Sentence examples for essentially elusive from inspiring English sources

But there is also something essentially elusive.

This gives added responsibility not just to writers, but to sommeliers, merchants and anyone else who seeks to make concrete what is essentially elusive, to ensure that they are heard without distortion.

Elucidation of the molecular effects and specificity of single ingredients in herbal extracts can be difficult, but the determination of the action of every single chemical component in phytochemically complex extracts has been essentially elusive.

Like Melville and Conrad, two of the writers whom she most admired, Carson sees the ocean as essentially reticent and elusive.

Riley also said that the pleasures of sight "are essentially enigmatic and elusive", and this too is borne out by the exhibition.

A PERPETUAL twilight reigned over Nathaniel Hawthorne's spirit, according to Henry James, who put it well: Hawthorne's was essentially a negative, elusive character.

The pensive second movement is written in Hindemith's trademark musical language: essentially tonal but harmonically elusive.

In contrast, the opportunity to relocate water molecules in solvated binding pockets by protein design to improve overall energetics remains essentially unexplored, and fundamental understanding of the elusive processes involved is poor.

They act essentially as a unity, with a composite yet elusive personality.

Accordingly, with regard to mTOR's role in cell size and cell cycle control in mammalian cells, two major question remained elusive: (i) Is the regulation of mTORC2 essentially involved in mTORC1-mediated cell cycle and/or cell size control?

They are looking beyond purely economic numbers -- at health and crime statistics, clear-air days and commuting time -- to gain a fuller measure of people's elusive sense of collective well-being, to create what is essentially a happiness index.