Sentence examples for elusive reader from inspiring English sources

Writing is a reflex of absence, an attempt to make contact with a distant, elusive reader.

The novel is narrated entirely in the second person, a stylistic choice that produces moments of intense intimacy but also means that Vera remains as elusive for the reader as she ultimately is for Sonny.

But Australian readers remain elusive, despite several calls to the Australian Consulate.

And if that previous sentence was horribly tangled, my excuse is that it's an attempt to suggest the loops and knots this curious, elusive narrator winds around his reader.

It may even achieve the elusive goal of encouraging reluctant readers to become enthusiastic ones.

Yancey's wildly entertaining novel, in which aliens land on earth, manages the elusive trick of appealing to young readers and adults alike.

The hitherto elusive Higginson was the poet's chosen reader, admirer and advocate.

It's in that elusive chemistry that takes place between a reader and a gorgeous set of sentences that demand you follow them wherever they choose to go.

It is very hard to write well about ethics, and especially so in a way that engages and interests that elusive phantom of writers' imaginations, the general reader.

There are still some elusive discs he would like to own – any reader with one for a Maybach or Pagani should get in touch.

Walter Jackson Bate states that the poem has "always puzzled readers But finding the poem so elusive, we return to it only after we know the others far better.