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.
In an interview, she said: "I've been searching for a literary method that would allow the closest possible approximation to real life.
It's rumoured that writers on series such as Midsomer Murders have a strict limit on the body count, possibly in order to keep the village populated while clinging to a faint approximation of real life (still, 100 murders already, why does anyone go and live there?), but under the multi-casualty influence of Scandinoir, who knows what might happen.
One of a minority of laureates recognized as a dedicated writer of nonfiction, Alexievich devised a hybrid literary genre that evolved as "the closest possible approximation to real life," wherein human voices were allowed to speak for themselves about the main events of the age.
We conclude that the given estimates provide a solid approximation to "real life" and can be used with some confidence as a clue for future studies for instance in order to perform power calculations.
The solid body with the new turbulence model (SST k ω) was considered as a good approximation to the real life.
Although acute toxicity, biological activity, cytocompatibility, and fundamental biological mechanisms (e.g., transcription, translation, and signaling events and processes) can be assessed in vitro, such systems cannot provide a reproducible approximation of the real life in vivo settings.
Haynes's methodical attention to detail ensures that this biopic not only works as a truthful approximation of Dylan's real life, but also makes sense of the mass of contradictions Dylan embodies.
