0 belonging or relating to a style in art, design, and theatre that uses the smallest range of materials and colours possible, and only very simple shapes or forms:
1 taking or showing as little action and involvement in a situation as possible:
2 an artist or designer who uses a minimalist style
3 taking or showing as little action and involvement in a situation as possible:
Unless we are careful, in the devolution situation we shall turn minimalists into maximalists and maximalists into super-maximalists and super-maximalists into separatists.
They were not there as minimalists; they believed that they saw an evolution that required their radical presence to secure the aims that they had in mind.
The maximatists are chewing up the minimalists.
Be the play comedy or tragedy, in verse or prose, be the scenery elaborate or minimalist, the stage was unchanged.
I have argued that addition from a minimalist model is easier than subtraction from a maximalist model.
The upshot, he argues, is that minimalist syntax in the conceptual sense falls short of what a comprehensive linguistic theory has to account for.
Multiple specifiers are introduced as ' permitted in principle on minimalist assumptions about phrase structure theory ' (285, 245).
The result was a minimalist article that nevertheless affirmed the role of government in managing water.
