Sentence examples for eludes description from inspiring English sources

Mr. Metzner says there is something mysterious about the power of sound and each recording possesses a quality that eludes description.

The writer Julian Mayfield called Angelou's book "a work of art which eludes description because the black aesthetic — another way of saying 'the black experience' — has too long been neglected to be formalized by weary clichés".

At this point, readers of the series will be howling at the simplification of their heroes, but the whole project eludes description -- it's a double-black-diamond ski run for fantasy nerds.

You couldn't say he was closely defended - he is too personably forthcoming for that - but there is an opacity about him that eludes description, giving no glimpse of what might lie within.

I can testify to it: In the end, the Van Eyck masterpiece eludes description, duplication and all of science's tricks.

Writer Julian Mayfield, who called Caged Bird "a work of art that eludes description", argued that Angelou's autobiographies set a precedent for not only other black women writers, but also African-American autobiography as a whole.

Possibly the greatest living English-speaking poet and one of the most prolific, Ashbery takes language to its limits, so that words serve as pointers to shifting experiences that elude description.

However, the fact that it eluded description until 150 years ago suggests that grasping its workings and implications is far more challenging than is usually assumed.

The AOE was discovered by in 1887 by Scott [ 23], but its function had eluded description.

Therefore, it appears that many granule cells in the adult dentate gyrus may die via a novel pathway that has eluded description until now.

For Gandhi eludes easy description.