The mechanisms that give rise to anesthetic-induced unconsciousness have eluded understanding for more than 150 years.
"People Who Eat Darkness" is a searing exploration of evil and trauma, and how both ultimately elude understanding or resolution.
In the meantime, the classic technique of X-ray crystallography has become more accessible to nonspecialists, and a revolutionary series of developments in electron microscopy is revealing structures that previously eluded understanding.
In the end, Haggis has made a miniature version of the war's confusion, in which the actuality of what's going on eludes full understanding.
One consequence of Augustine's mature view of evil as "non-being", a privation of the good, is that evil eludes our understanding.
Complexity aside, it is an issue that still eludes popular understanding, in part because certain parties do not wish it to be understood.
Journeying by foot from Lisbon to Vienna, the elephant Solomon, a curiosity to all who meet him, suffers successive human attempts to impose meaning on what eludes their understanding.
A virtuoso of unprecedented caliber, an unabashedly erotic interpreter of gender-bending roles, a choreographer of revolutionary ballets, a scandalously open bisexual, a self-styled "philosopher of feeling," a madman -- Nijinsky left a rich yet enigmatic legacy that still eludes full understanding.
So it is not surprising that after nearly 25 years, there are devotees whose dream is to live in Bristol, Conn., to anchor "Sports Center and to exchange hugs and "dawgs" with Stuart Scott, a real-life anchor whose lexicography eludes the understanding of some and who serves as the host of "Dream Job".
Yet it utterly eludes the understanding of someone who, five months from now, may have control of our military forces.
