The author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Now, the New York Jets rookie running back is showing the same kind of elusiveness in the NFL. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Football - N.Y. Jets vs. Washington] Reference
Through all the talk of Machida's "elusiveness" and speed, it was Rua that was able to find holes and avoid damage. From Wordnik.com. [SPIKE Featured Videos] Reference
He plays like a big running back yet has a significant amount of "elusiveness" to his credit, or at least he did in college. From Wordnik.com. [Niners Nation] Reference
Did his elusiveness make me want him more strongly?. From Wordnik.com. [Sara Davidson: What You Can Tell from a Man's Smell] Reference
A President of great personal talents but public elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Opacity of Hope] Reference
Kate was bewildered by the new mystery of her own elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Someone else battling the elusiveness of sleep is Chris in Maryland. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 20, 2006] Reference
So, needless to say, I am praying for Osama's continued elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [About Moose, Palin, and Insecurity] Reference
The story is an object lesson in the elusiveness of good intelligence. From Wordnik.com. ['I HAVEN'T SUFFERED DOUBT'] Reference
There is always an elusiveness I think but it's a very sweet elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2004] Reference
Well, much has been written about his elusiveness, his inaccessible nature. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2008] Reference
As lovers of wildlife, we always felt a bit shortchanged at their elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Morning Before] Reference
Yet one had little sense of whether to value this elusiveness or to beware of it. From Wordnik.com. [Beat the Devil] Reference
A bigger obstacle to forming a truth commission is elusiveness of the truth itself. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico's History Test] Reference
The young curate of Ivell still held aloof, tantalizing Frances by his elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Little Ironies] Reference
Insurgent tactics are characterized by elusiveness, surprise, and brief, violent action. From Wordnik.com. [FM 7-98 Chptr 2 - Support For Insurgency and Cntrinsrgncy]
But Lisa Picard is not so much about the attainment of fame as it is about its elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Griffin Dunne's Tract Is a Cautionary Movie] Reference
Who need be surprised at the restlessness, the fluidity, the elusiveness of the Protestant laity?. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
She had achieved the elusiveness that gives hidden significance to the least significant remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
I tracked these water bodies-within-bodies and dubbed them "snarks" because of their elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [How Far Will the Gulf Gusher Spread?] Reference
On the contrary, as delightful as it is, the autobiography only compounds his protean elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mysterious Stranger] Reference
Now she wanted this veiled elusiveness in herself, she wanted to be addressed in the third person. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
That his real name was Henry Yorke is symbolic of the general elusiveness of his literary identity. From Wordnik.com. [Writer's-Writer's Writer] Reference
Bliss has long been the grail of disaffected soul-seekers, but its elusiveness has much broader implications. From Wordnik.com. [4 Reasons Laundry Leads to Happiness (Having Clean Socks Is One of Them)] Reference
The undrafted rookie free agent had a 40-yard return on the game's opening kickoff that showing his elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Brandon Banks puts excitement back in the return game] Reference
As it was for Stanley Kubrick, the director of Dr. Strangelove and A Clockwork Orange, elusiveness is their cover. From Wordnik.com. [R for Revolution] Reference
First, the sense of her elusiveness; then the dim resentment and fear which this knowledge of mystery awakes in her. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
The work is a meditation on the nature of secrecy and the elusiveness of truth, its message written entirely in code. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
He has to have speed, elusiveness and power to get past a first defender for the yards his team needs for a first down. From Wordnik.com. [Brown Aims to Be a Third-Down Back] Reference
And for all I hate about dating here, the elusiveness, the promiscuity, the disappointment, I am, in fact, a New Yorker. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Cacciatore: The Romantic Price of Being a New Yorker] Reference
Whatever the dwarfs lacked in star quality, they made up for in elusiveness, escaping astronomers 'gaze for three decades. From Wordnik.com. [How Now, Brown Dwarf] Reference
This man has not taken her for granted, but neither has he frightened her with the mystery of her own and his elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
But Nan had developed an extraordinary elusiveness and she skilfully avoided tête-à-tête talks with anyone other than Roger. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
He has combined speed and elusiveness with a surefire finishing touch to become the highest scorer in the Arsenal club's history. From Wordnik.com. [In the Spotlight] Reference
These pictures are to the true observer all that could be hoped for in imaginative sincerity as well as in technical elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
But, in the hours before and after Colin Powell reaffirmed his elusiveness last week, the dreadful peptic metaphor was everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Heartbreaker] Reference
VILLA: The significance of it is they are very hard to trace, that they are able to maintain their autonomy and their elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2002] Reference
Once more a golden moment slipped away with elfish elusiveness, and Colette, secure in her supremacy, resumed her tantalizing badinage. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
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