspect’s ethnicity, religion and “Americanness” to profile and cast them in our reductive but reliable “War on Terror” narrative. I am not the Tsarnaevs 2013-04-22T15:19:00Z The genre’s representation of African American women was often incredibly reductive. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z When reductively described, her minimal plots don’t sound altogether unusual. Books of The Times: ‘American Innovations’ by Rivka Galchen 2014-05-07T20:15:28Z They are as beautiful as they are reductive, presenting a fantasy of total global knowledge. The global economy, summed up in these two bubble machines 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z There was something reductive and tedious in the endless conversations that I found myself having. Confessions of a Prep-School Feminist 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z As pop music expanded and evolved and Kasem’s generation matured, his version of America seemed less relevant, and he became to many a symbol of everything wrong with reductive, market-driven pop music. Casey Kasem: A critic's take on why he mattered, for so long 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z She brought to the museum that day a custom-made box displaying elegant and distinctly reductive pieces. At 97, preeminent jewelry designer Betty Cooke is still inspired to create 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Several readers noted the defensiveness of high-culture aficionados in cultural debates, and suggested they can be the most reductive of all. Readers' reviews: The Tree of Life and reductionism 2011-07-14T22:01:00Z The problem is not that other people think about us but that their thoughts are so flattening, so reductive in comparison to our own complicated view of ourselves. What It Felt Like When “Cat Person” Went Viral 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The idea that all older men are wonderful gems and all young men are worthless erections is reductive and untrue. What I've learned about men from countless hours of Tinder 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z It won’t be simply, “Hannibal ate his sister, so now he is a cannibal,” which is rather reductive. 'Hannibal' Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: He Left Me With a Smile 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z 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. Big Ears Festival Resists Commercial and Genre Constraints 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Mapplebeck hopes her films will challenge what she sees as reductive cultural myths about cancer – the notion that it’s either an alien curse or a welcome opportunity for personal growth. Cold war experiments and storybook monsters - back to Venice's VR island 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z In 2018, it’s easy to dismiss the concept of Queer Eye as reductive: five gay men, possessing expertise across the fashion and lifestyle substratum, make over a hapless straight man. As Queer Eye gets a reboot, television enjoys a wealth of gay perspectives 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Breaking down film history into decades is seductive, if reductive. From Hidden to In the Mood for Love: why the 2000s are my favourite film decade | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Each character is given to pointing out the reductive sentimentality and banality in the arguments of the other, which conveniently allows Mr. Logan to stave off criticisms of being clichéd himself. Theater Review | 'Red': Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in John Logan?s Drama 2010-04-02T10:10:00Z The reader learns in a reductive, caricatured manner, what characters are like — “your gay mulatto roommate,” or “the prodigal daughter” — and then the characters behave in a manner boringly consistent with that introduction. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z 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. Review: In ‘The Valley,’ Life and Death Meet Technology 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Melodramatic and ineloquently reductive, this 90-minute work skims only the surface of Shakespeare’s play. Washington Ballet’s ‘Hamlet’: Madness without method in it 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z 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. Ghosts of the Past, Embalmed in White Plaster 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z It’s all pathetically reductive, which might just be boring if the film were yet another edition of “Transformers.” The sickness within the GOP: “13 Hours,” “Fox News” and the Republican paradox 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z But his reductive approach poses a false choice between an idealized order of noble sovereign nations and a totalitarian global government. Modern Political Ideas 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s a viewpoint that leads some on the progressive left to force every conflict into an oppressors/oppressed story line that, as I’ve said before, is reductive to the point of stupidity. Ancient hatred finds new life on campus | Chris Churchill 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z This is a reductive interpretation based on scant evidence, and it contradicts Thorsson’s argument for collective success. The Black women's group that helped launch Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and a new vanguard 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z We must reject the reductive idea that Palestinians and Jews must be eternal enemies. How to think about Israel and Gaza? We asked Palestinian and Jewish leaders 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z Aside from their practical applications, these findings indicate that reductive carboxylation is not required for the proliferation of CD8+ T cells, as it appears to be for rapidly growing cancer cells. Disrupting a core metabolic process in T cells may improve their therapeutic efficacy 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z