The opener, Keeril Makan's "After Forgetting" (2009), portrays the vicissitudes of memory — trying to capture that elusive thought or word that is on the tip of your tongue — by way of an insistently tolling piano and percussion figure built of slowly shifting harmonies.
The vehicle is "3 O'Clock in Brooklyn," an intermissionless comedy that plays like a collection of hit-and-miss one-liners jotted down on nights when sleep is elusive, random thoughts churn and unhappy memories clamor for attention.
"With this cross-out," Berge theorized, "we can surely recognize the everlasting unease of the great psychologist who, in his subtle turns of phrase, strived to reflect the most elusive nuances of thought no matter what".
Meaning Is Elusive A few final thoughts on the idea that teams should be forced, or strongly encouraged, to play their starters in meaningless late-season games: "It's unenforceable," said Charley Casserly, a former member of the N.F.L.'s competition committee.
As a novelist and playwright, he is attuned to the indeterminacy of the inner world, the shifting and elusive nature of our thoughts, moods and motives.
Chris Matthews of Hardball sits with Michael Smerconish and Book Club to talk about his book, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero" and his thoughts on the 2012 presidential elections.
There are a multitude of resources that are available to us, much less austere and elusive than our conventional thought processes can fathom.
These thoughts are difficult, elusive, hard to parse.
His latest milestone continued a remarkable resurgence for Federer, who took six months off last year before returning to win the Australian Open ― ending a five-year wait for an 18th grand slam many thought would remain elusive.
Graham seems to see herself doing poetry a great service by elevating its thought content, which for her means an elusive search for a "unified field" of thought that will reduce all material objects to fantasy.
