This move, like his “get tough” rhetoric and policies, was part of a grand strategy articulated by the “new Democrats” to appeal to the elusive white swing voters. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The younger Cooksey was a competent physicist then investigating the elusive qualities of X-rays, but he knew he was no match for the newcomer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It is a powerful—if limited—tool that uses statistical techniques to identify otherwise elusive correlations. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen men in long cloaks stood silent and watchful, gazing as ever at houses eleven and thirteen, but the thing for which they were waiting still appeared elusive. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was so the emissary would see how Min’s vessels captured the elusive green and blue and gray hues of the waves. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson’s famously elusive mind. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We were a ragtag team of undocumented immigrants, and for us the American dream was more elusive than Banksy's true identity. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was something elusive, something faint and fragrant that I could not name. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were swift and elusive and difficult to net. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Wild things are elusive and wily and look out for themselves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. But not today. Today we join expert tour guide Merle Hodge on a lavish journey through the Arkansas bayous to seek out the elusive Lazarus woodpecker.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It took every effort to ignore it, to focus instead on the elusive thread of energy that had come so easily to her when she had seen that purple flower. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The opal-haworthia had been the most elusive of Seven’s plant projects. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the dream still floated, still beckoned, as beautiful and elusive as the green light at the end of Gatsby’s dock. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Brazil nuts they had been counting on to sustain them were in short supply, and the piglike tapir, with its prehensile snout, was elusive. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Before Lord Stannis had knighted him, he had been the most notorious and elusive smuggler in all the Seven Kingdoms. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The fungi were far too elusive, the giant beasts too ferocious. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the better part of a year, the Rad Lab had been trying to produce mesons, the most sought- after and elusive subatomic particles of the moment, in the restored 184- inch cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Sleep was like wealth, elusive and for other people. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Social class—that elusive combination of income, education, occupation, and wealth—played a powerful role in Miele’s, Wilson’s, and Gora’s struggles to recover. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This is the elusive “ear” of a skilled writer—the tacit sense of style which every honest stylebook, echoing Wilde, confesses cannot be explicitly taught. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something--an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the dream, the elusive Astelle Jordan was no longer missing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corru­gated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Would they have to construct a seaworthy ship and find the elusive Boggy Crone River creature? Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In some ways the story made less sense each time he read it, the scenes he pictured so vividly, and absorbed so fully, growing more elusive and profound. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Something in his thoughts had stirred an elusive memory in Ranofer’s mind. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

McMillan was closing in on the elusive new transuranic by watching for alpha emissions in 93’s decay products. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He could not talk about this thing, so elusive it was; and yet he acted upon it every living second. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

People turned their heads to look at her, and more than one lent an attentive ear to her utterances, hoping thereby to secure the elusive but ever-desired “tip.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

From inside the hood came a noise as of someone sniffing to catch an elusive scent; the head turned from side to side of the road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was a dark, hard, and yet elusive figure in the quick, restless light. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Northern emancipation was complete, but freedom remained elusive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mulligan is believed to have been in contact with an elusive agent named Haym Salomon, a Polish immigrant who spoke German. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether this process would produce explosions or merely heat became the focus of a rather abstract debate, for the practicalities of harnessing the energy were elusive. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He attempted even to stick the cowboy with his cutlass, but the two were a wily and elusive dance team. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In school!There— she had it, an elusive slip of memory. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singleton was feeling a light buzz, the thrill of closing in on some truth, something that had been elusive. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Roman, Andrew, and I stay up well past midnight, trying to make sense of McCandless’s life and death, yet his essence re-mains slippery, vague, elusive. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than anything, he wanted Martha to love him as he loved her, but the letters were mostly chatty, elusive on the matter of love. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Achilles would finally catch up to the elusive turtle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

From time to time, I believe, he glimpsed that there was something—some elusive, elemental something—that made being out in the woods almost gratifying. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Again, that small, elusive moment rose through everything that had happened since then, like a bubble in a pot on its way to the boil. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A high and fragmentary moon came and went elusively. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some works had a religious theme, others were portraits, and others simply captured the elusive light of daily life with a vibrancy that was missing in post-mortal art. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

All afternoon he’d been fretting about those elusive cottonmouth moccasins, wondering why the reptile wrangler hadn’t been able to find them. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can that possibly be the voice of the elusive Mr. Potter?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Although the master spy Sargo remained elusive, his networks were quickly destroyed, and so were his radio stations and power bases. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Skid’s into botany and there’s an elusive variety of musk thistle that he’s desperate to track down. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Armed with real numbers, Galton could now find the elusive “law of heredity” that he had hunted so ardently for decades. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s right, Smith, he is,” muttered Harry, grinning to himself, as he dived amongst the Chasers with his eyes searching all around for some hint of the elusive Snitch. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She tiptoed her mind around the whole subject and back to an elusive thing that peeped out and then withdrew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after returning to Berkeley, Alvarez decided to focus his research efforts on the lab’s most intriguing experimental project: the search for an elusive decay process known as K-capture. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Researchers raced to find what they believed to be the elusive cancer virus, with hopes of developing a vaccine to prevent it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In 1966 the discoverers prepared to turn over to the Smithsonian Institution the cigar box in which they deposited their very first sample of the elusive element. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Bent forward at the waist, groping with both hands, he seemed to be chasing some creature just beyond reach, something elusive, a fish or a frog. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try desperately to make sense of an elusive fragment of memory. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Proud of his new skill, he found that shaping cedar resonated with him in an elusive but elemental way—it satisfied him down in his core, and gave him peace. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Korako, goddess of secrets, had been the one to see to it, and to administer other tests to determine the more elusive godspawn abilities. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She wants to help Vivian find some kind of peace, elusive and fleeting as it may be. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They are finding the American dream of moving up far more elusive than it was for Zannikos. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, like super elusive. Beefy and hunky but kind of drinks too much, and...I shouldn’t...it’s not really my place to talk about him.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

New beekeepers are told that the way to find the elusive queen is by first locating her circle of attendants. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah yes, it must be. The elusive Sage Fairy.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Matthias guessed that they were off somewhere, still trying to catch the elusive hare. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The elusive rain shuts off suddenly, like the storm did last year in the arena. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He envied her the specificity of her task, so unlike the elusive nature of his. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But they were shut out, listening at a door to words not meant for them: ill-mannered children or stupid servants overhearing the elusive discourse of their elders, and wondering how it would affect their lot. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Surprising numbers of them seemed to want to see something historic here—that elusive sweep of the Hudson—even if it was a western crew that accomplished the feat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As long as Buttercup feels he has the chance of catching the elusive light under his paws, he’s bristling with aggression. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Briony resisted because she wanted to chase in solitude the faint thrill of possibility she had felt before, the elusive excitement at a prospect she was coming close to defining, at least emotionally. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Many people in West Germany hated Wolf, but he was so secretive and elusive that few outside of the Stasi had ever laid eyes on him. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he left clues that led directly to the discovery of the group of elements known as the noble gases, some of which are so elusive that the last of them wasn’t found until 1962. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And therefore when those same frenzied Virginians who were writing Madison about the fatal curse of assumption also wrote him, he was even less supportive, though characteristically elusive. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sleep became elusive, a common symptom of minor altitude illness. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

However, at least for now, there is one pastry that remains elusive to even the most talented of gluten-free bakers. In Paris Bakeries, Liberté From Gluten 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

The effect is enigmatic, elusive and more than slightly creepy. Gems to See, Sail and Serve 2010-10-03T15:00:00Z

Find the right composer who could blend its elements with metatheatrical flair while maintaining the elusive quality that so marks the play, and the opportunity was obvious. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

This is the closest Monk gets to anything interpretative; the rest is abstract and elusive. Songs of Ascension 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z

They are both allusive and elusive; and absolutely meticulous in their detailing. Mike Nelson to represent Britain at Venice Biennale 2011 2010-03-30T15:16:00Z

Yet ultimately, the queen remains elusive – nor, despite Stothard's subtitle, is she really what his book is about. Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard – review 2013-07-05T11:00:01Z

The result is simultaneously elusive and concrete: abstract cinema that packs a punch. Review: ‘El Mar La Mar,’ an Abstract Look at Desert Border Crossings 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

The writing is evocative yet elusive as it addresses cultural milestones, shared passions and instrumental places, notably Alabama. National Book Award finalists for poetry

This elusive nature of shade registered with Carey when she saw one of her daughters, as a 2-year-old, try to capture her uncooperative shadow. Perspective | Why the shade garden is so underrated — and how to create your own 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

The artist's work, as his name written in the feminine form delineates, is deliberately heterogeneous and indefinable, elusive in respect to predetermined patterns. African art around the globe 2012-11-30T12:10:54Z

“You and I captured that elusive thing: heart.” ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 8: Maeve Plays God 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Ultimately, this offbeat travelogue is a sly parable about losing your sense of self while en route to elusive destinations. Karen Joy Fowler's fine new story collection, 'What I Didn't See,' moves from ordinary to fantastical and back 2010-09-29T21:40:00Z

“Saturation Project” is sometimes elusive, but there’s no meaning in it that gets lost for long. Experimental Literature That Tests Family Bonds and Routines 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

The Junk Jam was one of high points in my quest to discover the UK's underground dance scene, by far the most elusive, ephemeral and camera-shy of the UK's subcultures. Spirit of the underground: dance 2011-01-30T21:30:00Z

A passing el train throws eerie, elusive shadows on a tenement building. REVIEW: I Origins: The Eyes Have It 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

It was difficult to detect hints of such elusive imagery in the music. Review: The Philharmonic Puts a Young Composer’s Twist on Bruckner 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

But perhaps, above all, we want, or should want, to impart those elusive qualities of self-esteem and self-respect. The six self-ies of life: what every parent needs to teach their children 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

“The edges of the painted shapes,” Mr. Schneller writes in a program note, “become soft, often uncertain and elusive.” Argento at the Armory, With ‘Das Lied’ 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Both books operate on at least two levels — as thrilling tales and elusive allegories. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

And in certain ways, one of the most elusive. Obama promised transparency. But his administration is one of the most secretive 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

A brief slice of lo-fi neo-soul from an Oakland band, “Feel That Again” explores how elusive a moment of bliss can be. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

This involves much running around in the dark with guns and flashlights, while a string-heavy soundtrack sweats to conjure an excitement that remains stubbornly elusive. ‘Black Site’ Review: Stranger Danger 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

Partial, elusive, inconclusive, they are like lit windows on trailers glimpsed from the road. ‘Goodnight, Beautiful Women’ — lucid, sensual stories 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

A Gazan correspondent tells of soirees timed around daily power cuts; in the West Bank, a rare woman DJ awaits an elusive permit to perform in Israel. Time Out Tel Aviv examines Palestinian culture amid hardship 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Lately it’s been elusive, even — maybe especially — at our highest government levels. Review | Brené Brown knows what makes a great leader — and most politicians wouldn’t make the cut 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

For Marcus, this elusive, part-imagined moment becomes a spectre haunting modern culture, reappearing, he argues, when the Sex Pistols took the stage in 1970s Britain. Tino Sehgal has created a you-had-to-be-there moment at Tate Modern 2012-07-24T12:56:01Z

The handful of action scenes, for all their mortal dangers, come and go with an expository brevity and an elusive, abstracted physicality to match. “The Kitchen,” Reviewed: An Engrossing Mob-Wife Drama That’s Relegated to a Table Read 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Wilson, whose self-help ruminations began airing on HBO in 2020, has a home plumbing emergency that sends him on a search for New York City’s elusive public bathrooms. ‘How To With John Wilson’ Loves All of You Weirdos 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

All the reporters hoped to score that elusive golden interview with the man behind “Calvin and Hobbes,” and all found that Watterson proved harder to find than anticipated. Searching for Bill Watterson 2013-04-07T17:00:00Z

“But we have no intention of trying to explain the Bob Dylan mystery. No matter how hard we try, the man at the core of all this somehow continues to remain elusive.” At 80, Bob Dylan finally gets a museum 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Debussy’s mysterious , first performed in Paris in 1902, is an elusive and unconventional music drama. Music Review: Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom 2010-12-19T19:20:50Z

Though a definitive explanation for these giant hauls proves elusive, marine biologists point to likely causes: the diminished number of lobster predators and climate change, which has warmed the water. No Fins or Mask Needed: Four New Books Take Underwater Journeys 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

I want so badly to follow her, to grasp the elusive geometric truths, to prove my worthiness. Love is the mother of all addictions: Compelling as nicotine and heroin — and just as hard to kick 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

Early in the book, Deen is guided to the elusive island, not yet swallowed by a rising sea, by a native of the region named Tipu. Review | With ‘Gun Island,’ Amitav Ghosh turns global crises into engaging fiction 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

But when he realized that truth was elusive, he says, “I started going after beauty.” ‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’ Review: Over Drinks, a Blurry Line Between Truth and Fiction 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

A handsomely illustrated, well-organized new guide to the state's rare and elusive plants. Northwest authors on rare plants, mysterious crimes and the Barefoot Bandit 2011-03-28T21:15:04Z

The second movement seems to evoke a harmonically piercing, elusive folk song. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z

Touch is an elusive element of music making: With imperceptibly small gradations of touch, one musician might coax beautiful tones from a piano that sounds harsh under other fingers. Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

A sense of the necessity of development, of argument in Beethoven’s music, was as elusive as an indication of a broader, more cohesive view. Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Spring brings the search for coveted — and elusive — morel mushrooms. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a world apart 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Still, even if a final definition of museum is elusive, the effort is worth making. Perspective | Is it a museum or not? The question is worth asking. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

He wants to catch a Permit--an elusive saltwater prize--on a fly. George H. W. Bush's Sporting Life 2010-03-25T21:40:00Z