To investigate the role of reductive carboxylation, the scientists inhibited this mechanism in CAR-T cells in mouse models of leukemia and multiple myeloma, two blood cancers. Strengthening artificial immune cells to fight cancer 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z At a time when instruction in biology can be increasingly reductive and ahistorical, paleontologists teach us the astonishing breadth of past and present life on Earth and the long history that led to today’s biosphere. Paleontology Is Far More Than New Fossil Discoveries 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z But the instructive nature of some of his lessons — particularly the emphasis on numbers: “8 rules,” “6 ways,” “3 lessons” — seems reductive. Jay Shetty went from monk to celebrity life coach. Just don't call him a 'guru' 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z “I support my union, I do. … I do not support striking. I don’t. I think that it is a reductive negotiating tactic,” he said in a widely spread video. Actor Stephen Amell comes out against SAG strike 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z This is reductive absolutism meant to shut down debate. The Supreme Court enshrines racial imbalance | Charles M. Blow 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The inhibitor used by the scientists to block reductive carboxylation is a drug already approved for the treatment of certain cancers. Strengthening artificial immune cells to fight cancer 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z She added: "Like so many works of art that too openly aim for provocation, the five-episode HBO drama got in its own way, passing off reductive clichés as radical transgression." The Idol savaged by critics as 'worst TV show of the year' after finale 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z His Glastonbury set opened with the angry, antagonistic Hate, followed quickly by Plastic, a polemic about the seductive but reductive allure of consumer culture. Loyle Carner: The secrets of the rapper's powerful and personal Glastonbury set 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z And while heteronormativity is frustrating and reductive, homophobia is downright damaging. Reflecting on my identity as a queer Pakistani woman during Pride 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z For Seligman, the film was an opportunity to strike back against reductive ideas of what life for out queer folk was like before the age of gay liberation. Queer history has been 'deliberately destroyed.' These filmmakers aim to fix it 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z In the absence of oxygen, cancer cells resort to a very specific survival mechanism: they metabolise the amino acid glutamine as an alternative source of energy through a chemical reaction known as ''reductive carboxylation''. Strengthening artificial immune cells to fight cancer 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z “I think boiling down the L.G.B.T.Q. support that Starbucks offers to the declarations that are placed in its store is a little reductive,” he added. Starbucks Is Under Scrutiny Over Removal of Pride Decorations 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z But any definitive reading of “Kairos” in those terms would be reductive. Achtung, baby: Is Jenny Erpenbeck's tale of doomed romance the new Great German Novel? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The seedless vascular plants include club mosses, which are the most primitive; whisk ferns, which lost leaves and roots by reductive evolution; and horsetails and ferns. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The seedless vascular plants include club mosses, which are the most primitive; whisk ferns, which lost leaves and roots by reductive evolution; horsetails, and ferns. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z President Trump was the worst and, unsurprisingly, the most reductive of the offenders. Opinion: Why it matters that Johnny doesn't know history 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z It's a reductive approach that ignores the social determinants and forms of discrimination that shape health outcomes. I’m immunocompromised. I’ve been cautious about COVID. Thanks to everyone else, it doesn’t matter 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z But Tesla's ability to adjust prices quickly, and its "reductive" focus on squeezing costs out is a competitive advantage, and other automakers would have to follow its lead in cutting prices, Farley said. Musk's price cuts show challenge for Tesla's product strategy -Ford CEO 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Others, however, say this is an oversimplified and reductive understanding of India's syncretic past. India history debate after chapter on Mughals dropped 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z And many of the “Latino” roles were crude, reductive and racist. Hollywood always had a Spanish accent, says Luis Reyes, but we need more Latino roles 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z The truths this writer arrives at, both in the poem and in the life, are not neat, reductive or easy — but the book is reassuring nonetheless. Review | After his son’s autism diagnosis, a poet searches words 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z These were writers who peeled back reductive stereotypes of a city as culturally vibrant as any in the world. Scott Timberg was a culture evangelist. Why his work lives on 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Over the years, Wood has transformed songs — calling them covers seems too reductive — by contemporary names such as Fiona Apple, Sia and Prince. L.A. multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood once resented her 'weird outsider perspective.' Now she embraces it 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z “And I think that queer people were able to see quickly what that strategy was. It feels a bit