illusive

How To Use illusive In A Sentence

• It seems to have a singular way of moving from point to point as one motors, and although one may be forced to admit that this may be due more to the winding roads than to the illusiveness of the hill, still the buoyant effect is the same. The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
• Neigh's position might furnish scope for such a disillusive discovery by herself as hers had afforded to Christopher, decoyed Ethelberta into a curious little scheme. The Hand of Ethelberta
• Worse, panelists seemed at a loss in terms of how to better grasp or measure engagement, which is a notoriously "illusive" concept, said Charley Shoemaker, director of video measurement products at Nielsen Online. InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers
• Maybe this one illusive project is indeed the same 'precious' that's driving everyone forward into greater insanity. Times, Sunday Times
• But all this I conjecture only, from sensations which may be nervously illusive. Letter 406
• Besides all this, they are exceedingly valuable as providing us with that general sense of religion, vague and illusive, which is deeper than all dogma. Among Famous Books
• The humanism of neuropsychiatry, so illusively sought in much of modern medical practice, is found in the manner in which neuropsychiatry is applied: how one interacts with and cares for the person with the illness. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
• The man who dwells for long periods face to face with the bitter truths of life learns so to distrust a fleeting moment of joy, gives habitually so cold a reception to the tardy messenger of delight, that, when the bright guest outdares his churlishness and perforce tarries with him, there ensues a passionate revulsion unknown to hearts which open readily to every fluttering illusive bliss. The Unclassed
• The little shaded lamp threw a circle of light round the bed, but left the rest of the room dim, and the dusky corners seemed full of odd new shadows that came and went illusively. The Sheik
• So, depending solely upon the illusive "fair market value," the exact same program can appear to be very cost efficient (8.3 percent), horribly inefficient (64.5 percent), or about average (15.4 percent). Saundra Schimmelpfennig: What You Know About Donating Is Wrong