Sentence examples for approximate thinking from inspiring English sources

"The Discomfort Zone" advertises itself, in a rather optimistic subtitle, as a "personal history," and was described during its pre-publication buildup as a "memoir" — a mischaracterization that further disserves a genre that already suffers from too much approximate thinking and lack of discipline on the part of so many who indulge themselves in it.

I was struck by how Dan Savage's approach to fidelity approximates the thinking of some who work with alcoholics and who believe that for some alcoholics, moderate drinking is the lesser of two evils.

The map of these behaviors is incredibly rich — like turning our interests and intentions into a rich kind of braille where our fingers approximate what we are thinking in the moments in between transactions.

Updating an opera from its historical setting to the approximate present can often represent lazy thinking on the part of a director, a gimmicky way to make an older work seem relevant.

Partly because Mr. Calhoun's staging (with the help of Michael Gilliam's lighting) tries to approximate cinematic crosscutting, you find yourself thinking of Penn's movie and the incisive characterizations provided by a cast that included Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons as Buck and Blanche.

The slow sections of "Kreisleriana" and the middle movements of the Mozart and the Beethoven magically approximated the sound of one man thinking aloud.

We flatter ourselves by thinking we can outdo or even approximate nature's foods.

These were transformed to approximate normality before analysis: SoC initial and subsequent thinking times and the motor control task response times (square-root transform), and spatial working memory strategy score (squared).

The creative writer unwittingly manages to make a mess of the ordinary thinking process: memory, imagination, and something approximating objective reality are all mooshed together into a dark, rich stew.

According to this way of thinking, our metabolism was designed to deal with foods that approximate aurochs and wild avocados.

There is strong evidence for the view that in addition to an exact number system that underlies formal mathematical thinking, adults also have an analog magnitude system for representing approximate number (see Dehaene 1997).