reductive and insulting.” MTV launched a reality show set in WeHo. Even WeHo was not impressed 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z But, like Bernice King, the senator warned against a reductive understanding of King. On King’s holiday, daughter calls for bold action over words 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z It’s a formulation I’ve never fully been able to swallow, for reasons that have less to do with Ebert’s specific insight than with its reductive, ad-nauseam recycling by other critics and moviegoers. Review: No, movies are not empathy machines — and the brilliant ‘Saint Omer’ shows why 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z To quantify such an impact is a near-impossible task and, although boiling Bale's career down to numbers and achievements is reductive, they bear repeating. Bale departs and it's the day Wales dreaded 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z “I see it as underlining the beauty and the magnificence and the magnitude of what movie making is. ‘Babylon’ is much more than something simply reductive, like ‘a love letter to cinema.’ Nostalgia for movie theaters abounds in current films, but good change can still come 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z “It felt reductive, it felt naked, it felt vulnerable,” he said. Kumail Nanjiani already had a complicated relationship with food. 'Eternals' didn't help 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z People will justify their feelings through anecdote and with global reductive generalizations as if you’re making a documentary about whatever they think a scene might be about or they think what your intent is about. Why are the end credits at the beginning of 'Tár?' Todd Field explains. 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z A subplot involving a devoutly Christian girlfriend is broad and tonally generic, as if it’s been lifted from a Barry Levinson outline; the bullies who give Sammy grief feel similarly one-dimensional and reductive. Review | ‘The Fabelmans’: Spielberg peels back the curtain on his youth 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z The POC category has replicated this country’s reductive colorism, which strands dark-skinned people at the bottom of its “people of color” hierarchy. Lessons of the audio leak: Solidarity is dead. Let's ditch the label 'people of color' 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z “The word and idea of portraiture is very reductive,” says Simpson of Taylor’s work. Henry Taylor, the democratic king of portraiture, makes his L.A. homecoming at MOCA 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Robinson had spent a part of his youth as a traveling musician in an evangelical Christian church and wanted to write about this world without being reductive or judgmental. How Do You Write Plays For a Divided Country? Listen Carefully. 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Talking to people, reading through archives, thinking about her own past, Perry unearths a South synonymous with America in ways expansive rather than reductive. The 15 best nonfiction books for fans of advice, memoirs and histories 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z I thought we could all use a break from the toxic churn of City Hall news following the leak that exposed the corrupt, racially reductive politics that run Los Angeles. For a break from City Hall toxicity, try open mic in Tarzana 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z I hope you’re not talking about the people you claim to represent, those “communities of color” you were attempting to “help” with such a reductive, hate-filled conversation about the very important subject of redistricting. Column: If Nury Martinez loves L.A., what does hate look like? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z “And I’m not being reductive when I say that. People think she had some commercial trick or beautiful secret, but the truth is that she’s just brilliant.” Two podcasters set out to read every Agatha Christie book. It became much more than that 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z You could toss off a description of the book as “the portrait of the artist as a young woman,” but life is short and that’s awfully reductive. Review: A young debut novelist, unlike Sally Rooney, tells the truth about art and money 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z This argument is reductive to the point of being functionally false. Trans activist and author: In a fascist America, LGBTQ folk will be "systematically targeted" 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Some critics and documentary filmmakers say that mandate is reductive and numbing. Sundance Liked Her Documentary on Terrorism, Until Muslim Critics Didn’t 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Wade, or about something as reductive as “daddy” issues, though Norma Jeane calls both of her husbands that. Marilyn Monroe fascination comes to Netflix with ‘Blonde’ 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z It is not just Black death, but Black life, that is realized here in the most reductive of forms. Review: Don't look for a meaningful portrayal of Black life in messy, derivative drama 'On the Come Up' 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z We need to be able to exist in Black queer space, but let us hop around, and don’t use reductive language to keep bounding us in. What Does It Mean to Be a Young, Black Queer Artist Right Now? 