Sentence examples for elusive shadow from inspiring English sources

He is less a tactile sculpture than an elusive shadow in a dark room".

There is at once a sense of spaciousness and of being enveloped by the forest, of dappled light and elusive shadow.

So it goes among Europe's immigrants, often seen, seldom understood, elusive shadows on the landscape.

"I don't level the ground before putting the stones down, for I like the small elusive shadows that result from uneven paving," he writes in "Notes From Madoo".

Some months later, Phemie, Eachann's girlfriend, is occasionally disturbed by elusive shadows she senses on the loch, which make her think of Murdoch, her former paramour.

He said that he struggled with "The Shadow Line," Conrad's elusive novel inspired by his time on the Otago.

But as a subject, he has been elusive, a shadow on the run with his camera, who still worries, at 73, about falling into "the traps of the rich".

But as a subject, he has been elusive, a shadow on the run with his camera, who still worries, at 73, about falling into "the traps of the rich". Here, people who have known or observed him since his hat-making days in the 1950s turn their gaze on him.

But Marnie is as elusive as a shadow.

Until that happens, he said, "the full truth will remain elusive, thereby casting a shadow over efforts toward Jewish-Catholic rapprochement".

As budgets get stripped down to nothing and programs simply evaporate in the shadow of elusive living wage jobs, don't be surprised at what people will do out of desperation.