Sentence examples for elusive sense from inspiring English sources

Then there is the temp world's strangely elusive sense of being there but not really being there.

I believe working mothers help foster that elusive sense of independence that seems to be lacking in so many kids today.

I love just about any kind of story as long as it is well told, makes an emotional impact and holds an elusive sense of mystery.

If he can play four or five more innings like this in the series, he might discover that elusive sense of belonging".

Elusive sense: Our report on Thursday on a breakthrough in human cloning included this: "Although the procedure has been achieved in laboratory animals – such as mice and monkeys – it has until now alluded several attempts on human material".

An image came to me: Ronnie, hunched by the hi-fi, glass in hand, finding that elusive sense of connection in the songs of wounded soldiers and dying peasant girls.

The guys on the bulls aren't using saddles and neither, in this elusive metaphorical sense, is Ron.

Keeping their challenger (and his policies) elusive makes sense especially given what a poor mascot for the underdog the terminally ruling class Romney would make – though tying him to the roof of the GOP clown car would certainly fulfill a karmic debt.

I have a great book called The EQ Edge by Steven J. Stein, Ph.D. and Howard E. Book, M.D. I'll steal their definition of EQ. Emotional Quotient is the set of skills that enable us to make our way in a complex world -- the personal, social and survival aspects of overall intelligence, the elusive common sense and sensitivity that are essential to effective daily functioning.

Which is why eating forms the basis of much scientific experimentation into the mechanics behind that elusive warm, fuzzy sense of wellbeing.

The Chekhovian melancholy became even more marked in the 1991 English country garden play, Hidden Laughter, where the characters strive to capture an elusive and betrayed sense of spiritual regeneration.