Sentence examples for elusive matters from inspiring English sources

As personified in Lightman's imaginative account of how the Supreme Being created the cosmos, he spends his formative years with squabbling relatives and faces off against a dark opponent named Belhor, wrestling over elusive matters like human suffering and mortality.

Punctilious forays into physics alternate with face-offs between the book's divine narrator and an operagoing dark opponent named Belhor, who wrestle over elusive matters like human suffering and mortality.

At the most tragic moments, Beethoven claps his hands and says, 'Just kidding.' " For Mr. Kaufman the mystery of why Beethoven was so drawn to Diabelli's waltz touches on elusive matters about the creative process.

The quantification of geologic time remained an elusive matter for most human enquiry into the age of the Earth and its complex physical and biological history.

In effect, she asks us to become astronomers ourselves, turning our telescopes on elusive matter and studying its erratic, unpredictable behavior from changing angles.

All along, the fishermen knew, they'd been gravitating west; whether they were also angling north or south was a more elusive matter.

In the section on government and politics he gives pithy descriptions of the formal workings of the various organs of government and the decision-making process, as well as the most contentious issues in Japanese life pollution, nuclear power, organized labor and the elusive matter of political style.

Many of Ecker's recent paintings are playful acrylic-on-wood, trompe l'oeil "windows" that look out onto dreamlike scenes with suggestions of Edward Hopper, or Joseph Cornell or Renaissance masters, with objects on the "sills -a dripping paint can, a pair of eyeglasills -at bring the viewer back to the more mundripping even more elusive matter of the illusion's creator.

Response assessment in recurrent disease is an elusive matter.

At one point they trace their own forms with pens onto the wall, and then Ms. Carson and Mr. Currie add further framing devices, authors trying to render elusive subject matter.

The Casadys have hip-hopped and patty-caked and hopscotched their way into our culture's most essential elusive subject matter.