He approximates what some undergraduates call a straight arrow a semi-pejorative term for unfortunates who have no talent for vice.
How he approximates its sonic landscape onstage at the Village Vanguard, with the drummer Henry Cole, the pianist Luis Perdomo, and the bassist Hans Glawischnig, will be fascinating to hear.
He approximates the New York accent, though he's from Johnston, R.I. "Representing" as Italian-American (a more theatrical operation than merely "identifying" as something) requires attention to dialect.
He approximates what some undergraduates call a straight arrow — a semi-pejorative term for unfortunates who have no talent for vice.
According to Miller, Lewis thought Williams "godlike," and Eliot thought he approximated a saint, but Tolkien, though he liked Williams well enough as a person, thought his literary influence was baleful.
Speights may have many more games ahead where he approximates Randolph's production, but neither he, nor Gay, nor any other Grizzly can fill the void as Memphis' offensive anchor.
In "Silent Movie," he approximates a two-hanky one-reeler about an immigrant family's travails and triumph, aided by C. B. Mordan's exceptional black-and-white ink-on-clayboard panel illustrations, which fit somewhere between woodcuts and a comic book.
And with the repetition of each piece during the recording process, he approximated the listener's experience of music in the age of recordings, which was that of hearing the same piece over and over again, becoming intimate with it through mechanized repetition.
In his work, he approximated π as 10. 15 BC.
In 1946, he approximated π to 620 decimal places, and in January 1947 to 710 decimal places.
He approximated π by 3 1 / 5 = 3.2, which was refuted by Huygens and Wallis.
