Sentence examples for elusive ways from inspiring English sources

Only today, racial discrimination has not only become more sophisticated, it rears its ugly head in much more elusive ways.

But Menzies might also have relished his role as an authorial eminence grise, exercising his creative power in indirect, elusive ways.

Ever since Katie was four months old, when doctors delivered the devastating news to Alison of her condition, both mother and daughter will have benefited in direct, but also many subtle, more elusive ways, from the work of disability charities such as Scope.

There are no clear-cut cause-and-effect chains, but intrinsic webs of interaction through which disturbances or disruptions propagate in elusive ways.

Fitzgerald's own novel is full of untypical life, caught in the most elusive way.

What Mr Abdullah meant, in the elusive way of speaking people have in Iraq, is that Saddam is the Last Iraqi.

Color forms another set of links in the film: red street lights, billboards, furniture, clothing seem interconnected in the same gentle and elusive way that the characters are.

What Albee is trying to flush out into the open here is the elusive way in which the unconscious can short-circuit desire.

There was always some elusive way in which Naima showed that she needed confirmation not so much of my attention as of my loyalty, as if she feared I might, one day, betray her.

Last year was a year of MOOC-mania and no doubt experimentation will continue until the MOOCs find the elusive way forward.

In fact, despite the directness of the medium and the clean immediacy of his style, his picture-making, like the man himself, can be elusive in ways that are fascinating, confounding, and yet ultimately rewarding.