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Each sketch is also a cool study of leaders and weak, grasping followers in love.
Those were dark times for journalists, and I fear that some of them went grasping at straws.)
In one of Saul Bellow's books there is a sentence, which I have never been able to find since I first read it, about grasping "the hot wire of publicity"--and not being able to let go.
Planning paths and avoiding obstacles while reaching and grasping in unconstrained environments requires similarly fine motor control.
2004), in which human subjects control computer cursors, to multielectrode-based systems, in which nonhuman primates control the movements of cursors and robots to perform different kinds of reaching and grasping tasks (Serruya et al.