Sentence examples for elusive essence from inspiring English sources

From the start then, Rousseau catches the elusive essence of Sebaldian dogma: which is to be both elusive and precise, documentary and fabulous.

Every city has a particular style, and the hotels that are somehow able to capture that elusive essence are more rewarding to stay in.

But Mr. Wenders uses the format to capture the elusive essence of dance, not only preserving Ms. Bausch's art but also clarifying its intentions and making visible its inspirations.

Like much of Mr. Greenberg's writing, this comic drama might be described as a work of serious whimsy, of glittering style and dark substance, and it requires a delicate hand to capture its elusive essence.

"How do you explain the timeless allure, the elusive essence that suddenly catapults it back to center stage?" I asked Liz Epstein, who sells dozens of styles of sandals at Flipfloptrunkshow.com.

Starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, plus just about every other young British actor you can think of (Dylan Moran, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Jeremy Northam), this movie manages to pin the elusive essence of Tristram Shandy to the screen at the same time as it takes the piss out of the actors and film-makers who would have the temerity to attempt such a project.

(More on that later.) But that's the least of the barrier busting that goes on in this extended exploration of an aging prima donna's wrestling match with her elusive existential essence.

His fiction, which has only recently been appearing here, can be stylistically elusive, but in essence it is chokingly direct.

MINUSES -- As much as the movie gives literary shape to the life of its subject, his complicated essence remains elusive.

Dozens of adaptations of his difficult, delicate fictions have been produced since his death, all trying (and most failing) to capture something of his essence, the elusive beast in the verbal jungle.

The central role of women in ballet became especially apparent in the first half of the 19th century as Romanticism and its ideal of the otherworldly, elusive, not-quite-human essence of femininity came to dominate the cultural landscape.