Sentence examples for elusive designs from inspiring English sources

I sent clerks into their fabric books and pattern books to search for elusive designs.

I have heard other accounts that better conveyed the ingenious, if elusive, design of this 30-minute multisectional, single-movement score.

With his new company, Public, he's taking the pain out of acquiring another elusive design object: the stylish, practical city bike, the kind that the Dutch and Danish ride.

Because a detailed mechanism for Tau toxicity remains elusive, designing effective therapies for tauopathies continues to be a challenge.

But a novel about history, truth and guilt in modern Germany may be elusive by design.

Rohmer himself, throughout his career and even throughout his life, remained elusive by design, starting with his name.

Moments later he played an abstraction of the melody, his embellishments swirling in fast little eddies, elusive by design.

He was mysterious and elusive by design, granting few interviews and shrouding much of his behind-the-scenes workaholic tendencies in secrecy, especially once he started sequestering himself at his Paisley Park Studios, a $10 million state-of-the-art recording studio and performance space in the hills outside Minneapolis.

During a fashion career spanning more than two decades, Mr. Maier channeled this pursuit of an elusive perfection into designs so low-key and finely tuned that they often flew beneath the radar.

Whether the iPhone is iCandy or iCon, the elusive quality called "design" is for now what drives desire.

Then, one day, we might yet have that elusive thing: a design culture that reflects the way Americans think and live, not just the way they shop.