irreducible

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In one fictional moment, he gives us something unmistakably, irreducibly real, partly by puncturing the fantasy of human invincibility that his co-star has never stopped trying to sell.

From Los Angeles Times

Campion respects his irreducible book: She doesn’t try to diagnose Phil.

From Los Angeles Times

Hyde wants us to see how some families found ways to endure, but there’s an irreducible grief that wends its way through this book.

From New York Times

Odenkirk’s belief that truly great jokes carry some irreducible amount of anger — and that this anger’s noblest function is to torpedo pieties and hypocrisies — helps explain his lifelong commitment to sketch comedy.

From New York Times

And finally, the theological disagreements that his cult posed to Judaism and Christianity are irreducibly complex.

From Washington Post