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z My larger answer for medications is that I resist any clean, reductive conclusion. To get to the root of mental illness, Rachel Aviv went to the patients 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The common, reductive origin story of the Velvet Underground says Reed brought the pop songcraft and seedy lyrical vision, while Cale introduced droning ambiance and exploded the musical boundaries of pop altogether. Lou Reed’s earliest transformation 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “I hope somebody can turn down that narrative, which is very reductive and a little racist, I have to say.” The winners and losers of a muted Telluride Film Festival 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z “I think we can be a little reductive in how we look at politics: red, blue, Republican, Democrat. But there’s a whole host of nuance in between both of the parties.” Alyssa Farah Griffin, ‘The View’ co-host and Trump critic, says she’ll be ‘voice’ for Trump voters 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z I hope somebody can turn down that narrative, which is very reductive and a little racist, I have to say. Alejandro G. Iñárritu answers critics of his new film: 'There's a kind of racist undercurrent' 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z While Lobby Boy takes its name from a character in the film “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” the band doesn’t want to be known as “Wes Anderson-core” or anything that reductive. Lobby Boy and ‘the pursuits of personhood’ 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z One of the pleasures of the season is the way it puts seemingly disparate movies in conversation with one another, to sometimes productive and sometimes reductive effect. Column: There's nothing 'normal' about moviegoing any more. But fall gives us reason to hope 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Words like love, trust, freedom, responsibility and choice have been deformed by market logic, narrowed to commodity relationships or reductive self-interest. Resisting fascism and winning the education wars: How we can meet the challenge 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z But that’s too reductive for what Lin has done here, which is to write a crime novel as a slice of life. Review: A master of Taipei noir proves every good crime novel is a social novel 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z But both of those works are from the 1960s, at which point Giacometti had been working with this reductive approach to the human figure for 25 years. Why you should see Seattle Art Museum’s new Giacometti show 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z As he engaged in negotiations, always the center of attention, the outcome was almost always reductive, cutting the size and scope of the package. All about Manchin: What Biden wanted for US, senator did not 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z In the context of a career often overshadowed by flattering if reductive comparisons to Jimmy Stewart, a wild swing like Col. Tom Hanks strikes out in 'Elvis.' It's the rare misstep that illuminates a great career 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Jaye Ayres-Brown is deliciously repugnant as Kean’s son Charles, portraying entitlement through exaggerated posture, reductive rhetoric and, eventually, an all-out temper tantrum. Review | In Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Red Velvet,’ celebration is actually tragedy 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to be reductive, but this is ultimately about the trauma of childhood,” he added. 'The Black Phone' explained: A real life killer, childhood memories shaped the adaptation 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Cunningham: Do we want to go back to this question of whether it’s reductive to call certain great novels New York novels? The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Along with other issues, that reductive and heavily filtered image of Black life in Los Angeles has left many feeling unseen, underappreciated in many areas in and around the very city they call home. For many Black Angelenos, being seen is still half the fight 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z They did so referring many times to “unborn children,” with only one dismissive occurrence of the word “mother” and a wonderfully reductive single use of the word “womb.” Opinion | This antiabortion argument forgot that women are people too 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Providing reductive lessons in gay culture, the grating voice-over describes Fire Island as a gay Disney World with a community separating levels of attraction based on race, ethnicity, wealth and body types. Review: In Hulu rom-com 'Fire Island,' love wins. But it's not an easy victory 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z “I think this goes back to the fact that it’s a reductive, single-stage procedure. The risks are lower.” How Ben Got His Penis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z These are fables, which means on some level these 30-minute stories have to be reductive in some way. Why the 'weird puzzle' of Apple's new anthology took up to 40 rewrites to get right 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z It may at least remind you that, in an age fueled by reductive statements about everything under the sun, nothing human is as simple as it seems. ‘The Girl From Plainville' changes the true crime it depicts. Mostly, it works 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Some would call Spielberg a crowd-pleaser and Campion an iconoclast, a reductive contrast that nonetheless carries an obvious grain of truth. The power of the director: Why Jane Campion’s Oscar win was overdue 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z To lump these movies together under a giant frown emoji, in other words, would be as reductive as trying to consign them to a single style or subject. The Oscars are embracing better movies. The show acts like it's embarrassed by them 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z I do think we’re all getting better at deepening our discourse about tech beyond a reductive spectrum from good to bad. A heartfelt farewell from Dieter Bohn 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Some political scientists are even more reductive, identifying “thermostatic” public opinion, or the constant cycle of backlash against the party