How To Use Illusive In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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Maybe this one illusive project is indeed the same 'precious' that's driving everyone forward into greater insanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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But all this I conjecture only, from sensations which may be nervously illusive.
Letter 406
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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At this dream workshop in Pennsylvania, people learn how to remember, even influence those illusive nightly visions.
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I can see how its suggestiveness, its illusiveness, its density and its slow pace could frustrate some readers.
Little, Big by John Crowley
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Indusium hood-shaped, fixed centrally behind the sorus and arching over it, soon withering, often illusive.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
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Maybe this one illusive project is indeed the same 'precious' that's driving everyone forward into greater insanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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To me it sums up the illusiveness of happiness, a subject that, as Daniel Finkelstein states in this morning's Times, has exercised a legion of philosophers, Aristotle among them.
Wednesday's comment from the papers in...
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As Mark Darcy, Firth played an illusive dreamboat named after his own television triumph as Austen's hero; Grant's portrayal of the caddish Daniel Cleaver was an amused nod at his own popular persona.
Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50
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This illusiveness was an added spur to his desire to know this girl.
Every Man for Himself
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It has cantilevered upper floors and an illusive skin that changes in response to outside conditions, turning nearly transparent at dusk.
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I often awoke in the night to the sound of their roars, but they remained an illusive presence.
Globe and Mail
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The further western altitudes shift their pearline gray to deep blue where the sky is yellowing up behind them; and in the darkening hollows of nearer mornes strange shadows gather with the changing of the light -- dead indigoes, fuliginous purples, rubifications as of scoriae, -- ancient volcanic colors momentarily resurrected by the illusive haze of evening.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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The truth seems to be that a long line of disillusive centuries has permanently displaced the Hellenic idea of life, or whatever it may be called.
The Return of the Native
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Massage works to strengthen that ever-illusive, fast-disappearing key to youth and firmness: collagen.
Oil Is the New Face Cream
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illusive hopes of finding a better job
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Did it recall that fatal day, when on the field of battle, a rival banner had waved ever illusively; ever beyond his reach?
Under the Rose
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Thereupon Narayana called his bewitching Maya (illusive power) to his aid, and assuming the form of an enticing female, coquetted with the Danavas.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
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By the following evening the consideration of this possibility, that Neigh’s position might furnish scope for such a disillusive discovery by herself as hers had afforded to
The Hand of Ethelberta
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What makes this phase such an illusive time-drain is our wariness of being caught by the non-relevant e-mail.
Globe and Mail
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Before her the shadows danced illusively; the film of brightness changed and shifted; then all glimmering and partial shade were swallowed up in a black chasm.
Under the Rose
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What makes this phase such an illusive time-drain is our wariness of being caught by the non-relevant e-mail.
Globe and Mail
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What makes this phase such an illusive time-drain is our wariness of being caught by the non-relevant e-mail.
Globe and Mail
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Professor Lowell controverts M. Antoniadi's claim to have proved that the lines are non-existent, and that the only markings are small separate shadings which are illusively seen as lines.
To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story
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Physically, he's illusive and dreamy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Luck -- that strange, illusive, heaven sent, burst of good fortune-has not fired a missile in your direction.
Warren Adler: On Rejection and Renewal: A Note to Aspiring Novelists
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Thereupon Narayana called his bewitching Maya (illusive power) to his aid, and assuming the form of an enticing female, coquetted with the
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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I often awoke in the night to the sound of their roars, but they remained an illusive presence.
Globe and Mail
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As Mark Darcy, Firth played an illusive dreamboat named after his own television triumph as Austen's hero; Grant's portrayal of the caddish Daniel Cleaver was an amused nod at his own popular persona.
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Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
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Physically, he's illusive and dreamy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Quebec circus troupe's touring Alegría, which has come to play in Calgary this month, is guaranteed to put you in a child-like state of awe and wonder at its physical feats and illusive imagery.
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There was no moon, yet the starlight illuminated the land, though illusively, with unexpected clusterings of shadow.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
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One can strip the fifties of its illusive aura of dull conformity without inflating cultural dissidence or generational muscle-flexing into political resistance.
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At this precise moment, it felt as though the artist had successfully crafted a new reality for the chair; he twisted its original, everyday utility into a primordial, illusive impression.
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Physically, he's illusive and dreamy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have seen such as "February", for instance, in the Boston Museum, present for me the sensation of a man of great private spiritual and intellectual means, having the wish to express tactfully and convincingly his personal conclusions and reactions, leaning always toward the side of iridescent illusiveness rather than emotional blatancy and irrelevant extravagance.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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This is clearly an argument to foster the illusive and baseless concepts of omnipotence and omnipresence.
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Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
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I often awoke in the night to the sound of their roars, but they remained an illusive presence.
Globe and Mail
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For this reason, during the delivery and the exercise period, the training and practise on the illusive action should need more concern by both the trainer and the trainee.
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Maybe this one illusive project is indeed the same 'precious' that's driving everyone forward into greater insanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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PS -- Yes, it's supposed to be "illusive" as in "illusory," as opposed to
Piggington's Econo-Almanac
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The first ST film I actually saw in the theatre was The Voyage Home and it was no small feat mind you since Star Trek was as illusive in my native Poland back then as tropical fruit.
Revisiting Star Trek [Part 6 of 7]: The Films
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In that light the figure seated in a silver, throne-like chair before him seemed unreal and fantastic, with an illusiveness of outline that was heightened by a filmy silken robe.
The Bloody Crown of Conan
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On the whole, I am inclined to think that the artist is fully rewarded, for the common man can have no conception of the Joy that is to be found in belonging, though but momentarily and illusively, to the aristocracy of genius.
The Ghost Ship