Sentence examples for elusive terms from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

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".

Darling's central theme, writes Riddell, was: "... that elusive term 'fairness', which, to his surprise, one questioner asked him to define.

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 is difficult to avoid using this elusive term in Qatar.

But, transparency can be an elusive term, so CFI set out to define it.

Racism is perhaps the most elusive term in our public discourse that is used so freely.

It was the first time the term "terrorism" became more than just an elusive term used to describe the unexplainable violence that happens half way across the world.