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And just as in Rome around the beginning of the Christian era one could come across Greek, Egyptian, and Oriental religions, today, as we approach the end of the twentieth century, we can find in all European cities of any size religions from all parts of the world.†
Chpt 12 *

approach = get near
The fact that man felt at home in the world and did not consider life solely as a preparation for the hereafter, created a whole new approach to the physical world.†
Chpt 16

approach = way of doing something
By that I mean the completely new approach to what science was.†
Chpt 16
It has been said that Romanticism was Europe's last common approach to life.†
Chpt 25

approach = technique (way of doing something)
They had a decidedly anti-middle class approach to life and could refer to the police or their landladies as philistines, for example, or simply as the enemy.†
Chpt 25 *
For example, he could say things like 'the crowd is the untruth,' or 'the truth is always in the minority,' and that most people had a superficial approach to life.†
Chpt 27
The best way of approaching philosophy is to ask a few philosophical questions: How was the world created?†
Chpt 2
There was no new letter, but after a few minutes Sophie heard the dog approaching.†
Chpt 11
As they approached the outskirts of the town they heard a few sporadic shots.†
Chpt 13
So he is no longer a "philosophic God" that people can approach with their understanding.†
Chpt 14
Then she heard footsteps approaching from behind her.†
Chpt 15
In A.D. 330 Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople, the city he had founded at the approach to the Black Sea.†
Chpt 15
The question was whether we must simply believe the Christian revelation or whether we can approach the Christian truths with the help of reason.†
Chpt 15
You must go home, and we are approaching a new era.†
Chpt 15
As they approached Clover Close, Joanna said, "I don't like it.†
Chpt 16
Sophie heard footsteps approaching from inside.†
Chpt 16
They were already beyond Main Square and were approaching the Old Town.†
Chpt 17
She got another birthday card for Hilde, but although the actual day was approaching, she did not receive a single birthday card herself.†
Chpt 20
The classic formulation of an empirical approach came from Aristotle.†
Chpt 20
A chicken which experiences every day that it gets fed when the farmer's wife comes over to the chicken run will finally come to the conclusion that there is a causal link between the approach of the farmer's wife and feed being put into its bowl.†
Chpt 21
But as it approached and turned, she saw quite a different message: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HILDE!†
Chpt 22
We are approaching the end of a long story, my child.†
Chpt 25
But Kierkegaard saw how both the church and people in general had a noncommittal approach to religious questions.†
Chpt 27
It is something to be approached with the greatest passion and sincerity.†
Chpt 27
Fundamental questions such as these can only be approached through faith.†
Chpt 27
A person who has a reflective approach to reality—or for that matter to his art or the philosophy he or she is engaged in—is living at the aesthetic stage.†
Chpt 27
The choice that leads a person to leap from an aesthetic approach to an ethical or religious approach must come from within.†
Chpt 27
The choice that leads a person to leap from an aesthetic approach to an ethical or religious approach must come from within.†
Chpt 27
This approach is not unlike Kant's ethics of duty.†
Chpt 27
We are rapidly approaching a revolutionary situation.†
Chpt 28
People were suddenly obliged to revise their whole approach to the Book of Genesis.†
Chpt 29
When Sophie left the major's cabin, she could still see some of the Disney figures at the water's edge, but they seemed to dissolve as she approached them.†
Chpt 31
Well, in any case, it's healthier to approach such books with a decent portion of skepticism.†
Chpt 31
As he approached the table, he lit a sparkler and set it on top of the almond pyramid.†
Chpt 32
He had hardly finished these sentences when they heard the drone of an approaching sports plane.†
Chpt 32

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(1) (approach as in: approached the city)
to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
(2) (approach as in: use the best approach)
a way of doing something; or a route that leads to a particular place
(3) (approach as in: approached her with the proposal)
to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic
(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.

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