in power, as the defining feature of contemporary American politics. Republican clash shows the enduring appeal, and dubious benefit, of campaign platforms 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z They often make the reductive, moralizing case that reading is a form of salvation, a surefire route to empathy. Review: Plenty of novels moralize about books saving your life. This one treats them like a drug 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The terse, reductive art style dubbed “minimalism” began to emerge in the late 1950s, partly in reaction to the high emotion of abstract expressionism. Review | In the galleries: Caprice and function hang together through the looking glass 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z That way of thinking is not only reductive, but blocks progress forward in understanding the complexity of race. Charles Yu on identity, representation and what it means to be Asian American 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The concept as a word is too reductive, which makes it easy to discount as playing the race card. Laura Coates on ‘Just Pursuit’ and being a Black female federal prosecutor 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z More than that, though, we are not simply computers, despite all the reductive Silicon Valley-speak in the world. Elon Musk doesn't need to get inside your brain. Big Tech is already there 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z But Jonathan Friedman, director of free expression and education at PEN America, said that he doesn't think the term "is reductive at all." Why experts say the banning of "Maus" is not like the censorship of "Huckleberry Finn" 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Let me ask you a very reductive question: do you think the future of Volkswagen is a hardware company, a software company, or a services company? How Volkswagen can reinvent itself as an EV company, with CEO Herbert Diess 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z It breaks down this black and white thinking because there’s space for more now, rather than falling into reductive stereotypes or patterns. Charles Yu on identity, representation and what it means to be Asian American 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z It’s mostly convincing, but it starts to feel reductive. Review | The last volume in ‘A Life of Picasso’ is just as astounding as its predecessors 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z It would be reductive to suggest that Poitier’s career was some triumph of positivity over rage, or that he took an easy, forgiving attitude toward the industry that slowly and grudgingly made room for him. Sidney Poitier was more than a symbol. He was one of the great movie stars, full stop 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z There is an authentic dislike and irritation there, even if a made-for-TV match heavy on commercial breaks felt like a reductive attempt to display and resolve that. A Feud Fueled by Social Media Is Also Made for TV 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z With few exceptions, the celebrity biopic has long been the clunky white elephant of Hollywood moviemaking, a vehicle for reductive insights, canned uplift, middling impersonations and unexamined idol worship. Review: Will Smith rules in 'King Richard,' a Venus-and-Serena drama with a sharp spin 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z These attempts to label what we're going through are just reductive. "I am more than my procreative capacity": The public and private grief of infertility 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Manuel-Davis grew to be one of the most influential instructors on the West Coast because her coaching and her classes speak to something more than reductive aesthetics. This motivational guru might be the most influential, nonfamous person in L.A. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Poitier’s body of work is often spoken of, both rightly and reductively, as a series of historic firsts. Sidney Poitier was more than a symbol. He was one of the great movie stars, full stop 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z "Which is about as reductive a model of sexual attraction as I can imagine." 'We're being pressured into sex by some trans women' 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z It may be reductive to tie the Dodgers’ failure to their gloominess. Analysis | The Dodgers turned their advantages into burdens 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z In the meantime, Winburn won’t provide ancestry estimates until and unless she can take a population approach that doesn’t focus on reductive racial categories. Forensic anthropologists can try to identify a person’s race from a skull. Should they? 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z When I asked him about his childhood, I apologized, explaining that I get impatient when people ask about my own childhood to gain insight into my work; it has always seemed reductive. The Man Who Finally Made a ‘Dune’ That Fans Will Love 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z But as her alternately thoughtful and impulsive actions remind us, terms like good and evil are much too reductive to ascribe to behavior so messily, recognizably human. Review: The marvelous Japanese trilogy 'Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy' is well worth a spin 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z She believes that limiting a portrayal to mere body type is reductive. Renée Zellweger dons controversial fat suit in portrayal of real-life killer Pam Hupp 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z I obviously do not think so — that would be incredibly reductive. 