Sentence examples for elusive ideal from inspiring English sources

That Panamera Turbo, it must be said, comes closer to the elusive ideal of a four-door sports car.

But there's another definition of refinement that has to do with painstaking progress, the incremental stretch toward an elusive ideal.

In a given year, this elusive ideal might require more violinists, goalies, aspiring engineers or students who can pay the full cost of attendance.

IN "Brokeback Mountain," the 2005 critical hit and cultural flashpoint that won Ang Lee an Academy Award for best director, love is a haunting, elusive ideal briefly attained but forever out of reach.

The elusive ideal is an executive not only familiar with the physical security of people and property, but also fluent in the digital security of computers and information -- roughly equal parts top cop, business manager and computer geek.

But the measures still fall well short of the elusive ideal index of wellbeing that another 20th-century US politician, Robert Kennedy, had in mind when he complained that economic statistics measured everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

As Max Weber recognised long ago, bureaucracies grow as an unintended side-effect of chasing elusive ideals.

In one seminar I taught this term, on the concept of a free press, we examined government and corporate censorship and the elusive ideals of objectivity and fairness.

Can a male-founded mega-retailer like Victoria's Secret, which is built around selling the ever-elusive ideal of "sexy," really advance the feminist movement?

Doing meaningful work needn't be some elusive cultural ideal reserved for the wealthy or the lucky.

When I think in the abstract, about our specific type of relationship (man/woman), I am immediately drawn to speak about the idea of egalitarianism -- the ever-elusive 50/50 ideal -- for which any "good feminist" should strive.