Sentence examples for reaching up for from inspiring English sources

I refuse to accept the idea that the 'isness' of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal 'oughtness' that forever confronts him".

Phillip's hand is reaching up for a law book on a top shelf when Steve's hand retrieves the book for him.

He is author of "Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America" and "Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America".

Instead we get lots of reaching up for the light (drenched, dappled light, that is, designed by Timothy Hunter), emotive rushing about and spiky, ritualistic configurations of dancers in unitards (by Ms. Jamison and Ellen Mahlke).

Obama told me he doesn't think about mythic narratives, and Tuesday night in Chicago he was reaching up for "a hymn that will heal this nation and repair the world".

He gets it proximately from the church, he says, but ultimately from his forebears, who, remembering the Great Famine, "spent their lives trying to escape the claws reaching up for them out of the starvation grounds of their ancestors, and out of the blood pits... of their own youths, to pull them back down where they belonged".

Then I reach up for the switch and the torch comes back to life.

However, unlike many a knock-down bookcase, these won't fall on you when you reach up for the books.

Wise throws left-handed, which helped him reach up for the ball without his right gloved hand blocking his vision.

She got a secondhand suit from a charitable organization and reached up for the socioeconomic ladder's lowest rung.

But neither man reached up for a high-five or handshake; they were all a little weary.