Consensus of any kind seemed elusive, until one girl held up a print ad featuring a glammed-out Dakota Fanning. Summer at Camp Couture 2011-08-03T22:41:55Z

You may not be able to apprehend them or they may be elusive, but they are there.” Errol Morris Takes on MacDonald Murder Case 2012-08-29T12:00:21Z

But the train of thought is immediately elusive, "like turns of thread the spiders throw". Poem of the week: Two in the Campagna by Robert Browning 2010-07-26T09:44:00Z

The music becomes darker, more elusive and textured, with each variation as instruments enter, building steadily in intensity until a chorale calms things down, leading to an extended allegro alive with industrious counterpoint. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Cuba, that elusive island unfurling across the Caribbean like a tangled flag, sits barely 100 miles south of Key West. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Melodies are elusive, taking sharp turns just when you think you’ve found their path, or evaporating into a mirage of hovering chords. Gabriel Kahane’s ‘The Ambassador,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

She was enormously popular but interviewers found her elusive, and her personal aura nearly eclipsed the art. Marisol, an Artist Known for Blithely Shattering Boundaries, Dies at 85 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

As conspiracy theories go, it’s an odd one whose motives remain elusive even to ardent supporters. “Forget these women”: What Phylicia Rashad’s awful Cosby defense gets wrong 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

The goal for Inheritances, from the start, had been to provide a vessel through which I could connect to my elusive father, process my grief and reconcile with my past. My Father’s Death, an Envelope of Cash, a Legacy in Music 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

More effective is another, more elusive set of connections, between the way Monson interacts with other books and how we interact with his. Ander Monson's 'Letter to a Future Lover' and the lives of books 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Those other items on your wish list may prove elusive. Review | The new Oprah exhibit looks like a reward for her $21 million donation. But honestly, she deserves it. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Out to instruct us in the chemistry of painting, it ends up suggesting how elusive art remains despite all the gadgets that we devise to master it. Abroad: Testing Art for Authenticity at London?s National Gallery 2010-07-12T16:06:00Z

Still, a good grip on the material kept proving elusive. What Does Everyone See in Jesse Plemons? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

What’s often missing are the elusive intangibles — a stuttering, precarious sort of grace, for starters — that once sent Monk’s music into flight. New Music: New Music by Kevin Hufnagel, Jimmy Owens and Guided by Voices 2012-01-03T00:53:03Z

A wholly satisfactory term for it may remain elusive, but the material itself is the opposite: immediate and accessible. Turning rhyme for the ears into rhythm for the eyes: It's 'Concrete Poetry' at the Getty 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Walt Disney Co's Marvel Studios sequel "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," out in U.S. and Canadian theaters on Friday, thrusts the patriotic superhero into battle with an elusive enemy. Chris Evans on 'Captain America' and handling fame 2014-04-02T10:11:59Z

Despite all the high-level work, a truly good match between dance-maker and artist is still frustratingly elusive to execute. Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev make magic in "Solo For Two" 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Not just because his rapid-fire monologues can be dense and elusive. Can Daniel Kitson Redefine the Relationship Between Comic and Audience? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

It struck me as like an elusive dream – or in this case a nightmare – that haunted you but which slipped away when you tried to describe it. Best theatre of 2012, No 4: Three Kingdoms, Lyric Hammersmith 2012-12-18T17:17:11Z

Photograph: Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image Here's a paradox: we live in an "information age" and yet information is a maddeningly elusive concept. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z

Her narratives are elusive and bewildering, and half the fun of reading them is looping around, testing the walls, engaging and puzzling out their labyrinthine structures. A Quicksilver Mystery That Flickers, Flashes, Twists and Turns 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Some performers were elusive or difficult to place, perched in the mezzanine or in the frame of a Juliet balcony but obscured by darkness. Review: ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ Turns the Armory Into an Aviary 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

And it remains this elusive, beautiful, harsh place that no one from the outside can quite wrangle. Tina Fey on Her 'American-White-Lady Problems' in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

It seems simple and yet, at times, totally elusive, but I continue to hope. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

A captivating if elusive subject, as it emerges. | 'The Father of My Children': Mia Hansen-Love?s Drama of Family and Heartbreak 2010-05-27T22:02:00Z

His sound was brighter on soprano, an instrument on which he left an incalculable influence; he could be inquisitive, teasing or elusive, but always with a pinpoint intonation and clarity of attack. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

But others hold their shape and summon an elusive mood of longing within the sonic wonderment. Playlist: New Work From White Rabbits and Magic Youth 2012-03-11T03:09:07Z

I loved the intensity of her chocolate cake, the subtle, natural fruit flavors in a lemon cupcake with raspberry frosting, and the elusive play of cinnamon in her Snickerdoodle cupcake. Cupcakes pretty ? and good ? enough to put on a pedestal 2012-03-01T20:46:04Z

Alas, the elusive hatchery king salmon we were looking for weren’t cooperating. In Washington and Idaho, Fishing and Feasts 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

In the 20th century, just before World War II, automatic washing machines promised elusive blocks of nothing-to-take-care-of. I Quit My On-Demand Laundry Service 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Through mercurial movement that suggests, at times, a body at war with itself, Doherty unveils a brokenness — and, though more elusive, an almost exalted levity — beneath her characters’ aggressive posturing. From Northern Ireland, Dance as a ‘Physical Prayer’ 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Her inquisitive approach continued through the succession of variations: an elusive minor-mode one, a playful military march, a subdued variation rich with crawling counterpoint, and more, until the joyous finale. Review: Susanna Malkki Makes an Immediate Impression 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Mingling beauty and terror, trash and wonder, these scenes evoke the elusive temporality of technology, which moves us backward and forwards at the same time. ‘Users’ Review: Brave New World 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

Pursue the uncomfortable thing, he cajoles, the stuff of our own resistances, because that’s where self-knowledge — the elusive epiphanies — resides. My year without a car 2013-12-09T01:00:00Z

Certain sections of the book read like a thriller as Mukherjee details researchers' obsessive quest for the elusive scientific breakthroughs that may end up changing the course of medical history. 'The Emperor of All Maladies': A biography of cancer, and hopes for a cure 2010-11-18T00:03:00Z

The New York premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s “Evidence” revealed an elusive yet engrossing orchestral piece. Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

The kind of work the family believed it to be — an easel painting by Michelangelo — is among the most elusive treasures in Renaissance art. Arts & Leisure: The Piet? Behind the Couch 2011-05-27T12:01:26Z

The movement is called “Daydreams on a Winter Journey,” and Mr. Gergiev conveyed the elusive, transparent quality that title suggests through the trembling beauty of the playing. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-07T21:24:21Z

About two-thirds through, solo lines with elusive melodic contours appear, played by various instruments, eventually including an ominous contrabassoon. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

"Almost Invisible" is too elusive at times, but the strongest pieces read like riddles you can't resist. Four new poetry collections 2012-08-29T19:22:04Z

It's no surprise that this was not acoustically an ideal venue, and a consistent blend between the inner players was elusive. Prom 7: Belcea Quartet ? review 2011-07-20T09:57:37Z

“Stealing Beauty” and its elusive and more conspicuous charms, including Ms. Tyler’s adoringly photographed body, will be on sumptuous display in the near-complete retrospective, which runs through Jan. 12. Film: Shifting Amid, and Asserting, His Own Cinema 2010-12-10T21:22:00Z

Zaki’s sense of the ocean’s seemingly infinite expanse and changeability is never in doubt, even if the specifics of what you’re seeing remain elusive. You don’t need rules to look at Amir Zaki’s photography — just imagination 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

The best art – from Martin Creed's The Lights Going On and Off to Richard Wright's elusive wall paintings – simply and eloquently comment on the architecture it graces. Why there's no art without architecture 2010-06-08T10:18:00Z

Many men operate this way, elusive, mute, masked. Review | ‘The Trouble With Men’ offers an intimate look at its subject 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

“I am here to provide proof of life to that ever elusive, never completely believable ‘us.’ Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

A posthumous collection from the novelist and screenwriter best known for her precise accounts of individuals caught between different societies, seeking to find an elusive sense of home. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

I believe working mothers help foster that elusive sense of independence that seems to be lacking in so many kids today. Motherlode Blog: How Can a Stay-at-Home Mom Get Back to Work? 2012-10-12T20:09:50Z

It’s why any text that’s alluringly cryptic or elusive — a road sign, assembly instructions — is described as poetic. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Melancholic yet hopeful, Olsen’s songs are that elusive Americana patchwork: equal parts folk, punk rock, country, and blues. Seattle-area music and nightlife events Sept. 7-13: Angel Olsen, Lavender Country and more 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

They spend long nights holed up in their apartments, bidding for the elusive things on eBay and losing every time to rivals veiled behind cryptic monikers. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z

But with a career like his, the idea of “home” is a little elusive to him. 2013 SSO opener: Lang Lang, Morlot, Prokofiev are the stars 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z

Ivy’s film-making brought some elusive semblance of closure to this process – until, that is, early November 2016. Bully, coward, victim? Inside the sinister world of Trump mentor Roy Cohn 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

His time, he said, is rarely spent doing anything but working toward that elusive dream of fame. Big Shane: is he DeRidder’s budding hip-hop star? 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Anne, the titular mother, is opaque and elusive. Isabelle Huppert Is Busy. But There’s Always Time for Theater. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

But one of the area’s most talked-about hikes remained elusive: Mount Si. A first-timer’s primer for hiking Mount Si without tears 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Such a conciliatory spirit is absent from "Omar", however - as elusive as actual Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which world powers hope will emerge from peace talks with Israel. Palestine's tragic Oscar hopeful tests identity, ideas 2014-01-28T13:07:17Z

It's great to see this elusive artist – until recently all his works, including his gold leaf Turner mural, were deliberately destroyed after a few weeks – getting the international recognition he deserves. Richard Wright's stellar art shines next to Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum 2013-03-14T13:19:05Z

By focusing on some receding, elusive goal, we have the luxury of remaining haunted forever. Riff: What Don Draper and Christian Grey Have in Common 2012-06-22T21:48:00Z

This dynamic continues into the postmodern present and is the subject of a subtle and elusive think-piece of an exhibition called “Beyond the Supersquare,” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. ‘Beyond the Supersquare’ Looks at South American Modernism 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Complementary traits and desires, while more elusive, are, by their very definition, more powerful. Date Lab: Height is of utmost importance to these two. Could we deliver? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

In interviews she is funny, direct and unpretentious but also a little elusive, apt to ask almost as many questions as she answers. Alice Munro Puts Down Her Pen to Let the World In 2013-07-01T21:24:22Z

He knows that no matter how sweet victory may be, in politics there's something even sweeter but much more elusive: survival with one's principles intact. 'The Great Society' a bustle of history lacking full LBJ picture 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

This revelatory performance was a reminder of how strange, elusive and full of stark contradictions this score actually is. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

It's simple, but it hits that elusive happy yet sad sweet spot to devastating emotional effect. This week's new singles 2011-07-22T23:07:26Z

Mr. Hampson, a champion of American art song, offered 12 selections by Samuel Barber, including the elusive “Solitary Hotel” and “In the Wilderness” from his Opus 41 cycle. Music Review: Thomas Hampson Sings Schumann, Uncut, at Alice Tully 2010-04-12T22:36:00Z

It is elusive, multi-layered and complex, but there's also something immediately understandable about it – Schubert is unusually clear about his understanding of things, and the way he feels. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

The invaluable loss was irreplaceable, so the value remains elusive. Modern Dance Groups to Receive Hurricane Sandy Relief Aid 2012-12-25T22:42:00Z

His friend, by contrast, was so elusive that even her reflections on one of the country’s most notorious crimes managed to remain undercover for decades. What Two Forgotten Pieces Tell Us About Harper Lee 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

When Stern interviewed the elusive actor Bill Murray last year, producer and screenwriter Judd Apatow tweeted that it was “the Bill Murray we all have waited our entire lives for.” Is Howard Stern going soft or just getting sharper? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

And there are times when Padnos, despite his acute insights into others, is frustratingly elusive about his own emotional state. Held Hostage in Syria, a Reporter Tells What It Took to Survive 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

One highlight will be broadcast live on Facebook at 8:30: a forest prowl to find owls, which are far more elusive than moths. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Harbutt’s early fascination with magic and the elusive line between perception and reality steered him toward journalism and its documentary role, first as a writer. Charles Harbutt, Photojournalist With an Eye for Art as Well as News, Dies at 79 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

This elusive tribe was discussed in hushed tones as mythical, rare creatures, much like Bigfoot, Unicorns and a bipartisan Congress. How to be a Moderate Muslim: Shake it off! 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Colani postulated racks made of tree trunks, though a definitive answer is still elusive. Footsteps: In Laos, the Lady and the Jars 2012-07-13T16:23:26Z

Unlike many elusive objects of desire, there is little dispute about the bourbon’s quality. Pappy Van Winkle’s aged bourbon can’t keep pace with consumer demand

Optimism certainly seems an elusive element of the piece, dominated more at times by emotions that are bittersweet, tender and sorrowful. New York Philharmonic, Led by Jaap van Zweden 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

“If museums just open the visor a little bit, they will find those community organizations and elusive populations that they sometimes think won’t be interested,” she said. Young Moviemakers Meet Old Masters at the Frick 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Diversifying the leadership positions at the big cultural institutions south of Harlem has proved more elusive. The Disrupters: Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

As that remark suggests, we are learning that in the 21st century, having it all can be an elusive and ephemeral state, and perhaps not an entirely desirable one. Review: ‘Dada Woof Papa Hot,’ About Gay Men and Parenthood 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The title character, elusively embodied by the elusively photographed Tony Todd, is a tragic magic Negro. ‘Outbreak’ Was a Hit in 1995. Now We’re Living the Sequel. 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

