beyond one's grasp

Romme went on to study hundreds of people like Hage, and in a 1989 paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin, he argued that practitioners should “accept the patient’s experience of the voices”; that “biological psychiatry” may not be “very helpful in coping with the voices because it, too, places the phenomenon beyond one’s grasp”; that practitioners should “stimulate the patient to meet other people with similar experiences”; and that patients benefited when they could “attribute some meaning to the voices.”

When Americans envision this element of French culture, it's through classic photographs featuring nattily dressed men and women, eyelids weight down with la douleur exquise, a reverie of passion just beyond one's grasp, unattainable.

By another light — some might say an ethereal, radiating one — there is, for every mystery that gets swatted down, another one left hanging in the air, just beyond one’s grasp.

Jackman said before he signed on to "Eddie the Eagle" he never took the athlete seriously, influenced by a phrase in his native Australia in which to "Eddie the Eagle" something was to reach beyond one's grasp, as in, "You're studying to become a brain surgeon? What are you, Eddie the Eagle?"

In tone Part 1 has a springtime mood, life blooming to be grasped; Part 2 is autumnal, life slipping away beyond one's grasp.