Sentence examples for elusive from from inspiring English sources

Though it is written in five movements, its structure is defiantly elusive from beginning to end.

My mother hosted the afternoon prayer circle -- called a puja -- then looked for the moon from our backyard or, if it was elusive, from the passenger seat as my father drove her around the neighborhood.

The EP's other five songs are folkier, spookier and equally meticulous and elusive; "From the Mouth of Gabriel," with bubbling synthesizers and pinging tack piano, might be sung by the biblical Abraham, apologizing to Isaac for nearly sacrificing him.

There are many students with little stimulus, and elusive from school.

Nevertheless, the impact of such findings remains elusive from a therapeutic point of view.

The functional significance of the CP motif has, however, remained elusive from a structural or physiological standpoint.

He compares a pair of films by Jean Renoir (who was born in 1894) — "The Grand Illusion," from 1937, and "Le Caporal Épinglé" (The Elusive Corporal), from 1962 — and his comparison favors the later film, which he calls the "stranger," "richer," and "more mysterious" of the two.

But the L.S.P.'s themselves are also maddeningly elusive, speeding from the scene unnoticed.

ITS promises are alluring, yet elusive; everyone, from politician to pundit, calls for more.

I hit the streets of the county in search of elusive answers from other men.

Moreover, he played this complex and harmonically elusive score from memory.