'Titane' director Julia Ducournau explains how she crafted the year's wildest film 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z As for Stevens’s “series of tubes” quote, it was certainly a reductive way to characterize a phenomenon as vast and multifaceted as the Internet. Analysis | Congress is not as clueless about Facebook as it seems 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z There’s nothing reductive in Franzen’s portrait of this agitated, complicated family, and “Crossroads” is both agonizing and hilarious as it probes each character’s dilemma. Jonathan Franzen kicks off a new trilogy with his brilliant latest novel, ‘Crossroads’ 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Detractors — some thoughtful, some reductive — have argued that it does. Review | Fascinating and flummoxing, the ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ movie still strikes a chord 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z She believes that reducing a portrayal to mere body type is reductive. Sarah Paulson says she regrets wearing a fat suit to play Linda Tripp amid Hollywood fat phobia backlash 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z They say the insistent emphasis on skin color and race is reductive and some teenagers learn to adopt the language of antiracism and wield it against peers. New York’s Private Schools Tackle White Privilege. It Has Not Been Easy. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The reductive molecular, industry-driven approach has also narrowed imaginative thinking about how to adapt to the challenges we face as an aging society. Alzheimer's Inc: When a Hypothesis Becomes Too Big to Fail 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Three funerals in a week sounds like a reductive movie title, but it applies. Opinion | Why I never had a chance to say goodbye 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z The EU sees this approach as infuriatingly reductive and an attempt to walk back the whole premise of the agreement. Brexit: Gulf remains between UK and EU over Brexit protocol 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Let me be painfully reductive and try to understand what you’re saying. Flex manufactures everything from hair dryers to the Mac Pro — what’s next? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Today, it’s apparent in every realm of our visual world that a new kind of fluidity has taken hold, and that old, reductive standards of beauty are hopelessly outmoded. Makeup Is for Everyone 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z That perception rankles Mr. Adams, who equates efforts to dismiss him to reductive treatment of Black elected officials. Eric Adams Says He Has Something to Prove. Becoming Mayor Might Help. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Certainly, it would be reductive to say that women design in any particular way because they are women. How a pandemic year of loss reshaped Maya Lin's art and architecture 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Progress in advancing perceptions on race in this country is not linear; it’s not easy to shake off nearly 200 years of reductive images and condescension. Opinion | Lucy Liu: My success has helped move the needle. But it’ll take more to end 200 years of Asian stereotypes. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Chung took a reductive approach, wanting to keep it similar to the chili crisp she grew up eating in Beijing. L.A. is in the middle of a chile sauce craze. 16 to try now 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Let me ask you a really reductive question: you keep saying content, but then you keep talking about who your customers are. How Anjali Sud reinvented Vimeo 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z This is a truly crabbed and reductive view of the man and his work. Calendar Feedback: Hollywood hypocrisy on bullying 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Claire Thorton's interviews with trans athletes and their families for USA Today illustrate how conservative rhetoric around this is inherently reductive and demeaning to both the kids and to the very concept of women's sports. The GOP's war on trans students hurts all kids: The right is coming for CIS girls, too 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z National advocates say viewing reparations as only cash payments is far too reductive and that there is a need for policies that tackle the institutional racism that created the inequities in the first place. Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z The necessity of reductive research here is to come up with a strict clinical protocol that will lead to replicable changes for anyone with a given diagnosis. Opinion: The mental health industry doesn't know what it's doing with psychedelic drug studies 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Even though she often finds them "reductive and uninteresting", Lawson has been back giving interviews to promote her latest book Cook, Eat, Repeat, and its accompanying BBC TV series. Nigella Lawson: Why she's learned to become more 'guarded' 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Following their win in November, Turner went from doing interviews every other day, to stopping almost completely, because of a media relationship that was too often intrusive and reductive. Democrat Mauree Turner on historic win and 'the Oklahoma I want to create' 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Writing the two women as if they were Jack Sprat and his wife would feel reductive if it weren’t for all the complications Broder throws in the mix. Melissa Broder isn't trying to be provocative. It's just who she is 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Now I usually dislike the way these chip battles are sometimes set up because it’s too reductive: the PC market is vast and multifaceted. CES Day 1: TCL takes its shot and Intel hunkers down 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Our process seeks consensus, and consensus is inherently reductive. Film or television? Who cares? Why the L.A. Film Critics voted 'Small Axe' 2020's best 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Like a few recent westerns, “News of the World” is an imperfect but sensitive