Sentence examples similar to performers grasping from inspiring English sources

Concreteness has been known to interfere with abstraction, especially for young children (Gentner and Toupin, 1986) and "poor performers" who do not grasp the underlying analogy (Goldstone and Sakamoto, 2003).

Tens of thousands of performers flood the arena – filling it from corner to corner with practiced precision and waving their arms ecstatically in unison while grasping giant Kimjongilias (a vivid vermillion-coloured flower named after Kim Jong Il).

Too grasping.

Never was he grasping.

"Icy fingers, grasping".

We were grasping.

That would be too … grasping.

Grasping for straws.

I'm not grasping.

She desperately wants to be liked as a performer, and she can't quite grasp a character who doesn't project an atmosphere of health and good will.

Peggy Phelan, a professor of performance studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, immediately grasped that both the original and the Internet groups are performers.