Moody and elusive, “Opus 19/The Dreamer,” set to Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, features a male dancer interacting with a ballerina, but it’s not exactly romantic. Lessons From Baryshnikov on Robbins (Less Is More) 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

This elusive work was a bold experiment in quietude. Four Guys Named JACK 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

Yet I think there's so much that might be taken from them, if not in content then certainly in the elusive network of relationships between performer, audience and place that structure the event. Walking tours are the real fringe theatre 2010-12-20T11:38:27Z

The paradise these characters seek might as well be the Spanish coast of the title, elusive as it is. ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’ Review: Paradise Tossed 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Like the Princess, Bill knew a great deal about surfaces; unlike the Princess, though, he was never fatigued or undone by his search for that most elusive of sartorial qualities: style. Bill Cunningham Was So Alive 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

The annual hunt for the elusive cult beer Pliny the Younger is on, as every beer connoisseur knows. Chasing the elusive Pliny the Younger 2012-02-22T14:05:46Z

The concept might be unstable and elusive, but still it captured my imagination. A Guide to Religious Anarchy: Gershom Scholem’s Kabbalah 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

When Reed ventures to McLemore’s sprawling ancestral property and its environs, in Woodstock, Alabama, the murder mystery proves stubborn and elusive. “S-Town” Investigates the Human Mystery 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

And yet, for the most part, these remain elusive. Books of The Times: Matt Bell Describes a Relationship’s Trajectory in a Debut Novel 2013-07-25T17:38:28Z

The elusive narrative follows a military brain surgeon, General Klenski, released from a gulag, who is taken to Stalin's deathbed. Aleksei German obituary 2013-02-26T18:17:01Z

This is, of course, the deathly fear shared by so many fashion followers of that elusive, colorful fellow known to science as Roy G. Biv. Trading Up: Black, White and Plaid All Over 2010-12-16T06:40:03Z

She collaborated with ornithologists, allowing her to work with the elusive creatures for extended periods of time. How to Capture a Bird 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Getting into your psoas, a big muscle deep in your hip, is a bit elusive. Spiral into control with Gyrotonics 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

They slap skin and run wildly through the space, pausing to hop in messy pas de chats that end in stumbles yet regain enough momentum to lead into the next elusive gesture. Melinda Ring’s ‘Forgetful Snow’ at the Kitchen 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

It is also, I think, exactly the tantalizingly elusive effect Tallent intends. Why Did an Accomplished Writer Fall Silent for Two Decades? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The movie is too elusive for a single explanation, but forced to pick one, I would argue that it’s a sense of humor. Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bacon plays Ryan Hardy, a former F.B.I. agent who back in his days with the bureau put a particularly elusive and literate serial killer behind bars. Looking Ahead: Culture Picks for 2013 2012-12-27T23:05:33Z

For Mr. Damon the stakes are equally real, if more elusive. Matt Damon and John Krasinski on ‘Promised Land’ 2012-12-21T20:49:44Z

Perhaps that accounts for the elusive nature of the first movement, which he called a Nocturne: music of pensive, brooding darkness unfolding at a moderate, inexorable tempo. Review: A Surprise Conductor Makes a Superb Debut 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

“You look at them and they are forever somewhat mysterious, elusive, unknown. When they are in their element, they don’t need you, and hence you don’t have to take care of them, emotionally or psychologically.” Our ‘sexperiment’ and other methods of improving our sex life 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

This elusive electronic experimentalist, who seldom reveals personal info in interviews, was responsible for one of last year’s most cohesively adventurous albums. 8 artists to watch at Capitol Hill Block Party 2019 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Of all the great composers, Monteverdi is perhaps the most elusive. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-28T21:00:00Z

“Rumor” and “Secrets” both feature sturdy rectangles filled with gorgeous stained-glass colors, overlaid with curlicue wisps of paint that hint at something more random or elusive. Review: MoNA presents 3 solo exhibits by prominent female artists 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

There just isn’t much appetite for going after an elusive and dangerous pair that seem to be generous in spreading their stolen loot around. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at 50: their charm lives on 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Maybe so, but 007 has otherwise found Oscar elusive - picking up only two statuettes in his screen history, for sound and visual effects. The Carpetbagger: Bond, Oscar Bond 2013-01-04T18:00:27Z

And in Ashton’s shimmering pas de deux, they used classical dancing to crack open the playful, mysterious, elusive energy of desire. Smoke, Mirrors and Passing the Torch at American Ballet Theater 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Discussing war lends itself to a focus on dates, figures and concepts, but the elusive human element ties Barker’s film together. 'I just don't see how this ends': a sobering new film on the Afghan war 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Though much is known about Beethoven, whole swaths of his life remain elusive. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

The concerto, completed in 1910 for the violinist Fritz Kreisler, is a dense, teeming work, by turns fascinating, elusive and, for me, confounding. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z

But the object of their obsessive hunt is even more elusive than the Zodiac Killer: They desperately want to write “One Hit Song.” Review: ‘A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet’ Is Missing a Few Notes 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

Coolness is a state of mind Coolness is elusive and hard to define. America's Coolest Cities 2010-08-02T23:15:00Z

The sporty yet supportive full-bust swimsuit is more elusive; some people, exhausted by the hunt, end up settling for a water-resistant sports bra. Shopping for Bathing Suits Online Is Its Own Circle of Hell 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

The power of movies is undeniable, but also elusive. 2010-01-22T20:27:00Z

Maturity remains elusive in American movies, but we still love our male weepies, with their torrents of blood rather than tears, and their ravaged, redeemed male bodies. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Another familiar but elusive personality is the subject of “Miss American Dream,” Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s recent profile of Britney Spears, in Medium. Weekend Reading: Soccer Violence, Nazi Hipsters, and More 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Even when a particular piece seems amorphous or elusive, these elegies, fantasias, sonatinas and more are continually fascinating, especially in Mr. Hamelin’s commanding performances. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Stephanie Blythe, Eva-Maria Houben, Nicholas Phillips and More 2014-03-05T17:18:59Z

It didn’t help that YouTube kept changing the algorithm to make it harder to target kids with advertising, so profits became more elusive. A Kid’s Show Juggernaut That Leaves Nothing to Chance 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Mellencamp finds “liberating” the recognition that legacy is an illusion and that importance is elusive. “I’m a blue guy in a red state”: John Mellencamp and the search for an American soul 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

For all its surreal imagery, the film also has a poignant documentary value, offering a glimpse of a place, a time and an artistic sensibility that seem at once vivid and elusive. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

“He was shimmering, alluring and elusive, and those are qualities we often associate with espionage — and celebrities.” Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher and an Enigma 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

It is hard to know which business is trickier: Hollywood, with its cinematic hits and misses, or the National Football League, where Super Bowl success is so elusive. NY Giants co-owner Steve Tisch on creating a Super Bowl life 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Here, perhaps, was that elusive intimacy that Adele had been chasing. Adele Returns to the Stage in Las Vegas, Resolute and Reflective 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

The broth’s flavor was elusive at first, more a texture than a taste. Chinese Noodles From a Chile-Haunted Region 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Strangely, this elusive core of dishonesty is the most interesting thing about "Suburgatory". Something's amiss in "Suburgatory" 2011-09-28T22:29:00Z

Lahr's trenchant handling of Williams' struggle, the cautionary tale of a dramatist chasing an elusive vision in an art form with relentless commercial pressures, should be required reading for fledgling playwrights. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

It’s a very elusive part of life, the way we change over time. Everything You Need to Know About the Making of Boyhood Over 12 Years 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

She handles the impressionistic monologues of colliding memories and elusive meanings with grace and emotional fire. | 'Wings': The Shadows of an Airborne Life 2010-10-25T03:00:00Z

The happy medium of a “vintage” clothing store has always been an elusive sweet spot. Critical Shopper: Adopting a Look, No Boys Allowed 2011-02-16T19:14:51Z

Materially, it’s almost too much, but conceptually, it’s elusive and in that sense almost abstract, as is true of much of the political art Enwezor valued. Black Grief, White Grievance: Artists Search for Racial Justice 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Elliptical, elusive and endlessly stimulating, Deborah Levy’s new novel, her third to be nominated for the Booker Prize, packs an astonishing amount into 200 pages. Review | In ‘The Man Who Saw Everything,’ Deborah Levy questions our notions of reality 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

His romance with Hudson’s Erica, oddly, is the most misjudged departure from the book, substituting something overt for elements that, in the novel, are hauntingly, insolubly elusive. ‘Reluctant Fundamentalist’: solid movie from brilliant book 2013-05-02T21:25:34Z

For those on the lower end of the income scale, the show exists as a tantalizing yet elusive dream. A 'Hamilton' backlash? Why none of that matters with this history-making tour 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

But thanks to his scarcity of output, his sphinxlike reticence and the near-religious fervor of his fans, the elusive Mr. Malick also provides exactly what Cannes thrives on: mystique and anticipation. Without Ever Showing Up, Malick Is Talk of Cannes 2011-05-16T20:16:10Z

History is always elusive, difficult to apprehend or embody, but it's the stuff of fiction, and it's often better to circle around it, to evade it, to allow it to do its work offstage. Stranger fiction 2011-08-01T11:53:49Z

It ended with the New York premiere of Steven Stucky’s “Skylarks,” written in 2001, his feisty settings of six varied poems, including a haiku, Emily Dickinson’s elusive “Split the Lark” and some Edward Lear drivel. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers, Led by Clara Longstreth 2012-06-03T22:15:08Z

Black-eyed peas thicken tomato broth elusively spiced with cumin and cayenne. Peyrassol: Out-of-the-way Renton cafe charms 2011-05-12T19:23:04Z

His account of the elusive, iconoclastic finale, which somehow merges complex fugues with a sprawling sonata form, was exhilarating. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z

Though a tad convoluted, Carey’s special is full of one-liners and knowing winks; when the elf has trouble tracking her down, she informs him, “It’s called elusive, darling.” Mariah! Dolly! Carrie! 2020 Can’t Quarantine This Cheer 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

I adjusted my headphones, turned up the volume on my story, and forged ahead in search of the elusive sage. Thief 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Having struggled with shrinking inventory and elusive profits, auction houses appear to be devoting most of their attention and resources to contemporary art, the most popular area of their business. Can the Old Masters Be Relevant Again? 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

And even though they helped spark mass social change, a sense of closure remains elusive. Analysis | A wave of new books reveals the obstacles #MeToo had to overcome — and why it’s not over 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

She’s still the nonchalant, elusive, sophisticated and resolutely hedonistic figure she plays in Brazilian Girls songs. New Music: New Albums by Sabina Sciubba and New Bums 2014-02-17T22:37:49Z

But especially for many young city-dwellers, that sense of community remains elusive. Why a city block can be one of the loneliest places on earth 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

Our critic calls it “a sophisticated, elusively plotted psychological thriller.” The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z

Smith is slightly elusive on the subject of her next work of fiction. 2009-12-10T17:55:00Z

Excited, as I’ve been working on this for a year and he can be elusive. | Alina Cho: Alina Cho of CNN - What I Wore 2011-09-02T20:59:55Z

Liszt was his own keenest critic, often making multiple versions of even modest pieces in a constant search for an elusive perfection. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z

Marathon Man continued his good run, but the hits began to be elusive. Robert Evans, celebrated Hollywood producer of Chinatown, dies aged 89 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Proctor is a man for whom “the very idea of a consuming passion” is bewildering, which makes Avon, a man prone to emotional attachment to people and causes, all the more elusive. Review | John le Carré left behind a novel, ‘Silverview.’ Does it live up to the spy master’s reputation? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

“There are explanations, of course,” she said elusively. Hannah Einbinder: Portrait of a Young Comic on the Cusp 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

And yet, as her memory becomes more clear, accountability for her perpetrator becomes more elusive. ‘I May Destroy You’ Imagines a Path Back From Sexual Assault 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

He may be an elusive individual with a sketchy background — ex-military, no fixed address, a single shirt to his name — but as an archetype he is easy enough to recognize. Movie Review: Tom Cruise in ‘Jack Reacher’ 2012-12-20T13:00:00Z

Neighbors called her “the myth” because she was so elusive. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Today in 2021, the answers to these questions are elusive at best. True crime shows spotlight women as victims — but don't help improve women's safety 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

He is famously elusive and his humor tends toward the sardonic. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

I didn’t realize how elusive people really are. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Art of Writing Biographies 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

If the festive spirit is still proving elusive, tune into Merry Christmas Morris Minor! Christmas radio highlights 2010-12-24T08:00:03Z

Shankly also thinks of football in terms of salvation and redemption, and compares the elusive Football Association Cup to the Holy Grail. Review of ‘Red or Dead’: Liverpool’s Bill Shankly, the Odysseus of Anfield

Self-governing my life had always been elusive: public housing-living, my grandmother's checks from the government, addiction, group home-living, and jail always collided with agency. The Nas generation of scholars: Finally, a Grammy for the hip hop artist who led me to liberation 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

Rattle’s view of these elusive, often-dour masterpieces is quite similar between the two sets; if you like it, you’ll be happy with either. CD review: Rattle’s second Sibelius is opulent package of dour masterpieces 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

It starts with a jumpy sequence of crisp, sonorous chords, like the chord bursts that punctuate the elusive opening of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z

I don’t mean to be elusive in my answer. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z

Perhaps because of this, green remains an elusive color. Design: The Toxic Side of Being, Literally, Green 2010-04-04T16:05:00Z

With a sensitive lead turn by Minujín, “The Substitute” remains elusive and prickly all the way through, mimicking the messiness of reality more so than the neat arcs of stories. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

