In general, though, I follow the "maximalist" approach of trying out a bunch of things all at once and seeing what works the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Guillebeau: How to Conduct Your Own Business Audit] Reference

A sad imitation of Martin Miller's "maximalist" approach to design.    From Wordnik.com.  [mirrormirror] Reference

It will also force Kurdish leaders to re-evaluate their insistence on "maximalist" demands that threatened to unravel Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE AIR FORCE PUNDIT] Reference

Known as a "maximalist" - for his massive novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

It's kind of the maximalist Arab demand with a nice bow.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2002] Reference

Because we (or our copyright maximalist paymasters) say so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brits: sign petitition to kill proposal to disconnect accused infringers from the net! - Boing Boing] Reference

EFF sues Barney the humorless, copyright maximalist dinosaur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: August 20, 2006 - August 26, 2006 Archives] Reference

The maximalist position was consistent with the Big Brother rule.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Don't Gloat' Wins The Day] Reference

They are caught in the crossfire between two maximalist positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

For this reason, I believe that a maximalist approach cannot work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lionel Beehner: Why A Maximalist Af-Pak Policy Will Not Work] Reference

I do not think our positions are radical or maximalist, as some say.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO SPEECH AT FOREIGN DEBT DIALOGUE] Reference

Why shouldn't the next conflict lead to a territorially maximalist culmination?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaming for the Fiery Tomorrow] Reference

The only way to deal with countries is by issuing a series of maximalist demands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Washington Worries] Reference

Instead, he has pursued a maximalist liberal agenda and refused any real compromise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polarization starts at the top] Reference

SPOILERS When it comes to fantasy and horror, I'm what you might call a "maximalist.".    From Wordnik.com.  [BLACK EXORCIST by Joseph Nazel (Holloway House 1974)] Reference

Here breaking a person's will can be understood in a minimalist or a maximalist sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit Upwelling] Reference

I prefer "maximalist totalitarian corporatism" myself, but it's neither here nor there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Campaigning With Potential VPs Today In Virginia] Reference

But that is as silly and one-sided an idea as the maximalist one I have been criticizing here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

This maximalist approach can tax the nerves, though it has the benefit of keeping you on alert.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: Shooter.] Reference

I just returned from Sri Lanka, where a maximalist approach worked to eradicate a nasty insurgency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lionel Beehner: Why A Maximalist Af-Pak Policy Will Not Work] Reference

He's a true-blue movement conservative who believes in the maximalist conception of conservatism, uncompromising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus] Reference

"I'm a maximalist when it comes to restorative justice – I want to get it into our system at every stage," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisons minister says criminals could cut jail sentences by saying 'sorry'] Reference

But it has been used by the governing elite as a pretext for maximalist diplomacy, military conquest, and occupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I never thought my maximalist bent would be linked in any fashion with Robert Creeley and of course such is an honor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

You can throw a lot of random details and "atmosphere" into maximalist genres without boring the pants off the audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pinter and Losey] Reference

Not only is such a maximalist demand irresponsible in the present context, it is also completely unrealizable in practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar M. Bronfman: Arab Responsibility, Not Rhetoric] Reference

The minimalist spectacle of Domino's maximalist contours was enough to justify his decision to tarry at the oasis awhile longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

Set in early Civil Rights-era California, A Single Man is meticulously styled in Ford's tell-tale maximalist/modernist aesthetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Kaufman: Tom Ford's A Single Man: Gay, Straight AND Other] Reference

While staking out this maximalist position, Israeli officials, however, are resigned to massive U.S. weapons sales in the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Josh Ruebner: WikiLeaks: Israel's Security Concerns Often Clash with U.S. Interests] Reference

Master of maximalist prose and human minutiae Rick Moody spins out three sensational novellas in Right Livelihoods (Little, Brown).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Type] Reference

He tries to mark himself as more reasonable than the IP-maximalist Mark Twain, who he asserts proposed a term of "a million years.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawrence Lessig: The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)] Reference

In public appearances the leaders invariably feel bound to state maximalist positions and to cater to their respective constituencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Elsner: In Mideast Peace Talks, it's Time to Lower the Temperature] Reference

Where Kelly Reichardt practises a strict, Carveresque minimalism, leaving out far more than she puts in, Raymond is a prose maximalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metronatural America] Reference

If that's any indication, the new esthetic may be most accurately likened to a souk -- and it doesn't get any more maximalist than that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of Minimalism] Reference

Now, both of us are, kind of, I guess stating the other's position in a maximalist, extreme way, but I think there is a difference here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush and Gore Face off in a Kinder, Gentler Debate - October 11, 2000] Reference

The librarians wrote about Captain Copyright, kid-targeted copyright maximalist character that Access Copyright spent its money promoting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives] Reference

In his mind, disappointing all sides and frustrating their maximalist demands is not only acceptable, but actually a real sign of progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar M. Bronfman: Obama's New Style in the Middle East] Reference

Its culmination was the Stalinist Thirties, its "maximalist version… and defining moment," as Kelly quotes Fitzpatrick's characterization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slutsky & History] Reference