The phrase "act of reaching" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the action or process of extending oneself to obtain or achieve something.
Example: "The act of reaching for your goals requires determination and perseverance."
Alternatives: "effort to attain" or "process of striving".
And this was not just an act of reaching, but of papering-over with deficit spending.
A kind of beauty may lie in the act of reaching, however short of the mark it falls.
Jones describes a moment of rashness: then the idea I was not finished, then the act of reaching down with the idea I would get it back.
It may seem like a daunting prospect, but the act of reaching out diminishes guilt in a situation that all too often seems sodden with it.
To be inside is to have the memory of being outside, reaching for an ideal that turns out to be embodied by the act of reaching as well as by the object of desire.
I had waded out about thigh deep.Then a shout from the beach.I held in my hand half a coconut shell of coconut milk and 150-proof rumand dumped it white into the waveswhen it came on me how sweet it had been, then the idea I was not finished,then the act of reaching downwith the idea I would get it back.
In the action of reaching for and grasping a glass, I do so because the situation solicits the acts of reaching and grasping in the form of bodily remembering.
Acting is a mixture of reaching out to people, which I would call a kind of electric thing – you have to stir and engage their imagination at times – and at other times be more like a magnet and drawing them towards you.
Her husband advanced from day miner to superintendent, and, during the crisis following the 1893 repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, he devised a method of reaching gold at the bottom of the Little Jonny Mine.
Rivette's exploration of the act of creation reached its apex in La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker, 1991), which captured with painful lucidity the anguish of an artist (Michel Piccoli) struggling to express himself on canvas, and the brutal interaction between the artist and his model (Béart).
These acts are based in the brain dynamics that creates spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity, serving as images of goals, of command sequences by which to act to reach goals, and of expected changes in sensory input resulting from intended actions.
