Sentence examples for subtle and elusive from inspiring English sources

At its best, his painting is subtle and elusive.

It is something more subtle and elusive than that.

While any adopted child's search into the past almost always carries complex and difficult emotions, the quest of these children is even more subtle and elusive.

Beneath the sophistry of these contradictions lie subtle and elusive concepts of limits and infinity, only completely explained in the 19th century when the foundations of analysis became more rigorous and the theory of transfinite numbers had been formulated.

The winner of the Booker of Bookers, who's able to capture the most subtle and elusive of human sensitivity, still frequently tweets cringeworthy and self-promoting material (he recently tweeted a picture of all his books rendered in chocolate cake form, humblebraggingly calling it "an improvement").

To showcase their pungent though subtle and elusive flavor, Mr. Tardi combines fresh white truffles with very simple dishes offered as daily specials, like quail egg crostino, fonduta ravioli, risotto of fresh porcini mushrooms, and pan-roasted breast of pheasant with braised cabbage.

Beckett was an elusive and problematic prize.

The installation is elusive and existential and subtle.

It's a lot subtler, and it has to be, because the targets are more elusive.

Performed on the concert's second half, "Unremembered" reeled through elusive and evocative glimpses of a rural childhood among trees and ponds, with subtle electronics and sounds of nature linking the songs.

It's elusive and difficult.