Yet as a group they work; they wrap you in a substantial if elusive sensibility.
Editorially and commercially, he had conceived The New Yorker for the city's "sophisticates," a silvery, elusive sensibility that was defined, particularly in those prewar years, by an aloofness to the troubles of the world.
The film, assembling critics and colleagues to reflect on Sebald's 1998 book, "The Rings of Saturn," is both an essay in interpretation and an attempt to replicate the writer's distinctive, elusive sensibility in a visual medium.
The Camp/Anti-Camp festival, subtitled A Queer Guide to Everyday Life, has come and gone after two days and three nights of kibitzing, k'vitshing and k'vetching on the subject of the elusive sensibility known as "camp".
Both young men may have been impetuous and otherwise flawed in some respects, but they showed that resistance to corrupted power requires not only prowess, means, and will, but an elusive, republican sensibility that's cultivated in civil society and confirmed in little daily interactions long before it emerges in demonstrations of civic courage that startle and move other citizens.
The qualities I did care about — elusive ones like temperament, sensibility, intelligence, goodness — were difficult to discern online, and it was unclear, anyway, whether genetics played any significant role in them.
Ms. Benglis is a supremely intuitive, physical artist with an extravagant sensibility and an elusive goal: to give liquidity permanent and dramatic form outside the confines of painting.
To begin to tackle this question, one has to survey the shadowy history of on-screen homosexuality, consider the elusive notion of a gay sensibility and as with all minority-group debates weigh the conflicting ideological positions on difference and assimilation.
Her latest book, "Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up," which has just been published, is an engaging exploration of what made the Romans laugh — bad breath, among other things — but it also explores dimensions of Roman sensibility that have become elusive to us.
While the advocates of sensibility theory can be elusive about crucial details of their program, they seem to hold that their view can capture all value.
Louie, homing in on the confused sensibilities of his protagonist and drawing elusive but haunting portraits of the mother and father, shapes the American characters as phenomena that happen to Sterling rather than as people in themselves.
