Sentence examples for work elusive from inspiring English sources

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It was a style as clear as water, but down near the bottom of the pool there was something unnamed at work, elusive and darting and deepening his every page.

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When work proved elusive, she could not afford to pick them up.

Within that consistency of tone, the work is elusive in its line.

While attentive to the work's elusive structure, he captured its mysticism and fantasy.

By its very nature, his work was elusive, enticing and open-ended.

Though her work remains elusive – and richly allusive – her vision has deepened since then.

Born in Brooklyn in 1925, he was a child of the Depression whose truck-driver father found work especially elusive after losing four fingers in an accident.

When it comes to talking about his work, the elusive Mr. Taylor is cagey, flickering between sardonic humor and wide-eye innocence.

And if the work seems elusive, it also presents a challenge — to the viewer, critic or alchemist — to work a little harder to transform it.

The novel has all the hallmarks of his later work: an elusive woman, an abyss of sexual secrecy yawning under a placid domestic exterior, two men linked by the shadow of a past crime.

Now approaching 47 and a formidable figure in the art world, Ms. Horn is still hard to pin down, her work continuously elusive and as surprising as a Zen koan.

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