It's a point she makes explicit throughout "Lucky Us," which moves from voice to voice, from character to character, with the elusive texture of a reverie. In Amy Bloom's 'Lucky Us,' sisters remain plucky in face of tragedy 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Like “My Architect,” Nathaniel Kahn’s film about his father, Louis I. Kahn, this documentary is a son’s attempt to forge a posthumous bond with an elusive parent. Movie Review: ‘Deconstructing Dad’ Recalls Raymond Scott, Musical Inventor 2012-07-12T22:55:28Z

“The conceptual opportunity in a memoir such as this is to understand that the reader is stalking the elusive striped beast alongside the narrator,” Deborah Levy writes in her review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Weiser captured both the specific and elusive qualities of the poetic imagery in his compelling music, which sometimes breaks down a phrase and repeats the words, as if to get at the meaning. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church 2013-05-24T21:00:10Z

The ensemble cast of "Game of Thrones" found leading bids elusive. 'Game of Thrones' tops Emmy nods, but streaming makes gains 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Proving the thrill never fades, we all got quiet when the elusive Montezuma quail, a rotund, charismatic bird with facial racing stripes and polka-dot sides, emerged from the tall grass just before sunset. A Birding Adventure in Arizona’s ‘Sky Islands’ 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks. Is Reading the New Therapy? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

We visited to find the elusive psychedelic frogfish, which was discovered in 2008 and only resides in these waters. Scuba diving trips around the world: readers’ tips 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

She sang songs of Mahler and Brahms with glowing warmth and grave beauty, and had an elusive, expressionist Berg song sounding like the most sublimely lyrical music imaginable. Jessye Norman Was a Diva, in the Best Way 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

She's gotten a hold of a lead she can't shake: the notion that following one of bin Laden's couriers will lead to the elusive al-Qaida chief. Review: 'Zero Dark Thirty' is massive, meticulous 2012-12-01T03:31:06Z

The protagonist is a journalist working under cover in Paris on an investigative story about an elusive Communist. A Writer’s Controversial Past That Will Not Die 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

The harder Collings tried to nail down Turner's genius – "light as feeling" was a phrase he used a lot – the more elusive it became. TV review: Turner's Thames; A Short History of Everything Else 2012-06-13T21:30:01Z

But the precise details of how it will take place have remained maddeningly elusive, and are the subject of acrimonious political debate. Brexit Is Happening. You May as Well Laugh About It. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

The situation would be slightly different if you were learning one of the elusive, idiosyncratic pieces of the composer and vocalist Meredith Monk. Can Meredith Monk Teach a Musical State of Mind? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Her wonderful score is seductive, meditative, spiritually elusive and subversive. Mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer overcomes all challenges in 'Song From the Uproar' 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

High fashion is elusive and personal, and not necessarily “modern” or even new. | Fashion Review: Milan Shows How It All Makes Sense 2011-02-26T00:49:18Z

Shot in 2005, scheduled for 2007, it got tangled in litigation for years after, with perfectionist Lonergan agonising over an elusive final cut while an exasperated Fox Searchlight snapped at his heels. Not coming soon: the star-studded films that almost didn't get released 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Thereby hangs a tale of awakening and change that will delight both old and new fans of the elusive Italian writer. The books to read in September 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

The mistake is in dismissing the value of those calls to anyone just because the charms are elusive to you. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What’s the big idea, putting down small talk? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

The third movement is a sturdy but elusive fugue on a hymn tune; the final movement, the most cosmic and cacophonous, is at once ecstatic and terrifying. Review: Trinity Wall Street and Julian Wachner Play Carnegie Hall 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

The Mad Hatter’s lines welcome us into an episode that confirms the elusive truth about how our world can defy our perception. That Twist and 4 Other Things We Learned About Westworld 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Her narrators can be calm observers or central characters with elusive back stories. Review: Laura Marling’s ‘Semper Femina’ Seeks the Cryptic in the Plainspoken 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

The two call a truce and end up clueless partners, spending their days in a solipsistic haze, alternately smug and sheepish, wandering into danger in search of their elusive first arrest. '21 Jump Street': Cop drama gets a funny, raunchy rework 2012-03-13T20:14:04Z

What his tale ultimately means, though, is elusive. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z

One can only wonder: Will you have a sighting of this elusive figure? 'Made in L.A. 2016': Hammer Museum biennial proves a thoughtful place to ponder the possibilities 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The Orion players’ familiarity to me did not diminish the impact of their compelling performance of Schubert’s last, strangely elusive quartet. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z

One might say something similar of her many-layered art, which is as eye-grabbing as it is elusive, and which shifts in appearance, and meaning, as you look at it from different angles. Haegue Yang’s Radical Art of Obscure Delights 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

By blurring the contrast between himself and the GOP, Clinton made himself a frustratingly elusive target, but set up a campaign that avoided most major issues. Obama delivers confrontational address 2012-01-25T03:23:00Z

He is less a tactile sculpture than an elusive shadow in a dark room.” Books of The Times: ?Blue Notes in Black and White? by Benjamin Cawthra - Review 2011-12-15T22:54:43Z

Nearly 30 years after her death, she is still hiding from us in full view, as elusive and beguiling as ever. Francesca Woodman ? review 2010-11-21T00:08:00Z

Civil rights legislation deleted the Whites Only signs, but total equity remained elusive. "They got Daddy": Reckoning with my grandfather's kidnapping, racial terror and our family's trauma 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

It was fascinating to hear these elusive, strange scores performed with such directness and intelligence. Music Review: Revisiting an Annual Rite of Beethoven and Sibelius 2011-03-01T22:13:44Z

Each has a unique background and personality, which can’t help but make Miles seem all the more elusive in the big picture. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Persimmons, grapefruit, kumquats and perhaps the most delectable and elusive of all the mandarins: the tiny, seedless kishus — all of these little lovelies thrive in our climate. My grandma's 3-ingredient orange pecans are a beloved family recipe with a bright burst of flavor 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z

“I had so much confidence where I was like, ‘Oh man, I’m probably going to book a bunch of stuff after this,’” Perea said, though new roles proved elusive. Why Brandon Perea’s ‘Nope’ Audition Made Jordan Peele Cry 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

His primary passion, though, isn’t in searching for the elusive compromise in campus controversies, but in defending universities from outside critics. Two Views of the Tumult on American Campuses 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

It's the life story of Jean Aberbach, "the elusive music-publishing legend who, with his brother Julian, built one of music history's most powerful popular music-publishing companies: Hill and Range Songs," according to the publisher. A passel of prizes for area authors | Lit life 2011-08-15T16:49:04Z

Some puzzles – like that of how this nondescript provincial came to be the greatest and most elusively polymorphous of writers – are best left unsolved. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

It’s a polished hour of new jokes with a virtuosic centerpiece, an intricate and elusive nearly 10-minute story that inspired its title, firmly in the tradition of Mr. Carlin’s comedy but also a fascinating departure. A George Carlin Special Too Raw After Sept. 11 Resurfaces Now 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

It’s estimated that only a few hundred people saw the live broadcast when it occurred, and footage of her public suicide meanwhile remains mysteriously elusive. Christine: what captivated Rebecca Hall about TV broadcaster's live suicide? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

But breakout roles, both onstage and on television, proved elusive, and there were plenty of times when he was ready to quit. Pedro Pascal: Making It at 41 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

“Nevicata” was riveting: Images of snowflakes falling from an ashen heaven are conveyed in the piano through numbing, repeated midrange tones, surrounded by elusive chords and, at the end, skittish, almost jazzy flourishes. Review: In a Flat World, a Soprano Conjures Italy 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

A brilliantly elusive play about the shifting nature of reality is turned into a trite lecture on the danger of nationalistic militarism. The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-27T23:24:00Z

While on the surface a head-scratcher, the phrase doubles as a rather smart description of music itself, which can be an elusive and intangible thing to describe. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

Being a fan of sauvignon blanc and chardonnay, I am no stranger to Sancerre—just these elusive labels! ‘Listening’ to Sancerre Tell Its Story 2014-05-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Roth, who this year won the Man Booker International award for the body of his work, is often described as elusive, even reclusive. Books: Rare Unfurling of the Reluctant Philip Roth 2011-09-15T11:30:11Z

When four kids, each terrified of something, are sent away to the elusive school of fear, they worry about what they might find there. School of Fear by Gitty Daneshvari - review 2012-08-07T14:00:00Z

His “Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise” enacts this attentive yet elusive praise: When You Go Away: Remembering W. S. Merwin 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

In no time Mr. Ax banished thoughts of winter as he played the stately, solemn opening chords of Chopin’s Polonaise-Fantaisie, an elusive late work, more fantasy than polonaise. 2010-02-11T23:33:00Z

The actual tie to Dracula is a bit elusive. Cobblestones? Check. Castles? Check. Budget? Check. Why Romania Is Worth the Trip. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Bidders displayed the same eagerness as the day before, and the reasons triggering their sudden bouts of enthusiasm were as elusive as ever. 2010-02-12T15:25:00Z

Never mind the swashbuckling; just use this movie as a perfect example of that elusive thing called screen chemistry. 'Robin Hood': Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett steal scenes in Ridley Scott's latest 2010-05-13T10:21:00Z

Rohmer himself, throughout his career and even throughout his life, remained elusive by design, starting with his name. Éric Rohmer’s Elusive Life, Revealed in a New Biography 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

It was an elusive, legendary, 76-year-old pianist known for her cancellations. Review | A legend known for canceling shows up and plays for the ages 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

It makes sense that videotapes take on an extra power in "Archive 81" because they're such an elusive medium. Sects, lies and videotape: "Archive 81" and the mystique of the semipermanent artifact 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Here was that elusive unknown unknown: a work that at first glance appeared to be no more than an academic exercise in folk-music transcription yet turned into a riveting drama. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Performs ‘Tales From the Nine Bells’ 2014-05-07T20:58:48Z

It has an unflinching naturalism and authenticity which makes this ambling, unfocused quest for an elusive good time into painfully compulsive viewing. The 25 greatest summer films 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

A more significant reason why Roman Britain will remain elusive, however, is its strangeness. Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins – review 2013-07-24T10:06:01Z

Shining their flashlights into the darkest corners of Singapore, a small group of ant hunters searches for an elusive winged insect. Ant-hunting we will go! 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The trio opens with sustained, hushed, eerie intervals in the piano and violin, through which the clarinet pierces with an elusive melodic line. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Review 2011-11-21T23:13:14Z

The figure of Ray, his wife and collaborator, is somewhat more elusive. On the Runway Blog: Ray Eames: How She Dressed 2011-12-12T19:54:22Z

In other words: compromise, which is so elusive today. Review: Mythical Twins Inspire Music Divided in Two 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The lugubrious pacing changed the song, making its heroic aspirations seem elusive, if not delusional. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z

Mr. Kreiger’s cleverly constructed, appealing piece also reflected its title, with the recorded electronic elements meshing harmoniously with the acoustic instruments to create an elusive, surrealist soundscape. Music Review: Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works 2011-06-21T21:12:01Z

Then, like the elusive Johnny, she was gone. Review | In concert, Yemi Alade shows her audience, and her homeland, some love 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

It’s all a work in progress, but, on balance, worth the attempt to keep people focused and engaged on what’s happening in music that is sometimes — even for aficionados — elusive. Conductor Fisch, National Orchestral Institue excel at the emphatic 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Yet to someone passing by on the street, the meaning of the form is elusive. Critic?s Notebook: Turning a Rearview Mirror on Kevin Roche 2011-02-22T23:36:55Z

But even after that, articles about him tended to describe him as “hermitlike,” “elusive,” “enigmatic” and “reclusive.” Daniel Brush, Boundary-Defying Artist, Is Dead at 75 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

Each encounter with the play promises new insight into an elusive character forced by festering circumstances to play a series of roles, none of which can be said to be the true Hamlet. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

In the course of building “Learning Curve,” the students found sympathy for the elusive authority figures in their lives. An Immersive Play That Transports You to a Chicago Public High School 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

“That question as to why the dance was so elusive was really what fueled the project,” LeBlanc said. Twin documentaries spotlight dance legends Ailey and Jones 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

That interaction forms the show’s elusive soul, whose expansive presence draws us into the action.  L.A. Louver show connects Charles Garabedian with contemporary artists like McLaughlin, Voulkos and Celmins 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

He claimed that “the truth was extremely elusive” during the making of the film. Scott Cooper: people don't go to the movies for facts 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

Jaguars are elusive animals that, if threatened, can lacerate a skull with a single bite. The Return of the Jaguar 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

The play’s complicated moral vision may be elusive to the point of blurriness, but the low-key wonder of the performances keeps us eagerly pursuing a deeper human truth. Wallace Shawn's 'The Designated Mourner' gets new relevance in the Trump era 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

That elusive lightning is the electricity in the hopped-up prose of “On the Road,” Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel, which a decade after its publication inspired countless stoned hippie odysseys to Haight-Ashbury and beyond. Movie Review: ‘On the Road,’ Directed by Walter Salles 2012-12-20T23:12:37Z

And there were all kinds of smaller, elusive flavors in that Sweetwater, too, of minerals, almost copper, and the vaguest memory of sand and rock. Ode to the Western oyster 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

Working with glass, silk, beads, and glitter, he manages to capture the most elusive human emotions and desires, and freeze them into bewitching talismans. See Artist Rob Wynne’s Works at Los Angeles’s Gavlak Gallery 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Given that Abbado was a slightly elusive interpreter, any generalities to be offered about him are necessarily weak. To the Conductor Claudio Abbado, the Orchestra Was a Collective 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

They don’t want to lose the ability to earn more miles or the elusive “free” ticket. The public may be losing its affinity for travel credit cards 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

