All 50 Uses of
approach
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He looked like a man approaching fifty, who had crossed into age from adolescence, without the intermediate stage of youth.†
Chpt 1.1
- No one paid attention to her when she approached.†
Chpt 1.1
- He saw lights in the windows of the living room, when he approached his house.†
Chpt 1.2
- Rearden asked, approaching him.†
Chpt 1.2
- No, not many and not easy to approach, but there are.†
Chpt 1.3
- They approached each other, and Boyle said, his smile less soothing than usual, "I've delivered.†
Chpt 1.4
- Dan Conway was approaching fifty.†
Chpt 1.4
- She approached him.†
Chpt 1.4
- That was the way she always ran when Eddie yelled, "It's Frisco d'Anconia!" and they both flew down the hill to the car approaching on the road below.†
Chpt 1.5
- Jim was approaching his senior year in a college in New York.†
Chpt 1.5
- When he approached, she smiled innocently, as if unconscious of any contest intended or won.†
Chpt 1.5
- She approached him slowly.†
Chpt 1.5
- She heard steps approaching outside, suddenly, close to the door.†
Chpt 1.5
- He approached, he took her in his arms, he kissed her mouth and held her for a long time.†
Chpt 1.5
- He felt the leaden approach of that exhaustion which he never felt at his job, the exhaustion that seemed to wait for him and catch him the moment he turned to other concerns.†
Chpt 1.6
- He approached her-and stopped.†
Chpt 1.6
- Lillian Rearden approached, her jewels glittering under the lights.†
Chpt 1.6
- Claude Slagenhop had approached and managed to squeeze himself between Philip and Scudder, shoving Scudder aside imperceptibly.†
Chpt 1.6
- He watched her as she approached, but he did not step forward to meet her.†
Chpt 1.6
- A businessman whom they knew had approached, smiling at her in delighted astonishment.†
Chpt 1.6
- He looked at the room; he saw no one he wished to approach.†
Chpt 1.6
- Lillian glanced up at his face, when Rearden approached her in the midst of a group, and, without a word, stepped aside where they could not be heard.†
Chpt 1.6
- Approaching Lillian once more, Rearden said without anger, the contempt becoming amusement in his voice, "I didn't know you knew that one.†
Chpt 1.6
- Dagny stood still when she saw Francisco approaching.†
Chpt 1.6
- They had not noticed him approach; the conversation stopped, as if slashed off; most of them had never met him, but they all recognized him at once.
Chpt 1.6approach = get near
- James Taggart had approached the group and was waiting to be noticed.†
Chpt 1.6
- Philip noticed him, approached and waved to Lillian, calling her over.†
Chpt 1.6
- She wanted to approach him and convince herself that she was mistaken.†
Chpt 1.6
- She had seen them together and she had approached, drawn by an impulse she could not explain or resist; it seemed crucially important that she know what these two men said to each other.†
Chpt 1.6
- This was the approach of an anger she could not control.†
Chpt 1.6
- Lillian turned, because Rearden had approached her.†
Chpt 1.6
- He was crossing the room, carrying a tray with drinks requested by someone in Lillian's group-an unbecoming act of informality which nobody had ever seen him perform-when Dagny approached him.†
Chpt 1.6
- He approached, stopped, looked at her and smiled.†
Chpt 1.7
- Ben Nealy had approached her; his thumb was pointing at Ellis Wyatt.†
Chpt 1.7
- You haven't approached him about it?†
Chpt 1.7
- I have found that when particles are accelerated to a speed approaching the speed of light, they-†
Chpt 1.7
- He approached her.†
Chpt 1.7
- The crowd parted to let her approach him.†
Chpt 1.8
- She saw him, she approached, and she shook his hand; her smile was like a summation of all the things they did not have to say.†
Chpt 1.8
- The crossties melted, as they approached, into a smooth stream rolling down under the wheels.†
Chpt 1.8
- The track was rising through a country growing more grimly reluctant to permit approach.†
Chpt 1.8
- They were approaching Denver.†
Chpt 1.8
- When she tore her mouth away from him, she was laughing soundlessly, in triumph, as if saying: Hank Rearden-the austere, unapproachable Hank Rearden of the monk like office, the business conferences, the harsh bargains-do you remember them now?†
Chpt 1.8
- He approached.†
Chpt 1.8
- They looked as if they knew that one may not approach you or speak in your presence or touch a fold of your dress.†
Chpt 1.9
- He stood looking at her across the room, refusing to let himself approach her, deliberately prolonging the pleasure of knowing that he could do it whenever he wished.†
Chpt 1.9
- She approached him, she stood by the side of the couch, looking down at him, the light of the lamp behind her; she did not want him to see her face and the effort she was making not to smile.†
Chpt 1.9
- He approached her, he grasped her shoulders and pressed his mouth to her breast through the thin cloth.†
Chpt 1.9
- He approached and stopped, looking at the car.†
Chpt 1.9
- The only consciousness the pictures left her was the feeling of the approach of some unthinkable disaster, and the feeling that she had to outrun it.
Chpt 1.10approach = coming
Definition:
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(approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)