attempt to confront, or at least sidestep, some of the reductive tropes and historically problematic representations of the genre. Review: 'News of the World,' Paul Greengrass' odd-couple western, is an admirable but bumpy ride 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z A lot of postwar art that was self-consciously modern became more and more reductive, distilling experience and sensation into crystalline visions that became emptier even as they became bigger. Perspective | Inside out 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z But those who work with plants find even this idea — the signature as bookmark, if you will — too reductive. Revisiting an Ancient Theory of Herbalism 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z That knock is well deserved, but it too is reductive in some ways. CES Day 1: TCL takes its shot and Intel hunkers down 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z “Looking at that marriage didn’t make me embarrassed or ashamed,” says Mantello, “which made realize how much reductive understanding I had brought to ‘The Boys in the Band.’” Column: For director Joe Mantello, 'The Boys in the Band' is a 'scar' Trump's SCOTUS could reopen 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The whole system is framed around something more original and less reductive than “sanity,” and it’s become more elegant and interesting with the change. Amnesia: Rebirth is an elegant sequel to a horror classic 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z To only consider them that, to romanticize their lack of large contracts, would be reductive and, well, cheap. Rays crash the party of big-market teams remaining in MLB playoffs 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Whereas that word may be accurate, it's also unjustly reductive, distilling July’s unpredictable, self-conscious and acute sensibilities into a catchphrase that is suspiciously close to “kooky.” Review | Another ‘kooky’ movie from Miranda July? ‘Kajillionaire’ is that — and so much more 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z But some who share the broader critique of feminism say that seeing Justice Ginsburg as a symbol of a blinkered white perspective is as reductive as an R.B.G. sticker. Amid the Outpouring for Ginsburg, a Hint of Backlash 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z The dangers that lie in wait on the internet are an important subject in “Cuties,” but the movie, to its credit, never becomes a reductive cautionary tale. Review: 'Cuties' deserves better than it got from Netflix — and from those who condemned it sight unseen 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z “Their reductive representation of human psychological complexity,” she says, “offends me as a writer.” Set in a Tuscan villa, ‘I Give It To You’ pulls on the strings that come attached to family stories 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Given the sheer scale of the destruction, it’s a reductive but effective tactic, especially in terms of providing an overall snapshot of municipal recovery. Review: Ron Howard's 'Rebuilding Paradise' is a stirring portrait of a town devastated by the Camp fire 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z It’s possible to look at the game’s return as a sop to the money men, but that is needlessly and pointlessly reductive. Premier League final day clockwatch – live! 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Trump, unsurprisingly, makes his home on Twitter, the simplest and most structurally reductive of the social media behemoths. Trumpism is an aesthetic, not an ideology — and it will survive Donald Trump 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z Ziwe’s former show, Baited, also used reductive questioning to remind us of our racial biases. 'People say I hate white people': comedian Ziwe on her provocative new show 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z One writer referred to his “earthy blend of southern-fried crime noir,” a description that sounds reductive and maybe even a little bit racist to my ears. In a groundbreaking crime novel, Black lives matter in the rural South 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Yet we are still trapped within a reductive framework: privilege. Anti-racism requires so much more than 'checking your privilege' | Momtaza Mehri 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Ultimately, clean distinctions between essential vs. elective care are rhetorically convenient but clinically reductive. Perspective | Covid-19 makes us face the hazy line between ‘elective’ and ‘essential’ medicine 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Neoliberalism has pushed this reductive, anti-social form of liberty against the social liberalism of the preceding decades. Anti-lockdown protesters show how the idea of "freedom" has degenerated 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z "This is the natural consequence of the reductive view of race & politics being pushed by the 'identity is destiny' crowd. Charming." Ex-Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner rips Biden: Saying you 'own' the black vote is 'the highest insult' 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Her perplexing comments about her peers of colour are as knee-jerk and reductive as the characterisation of her submissive lyrics as anti-feminist. Lana Del Rey's swipes at her peers of colour undermine her feminist argument | Laura Snapes 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z To use a reductive comparison, Supernatural is sort of like Beat Saber meets Peloton. Supernatural for Oculus Quest is like Beat Saber meets Peloton 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Palin was making an unsubtle — and, Democrats insisted, reductive — play for Clinton voters, invoking her by name despite their disparate views and telling supporters that “the women of America aren’t finished yet.” Joe Biden’s Time in Sarah Palin’s Shadow 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z