All 11 Uses of
approach
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
- Princess: The tactile approach.†
Scene 1.1
- ...[She approaches the bed.†
Scene 1.1
- [He uncovers the tape recorder; approaches her with the earpiece†
Scene 1.1
- He approaches her, as soon as the coloured man returns inside, like an aged courtier comes deferentially up to a Crown Princess or Infanta.†
Scene 2.1
- [Chance enters on the gallery, sees someone approaching on other side — quickly pulls back and stands in shadows on the gallery†
Scene 3.1
- Chance now turns from where he's been waiting at the other end of the corridor and slowly, cautiously, approaches the entrance to the room, Wind sweeps the Palm Garden; it seems to dissolve the walls; the rest of the play is acted against the night sky.†
Scene 3.1
- [Outside a train approaches†
Scene 3.4
- In this dark march toward whatever it is we're approaching, Don't — don't hang back with the brutes!†
Scene 3.4 *
- She approaches a little.†
Scene 3.5
- By coming suddenly into a room that I thought was empty — which wasn't empty, but had two people in it...[A locomotive is heard approaching outside.†
Scene 3.6
- The sound of it turns into the roar of an approaching locomotive.†
Scene 3.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
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(2)
(approach as in: use the best approach) a way of doing something; or a route that leads to a particular place
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(3)
(approach as in: approached her with the proposal) to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (and typically only in classic literature), the phrase nearest approach to as used in "her nearest approach to an apology" or "her nearest approach to a smile" typically means that "something is as close to something else as it ever gets." "As near an approach to" can have a similar meaning.