Instead of putting this highly reductive argument into some sort of perspective, Mr. Ratcliff simply writes that "we should expand it until intimations of all the body's processes appear in Pollock's stained, smeared, encrusted canvases."

Ca is highly reductive and would further strip oxygen from the cathode, resulting in calciothermic reduction.

So has the highly reductive notion that Mr. Lucas and Mr. Spielberg, because they directed those pictures, were somehow responsible for the carnage.

The authors' prescription for dealing with the country's intelligence problems is highly reductive - "Don't pivot policy or the nation's security around intelligence" - and their discussion of asymmetrical warfare is full of recycled platitudes.

A potential problem of structuralist interpretation is that it can be highly reductive, as scholar Catherine Belsey puts it: "the structuralist danger of collapsing all difference."

Although the work remains in a highly reductive geometricized mode, it is sometimes quirkily dreamy and sensuous, with more than a touch of whimsy.

Contrast this with "Burg Rheinfels on the Rhine" (1844), a highly reductive work from Turner's late years, in which he was mainly concerned with the painting of light.

The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed.

Thus KP1019 is not present it its active form in the bloodstream and is not reduced in normal cells, because only the environment in the tumor cells is highly reductive.

According to Taylor, cults emphasize positive aspects of the group over negative aspects of outsiders, endlessly repeat simple ideas in "highly reductive, definitive - sounding phrases", and refer to "abstract and ambiguous" ideas associated with "huge emotional baggage".