The phrase "closer encounter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an experience or event that brings someone or something nearer than usual, often in a context involving exploration or interaction.
Example: "During our hike, we had a closer encounter with the wildlife than we had anticipated."
Alternatives: "nearer encounter" or "intimate encounter."
A closer encounter with woodland friends seemed not the best way to end a date with a visitor from Germany.
It is a closer encounter with couture than one usually has at a museum, but, Diller said, "we felt the clothes also needed an analytic perspective, and we decided on computer models that would dramatize the complexity you can't see".
"Much of this stately, rather detached biography," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times of this documentary from Pierre Thoretton, "is pornography for the eye (not the body)." Of Saint Laurent's depression, he added, "To realize that you may have the world while still feeling as if you have nothing is to experience a closer encounter with the void than most of us are likely to have".
"Much of this stately, rather detached biography," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times about this documentary from Pierre Thoretton, "is pornography for the eye (not the body)." Of Saint Laurent's depression, he added, "To realize that you may have the world while still feeling as if you have nothing is to experience a closer encounter with the void than most of us are likely to have".
What may seem like a massive white object from a far distance is in fact a field of air inflated panels upon closer encounter.
An aerial sprite appears high in the tent, discovers him, glides low for a closer encounter, receives the heart and ascends.
Close encounters between galaxies appear to trigger the black holes in their cores to grow rapidly.
Chapter 12. Close encounters with the hetaira : reading Alciphron's Book 4 / Yvonne Rösch.
Heide: No, there have been no close encounters.
Close encounters with Mars and Earth would give Rosetta enough speed to reach the comet Wirtanen by 2011.
Close encounters between dolphins and predatory sharks often result in evasive responses by the dolphins.
