You can't even extract a Disneyesque fable about a top dog and an underdog, because Manet is such a cool and elusive rebel-hero, his statements so few and undeclaratory, his images of modern life so enigmatic.
But the surge, once expected in October, then in January, then after last week's budget statement, remains elusive.
"Making this happen on any kind of significant scale across the system has proven more elusive than garnering positive statement of principle".
Mr Schiff says that their opinion on the fairness of AIG's financial statements is so "ambiguous, elusive, equivocal, hedged, and oblique" as to be "virtually meaningless".
He deftly captures those elusive moments that make reality TV great: ludicrous statements, stranger-than-fiction situations, and mind-melting reactions.
I've said elusive things here and there but nothing actionable, no definitive statements.
"Our common experience suggests that there may be hereditary factors underlying longevity, but finding the genes responsible using standard techniques has proven elusive," Calico's chief scientific officer David Botstein said in a statement.
The libretto was superb in expressing Mao's elusive brushstrokes, filled with allusions and metaphors that were either subtle policy statements or senile detours.
Deeper consensus about the statements inherent in the passage of Proposition 47 will probably prove elusive.
Meanwhile, the Standard & Poor's credit-rating agency issued a statement warning that a longer-term remedy to the problems remained elusive.
