Sentence examples for elusive task from inspiring English sources

But while Woods is used to finishing first, winning has been an elusive task for Flesch.

The accurate figure for Tompkinsville, of course, depends on pinning down exact neighborhood boundaries, which proves an elusive task.

Too much, because it requires persuasive visual analogies for the psychological content that he hears in the music, which proves an elusive task.

"Love in the Time of Cholera" sets itself the elusive task of translating Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece of magical realism into an upscale art film with popular appeal.

It is a depressing but still fascinating story of claim and counter-claim, of conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, of rumours of self-interest and political manoeuvring, of angry denials and scattergun accusations and, above all, a story where pinning down the truth can feel like a troublingly elusive task.

Yet he also stated that his best student, Yan Hui, was the only person he had known who had exhibited ren for any significant length of time, and then only for three months, suggesting that the attainment and practice of the virtue was an arduous or even elusive task.

Valentine (1992) contends that implementing an evaluation system that improves personnel performance and removes incompetent educators without creating a climate of mistrust and malcontent is one of the most elusive tasks in education.

The elusive pursuit of happiness is certainly a tough task.

Much of it took place, however, in stillness, in plainsong, and in civilized debate; and, in the person of Michael Lonsdale, who played a monastic medic, we saw a magnificent actor engaged upon one of the most elusive of dramatic tasks — the depiction, with touches of saintliness but no sanctimony, of a thoroughly good man.

Now Shirley wants to assemble her brood to break the news, but they're such a fractious bunch, the task proves elusive.

But he's surely thinking that he brings to his task the elusive miracle of Bulgarian (or Finnish, or Australian) light, a transformative presence that makes all the difference.