Sentence examples for may seem elusive from inspiring English sources

This 20-minute piece, in seven connected movements, may seem elusive on the surface.

They are spectral places, ghostly with the leathery feet of the ancient past – though admittedly such eeriness may seem elusive when first you pull up at a crowded National Trust car park on a fine Sunday morning.

The broader political import may seem elusive; but since I grew up in Chicago, I can explain that the film's ghosts are all registered voters, who won't let a little thing like death hold them back from their civic duty.

And so it went in Florida, where access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act may seem as elusive as compromise in Washington.

Another reason she may have seemed elusive at first is that she resists categorization.

There may eventually be trials and there may even be punishments in Indonesia and in East Timor, but justice for the atrocities in East Timor is beginning to seem elusive.

Mr. Chalayan's greatest trick, though, may be his ability to use colors and graphic prints so dramatically, and yet allow the woman wearing them to seem elusive, even chilly.

As the rancor deepens, solutions seem elusive.

His nickname made him seem elusive, a figment of her outsize fantasy life.

The lugubrious pacing changed the song, making its heroic aspirations seem elusive, if not delusional.

Simple rules for landscape management seem elusive because different species and species groups are associated with different land cover types; a change in landscape structure that increases diversity of one group may reduce diversity of another.