Maximalist

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Preferring redundancy; tending to do or provide more rather than less.

   “This, his [Frank Stella's] second Museum of Modern Art retrospective, shows him in his second incarnation, turning his back on Minimalist rationality and opting for a “maximalist,” seemingly free-wheeling Baroque complexity that helped set the stage for New-Expressionism.”

2. sıfat Aggressive, expansive.

   “Mr. Schmidt agreed that “both the Russians and the Americans want results,” but he warned that they have a long way to go from “maximalist” starting positions.”

3. sıfat Relating to religious or Biblical maximalism.

   “Again, the progressive view was that the Mother of Jesus should receive all veneration for holiness, but not the title of mediator between God and man. Much of the Curia supported a “maximalist” cult of the Virgin.”

4. sıfat Relating to far-left communism.

   “His inclusion in the official delegation to Moscow caused surprise today and was seen as indicative of the Italian Communists' aversion to Maximalist currents in international communism.”

5. isim A person with maximalist beliefs or tendencies; someone who prefers redundancy or excess, especially in the arts.

   “Concerning his own purpose in making music, Mr. Babbitt says he would call himself a maximalist: “I try to make music as much as it has ever been or as much as it could be. I may try to put too much into a piece. […]””

6. isim A supporter of an aggressive or expansive foreign policy.

   “The policy, however, will collapse unless it produces results. If the region reverts to another stalemate of “no‐peace, no‐war,” the very cause of the October conflagration, then the initiative will pass to the Arab “maximalists,” the Iraqis, the extremist Palestinians, Colonel Qaddafi.”

7. isim A proponent of Biblical maximalism, one who affirms the historicity of central Biblical narratives.

   “The first is reported to represent the secretariat's attempted compromise between the “maximalists” and those who see the further aggrandizement of the cult of Mary as a further obstacle to a dialogue with the Protestants.”

8. isim A Bolshevik.

   “After a firm opening and an hour of fairly well sustained strength the stock market once more suffered a wide break yesterday following the receipt of the news of the overthrow of Kerensky and the announced intention of the Maximalists to propose an immediate peace with Germany.”

9. isim A member of a radical wing split from the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1906.
10. isim A member of a radical Marxist party in Italy.

    ““Maximalists,” as radical Marxists are called here, and anarchists have always had great influence in Italy's trade‐union movement.”

11. sıfat Alternative letter-case form of maximalist.
12. isim Alternative letter-case form of maximalist.