Sentence examples for is illusive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Subject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome.
- Testing software completely is an illusive goal.
Munisteri, however, is "a numbers guy," so serenity is illusive.
At strategic levels of assessment the established norm can be misleading and practice is illusive.
Think for a moment of the American dream of "liberty and justice for all," a dream that is as compelling as it is illusive, and perhaps you'll understand why I'm committed to working for improvements in Muslim communities from within.
And the Foreign Department itself is illusive.
Robert Waid: Like other index providers an actual count is illusive.
Kuhn thus reaffirmed his earlier claim that the notion of a match or correspondence between the ontology of a theory and its real counterpart in nature is illusive in principle (1970, 206; 2440 [1993], 244).
That's right: for Burke, truths are illusive and illusions are, in an important sense, true.
But Linda, Christy and Naomi were illusive, glamorous creatures that levitated high above the masses.
So although both Rogers and Autry are familiar in name, the UK has always been illusive territory for Singing Cowboys.
"Throughout this litigation, the details of the execution protocol have been illusive at best," the judge wrote.
Backstage, Beckham said that although she'd been refining her tailoring for several seasons, the search for the perfect trouser was illusive, something most women can agree on.
