Their delicately atmospheric spaces, hovering shapes and elusive moods owe much to an earlier generation of American Abstract and Expressionist painters.
The story also, in ever-evolving detail, traces exactly how the bonds of love can become a cul-de-sac as much as a sanctuary and still be love -- the final stop on an itinerary of stories that are restless and inquiring, bringing distant locales and elusive moods into bracing focus.
But let's not give up on that elusive grammatical mood.
At the same time, we are pulled along by her uncommon ability to describe just about anything, be it snow cones made with "breathtakingly lurid syrups," cats purring so smoothly they "seem motorized" or something more elusive — a mood, say, or a relationship.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Paris-based Art Nouveau illustrator Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha captured the elusive fin de siècle mood in his paintings and posters, which gained him world renown.
And if their meanings and moods feel elusive, well, they are.
As a novelist and playwright, he is attuned to the indeterminacy of the inner world, the shifting and elusive nature of our thoughts, moods and motives.
236 episodes of Friends later, it's a mood that still proves elusive to all its copyists.
As the opera begins, the ominous mood is introduced through pungent, elusive and quietly restless chords spiked with prickly dissonance.
And this well-attended concert opened with Windscape giving a warm, mellow performance of Samuel Barber's wonderful 10-minute "Summer Music" for wind quintet, capturing its wistful mood but enjoying every playful, elusive flight.
