How To Use Elusiveness In A Sentence

  • Part of its elusiveness is because there are no direct jets from Miami, New York, Denver or L.A. This discourages some travelers and tones down the ritz and glitz characteristic of most Mexican beach resorts. Puerto Escondido: Mexico's hidden Oaxacan beach
  • Other commentators have responded to his elusiveness by casting him in a variety of roles - Byronic hero, Carlylean hero, even as a clown in a harlequinade.
  • Perhaps we have simply transvalued impersonality as elusiveness, irony and parodic cultural quotation, qualities especially attractive in the wake of postmodern theory.
  • Well for him had he seen as clearly the delusiveness of other temptations! The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
  • I have learned nothing except the vanity of wisdom, the impotence of magic, the nullity of love, and the delusiveness of memory ... Beloved Nylissa
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  • Elusiveness (Subtlety) moved to Tier 3, now reduces cooldown of Vanish and Blind by 30/60 sec and Cloak of Shadows by 15/30 sec.
  • According to Derrida, Levinas underestimates not only the elusiveness of alterity but the degree of respect for alterity already present in earlier thinkers.
  • The second inquiry, therefore, is the meaning of this delusiveness. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
  • The cause of these beliefs, and perhaps of their delusiveness, is the social situation and interests of the believers. Social Epistemology
  • the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness
  • But experience had long since proved the delusiveness of the simile. The Custom of the Country
  • But behold, the sinner now, at the sight and sense of his own nothingness, falleth into a kind of despair; for although he hath it in him to presume of salvation through the delusiveness of his own good opinion of himself, yet he hath it not in himself to have a good opinion of the grace of God in the righteousness of Christ. The Riches of Bunyan
  • In praising the mystical strain in postmodernism, with its emphasis on the elusiveness of truth and presence, she likens it to the apophatic theology of the Pseudo-Dionysius.
  • The elusiveness of the leader and his lieutenants has gnawed at officials and has cast doubt on their claims of having disrupted the group.
  • There still is a peculiar elusiveness to Kerry that makes it difficult for convention toastmasters to know exactly what to praise.
  • Not an adventurer or _escroc_ in Europe could compare with him in elusiveness. The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia
  • In itself this elusiveness is testimony to just how enormously difficult it is to find practical solutions to Britain's economic problems.
  • Throw in battering ram Earl Campbell and the sweet moves of Gale Sayers and this quintet boasts speed, power, elusiveness, receiving skills and game-breaking ability at every turn. The not-so-Super team: Best players never to reach the final
  • Perhaps we have simply transvalued impersonality as elusiveness, irony and parodic cultural quotation, qualities especially attractive in the wake of postmodern theory.
  • Scientific presumption may suggest the delusiveness of this sphere, just as in former times religious presumption sought to restrain the inquiries of science. Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76.
  • A full perception of the delusiveness of official bulletins can only be obtained by reading histories of the war. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
  • Possessing electrifying elusiveness, startling stutter-steps and spectacular stop-and-start movements, their success was magnetically magical and mesmerizing all at once. One Season
  • As I have already suggested, this clarity of style was compatible with considerable compression, even elusiveness, in argumentative structure.
  • Ordinarily, the intellectual impotence of man is regarded as carrying with it moral incapacity as well, and the delusiveness of knowledge is one of the strongest arguments for pessimism. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
  • For this exposure of supernatural agents upon a stage is truly bringing in a candle to expose their own delusiveness. On the Tragedies of Shakspere Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation
  • It goes with the territory when you weigh 255 pounds and lack elusiveness and opponents have been pounding on you for three months.

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