Sentence examples for elusive states from inspiring English sources

Mr. Desplechin seems to have an uncanny feel for visualizing complicated, elusive states of mind.

More often, however, the characters sense but cannot label their wounds – Tsiolkas is expert at evoking brutal but often elusive states of rage, grief and bewilderment, and, crucially, at making you wonder where their roots really lie.

A strategy dependent on being in the elusive state sportsmen call "the zone" is hardly a recipe for success.

The goal is to strive for balance, that elusive state of being that we're all supposed to seek.

Still, as most of us learn when we move toward that shifting and elusive state called adulthood, the political and the personal can never be unequivocally separated.

However, the good news is that making even the smallest adjustments can help us attain that elusive state we all aspire to.

In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks.

It was the first time that the owner of coffee house Maryčka, based in the Czech city of Ostrava, had experienced a phenomenon called lucid dreaming, an elusive state in which you consciously know you are dreaming.

The lizard-woman Catareen calls this elusive state of grace "stroth", but it's what all of Cunningham's characters, including his celebrated reinvention of Virginia Woolf, are seeking.

Cases are cracked thanks to her traditional common sense and the consumption of vast quantities of tea, while the main concern of the novel is the pursuit of that most elusive state of being: happiness.

Williamson was fascinated by the question of what makes a happy life and the psychology of wellbeing, so four-and-a-half years ago he decided to lead the Action for Happiness campaign, advising individuals, decision makers and organisations about how to find and retain that elusive state of being.