Adjective : an elusive concept. ,a fish too elusive to catch.    From Dictionary.com. 

She does not elaborate on how she is similar to the Czech writer who is famous for his political commentary and elusory style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

At every one of them, they told us that, no, I'm sorry, the city is completely closed off, or the road is severely damaged or various other elusory answers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2005] Reference

The most delicate art is the art of erasure: what we do to forget is as elusory as what we do to remember. newest oldest profile the girl extras butterfly thanks.    From Wordnik.com.  [bemymemory Diary Entry] Reference

His oeuvre resembles a series of projects, with each one more or less disavowing the others but all involving a new attempt to come to grips with an elusory reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobelprize.org: Nobel Prize for Literature 1998 - Press Release] Reference

Is this the way it has to be - one of us always vigilant, watching over the unconscious other, the quick elusory tracings on the night's space.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicago Blog] Reference

Malice and heartburning were out of the question with a lissom, winsome, witching fairy like this, who played with her life as a child does with soap-bubbles, and who was as elusory and irresponsible as a summer-day rainbow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference

The Boer ultimatum, by making it impossible for the British Government to be any longer cajoled into an elusory settlement by Boer diplomacy, had relieved Lord Milner of a load of anxiety, and closed a period of unparalleled physical and mental strain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902] Reference

One of us always vigilant, watching over the unconscious other, the quick elusory tracings on the night's space.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicago Blog: March 2006 Archives] Reference