The elusive story involves a man and a woman, bound together by advanced physics. Geffen Playhouse season to include 'Constellations,' 'Barbecue' 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Few things in cinema are more elusive, or precious, than a comedy that crescendos in giddy delight a few minutes before the end credits, leaving you weak with laughter. Wanderlust: Nudists and Jennifer Aniston, Though Not in That Order 2012-02-24T15:45:56Z

British network ITV quickly scooped up the project, but an American distributor proved more elusive. 'Downton Abbey' cast hits a period of quiet anticipation near finale 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

In “Side Effects,” which takes place now, he’s a doctor informing a lawyer friend about a nuisance suit as he battles with assembly-line hospital bureaucracies and, again, elusive insurance companies. Review | Milligan’s health-care monologues give voice to patient and doctor 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

A future marketed as all but foreordained proved elusive, if not illusory. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

I actually threw out the elusive, desperately needed mask only a month ago. The Show’s Delayed, but They’re Still Keeping ‘Company’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The flexible personality that made him a great attorney also made him an elusive person. The Season Finale of 'The Good Wife' 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Chanel Miller upends her life, conscripted into chasing an increasingly elusive justice. The Irrepressibly Political Survivorship of Chanel Miller 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

It’s something more elusive she’s after, what she and her fellow temps call “the steadiness” — a permanent job. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The world is an elusive whale; we might choose coexistence or destruction. Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

Over the course of his life, the whereabouts of his mother remain elusive. A boy caught between love and race 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Still, as most of us learn when we move toward that shifting and elusive state called adulthood, the political and the personal can never be unequivocally separated. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Up Close, Feeling Very Personal 2012-05-31T16:22:36Z

It turned out that the famously elusive artist, with his signature habit of strategic indirection, had submitted it as a proposal for a site-specific sculpture. From David Hammons, a Tribute to Pier 52 and Lastingness 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

And were you worried about engaging an audience with such ambiguous and elusive characters? A Q&A with Stoker Director Park Chan-wook 2013-03-05T17:12:51Z

I have subjected my children to a host of unpleasant travel experiences around the world, usually while pursuing some elusive undiscovered paradise, and I wondered if Gili Air would be worth the bother. This Indonesian Island Is a Respite From Bali. At Least for Now. 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Aaron's instincts about Luke's murder-suicide case might be a chance for him to settle old scores and perhaps even uncover the elusive truth about Ellie's death. "The Dry" is a desolate, engrossing mystery in which everyone – even Eric Bona – is guilty 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

What it can do is address heroic delusions and mastery with spirit and a sense of that most elusive quality among supermen: fun. Streaming Now: Two Sets of Subversive Heroes 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The vigorous opening began with skittish rhythmic bursts and figures that segued into a somber, choralelike passage, music that in this performance seemed harmonically elusive and eerie. At Carnegie Hall Opening, Delving Into Levity’s Layers 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The past is all around us, and still it remains elusive, remixed beyond recognition. In Vintage TV Ads, a Curious Fountain of Hope (and Cheese) 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

He is elusive and conniving, earnest and manipulative, brutal and desperate. A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The women are Balanchine women: mercurial, elusive, conflicted in their independence. Review: City Ballet Celebrates Balanchine and Heeds Mother Nature 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

Veisalgia hints at the scrim of despair and self-loathing that is a hangover’s most elusive element, and the one that resists every dispelling mechanism we can throw at it. The Morning After: One Man’s Quest for a Hangover Cure 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, Mr. Gethard ended his day by performing in a comedy show with Diddy, the illustrious if elusive hip-hop mogul, after a campaign that lasted over a year. ArtsBeat: Diddy Did It: Rapper's Guest Role at 'The Chris Gethard Show' 2011-01-15T09:23:16Z

The title roughly means backcountry or hinterland, but, as the translator Stephen Romer has written, it signifies something more elusive, a country that exists beyond the visible. The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Paris in New York is a bit more elusive. Paris in the Springtime, in New York 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Though physically hunted to the point of extinction, these colossal mammals remain somehow metaphysically elusive. Review | Philip Hoare’s examination of Albrecht Dürer takes readers on an entertaining, digressive ride 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

For these characters, happiness is elusive — it unspools at 24 frames a second and dims when the lights come up. In 'Innocents and Others' Dana Spiotta explores the creative tensions between two female filmmakers 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

The impassioned first movement is concise and elusive, with an assertive main theme played in unison followed in short order by a contrasting choralelike theme of hazy, unsettled chords. Music Review: At Columbia, Midday Barber in Strings and Song 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z

As elusive as it was, King’s relationship with Bobby Kennedy was much deeper, more personal, and more intricate than his relationship with Jack, and not just because it lasted twice as long. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Racetracks are improvised in parking lots and empty market squares, and training spaces are elusive. Review: ‘Speed Sisters,’ Revving to Go in the West Bank 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Instead of merely cranking out another team-up, Waititi and Robinson scripted a parable about finding empowerment through that mystical state that's as elusive as finding the center of all things: closure. Bad romance: The problem with "Thor" is that the MCU is better at thunder than love 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Vanished sees Raker not just in a new relationship with a hotshot lawyer, but hunting an elusive quarry – a banker who got on to a tube train one day but seemingly never got off. Thrillers – review roundup 2012-07-20T21:54:02Z

The corollary is that in undergoing such a shock, again and again, we are somehow made more authentic, brought more closely into contact with the elusive, open-endedness of life. Scott Cheshire on the novel of 'not knowing' 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

The music unfolds in fits, hurtling forward with cluster chords, skittish piano runs and wailing clarinet lines that segue into elusive riffs. Music Review: Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico 2012-07-29T20:46:59Z

That’s painful, no question, but the complexities of the world that he and Sisa inhabit are as frustratingly elusive as their inner lives. ‘Utama’ Review: This Bitter Earth 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

A middle ground, someplace between normalizing and pandering, seems elusive at the moment. Washington society and Team Trump: A year in, the fear and loathing is mutual 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

The answer lies in that most elusive element of any awards season — momentum. 'Birdman' looking solid in Oscar race, and momentum is a big reason 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Mead balances herself as narrator on a tightrope of thought running from her mind to her mother’s elusive consciousness. New poetry from Jane Mead and Daniel Borzutzky examine death — in both human and national forms 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

That's no accident: If she can only find or get to that elusive river, a metaphorical rebirth — getting back to those happier, younger days — is within reach. The solace of Joni Mitchell's "River," a holiday song that defies merry and bright expectations 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

American literature contains a surprising amount of cannibals: To read Herman Melville is to believe that life’s main struggles will come in the form of elusive whales and meeting people who want to eat you. Perspective | I am a former cannibalism scholar, and I finally watched ‘Dahmer’ 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

A subject proved elusive until Simon suggested anchoring the drama around the lives of musicians. Down but not out 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z

He lingers on beauty and catches the light at dusk, searching and sometimes finding an elusive city that has always been there for those who bother to look. Review: ‘Gemini’ Finds Murder in a Movie-Soaked Los Angeles 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Less intact are the facts of Billy’s life, some of which remain elusive. In This ‘Billy the Kid,’ the Wounds Are Those You Cannot See 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Yet isolation turns out to be elusive, as the play’s title character is visited by a stream of family members. A Quiet Summer at Edinburgh’s Festivals 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

If he can make it there: "Banksy Does New York" in this new profile of the elusive graffiti artist and muralist. TV This Week Nov. 16 -22: 'Independent Lens' on PBS 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Ocean has a flair for crafting gripping songs and this album does not lack melodrama, featuring haunting melodies paired with driving beats and touching lyrics similar to the elusive brilliance of The-Dream’s Love Hate. Frank Ocean Pours His Heart Out on Channel Orange: Album Review 2012-07-10T20:23:02Z

Today about 50 bison roam the prairie, but they remained elusive on our walk. Not those gators: Improbable fauna 10 minutes from downtown Gainesville 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

For jewelry connoisseurs, these pieces are elusive totems of 20th century history. Special Report: Jewelry: A Sparkling Fair for the Masters 2011-05-12T13:49:21Z

Ms. Philo has created a growing accessories business with a broad commercial appeal, something other designers with strong clothing aesthetics can find elusive. C?line?s Phoebe Philo Has Her Disciples 2012-03-01T19:22:18Z

Art may be a sphere of freedom, he concludes, but it maintains a porous border with life and depends on an elusive symbiosis. In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

I had come across a piece of writing that gave me that elusive rom-com thrill. Plot Twist: Your Big Secret Crush Is Also Your Housemate 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

The elusive quality of influence—the difficulty we encounter when we try to identify its sources or measure its effects—is equally destabilizing. A History of the Influencer, from Shakespeare to Instagram 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

Outside, the men clutch at their hearts and reach out toward their elusive lovers in a heartsick, earnest pantomime. Review: 'Chi-Raq' Is a Shout of Joy and a Cry of Anguish 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

The efforts to document the teams’ creative processes aren’t particularly successful — no camera can capture something that elusive — but the filmmakers do a fine job with the back stories of the featured poets. | 'Louder Than a Bomb': A Stream of Words, Painting a Picture 2011-05-17T22:53:02Z

The enemy is now elusive and the home front as divided as the face of Harvey Dent, a vanquished Batman foe. | 'The Dark Knight Rises’: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ With Christian Bale 2012-07-18T17:49:45Z

Ambrose Akinmusire, 36, may be the most distinctive, elusive and ultimately satisfying trumpeter of his generation. Ambrose Akinmusire’s Trumpet Takes a Back Seat to His Pen on ‘Origami Harvest’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Oakley's somewhat of a savant when it comes to snack foods, and he has always held a special place in his heart for the elusive Maine chips. Everyone in Maine is obsessed with these chips 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

This week at the Village Vanguard he’s applying the feathery grace of that recording to a murkier, more elusive batch of songs, some new and others dredged from history, including his own. Music Review: Mining His Vault: Kurt Rosenwinkel at Village Vanguard 2010-06-24T21:21:00Z

For Sternberg, the director of “Shanghai Express” and “The Scarlet Empress,” plots were at most a structuring device, a way of ordering elusive emotions, hazy atmospheres and almost abstract images. DVDs: Three Silent Josef von Sternberg Reveries From Criterion 2010-08-21T05:00:00Z

As Ellis told me that day, “You can find the number of slaves at Mount Vernon; you’ll never find all his spies. By its nature, this is something that will always be elusive.” How a deadly plot against George Washington became a historical footnote 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

So far that long-term solution has been elusive. Pearl Jam’s ‘unprecedented’ Home Shows hit Seattle at pivotal time in homeless debate 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

“It serves not only as a type of self-portrait, but also as a symbol of the artist’s peripatetic existence and his search for an elusive sense of repose.” Van Gogh's 'The Bedroom' coming to the Norton Simon Museum 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

“Streaming gives them access to data and decision-making with viewers in mind in a way that the box office has been more elusive.” Study Finds Sustained Progress for Female Directors and Filmmakers of Color 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Yet while Gibney’s refusal to simplify his subject, whom he clearly admires, is commendable, his attraction to Khodorkovsky’s story in particular remains elusive. ‘Citizen K’ Review: Trying to Pin Down a Russian Oligarch 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Wenders uses the format to capture the elusive essence of dance, not only preserving Ms. Bausch’s art but also clarifying its intentions and making visible its inspirations. Critic?s Notebook: New York Film Festival Includes a Sneak Preview 2011-10-09T22:05:10Z

Goldberg traces the independent spirit of the "Zelig-like" Devi to her childhood, often lonely and often missing her elusive mother. Michelle Goldberg's book 'The Goddess Pose' paints vivid picture of yoga pioneer Indra Devi 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Neumeier envisions his poet — a stand-in for Andersen — as suffering for the man he cannot have, just as the little mermaid will later suffer for her elusive prince.  Hamburg Ballet’s ‘Little Mermaid’ — adrift in a sea of despair 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Anchors are like co-stars, cast for elusive qualities such as “chemistry” and “balance” that viewers sense but might not be able to define. Jim & Doreen: NBC4’s top-rated anchors are still leading the pack after 25 years

I know that Tupelo Honey is elusive; how short is the "spring bloom" season? Savannah Bee Company founder answers all of your top questions about honey 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

Yet if the problems of those in the Corbetts' position are well understood, solutions remain elusive. Rabbit Hole burrows into our ideals 2011-02-07T13:39:43Z

The elusive graffiti star is up for best documentary feature for his directing debut, "Exit Through the Gift Shop." Street artist Banksy welcome at Oscars, but will he show? 2011-02-19T22:06:00Z

So elusive, so threatening, so androgynous, so sexual. Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking' 2012-05-19T23:04:35Z

Literally: the aging makeup DiCaprio wears as old Edger looks like parchment, not epidermis; and locating the interior of the man proves equally elusive. Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar: Yanking the FBI Chief Out of the Closet 2011-11-08T16:35:25Z

And once again, a plot point holds: Malvo is as elusive as he is murderous. 'Fargo' Recap: Fool's Paradise 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Brooke also showed up in the records for a 2014 estate sale in Los Angeles, but again the actual work proved elusive. The Hunt for Clarity About van Gogh’s Last Days Leads to Maine 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Remnick has done an exhaustive job of interviewing the president's schoolfriends, teachers, adversaries, and allies, but he is aware that his subject remains elusive. General election 2010: the campaign to define it starts now 2010-05-07T12:09:00Z

For some 70 years, the words “human rights” have been talismanic—a shorthand for the elusive modern dream, that of universal recognition of the rights of persons and minorities, rights that precede and transcend politics. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

And it looks like the elusive success with women’s wear may be in sight. Special Report: Fashion: Reviews: Paul Smith and Matthew Williamson 2011-09-19T17:53:44Z

This is the elusive balance that everyone seeks. How can I make my daughter enjoy learning? 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

