Sentence examples for elusive patterns from inspiring English sources

You can save a favourite design to your Amiibo, and I can imagine kids toiling to get the more elusive patterns so they can bring them to their friend's house and brag.

Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record-­keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns — and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.

The strength of the sestina, according to Stephen Fry, is the "repetition and recycling of elusive patterns that cannot be quite held in the mind all at once".

The authors have done so with five popular but previously elusive chart patterns, known as head and shoulders, broadening tops (and the related bottoms), triangles, rectangles and double tops (and the related bottoms).

Recently, chemically synthesized[ 50] PAF could be used to unambiguously assign its previously elusive disulfide pattern.

Notes were placed with surgical care; inner voices gleamed in crystalline patterns; elusive emotional states were painted with quick, light strokes.

By helping to reveal elusive long-term patterns, the findings could eventually improve long-term climate forecasts and models, said Richard B. Alley, a Pennsylvania State University geologist who is an expert on post-ice-age conditions and was not involved with the new study.

One therefore faces a currently elusive correlation between pattern formation on nucleosomes and signal establishment on histone-binding proteins.

Even in major urban centers wrestling with drug problems, the patterns are elusive to many public-policy specialists.

The agency's valiant but unsatisfying efforts at educating the public about what they do seem to have gotten lost somewhere between debates about the need for the space agency, confusion over its mission, and a public that's more interested in new Earths and aliens than in elusive molecules or weather patterns.

Over large scales, many studies have focused on relationships between diversity and either latitude or productivity, but general and consistent patterns are elusive.