The phrase "elusive text" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a piece of writing that is difficult to understand, locate, or interpret.
Example: "The author’s latest novel is an elusive text that leaves readers pondering its true meaning long after they’ve finished reading."
Alternatives: "enigmatic writing" or "ambiguous text".
She studied the elusive text, filled with aborted and interrupted sentences, and watched videos of the enigmatic playwright.
I study the names of the artists printed on the wall for a glimmer of recognition – Mary Aurora, Rose Duvall, Abbe Faria, Spencer A (my elusive text friend!).
So learns Mary Levov, the 16 year-old domestic terrorist in Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winovel novel American Pastoral, and so, I fear, has Ewan McGregor, who decided an adaption of this rich, layered and elusive text would be good material for his directorial debut.
On the substantial and non-Pyrrhonian readings, Wittgenstein is not only presenting a method for exposing the errors of traditional philosophers, but also showing how philosophy should rightly be done and thereby offering positive philosophical views, views which must often be inferred or reconstructed from an elusive text.
The most affecting element of "I went to the house but did not enter" comes from the way Mr. Goebbels explores the elusive texts.
These two come together on 5 October when Pintscher conducts Boulez's longest masterpiece - or collection of works, to use a more Boulezian title - Pli selon pli, his cycle of settings for large ensemble and soprano of the enigmatic, elusive texts of Stéphane Mallarmé, with the BBCSSO in Glasgow.
Yet when the text turns elusive, Mr. Harbison's music is still striking for its urgency and precision.
This would explain why, in more than 400 pages of text on the elusive subject of ancient religion, fewer than six are devoted to "The Problem of the Druids".
Among the many difficulties inherent in editing a wanted man is access: some of the texts are as elusive as bin Laden himself.
Mr. Raad's modest debut at Paula Cooper, which pales in comparison with his more expansive show at the Kitchen last year, consists of two series of photographs and one video, with wall texts that establish an elusive narrative.
Her analog mark-making adds material weight and emphatic presence to a shocking and elusive digital narrative, which includes a text-message conversation between one of the pleading, dissembling rapists and his dazed and increasingly horrified victim.