A book by her — promoted around the country by her — would surely draw large crowds of curious people, including those elusive younger readers who typically show little interest in political memoirs. Tired of Trump books? A new wave of politicians could bring a fresh crop of titles. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The actress Sandra Oh remains on the hunt for her elusive first Emmy win. ‘Game of Thrones’ Dominates at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

He can be charming or elusive, but not buddy-buddy. Denzel Washington, Man on Fire 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Such work demands abundant creativity, performance skill, discipline and that elusive thing called talent to pave the way — and keep pretentiousness and turgidity at bay. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z

Chase continues to be elusive about the ending, but he did reveal to Deadline that the original plan was to kill Tony. David Chase always planned to end "The Sopranos" with Tony’s death, then changed his mind 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

But its meaning turns out to be as elusive as its strange setting. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The New Pope’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

And so, once upon a time yet again, peace remains elusive and weapons are locked, loaded and often firing. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

As such, it is the elusive representative of an emergent invisible order of energy: of rays and beams, wireless transmissions and radiation bursts. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z

“He was so elusive, so slippery, the cops had trouble even finding his corpse,” The Post’s Joel Achenbach wrote. Remembering when designer Gianni Versace was killed 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Ashley’s engrossing stage works feature ordinary people, taking on a surrealist hue through the imaginative use of voices: singsong patterns of multiple speakers that blend into scores both direct and elusive. Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Crash’ Opens at Roulette 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

A solitary hunter that kills rabbits, not to mention the occasional hare or young roe deer, the Scottish wildcat is ferocious, elusive – and endangered. Endangered: the plight of Scotland's wildcats 2010-04-17T23:09:00Z

At that moment, too, he is close to his daughter and thus closer to finding the elusive thing that his house also represents: home. ‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

It's all delightfully elusive stuff, questioning how ideas, images and things take shape. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-11T00:15:00Z

Maybe because the Rihm was still in my ears, the slow, extended introduction to the first movement seemed unusually elusive, almost evasive. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Bocion was obsessed with capturing the elusive beauty of light on water, and his obsession is our reward. An Art-Filled Swiss Idyll in Lausanne and the Joux Valley 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

Some mornings, the shrill yip of elusive coyotes can still be heard on the horizon, impossible to place. A Thanksgiving hunt to remind ourselves that dinner means death 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

But Blair's motivation – put simply, why he was in the Labour party, or for that matter politics, at all – remains elusive. Peter Wilby: 'Anybody who studies Blair is forced to the conclusion that what is really at the core of him is Christianity' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Scientific data on older people using ayahuasca is elusive but anecdotal evidence is growing. Taking Ayahuasca When You’re a Senior Citizen 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Avoiding topical subjects of child abuse or the collapsed Irish property market, Mercier also withholds the big denouement that seems to be looming, in favour of a more elusive moment of recognition. The Passing ? review 2011-03-21T18:27:26Z

As the artist cohort grappled not only with the difficulties of group leadership but also the previously unimaginable hardships of the pandemic, a cohesive strategy proved elusive. Dance’s Communal Ethos Is Moving Into the Office and Boardroom 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

Because of its degree of secrecy, the work of the SEALs often seems more elusive than other parts of the military. 8 Trips Inspired by Oscar-Nominated Films 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Let’s face it: Balance is elusive, and it’s day-to-day. How to deal with parent-guilt in a million easy steps 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

He was known for getting guests who were notoriously elusive. Larry King, broadcasting giant for half-century, dies at 87 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

In the end, though, knowledge — of oneself or another — proves elusive, which is reliably the case in this filmmaker’s work. Review: ‘In the Shadow of Women’ Focuses on the Female Sides of a Triangle 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

While it’s not hard to find, say, authentic indie rock — throw a dart at a map of Brooklyn or Portland or Austin — country music, of the not-built-for-stadiums, non-Keith Urban variety, is more elusive these days. T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z

Running away from grief after his young wife dies from cancer, the author climbs high into the mountains of Nepal seeking both the elusive cat and a Buddhist shrine. 11 Books About Obsessive Searches 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Sobiepan, a Wroclaw Fine Arts Academy student whose last name means "his own master," said he was inspired by the elusive British graffiti artist known only as Banksy. Polish art student hangs own painting in museum 2012-01-04T13:59:10Z

Beauty, hope, love; all are possible, just mostly elusive. Tanztheater Wuppertal Stages ‘Palermo’; Ratmansky Returns to Paris Opera 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

What brings them here are not just the land-before-time vistas and the chance to track the elusive silverback gorilla. T Magazine: Jungle Nook 2012-09-12T11:00:37Z

But the ultimate control over her work and her career remains elusive. The Art Market Pounces on Its Next Big Star. Now She Has to Hold On. 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

At the time, I tried to interview all of the members for the liner notes, but Michael Brown proved elusive. Left Banke's Michael Brown, 65, remembered by Linda Ronstadt, others 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Photograph: AP JD Salinger, the elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, was one of America's most famous recluses and guarded his private life with fanatical dedication. JD Salinger's secret life exposed in new documentary 2013-05-18T12:04:10Z

Mr. Cale sang briskly and forthrightly, treating the old conundrums with avuncular affection, hinting at a lasting sympathy for the songs’ elusive characters and for a musical path he wouldn’t often follow. Critic’s Notebook: Two John Cale Programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-20T23:06:32Z

He is omnipresent and absent, inescapable but elusive, the invisible yang to Trump’s gold-plated yin. Robert Mueller is the most unknowable man in Washington 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

The argument against analytics is really that there’s something human and elusive the numbers can’t account for, but the improbable here ends up scoring a lot of points. A Numbers-Cruncher Confronts Emotion and Other Unquantifiable Matters 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

The truth, however, is more elusive, its territory the heart and its wounds invisible. Review | ‘Warlight’ is a quiet new masterpiece from Michael Ondaatje 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Specifically, that would be their respective and elusive pasts, their equally muddled presents and, for the husband, a black hole of a future. At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

My own hunch is that this longing is to do with sense of place, a connectedness that is increasingly elusive in our cities, which all look alike, and whose inhabitants come from everywhere and nowhere. We long for a sense of belonging that village life offers 2013-03-31T00:06:27Z

It’s no longer a “slightly elusive, mystic art,” he said. How do celebrity publicists operate in an era when the truth can mean anything? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

After learning of the location of a nest occupied by a family of elusive harpy eagles, film-maker Fergus Beeley set up his own eyrie high in the canopy above the Orinoco rainforest of Venezuela . Natural World 2010-07-08T07:00:00Z

And from what she says about shooting Scandal, I would guess her work-life balance may be as elusive as Pope's. Kerry Washington: notes on a Scandal 2013-06-28T22:00:00Z

And in the Barrington Stage Company production, you’re often aware of voices and instruments uneasily at odds, with singers groping for the right, elusive pitch. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z

This information seems to indicate that the elusive dagger is constructed of both known materials capable of killing White Walkers and will likely play a role in the coming war against the dead. All the Hidden Clues in Samwell Tarly's Citadel Scenes on Game of Thrones 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

His nickname among them is Party of One, an allusion to how much beer he can hold, and also to more elusive qualities. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

Marcus' adventure in the Charing Cross underground station is one to savor: a crowded platform, an elusive cap, lives abruptly ended and another one saved. 'Hereafter' Review: Clint Eastwood Goes Supernatural 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z

But then part of Mr. Ruff’s point is that the art form has always been elusive, even evasive. Passport Photos and Online Porn: The Dizzying World of Thomas Ruff 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

In the presence of suffering, action is often needed but elusive. In 'Making Mends' at BAM, works tell stories of loss and of healing 2012-05-17T20:00:12Z

Paying off your mortgage by the age of 34 is for many an elusive goal and I daresay it involved personal sacrifices. Will my girlfriend stop loving me if I earn less than her? | Dear Mariella 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

As the years pass, boarding-schooled Genie obtains a degree, while Paul drifts into clubbing and drug dealing, hankering after something elusive. First novels: Catherine Taylor's choice – reviews 2012-08-24T21:55:02Z

HIV remains one of the most adaptable and elusive viruses that scientists have ever encountered, but through cases like the Esperanza patient, it seems possible that it might one day be completely curable. The 'elite controllers' who can naturally suppress HIV 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z

Her face may be on the poster of every film she's in, but the roles and acclaim that have met some of her peers have proved elusive. Amanda Seyfried: 'I would lay naked on the street for Les Misérables' 2013-01-11T13:30:00Z

Polaroids also sometimes led to happy accidents: unexpectedly artful blurs of the subjects; flares or highlights; the kind of painterly images that are often elusive when using more exacting film. | 'Diego Uchitel: Polaroids' 2012-10-18T15:00:34Z

But, surrounded by some of Soderbergh’s favorite actors, Mara makes her peculiarly watchable; viewers scan her face for clues to a woman as elusive as she is smart. Side Effects: One Pill Makes You Murder 2013-02-08T05:01:30Z

The author refers to these books as “the confessions of an elusive biographer.” Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z

But Ms. Brown’s work is not easily codified, and its language may prove elusive to dancers from generations who did not know the casual body language of the last century. Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Language is malleable and elusive, as easily lost as an evaporating musical chord. Pulling back for the big picture of media overload 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Then again, in life, the click is elusive. Review: Louder Than Bombs Is a Subtle, Potent Family Drama 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

It’s an elusive and risky thing to attempt in a literary work: to be funny — especially if you’re writing about sad things like trauma and loss. A Comic Coming-of-Age Novel Laced With Social Commentary 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

His guide to thinking probabilistically will help you spot the elusive signal amid the background noise. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

But the exact method of escape remains, for the most part, elusive. Knausgaard’s Selflessness 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

The words of this elusive but extremely verbose man, prone to long, detail-rich monologue but disinterested in self-reflection, fill the entirety of “The Dream Colony.” The remarkable curator Walter Hopps and the less than perfect book about him, 'The Dream Colony' 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

For Mr. Liman, the movie’s director, whose credits include “The Bourne Identity,” it was the elusive Ms. Wilson who was especially captivating. Red Carpet Spy 2010-09-24T19:40:00Z

How he was sensitive and elusive, and could sometimes disappear; and how, when he returned, I felt unbreakable, complete. The boy I used to be: The world would look at me and see Leslie — they don’t know I’m really Peter Pan 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

Meaning in music is elusive and ethereal – a mist, a suggestion. Arcade Fire sound a funereal note in The Suburbs 2011-02-21T14:17:57Z

But in the mass-market world of succulents, details such as species, cultivar or even any appellation are often elusive. Get to know the different succulent varieties 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Audiences were sold a sci-fi with George Clooney and were baffled by what seemed to be a lugubrious and elusive tone. What the F? How Mother! joined the 'bad movie' club 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

She kept you on edge during the elusive transition to the gnarly, dense fugue, which she then dispatched with unfathomable dexterity. Review: Yuja Wang Tackles Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier,’ Assured to a Fault 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Forest creatures are restless sorts, a quality captured in shifting, harmonically elusive music. Music Review: ‘The Cunning Little Vixen,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-04-29T20:13:53Z

It evokes a swirl of ideas, debates, dreams and assumptions that can feel, in the present moment, as elusive as the intrigue and ideological sparring of the late 1700s. ‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

That proof, he continued, was “to that ever elusive, never completely believable, particularly these days, us.” Bruce Springsteen Reopens Broadway, Ushering In Theater’s Return 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

All the material is interpreted with that elusive mix of taste, strength and spontaneity. John Etheridge/Chris Garrick: Men on Wire | CD review 2010-03-25T22:35:00Z

All the money in the world still can’t buy the elusive combination of luck and chemistry that makes truly terrific TV. Review | In Apple TV+’s initial smattering of shows, only ‘Dickinson’ is a delicious surprise 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

TIME: As a parent, is this role, as mother searching for an elusive sense of contentment, relatable to you? Kathryn Hahn: Happyish is All About 'Knowing Myself as a Person' 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

It’s almost heartbreaking to watch the Duffers work so hard to re-create an elusive vibe they’ve already nailed — this time constructing the Starcourt Mall, a shiny new shopping destination in fictional Hawkins, Ind. Review | A convoluted ‘Stranger Things’ follows its primal ’80s urges to one monster of a mall 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

After almost a millennium apart, however, the key to the elusive unity they seek does not lie in Jerusalem, where the Catholic pope and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will embrace on May 25. Russian church the absent player at pope-patriarch summit 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Mark Russell, the artistic and executive director from 1983 to 2004, noted the importance of places and names within the elusive medium of performance. When PS122 Became Performance Space New York 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

The "comforts" of the no-longer-available Mexican pizza, meanwhile, still remain elusive since it was removed from the menu in November. Taco Bell bringing back Nacho Fries on Christmas Eve, for (yet another) limited time 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

But they can also be elusive; you still have to listen, and listen well. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

But there is something about Molière's blend of comedy and tragedy that we still find elusive. Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z

Still, Mr. Kaufmann has been perhaps the Met’s most elusive star, and it was exciting to hear him again, even over a livestream. The Met Opera Tries to Find Paying Customers in a Pandemic 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

“It takes courage for you to be here,” Mr. Barenboim, 80, who has worked almost 25 years in pursuit of the elusive goal of Middle East peace, said from the podium. Where Israelis, Palestinians and Iranians Must Listen to One Another 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

Others spin their own versions and the truth is elusive. Julian Barnes: 'I told the film-makers to throw my book against a wall' 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

He checked his security feed for evidence of the elusive artist after seeing the piece the next day. ArtsBeat: Owner Who Plans to Sell a Banksy Mural Steps Forward 2013-08-14T11:05:55Z

What she conveys in her handling of that light is an elusive state of mind or a weighing of possibility as much as a routine domestic interior. You'll see emptiness inhabited in Susan Bennerstrom's captivating interiors 2010-11-19T05:01:00Z

