Sentence examples for grasp at something from inspiring English sources

Ghostly hands grasp at something unseen.

Still, many researchers worry that the underlying message of the new office might be part of a larger social trend toward rejecting science and bringing mysticism and New Age culture into the mainstream, or that it might be a desperate grasp at something, anything, to counter intractable, fatal illnesses like AIDS.

A ponderous electronic score accompanied her as, facing upstage, she grasped at something in the air.

Carly and Tavish – they seemed to be grasping at something human in the O2.

Basil is the shrewdest and the most worldly, and Geoffrey Rush, with his baritonal amplitude and fondness for pomp, makes him a vain, hollow man, grasping at something that he knows has eluded him his entire life.

"It bothered me when I looked back, the way I included IVF as this example of grasping at something.

Yet it seemed to me, as I listened to her, that Temple, now in her forties, had grasped at least something of the nature of friendship.

Shall we grasp at that opportunity or wait until something better comes along?

The basic difficulty with that kind of conspicuous consumption is that we are trying to resolve a spiritual problem--the "emptiness" at the core of one's being--by grasping at something outside ourselves, which can never confer the sense of reality we crave.

But he knew something they didn't grasp at first--through its technology, media and research business, IDG had an up-close look at which promising startups might turn into tomorrow's winners.

Meanwhile I'm happy to have something more vague to grasp at.