All 10 Uses of
approach
in
The Shack
- "So, what do you think he looks like?" chuckled Willie as he approached.
Chpt 5.approached = got near
- But it seemed that the farther he drove, the slower he traveled, as if the shack were somehow repelling his approach.
Chpt 5.approach = getting near
- Somehow, the way she had approached him had skirted his resistance to her love.
Chpt 6. *approached = begun talking with
- She was smiling as she approached.
Chpt 9.approached = got near
- He walked out the door brushing the powder off his jeans and shirt as Mack approached.
Chpt 10.
- As they approached the shore, they slowed again.
Chpt 12.approached = moved nearer
- When Nan noticed that his eyes had opened, she quietly approached so as not to wake their daughter and kissed him.
Chpt 18. *
- With evening quickly approaching, an intense discussion began regarding the efficacy of immediate pursuit or holding off until daybreak.†
Chpt 4.
- The shack itself looked dead and empty, but as he stared it seemed for a moment to transform into an evil face, twisted in some demonic grimace, looking straight back at him and daring him to approach.†
Chpt 5.
- A pebbled beach awaited their approach, and behind it a backdrop of rich and dense forest rose up to the base of a mountain, crested by the whiteness of freshly fallen snow.†
Chpt 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) 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.