Sentence examples for painfully elusive from inspiring English sources
Perfect endings are painfully elusive.
The perfect ending can be painfully elusive.
But gold medals remain painfully elusive.
Miracles tend to be painfully elusive but Sunderland supporters now know they really can happen.
Yet to an increasing number of Irish people — immigrants and the children of immigrants — Irish ancestry remains painfully elusive.
Trump's diehard supporters are an apt reminder that, for many Americans, the pursuit of happiness is unsatisfying, success painfully elusive, and failure shameful and/or infuriating.
Consistent results are elusive in the painfully cyclical semiconductor equipment industry.
And while the full meaning of the city may prove elusive, all New Yorkers are painfully aware that it remains an intractable mass of contradictions.
Friel addressed themes such as language and meaning, faith and authority, through the medium of the family and its search for the elusive quality of "home" – painfully evident in his most Chekhovian play, Aristocrats.
A Growing Group The severely brain-injured are among the most catastrophically wounded soldiers, and recovery can be painfully slow or, in some cases, entirely elusive.
The magical combination that makes one street hot and another tepid can seem elusive, but not here, where the reasons for the stalled revival are painfully clear.
