Games are naturally engaging and fun; plus, I believe they offer a decent real-life approximation of situations where students might apply the skills we're targeting.
Although there's no way to know if the old man was telling the truth or remembering correctly, the closest real-life approximation of the cement shoes trope came two years after those words were printed.
China is still sometimes referred to as Orwellian, but neither it nor Russia is now seen as the closest real-life approximation of a "Big Brother State," a title that now belongs to settings such as North Korea where harsher forms of authoritarianism are the rule.
Every so often, real life — or rather the approximation being played on camera — intrudes.
The new stooge does pretty much the same thing, the difference being that reality-television celebrities have turned their lives (or some weird approximation of life) into vaudeville.
This suits a long-running series, and may even be an approximation of life itself – hands up who's reached their revelatory third act?
One, a beautiful, skeptical young woman named Alexis Plaisance, had discovered at an early age that the sexual interest of older men could be her off-ramp: a means of escaping a tumultuous family life and finding an approximation of the pleasure and adventure that her childhood had lacked.
The problem was that Syberberg's methods were apt to his film, which was conspicuously stagebound and impressionistic; Coppola was making a Hollywood film with at least a simulacrum of dramatic realism, where the artifice had to be no mere approximation of life but an improvement on it.
Evolutionary game theory makes possible a more rigorous statement of this hypothesis, since repeated games are a useful if simplistic approximation of life in a close-knit group (Axelrod 1984 , 1986 Skyrms 1996; Gintis 2000).
Sports is mankind's greatest approximation of life.
Fundamentally, technology creates a mediated and low-resolution approximation of life that does offer utilitarian benefits and some entertainment value.
