But Watson dominated the competition in every other round, understanding often indirect and elusive clues.
Etzel became a symbol of post-World War I German youth by rejecting the authority of the past and finding his own truth by trial-and-error, doggedly following elusive clues.
It's not that cinema is incompatible with the blithe pleasures of playtime: think of the obscure rules, the elusive clues, of Jacques Rivette's Pont du Nord, which treats the arrondissements of Paris like a giant board game.
Dozens of F.B.I. agents and 23 epidemiologists and medical detectives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spent Thanksgiving Day poring through the home of Ottilie W. Lundgren in Oxford, looking for elusive clues as to how she contracted the rare, inhaled form of anthrax that killed her on Wednesday.
Just think of yourself as a detective who is trying to unearth elusive clues!
At work I manage to concentrate on other wordsmith tasks related to my editing job, but sometimes a particularly knotty clue will follow me around all day like the Cheshire cat, gleefully elusive.
A large, slow-moving woman with a wide, fleshy face and small, intense eyes, she is graceful and elusive, giving clues to Séraphine's rich and vivid inner life without spelling out or overdramatizing her peculiar and perhaps unknowable state of mind.
Children are surrounded by clues, by elusive emanations from the opaque and impervious adult world, and thus are all spies, increasingly expert and secretive.
While significant progress has been made in elucidating this developmental program in model fungi (Neurospora spp, Aspergillus spp), its genetic basis and sensitivity to host clues remain elusive for obligate fungal biotrophs.