The elusive subjective conscious experience — the redness of red, the painfulness of pain — that philosophers call qualia? Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z

More than a dozen works by the elusive British graffiti artist Banksy are among a collection of street and contemporary art up for auction in Los Angeles next month. Banksy works highlight of Los Angeles street art auction 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

By the film's elusive third act, though, it's truly hard to discern the real point of this ambitious but muddled exercise. 'The Face of an Angel' can't get its story straight 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The mood of the film suggests a quasi-religious séance in which Mr. Sutton acts as a conjurer of elusive truths about the city and its heady musical culture. ‘Memphis,’ From Tim Sutton, Mixes Music and Mysticism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

For me that weakness provides a perverse sort of hope: Ruscha remains an elusive artist and Los Angeles an elusive city, each of them slippery to the last. What a big Ed Ruscha exhibition misses about Southern California 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The elusive giant squid are the barrier islands. Virginia’s Eastern Shore: A natural fit for summer

Trail running shoes need to hit that elusive sweet spot between providing a rugged, durable sole while being lightweight and agile enough to swiftly navigate rugged terrain. The Gear You Need to Hit the Trail 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

But I still kept turning the pages, looking for an elusive grail of my own, which says a lot about the story's strong premise and implacable grip on the imagination. Comics: "The Secret History Omnibus" offers a few surprises 2010-09-01T18:42:00Z

The effect is to render the pictures more iconic, yet also more elusive. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Wain’s work is easily found online, and while you may recognize it, the man remains more elusive. ‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’ Review: The Cat’s Meow 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Their recovery, however, speaks of another, longer mystery, less elusive in the way it has unravelled: precisely what these objects have to say about Afghanistan's culture 1,900 years ago. The Begram ivories: Rescuing Afghanistan's lost history 2011-02-27T00:05:25Z

Now, The Guardian reports, scholars are studying an even more elusive artifact — nearly invisible traces of Austen’s handwriting on the back of a scrap of paper. ArtsBeat: An Invisible Message from Jane Austen? 2014-02-05T18:49:06Z

All four of these men labored under the burden of the profession’s elusive reputation — and a general public that often saw them as either useless frauds or all-knowing wizards. An arsonist was terrorizing rural Virginia. But he had a peculiar way of doing it. 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

And then there is the elusive refreshing hair fragrance. 2010-01-07T05:42:00Z

Poetry is, too often, taught poorly, or at least it was to me — as a kind of literary medicine, elusive, difficult, albeit somehow good for you. Teach This Poem seeks to make poetry accessible to schoolchildren 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Gardner's performance is impressive – vivid, incisive and well controlled – and he does an equally good job on the slighter and more elusive Chain 3 from 1986. Lutos?awski: Concerto for Orchestra; Symphony No 3; Chain 3 2010-10-14T22:30:00Z

It is a civic formula that has proved elusive for fans who have sought a real-life version to move to. Fans Flock to Town That Inspired ‘Gilmore Girls’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

It’s populated with androgynous boys and perfect but elusive girls who live in their dreams. Review: Smith Westerns tap into their inner child on second album 2011-01-14T16:53:06Z

A Gazan correspondent tells of soirees timed around daily power cuts; in the West Bank, a rare woman DJ awaits an elusive permit to perform in Israel. Time Out Tel Aviv examines Palestinian culture amid hardship 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

“Truthful success,” as Joe’s Old World Italian father puts it, remains as elusive a goal today as it did when “Golden Boy” first opened on Broadway at the same theater 75 years ago. Theater Review: ‘Golden Boy,’ Directed by Bartlett Sher 2012-12-07T03:00:19Z

In English, it was elusive in its spare, angular melodies and slightly jarring in some fragmented phrasing. Review: Music From Japan Brings In Some Neighbors as Well 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

As conceived by Ridley and conveyed by Benjamin, Hendrix is first and foremost an artist, someone who could be fragile, elusive, quixotic and temperamental. 'Jimi: All Is By My Side': Before Hendrix became Hendrix 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

All of these heroes are, in their own way, fighting for an equality that seems ever elusive. When Blackness Is a Superpower 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

And while Amazon may now be boasting about the creation of jobs, any gains are elusive, and not a long-term solution. The simple fact is that Amazon’s practices are detrimental to the nation’s economy. Obama and Amazon: Booksellers Speak Out 2013-07-31T19:09:25Z

On Friday, though, their Verdi and Respighi is not the main attraction: That billing goes to Martha Argerich, the elusive pianist, who makes a rare appearance to play Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

But a solution has proven elusive, which at least one expert in American memorial culture says is not surprising, given the compelling arguments on both sides. Where is the best place to present Japanese American internees’ art? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

That separation is, as we know from the truth-doctoring of the present moment, an elusive one. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

But the film’s subject is more elusive, at once more below the radar and beyond the reach of political discourse. ‘Fire at Sea’ Is Not the Documentary You’d Expect About the Migrant Crisis. It’s Better. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

For them, the constitutional guarantee of safe medical care — which has always been elusive for low-income women and women of color — has been thoroughly chiseled away. America’s abortion deserts: How the right turns back the clock on Roe 2014-01-16T12:44:00Z

Anne Manson conducted the Juilliard Orchestra in a vibrant reading of the piece, with its shimmering palette, including harp ripples, colorful outbursts on the piano and elusive violin melodies. Music Review: Schnittke-Inspired Focus! Concludes With Gubaidulina Work 2014-02-04T22:09:26Z

In search of that elusive "second act", he moved to Hollywood, published Tender Is the Night, a novel that baffled the critics, and began his final unfinished masterpiece, The Last Tycoon. Gatsby may be great, but F Scott Fitzgerald is greater 2013-04-29T20:00:00Z

The recurring figure in Mr. Harvey’s chaconne is a series of four delicate chords, hazy and elusive sonorities with shimmering sustained tones, oscillating inner voices and rippling figures on the piano. Music Review: Juilliard’s Focus! Festival at Alice Tully Hall 2013-01-27T21:14:09Z

It will be the elusive act's first live gig since Get Lucky's release in May. Daft Punk join Wonder at Grammys 2014-01-06T09:38:06Z

He sells two kinds of Persian manna: Taranjebin, which tastes like molasses or caramel, and Shir-Khesht, a whiter variety with a more elusive flavor. Is this biblical food the next foodie fad? This chef thinks so. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Groisman turned his body into a slowly rotating windmill as the flame shifted from one body part to the next; there was a sense of ritual, but even that was mostly elusive. Dance Review: Michel Groisman?s Art on an Intimate Scale - Review 2011-09-26T22:09:58Z

He’s careful to be generous to guests and shift into elusive language when jokes get dicey, but other than that, he doesn’t pander. Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

At other times its intensity builds to pulse-quickening levels, especially when an elusive fourth dancer, Tara Sheena, bounds through the space. Review: Molly Poerstel Challenges Structure at Gibney Dance 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

But what can be readily conveyed in music is elusive in photography, where the subjects too easily become performers, and the desired feeling of intimacy turns theatrical. Love and Loss Through the Photographer’s Lens 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Gaignard’s approach is not narrative, didactic or overtly political; she wittily employs symbols a viewer understands on a visceral level, even as a more explicit meaning remains elusive. An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Between you, you have come up with one very blunt one and one that is both elusive and allusive. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

But her more elusive gift is relevance, particularly among scene seekers too green to know her history. Not Going Gentle Into That Good Night 2013-07-10T21:41:08Z

Rosé first rose to prominence in wine circles because it offered something of an elusive set of characteristics: quality, complexity, and value. Pretty in pink: How our love for rosé is probably ruining it 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

Involving your boyfriend in pursuit of your elusive climax may eventually be the right route, but first I’d set about trying to change the dynamic in your relationship. I’ve faked every one of my orgasms over the past four years | Dear Mariella 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

And when the festival opened on Wednesday, this last goal proved elusive. DanceNow Festival Keeps Performances Short and Snappy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

But on Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall, it was the Voice of God that remained elusive, a booming tenor attributed only to “Anonymous” in the program for Kurt Weill’s “The Road of Promise.” Review: ‘The Road of Promise,’ Warning to All About Jews in Germany 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Part of the pleasure is that it is unexpected. The elusive beauty embodied by Yaegashi’s paintings comes in canvases that are tiny, as small as 7¼ inches by 5 inches. What to see in L.A. galleries: tiny paintings of breathtaking beauty, photographs of the super-smart 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

The one exception is Jimboy, who remains elusive throughout the novel, a father figure always out of reach. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

But I think it’s kind of cool that there’s this elusive thing. As a producer, Victoria Monét reaches longtime Grammy goal 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

What she mostly brings to her movies is otherworldly, unthreatening beauty — she has the saucer eyes and heart-shaped face of an anime pixie — and that elusive gift of cinematic presence. | 'Red Riding Hood': The Girl Who Sighed Wolf 2011-03-10T22:26:20Z

After making the most of his “Twilight” clout working on off-kilter, elusive and plain old bizarre indie movies, Pattinson has circled back around to something familiar: franchise blockbusters. With ‘Cosmopolis,’ a Limo Ride That Redefined Robert Pattinson’s Career 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

I wasn't, as many a traveller might, pursuing the elusive writer, I realised; he seemed to be pursuing me. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z

Although Singe has now crossed off most of the items on the list, there were some that were elusive and others that remain undone. Mum’s bucket list: ‘Have a great time after I’ve gone’ 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mostly they are cryptic, impressionistic, introverted and often wilfully elusive in their meaning. 'I'm often at a loss for words' 2011-03-06T00:02:02Z

“No. Johnny is still a friend. He’s the godfather to my children. I haven’t seen him for a long time. But he’s quite an elusive character.” Helena Bonham Carter: ‘Standing up to Harvey wasn’t easy’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

They have also earned him what is arguably the most elusive honor of all: the admiration of fellow artists. 2010-02-06T03:52:00Z

Carson had a behind-the-scenes reputation, even among people who worked for him, for being enigmatic or elusive. Doc Severinsen Recalls High Notes, Low Notes and Everything in Between 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

Programme one is an all-Fokine bill that opens with Le Spectre de la Rose, a ballet whose perfume is as elusive as a dried flower. Russian Seasons of the 21st Century – review 2013-07-17T18:04:51Z

Instead, I reread her weird, witty voice, quietly mourning my doppelgänger, the elusive woman he loved who was lodged inside my head too, though we never met. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

For Ramsey, however, confidence in her abilities can still be elusive. In ‘The Last of Us,’ Bella Ramsey Might Save the World 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Adès captured the elusive allure of the music in his sensitive, beautifully shaded playing. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: At Carnegie Hall, Composer Is Keyboard Virtuoso Too 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z

Mr. Johnson traces his obsession with rice to six years ago, when he bonded with the Anson Mills founder Glenn Roberts over a quest for the elusive heirloom African glaberrima rice. ‘Rice Is Culture’ at FieldTrip in Harlem 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The Travel channel, however, premieres this new series in which toy dealer Jordan Hembrough travels across the country searching for elusive collectibles. Wednesday TV Picks: 'Toy Hunter' on Travel 2012-08-14T20:52:08Z

Hankerson is an elusive, powerful and divisive figure in the music business. Aaliyah’s Music Will Finally Be Streaming. What Took So Long? 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Thanks to Sevinçli, Vichy awakens from a strange dream, becoming brighter, more nervous, and evermore elusive. Street Haunting in Vichy 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

In the end, those gaps in the plot are distracting and keep Franklin at arm’s length, rendering her as elusive on the screen as she was in public in real life. Aretha Franklin and the Futility of Trying to Portray Her Onscreen 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

The show’s Season 4 premiere demonstrates why it’s so elusive. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Porter Ridge’ Looks for the Magic of ‘Duck Dynasty’ 2013-08-12T21:45:11Z

Nyx, the goddess of night, was an elusive character in Greek mythology. Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘Nyx’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

It is less a compendium of curiosities than a guide to the elusive beings that roam the earth — and a testament to the uneasy covenant between humans and beasts. Review | Yan Ge’s ‘Strange Beasts of China’ is a luminous, beguiling chronicle of fantastical beings 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

“Sword” is at once transparent and elusive, with barely intelligible lyrics — “Everyone passes through,” Roxanne coos — and a willingness to tweak everything; the last section lowers and slows down every element but remains enigmatic. Dolly Parton Goes Arena Rock, and 9 More New Songs 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Throughout, intimacy is problematic: elusive, startling and awkward. ‘The Stories of Jane Gardam,’ and More 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

When Chris reaches the ship, he finds devastation—a crew of eighty-five reduced to three and living on the edge of madness, in chaos and squalor, amid elusive figures made of neutrinos. Movies 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Under the title “Why Sculpture Is Boring,” Baudelaire argued that bronze and marble statuary was vague and elusive, and “presents too many faces at once” — 100 different angles — to the spectator. In the Swim of Digital Images, There’s Nothing Boring About Sculpture 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Mother and son are separated after rescue by social workers, and while the established system of fostering, adoption, counselling and school offers Eddie a second chance at childhood, rehabilitation is elusive. Fiction for teenagers – reviews 2013-07-27T13:00:02Z

“Truth in drama is forever elusive,” these actors channel Pinter as saying. 'Being Harold Pinter' ★★★★ 2011-01-28T04:46:37Z

Four actors play 21 roles in three interlocking stories centered on the way memory and internal states of mind shape and challenge our elusive sense of identity. The 99-Seat Beat: DACA drama, Lenny Bruce and new Nick Payne 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

The third movement, “Nocturne, Half-Remembered,” returns to the elusive world of the first section, but with more pronounced lyricism. Review: Anthony Cheung’s ‘Elective Memory,’ a Response to Beethoven 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Forced to adapt my NC-17 cooking style to a G-rated audience, I paged through cookbooks in search of “crowd pleasers” that proved elusive. When Dinner Proves Divisive: One Strategy, Many Dishes 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

