'slippery nature' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It may be used to refer metaphorically to a complex, difficult, or unpredictable situation. For example, you might write: "The current political climate in the region has a slippery nature, making agreements between the parties hard to come by."
The bloody excesses of the Terror reinforced his criticism of the abstract and slippery nature of natural and imprescriptible rights, which he famously dismissed as "nonsense on stilts" (2002, 330)—an epithet first conceived while listening to Blackstone's lectures and adumbrated in his contribution to John Lind's An Answer to the Declaration [of Independence] of the American Congress (1776).
The trouble is their naturally light and slippery nature, which causes them to slide about and become separated.
The slippery nature of Shabazz Palaces does have one notable predecessor, though.
Among other things, "The Speckled People" is a superb study of the slippery nature of victimhood.
It's the slippery nature of this country's history that's bothering me: you can't pin it down.
Fay is aware of the slippery nature of some of her memories.
Not surprisingly, the elements of the play as self-commentary on its slippery theatrical nature are played up by its director, the troupe's founding artistic director, David Herskovits.
To the Editor: Because of the slippery, ineffable nature of what's called "intelligence," there has never been, nor will there ever be, expert consensus on what this trait entails.
Before the race, pundits said that despite the narrow, slippery and bumpy nature of the Singapore street circuit, those same top five drivers would make it through the first corner without incident.
As Gladwell put it to me in an e-mail, "These guys are so slippery — and the nature of the evidence so subjective — that it is much harder than people realize to make a definitive diagnosis".
The knock on effect of Italo's slippery and contested nature, is that it's pretty hard to write a concrete guide on it without missing stuff, skipping stuff, and generally pissing people off.
