Sentence examples for approximation of the kind from inspiring English sources

Readers of that well-reviewed first novel, brought as a signal to a waiting reporter, may recognize the Hot Bird as a close approximation of the kind of place Nathaniel, a confused, narcissistic Brooklyn writer, would spend his nights, drinking with his friends discussing "Lolita," relationships and book proposals.

While it may not be particularly earth-shattering, or even stay with you once you leave the theater, it is a reasonable approximation of the kind of pulpy page-turner that keeps folks occupied in airport terminals as they await their flights.

In recent years the numerical approximations of this kind of problems form a hot topic, and many works are contributed to developing effective numerical methods and algorithms.

In fact, most functions common to engineers cannot be computed without approximations of this kind.

This feels like an eerie approximation, at a clinical, digital remove, of the kind of intimacy usually granted only to the artist and his assistants, or conservators and preparators.

No one walks that way, and yet those feet are such a perfect comic approximation of the idea of walking that they've entered our subconscious as a kind of semiplausible reality.

History is always just an approximation of the past.

Of course, this might well be a faithful approximation of the real event it describes.

A creeping tightness slinking across the chest and gut is an approximation of the actual sensation.

The most we can hope for is a reasonable approximation of the truth.

The truth is that most interviews in most media are merely an approximation of the encounter.