In the years between its opening and Balanchine's death in 1983, the theater was the brutal city's closest approximation to a temple of art.
Here in Turkey, the closest approximation to a liberal order in a Middle Eastern Muslim state exists.
Then Humph and Wally came along and raised the whole thing from enthusiastic approximation to a level not far removed from the original.
TAGLIOLINI GRATINATI WITH PRAWNS AND TREVISO This recipe is an approximation to a dish served at restaurant Da Fiore in Venice.
Such a model describes a perfect gas and is a reasonable approximation to a real gas, particularly in the limit of extreme dilution and high temperature.
At present, the nearest approximation to a silicon brain involves making electronic circuits that behave like neurons, and connecting them up in small networks.
This left Mr Sharif, a champion of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous state, as the country's closest approximation to a national leader.
The first of their two sons had just been born, and they named him Shael, a close approximation to a Hebrew verb that means "to ask intensely," which they pronounced "shale".
A list of positions and proper motions for such selected stars well distributed over the sky is called a fundamental catalog, and its coordinate system is a close approximation to a fixed frame of reference.
The Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris, nowadays their closest approximation to a Derby, enables patriots of the French Turf to celebrate Bastille Day with a sunlit soiree in the Bois de Boulogne.
Hence classical physics seems merely to be a useful approximation to a world which is quantum mechanical on all scales.
