Sentence examples for elusive life from inspiring English sources

More is known about his death in Venice in the autumn of 1510 than his peculiarly elusive life.

In this week's magazine, Hilton Als writes about the elusive life of Langston Hughes, and about a collection of Hughes's letters that is out this month from Knopf.

Mr. Van Sant gives "Elephant" a spartan yet elusive life by shifting the film's focus from one group of students to another.

Instead, Mr. Van Sant gives "Elephant" a spartan yet elusive life by shifting the film's focus from one group of students to another; the camera actually drifts like a bored high school student.

After years of listening to death threats on his answering machine, Michel Auger learned to live the elusive life, varying routes to work, sleeping in hotels, listing his office address as his home address.

It comes when N, sung by the mellow baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle in a courageous and affecting performance, and the Guest, the bright-voiced, dynamic tenor Matthias Klink, come to realize that, though different in character, they are bound together on a punishing quest for the elusive life force.

Do they think it's possible that when album number three is complete, when they've reached the ripe old age of 30 and require orthopedic shoes and mobility bath seats, they might finally discover some of these elusive life-affirming answers?

Perhaps that explains the popularity of thrillers and mystery stories, where justice appears to end these tales, satisfying a need that is elusive in life, elusive in literature.

And it has a beautiful melancholy that Allen must feel deeply — such happiness is very elusive in life.

Elusive in life, Marvin Goldman remains elusive in death, buried so quickly (as required by Jewish law) that his son misses the funeral.

Overwhelmed, I looked up to Ronnie, whose rheumy eyes were reading my face for that glimmer of connection he found so elusive in life.