Sentence examples for it might approximate from inspiring English sources

Characters reveal themselves through dialogue, but dialogue is not necessarily a verbatim reproduction of everyday speech, even though it might approximate to it.

If the musical satirist Tom Lehrer were to write a hard-core anthem about sex reassignment surgery, with a driving guitar lick, a "Hava Nagila" breakdown and a keyboard line lifted from Super Mario Brothers, it might approximate the Schmekel sound.

It seemed as if Gaga could now, at age thirty, be aiming for a more anodyne omnipresence — a prosaic, inarguable appeal that might approximate Adele's.

"Where's Luciana's husband?" I asked her adviser, looking round for someone who might approximate to the male equivalent of a politician's wife.

The idea that Anthony and Stoudemire might approximate the harmonious partnership of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade has never seemed more outlandish.

I liked the idea of sour cream, but had only butter, which might approximate the dairy element and soften any pungency in the fish, much like the milk my parents soaked the fillets in.

Ida wouldn't have minded seeing him, to shake hands maybe, to perform some soft footwork that might approximate closure, but Roy had apparently made his decision, and soon some sweethearts from the office came for his things, operating with a list, leaving behind only an old pair of shoes.

This implies that the 1-D analysis might approximate the 3-D structure, even in a zone of large |β|.

Since only one machine type was available in the IBM Smart Cloud trial, we select results from other providers as might approximate these.

To overcome these drawbacks, external knowledge regarding the behavior of objects, such as rigid body constraints or other models that might approximate the motion of a real video camera, becomes necessary.

If the best house party you ever attended suddenly morphed into a great and meaningful work of art, you might approximate the wild work of painter Canyon Castator.