At other times, the focus on her weight verged on patronising and reductive, as though her BMI-based “relatability” was the main draw and her talent a poor second. Pass judgment on Adele's talent, not on how much she weighs | Barbara Ellen 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z "It's reductive to say that the film's just about Weinstein though," explains Green. How The Assistant exposes Hollywood's abuse 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Now, as coronavirus has shuttered the entire world, their attacks are as reductive as they are destructive. Feedback: What readers think about petition to name Dr. Anthony Fauci 'sexiest man' 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z McNally disliked being described as a gay playwright -- dismissing it as a reductive label, especially since his subject matter was hardly limited to gay life. Terrence McNally, the playwright who wrote life-affirming and popular scripts, has died 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Yet the notion that there is one single reason that black Southerners chose Biden over Sanders is far too reductive. Perspective | For black voters, the ‘Democratic establishment’ meets in our living rooms 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It would be reductive to think of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” as simply an abortion drama. Review: Unease of girlhood shines through in ‘Never Rarely’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z It may be reductive to say that runway shows are about how women dress. Armani rails against baring trends by fellow designers 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine that the reductive minds of the FBI could have produced anything as interesting or compassionate as a too-long novel by Vollmann. Review: William Vollmann returns to the Tenderloin with another uncut gem 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z As it is, the juxtaposition of time frames can’t help but put the narrative in a reductive bind. Review: Just in time for Valentine's Day, ‘The Photograph’ casts a seductive if intermittent spell 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z I wanted to change from the hardcore reductive work that I was doing to something more personal and this type of work felt really personal to me. A story of art that is also a story of feminism and female friendship 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Bong, of course, is not a stand-in for Korean cinema, and it would be reductive to see him as such. The 'Parasite' best picture win is stunning. And shatters the Oscars' 92-year-old glass ceiling 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z “It was unfortunate that we were a little too glib or a little too reductive in our portrayal of those characters, but I think our response to it was quick and sincere.” Yes, 'Homeland' is still on. It's the most adaptable show on television 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Tales of non-white identity must be founded in the most reductive non-whiteness, told without nuance, curiosity or interest in examining what lies behind such experiences. American Dirt’s problem is bad writing, not cultural appropriation | Nesrine Malik 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The “quality not gender” argument is reductive; awards exist, at least in part, to acknowledge the emergence of new perspectives and striking shifts in the art of cinema. Column: For your consideration: Women in Film has an all-female awards ballot 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Is Howard Ratner a caricature of the aggressively in-your-face, virulently dishonest Jewish businessman, or does Sandler’s virtuosity render him too singular, too human a creation to be dismissed so reductively? Review: Adam Sandler gives the performance of his career in the razor-sharp 'Uncut Gems' 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z We wanted to call ourselves the Otolith Group so people would stop asking us where we were from, or try to define our identities in a reductive way.” Artists assemble! How collectives took over the art world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z “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. T’s Holiday Issue: Past Perfect 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Equality unites Marianne and Héloïse as two lovers of the same gender, and also as a painter and a subject who become fellow conspirators rather than falling into a reductive artist-muse dynamic. Review: Blazingly intelligent 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' is one of 2019's great love stories 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Scott Brown, Vulture: “‘First Date,’ in its rubber heart, is as reductive and aggregate-data-based as modern dating itself” ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ will be the 5th Avenue Theatre’s 10th production to go to Broadway. Here’s a scorecard on the others. 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Something shifted in my mind, and I think for a lot of people in 2018, where before that women were being treated in such a reductive way in politics. "See Jane Win": How Democratic women drove the 2018 blue wave 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z She will be called whiny and vindictive, and painted with all sorts of reductive sexist stereotypes. Marie Yovanovitch testifies — and kneecaps a central Trump defense 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z “It’s reductive to call climate change a political issue,” he says. How the Sunrise Movement built a viral climate campaign without Twitter ads 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z But Frost, like Blair in “The Deal” and “The Queen,” understands what one of his researchers calls “the reductive power of the close-up.” How the Man Behind ‘The Crown’ Made the Monarchy Relevant Again 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z |
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