All 50 Uses of
approach
in
The Bourne Supremacy
- The mists rose like layers of diaphanous scarves above Victoria Harbour as the huge jet circled for the final approach into Kai Tak Airport.
Chpt 8 *approach = getting near
- I'd prefer a less direct approach, but there isn't time.
Chpt 17 *approach = technique (way of doing something)
- The jet from Peking was making its final approach at the far end of the runway.
Chpt 19approach = getting near
- The heshang was having an effect, but not the effect desired by the obese, tuxedoed man who approached him.†
Chpt 1
- 'Amita-fo, Amita-fo,' he said softly, over and over again as he approached the man.†
Chpt 1
- He approached the body and the punctured skull.†
Chpt 1
- He followed the officer and together they walked up a concrete path to a door at the side of the house which opened as both men approached.†
Chpt 2
- Until we approached him and gave him a reason to go on living.†
Chpt 2
- 'We can't approach him.†
Chpt 2
- He had been approached in panic by someone not given to panic, and asked 'hypothetical' questions pertaining to a possibly deranged deep-cover agent in a potentially explosive situation.†
Chpt 3
- So the man from MI6 is approached by his distraught contact, the taipan, and told to get the file on this Jason Bourne, the assassin who killed his wife — his trophy —or in short words, there might be no more information coming to British Intelligence from his sources in Beijing.'†
Chpt 3
- Screams suddenly filled the darkness, an approaching, growing cacophony of roaring voices.†
Chpt 4
- 'Isn't it great!' cried the guard on his left, approaching, as David got to his feet.†
Chpt 4
- approached the front door and opened it.†
Chpt 5
- He perceived the basic soundness of Webb's approach and found the words.†
Chpt 7
- The rest was performance, he knew that, too, as he approached the sacrosanct double doors of the State Department's Chief of Internal Security.†
Chpt 7
- Seconds later the hotel executive approached, bowing slightly from the waist, as befitted his professional station.†
Chpt 8
- 'You won't find my name on a list,' said Pak-fei in Chinese and with singular authority as the guard approached.†
Chpt 9
- He approached the Daimler at the side of the warehouse where Pak-fei seemed to be apologizing to his prisoners, perspiring as he did so.†
Chpt 9
- He approached the muscular woman who was tearing the intestines from a still-writhing snake.†
Chpt 10
- A second Chinese approached and passed him, a small middle-aged man in a dark business suit, tie and shoes polished to a high gloss.†
Chpt 10
- 'Me li hua cherng zhang liu yue,' he sang softly, bouncing gently off the wall as he approached the whore.†
Chpt 10
- Bourne approached, his sorry figure presenting no threat, and he held out his hand, as if he were a beggar.†
Chpt 10
- Two marine guards approached on either side of the vehicle, their weapons drawn.†
Chpt 11
- The Chinese intelligence officer rose from the chair and approached the desk slowly.†
Chpt 11
- Marie approached the two students.†
Chpt 12
- Jason had waited until the ferry approached the pier and the passengers started en masse towards the exit ramp in the bow.†
Chpt 13
- He ran along the path towards the statue of the war god, stopping as he approached the huge snarling idol.†
Chpt 13
- The contact approached the foliage; he was an arm's length away.†
Chpt 13
- The driver pressed his foot to the floor and swerved around the bus, missing its bulging front by inches as he was forced back in line by an approaching army half-track with two soldiers in the cabin.†
Chpt 13
- He approached the bend in the badly paved road; he saw the high fence and part of the guardhouse — then all of it.†
Chpt 13
- You approach that car, you will be shot.†
Chpt 13
- 'By categorizing it as such,' interrupted Lin, 'our good doctor prevented any hesitation on the part of the teams to approach her and take her into custody.†
Chpt 14
- A stooped old man approached the whore.†
Chpt 15
- The contact approached the opening of the alley.†
Chpt 15
- I approached him slowly, silently, my hand extended, holding more money than he had extracted from his victims.†
Chpt 16
- A waiter approached; the drink was ordered by signal.†
Chpt 17
- People like Catherine avoided the imperative approach because it only clouded a victim's thinking — and her friend Marie St Jacques was a victim now, not to the degree that poor David was, but a victim nevertheless.†
Chpt 17
- Marie screamed, and screamed again, and again, as the Chinese agent approached, her hysteria mounting as the man politely but firmly took her by the arm.†
Chpt 18
- Catherine approached the concierge's desk in the Mandarin lobby, annoyed that she did not know either of the two clerks behind the counter.†
Chpt 18
- 'What is it?' she asked, frightened as the middle-aged Teng approached, his face lined with concern, sweat evident on his balding skull.†
Chpt 18
- He approached Catherine, pulling out his billfold as he did so.†
Chpt 18
- 'Not yet?' replied the major, approaching the Mandarin's night concierge.†
Chpt 18
- The huge jet dropped onto the runway and Bourne walked quickly into the roped-off area, approaching every photographer he could see, looking — looking for a man who looked like himself.†
Chpt 19
- The leaders approached the microphones, and as the voices droned over the loudspeakers and through the rain the next minutes were a blur for Jason.†
Chpt 19
- He approached the leading limousine; the flags of Great Britain and the People's Republic were displayed respectively on the right and left, indicating that England was the host, China the guest.†
Chpt 19
- It approached Gate Number Six, and as though preoccupied, the driver suddenly applied the brakes and the car sideslipped into the entrance, stopping inches from the bright orange barrier that reflected the beams of the headlights.†
Chpt 19
- A guard approached.†
Chpt 19
- The emissary approached the minister.†
Chpt 19
- As the officer approached the dead courier, Sheng suddenly rose from the chair, then walked slowly to the edge of the nearest pond, his face illuminated by the lights beneath the water.†
Chpt 19
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.