The term 'elusive term' is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use this term when something is difficult to describe, identify, or pin down. For example, "The exact cause of the decline in the local animal population has been an elusive term."
"I think that 'nerd' is kind of an elusive term," Peele said.
Yet power is also a more elusive term than either opportunity or income as a measure of progress.
Darling's central theme, writes Riddell, was: "... that elusive term 'fairness', which, to his surprise, one questioner asked him to define.
It's become clear during this operation that the right wing has lost its patience in all matters regarding that elusive term, "freedom of speech".
Paintings like this were often referred to as "fancy pictures," an elusive term that gained traction in English art circles in the 18th century to describe rural scenes in which "idealized peasants behave rather more as if they were in the studio than the countryside," as the art historian Harold Osborne puts it.
While many categorizations and definitions have attempted to elucidate the elusive term serious games, we are still some way off formulating an agreed understanding of what serious games are and can be.
It's tempting to call Donald Trump a modern George Wallace and leave it at that: a potential third-party spoiler to the establishment candidates, pandering in brusque, elusive terms to an ailing white middle class on issues of race, ethnicity and international brinksmanship.
By helping to reveal elusive long-term patterns, the findings could eventually improve long-term climate forecasts and models, said Richard B. Alley, a Pennsylvania State University geologist who is an expert on post-ice-age conditions and was not involved with the new study.
But then many objects in this exhibition are elusive in terms of attitude and meaning, and were probably meant to be that way.
And with the Malian Army in disarray and no outside African force yet assembled, displacing the rebels from the country altogether appears to be an elusive, long-term challenge.
He writes in elusive, acerbic terms — the "cool" language of younger people, who are his main readership — and gets away with statements that are at least as devastating as anything dissidents say.
