irreducible

I realize this is heresy, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the irreducible strangeness of the drama.

On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow all but cracked her knuckles before weighing-in with, "This is a definitive and this is an irreducible verdict . . . The sentencing process will go on and those will all be pressure points. But the legal system in this country treats any former president as any citizen."

But, Mr. Schjeldahl said, he nonetheless admired Mr. Andre’s search for what seemed to be an irreducible art object, presented “with an aggressive air of completeness and finality, as if each were the only, or anyway the last, work of art in the world.”

It’s the emotional and psychological ambiguity at the heart of Ernest and Mollie’s marriage, a parasitic bond that quivers with eroticism, swoons with tenderness and finally reads as an irreducible metaphor for Indigenous destruction.

The larger the integrated information, the more the circuit is irreducible, the less it can be considered just the superposition of independent subcircuits.