What Mr. Naifeh and Mr. Smith capture so powerfully is van Gogh's extraordinary will to learn, to persevere against the odds, to keep painting when early teachers disparaged his work, when a natural facility seemed to elude him, when his canvases failed to sell.
Not only did individual Olympic gold continue to elude her at Nagano, but she failed to medal in any of her individual events.
However, Mariotte failed to negotiate the net that E14 had eluded and was forced to the surface.
Mrs. Halimi contends that the Criminal Brigade failed to inform other police branches about the kidnapping, allowing Mr. Fofana to elude capture on at least two occasions in Paris and when going through passport control at the airport.
Mr. Obama once again failed to administer an electoral coup de grâce, and so allowed a tenacious rival to elude his grasp.
Mr. Zappa, also known as Anthony Wright, had eluded the authorities since February, when he failed to appear in a Minnesota court on a burglary charge.
China even failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup, which is a feat that will probably elude the United States.
The agency argued that those steps failed to head off the meningitis outbreak in part because the company took advantage of gray areas in the law to elude oversight.
She saves the first by winning a rare point on second serve - attacking the net as she has failed to do so often and delivering a measured forehand from right-to-left which just eluded Venus at full stretch.
