Sentence examples for famously elusive from inspiring English sources

These honeycombed, wrinkled treasures are famously elusive, famously delicious — and famously expensive.

In "Washington: A Life" (Penguin; $40), Ron Chernow calls Washington "the most famously elusive figure in American history".

A handful of cryptosystems built on pairings are briefly surveyed, including a couple of realizations of the famously elusive identity-based encryption primitive.

And Washington truly "ranks as the most famously elusive figure in American history, a remote, enigmatic personage more revered than truly loved".

Greene sharpened his art of slanted and skewed narration thanks to a pair of mighty mentors, Henry James and Joseph Conrad: both famously elusive and hard to film.

Is it enough to aim for the essence of truth, or should its artists also be concerned about conflicts of interest or that famously elusive virtue, balance?

But that artist is famously particular and elusive.

The mutual respect between Bowie and Scott Walker is well-documented – an effusive 50th birthday tribute from the elusive former Scott Engel famously reduced Bowie to tears live on Radio 1 – and it's Walker's latterday work that much of The Next Day resembles, at least in that the lyrics are so dense and allusive you occasionally feel in need of a set of York Notes to get through them.

By the time I stepped off that plane in L.A., the famously pugilistic TV producer had achieved the most elusive kind of success there is in Hollywood: personal happiness.

WAITING FOR GODOT Even the author of this famously enigmatic play once said he had no idea who or what the elusive Godot represented, but trying to figure it out has fascinated some and frustrated others since 1953.

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