Sentence examples for in elusive from inspiring English sources

The city's older housing stock has been subdivided in elusive (and often illegal) ways.

And so went the show's first half in elusive daywear that — apart from Chanel — has almost vanished from couture runways.

Critics castigate them as Machiavellians who undertook reckless policies in the third world, often throwing American power behind brutal tyrants in elusive quests for international stability.

Yesterday he was back in Elusive Kate's saddle and handed out a masterclass in front-running to his Gallic rivals on the straight seaside mile.

The score abounds in elusive tunes like the insinuating waltz that Natasha and Andrei first dance to, tunes that you can't get out of your head but can't quite get straight in your memory.

Like Naipaul, for example, and too many of the rest of us, Majd travels to Qom to engage with learned ayatollahs in elusive colloquies about Islam and the West.

I am interested in more elusive and nebulous subject matter.

Ms. Cantwell specializes in the elusive presence of the first Indian inhabitants.

I was there, in that elusive space — the dream world of pure happiness".

Seems there's still power in the elusive literary figure — just a bit less so.

But every other element in this elusive book is subject to shifting from moment to moment.