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As Emily Dickinson expressed it: “Within its reach, though yet ungrasped / Desire’s perfect Goal – / No nearer – lest the Actual – / should disenthrall my soul – ”

From The Guardian • May 22, 2020

"The holy grail of such television – a marquee to stand alongside Jon Stewart-era Daily Show or John Oliver's Last Week Tonight – remains, on this Atlantic shore, ungrasped," wrote The Guardian newspaper.

From Reuters • Mar. 16, 2017

He stretched out the hand of British friendship, begging India to "accept and trust" it, but the proffered hand hung limp and ungrasped in the hot air of New Delhi.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, mark a stranger wonder still—   The ring was there no more And yet the marble hand ungrasped,   And open as before!

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

But, unbreathed, untouched, ungrasped, just dreamed and dimly felt in those far-off childhood days, it was that: the mystic, wonderful reality, which was the only reality....

From The Later Life by Couperus, Louis