The only image is that of a black-skinned cloaked figure who moves — dances? flies? — continuously in and out of view, an embodiment of Blackness, ever-present, always elusive. New Museum Triennial Explores the Hidden Strengths of Soft Power 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

The film follows the same basic beats as the original, with a group of explorers discovering a downed flying saucer in a remote location and being killed off one by one by its elusive passenger. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Often cast in roles enveloped in an ineffable darkness, he’s a master at embodying that subtlest and most elusive of qualities: the mystery of the heart. Jonathan Pryce puts a new stamp on Shylock 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Corcoran, perhaps his most tireless champion, was at least able to uncover when, where, and how Phillips died—with prewar musicians, these kinds of facts are often disturbingly elusive. Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

His lyrics are elusive and imagistic, but telling: “I don’t want to brag, but we made it out alive.” New Music: Nathaniel Rateliff and Regina Carter Release Albums 2014-03-31T22:07:29Z

Wild places are by definition unsafe, elusive, and potentially diabolic. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z

Though it has occasionally surfaced on television, Douglas’s “Stagecoach” has remained elusive on home video until now, as it arrives in a limited edition DVD from the boutique label Twilight Time. DVD: John Wayne and Alex Cord: Two Ringo Kids of ?Stagecoach? 2011-10-15T22:23:03Z

Hours can pass before anyone catches a gentle touch nerve, but this elusive fibre has helped to teach scientists why humans need touch. No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

At last, I have the elusive, sacred thing of power I have sought for many long years. Style Invitational Week 1425: Picture this — a cartoon caption contest 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

“Odessa” and “Rodeo” are nothing alike, but they offer a layered and complex experience of dance — as shape and form, and also as expressing elusive emotions and realities of human behavior. Review | New York City Ballet’s knockout punch is delivered at Kennedy Center 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

But for all its empathetic detail, “You Resemble Me” contrives a rather simplistic cause-and-effect tale, grasping too desperately at elusive answers. Review: In ‘You Resemble Me,’ a Maladjusted Girl Is Interrupted 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

The nature of the elusive graffiti artist’s public works, which often comment on issues like greed, pollution or immigration, leave them prone to theft and vandalism. Banksy Mural Is Stolen From Bataclan, Site of Paris Attacks 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

Those are places where jet-set chefs do pop-up dinners, where elusive bottles of en vogue natural wines are always on offer, where the food is “plated,” not just put on a plate. Una Pizza Napoletana Returns to New York, With an Assist 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Miri’s novel is too fleet and elusive to offer an explanation, or maybe it’s just clever enough to understand there’s no real answer. Review | Yu Miri’s ‘Tokyo Ueno Station’ focuses its attention on the shamefully overlooked 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Syd is a looming presence here, an elusive to the point of spectral figure, who haunts the pages of this, the best book yet about him. Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z

Even in a climate of reverence for Shakespeare, the authentic text of his plays remains elusive. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Even more elusive is when, as we navigate opportunities to collaborate, we should say yes to collaboration and when we should say no. When Collaborating Actually Makes Sense (and When It Doesn’t) 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

This sense of experimentation — coupled with her fascination with placing the human form in elusively symbolic narratives — led to these fierce yet fragile figures in the prints. Art review: Warashina works show women on the edge of ... you decide 2010-05-27T20:20:00Z

At the centre of the performance is the elusive notion of Gobo, a concept definable only by its absence. Gobo. Digital Glossary ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:54Z

Which sets a challenge for “Trinity,” Louisa Hall’s intelligent, elegant and yet strangely elusive novel about the father of the atomic bomb. Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Smiles are elusive, too hard then to bottle. Books of The Times: ‘Mathew Brady,’ a Biography by Robert Wilson 2013-08-07T21:29:29Z

With his suburban niceness and elusive, rubberized features — any photo of him is bound to look smudged — he is a ’40s fella for the ’90s. Read TIME's First Review of "Forrest Gump" on the Film's 20th Anniversary 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

He is soft-spoken and thoughtful to the point of guarded, not quite evasive but certainly elusive. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z

A screen visitation from the elusive Streisand is never to be taken lightly, even if she doesn't do much. Little Fockers Review: Stiller vs. DeNiro, Round 3 2010-12-21T04:40:00Z

They lend the portraits a stylized strength while still, at their best, conveying something both distinctive and elusive about the individual. Gregory Grenon: oil-on-glass paintings with a stained-glass glow, at Traver Gallery 2012-07-20T15:16:04Z

A new arrival is approached by multiple contestants seeking those elusive roses. TV highlights: ‘Black Love’ premieres on OWN 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Such versatility makes Mr. Logan seem like an elusive presence. John Logan Comes to TV With Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’ 2014-05-09T21:52:11Z

Each feature is, in effect, a double portrait: of the writer at work on the story and of a charismatic, elusive central character, set against a busy backdrop of mayhem and intrigue. ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it would soothe my working London commuter's cares like a cup of elusively scented herbal tea. The Raid ? review 2012-05-17T14:29:02Z

Her disconcerting presence provides the first signal of the elusive and intriguing film to follow. ‘Clara’s Ghost’ Review: A Family of Performers, a Night of Hysteria 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Then, just when he appeared ready to part the curtain on the mystery of his art, Mr. Hill remained elusive and tough-minded. Geoffrey Hill, often hailed as Britain’s greatest poet, dies at 84 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

Finally, I remember my encounter with Lundhal and Sietl's beguiling, elusive Symphony of a Missing Room in a museum just outside Brussels. Share your theatre memories of 2010 2010-12-29T09:43:57Z

For most of its storied history, New York's American Ballet Theatre has tried to master all styles of all types of classical dance, an elusive goal that some critics have called impossible. ABT's 'Sleeping Beauty' at Segerstrom a lush return to tradition 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

When it comes to talking about his work, the elusive Mr. Taylor is cagey, flickering between sardonic humor and wide-eye innocence. Paul Taylor Dance Company Comes to Lincoln Center 2012-03-09T18:58:14Z

Yet the landscapes seemed mostly internal and the singer’s place in them elusive. Review | Destroyer’s wordy, brooding songs reach full potency at the Black Cat 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

The elusive soundworld, often on the edge of audibility, is instantly recognisable as Sciarrino's, a wonderfully consistent and compellingly obsessive creation that retains the power to shock and surprise. Sciarrino: Macbeth – review 2012-11-28T15:29:01Z

In “Leave No Trace,” she immediately sets you down in a forest that’s so inviting, so tranquil, that it seems like utopia and all the possibilities that wistful, elusive ideal implies. Review: ‘Leave No Trace’ Is a Very American Story About Survival 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

The music, which Bach wrote in G major, now sounds vaguely like it’s in G minor, though the harmonies are elusive and disorienting. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

When corporate information is elusive, find another entry point. Have a consumer complaint? Here’s how to get it before the right pair of eyes. 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

He’s the mystery man in the middle, as attractive and elusive a central character as Bobby in the Sondheim-Furth Company. A Sondheim Musical Rolls Back to Life 2012-02-15T16:40:10Z

As the search in the play goes on, the children encounter all kinds of flat-puppet sheep, but never that elusive green sheep. Review: 'The Green Sheep' is a delight for kids and the parents they bring along 2010-08-13T20:34:00Z

The once elusive "Thalidomide," which was written after Nick was born, can now be read within the context of the emotional roller coaster of her miscarriage up through the birth of a healthy son. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

Take “Poison,” for instance, which involves an elusive kind of venom—that of racism and hate. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Alas, almost none of the participants, even those who’ve previously spoken publicly to defend the program, are on the record here, leaving accountability for its excesses elusive. Four Books About the C.I.A.’s Exploits and Secrets 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

She was thrilled to get a second crack at the elusive "Ashes to Ashes." Lindsay Duncan finds her footing in 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

The family also hunts together, stalking moose on horseback in the Canadian Rockies, or the elusive Bongo, a species of antelope, on journeys down the Congo River with Pygmy guides. Stefano Ricci, Clothier to the 0.001 Percent 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

In addition to the casting, another, more elusive component put the “Hunger Games” series on solid ground from the start. Review: 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Maybe there’s a third way: wrap and wriggle around him; keep the beat strong but still responsive; follow the elusive spirit of Mr. Lloyd’s playing without trying to mirror it. Charles Lloyd Revels in the Flow on a Stellar Live Album 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

In comparison with the Rachmaninoff sonata, even the most elusively Impressionist passages of these pieces sounded utterly lucid. Music Review: Hungarian Tradition, African Lilt 2011-05-27T23:00:24Z

And Pynchon, an elusive, camera-shy author, is rumored to have a cameo in the film. 'Inherent Vice' trailer: Thomas Pynchon via Paul Thomas Anderson 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

At least until they get lost in the woods searching for the elusive “Sun Circle” or get hungry for lunch. Journeys: Art Sprouts in Russia 2010-10-02T05:01:00Z

A full production of his “Treemonisha” — one of the first operas by a Black American composer — had proved elusive during his final decade, when he lived in New York. A Pianist Strolls Her Harlem History, and Scott Joplin’s 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

"I thought of my own trawls through the archive as Looking For Tasmania, which was like an ever elusive Holy Grail," Macfarlane said. Archives of environmentalist Roger Deakin given to university 2010-05-08T12:55:00Z

In that series as well as in Starz’s “Now Apocalypse,” sex and nudity as sport delineates the difference between casual encounters and actual intimacy, which is elusive and something some characters yearn to find. How Cinemax's "Jett" does nudity — and plenty of it — right 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Being a devotee of the elusive Ms. Argerich, 76, most often means being a follower of her diverse and much-adored catalog of recordings. Hear the Martha Argerich Recordings That Inspired 8 Young Pianists 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

This enthralling but elusive pianist typically has just one major recital here each year: an annual, single-night engagement at Le Poisson Rouge that is all too easy to miss. Review: A Pianist’s Modern Vision of Conflict and Persistence 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

At moments monumental and combative, at others strangely elusive, almost retiring, it is one of the most beguiling and powerful works I’ve seen in a lifetime of looking at architecture. Architecture Review: Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing 2011-07-12T12:26:40Z

A slashed number of in-person appointments make options for emergency or last-minute travel documents elusive. Good News for Weary Travelers: Online Passport Renewal Is Coming Your Way 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

After more than a decade of near silence, rumors, and rampant speculation, the elusive soul singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist D’Angelo dropped “Black Messiah” on December 15th. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

To combat those elusive ancestors, we have, what I refer to as, “our family history angels.” Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

A sense of lightness was less elusive the following week, when they met at an art exhibition in Chelsea. Finding Common Ground and Love in Harlem 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

“A play’s like music — ephemeral, elusive, appearing and disappearing all the time,” Shepard told American Theatre magazine in a remark that illustrates the critical challenge. Sam Shepard, the cowboy playwright who rewrote the rules of the American stage 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Aloof, elusive, uneasy, it may be Abercrombie herself, who is given a new visibility that should be coaxed into an even greater fullness. This Surrealist Is Having a Moment, 66 Years After Her Last New York Show 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

But when you delve far enough under the surface, it all boils down to the same elusive concept: freedom. A 250 mile protest run: the fight to save Navajo land and US national parks 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The House Committee on Homeland Security wants to have words with the elusive owner of 8chan — the infamous, anything-goes Internet forum favored by white supremacists and mass shooting suspects. The fountain pen-obsessed entrepreneur behind 8chan, the Internet’s most notorious hate forum 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Members of a small and elusive species, they proved, well, elusive. Eagle-Eyed Urbanites? Winter Treks 2011-02-17T21:01:12Z

The comics vary in style and tone, from absurd, silly and whimsical cartoons featuring talking animals and bored aliens, to more meta, philosophical ones about the creative process and the elusive, subjective nature of comedy. They Are Also 2 Wild and Crazy Guys 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

The pensive second movement is written in Hindemith’s trademark musical language: essentially tonal but harmonically elusive. Music Review | Riccardo Muti: Seldom-Heard Symphony Resurfaces as a Novelty 2010-03-05T21:23:00Z

But now, following Salinger's death, aged 91, the museum is making the manuscripts public, and shedding light on one of the 20th Century's most elusive authors. Paperback writer 2010-03-16T14:13:00Z

Readers responded with more than 70 comments about why they, too, found the appeal of Mr. Braff, the “Scrubs” star, elusive. After a Magazine Folds, the Beat Goes Online, Minus the Glitz 2010-03-18T02:08:00Z

Her frequent stylistic changes, reflecting an exploratory bent, made her an elusive figure. Hedda Sterne, an Artist of Many Styles, Dies at 100 2011-04-12T02:27:12Z

We may be only a collection of cells, but beyond the microscope, the mystery of life is more elusive. Review | In ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,’ science gives way to an emotional process 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

A more elusive ingredient is “duende,” best described as the spirit that overcomes a dancer who is carried away by the rhythms and movement. Flamenco Festival 2017: Resonant Thrills, in Search of Duende 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

Sotatsu, who has a reputation as an influential landscape painter, is an elusive figure. Art Review: Rimpa Painters at Japan Society and the Met 2012-09-27T22:19:07Z

Now Fisk's Joint Terrorism Task Force is back on high alert as an elusive assassin heads to Manhattan for United Nations Week, when the world's most powerful leaders will be gathered -- and vulnerable. A new novel from Dick Wolf joins his TV empire 2014-01-14T14:28:40Z

If you want to find the vision of an elusively prosperous and unified Europe, you have to go to a 19th-century railway station in London, Brexit or no. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

It’s from his “Kreisleriana,” brilliantly crafted yet elusive music that seems at once playful, dangerous, waltzing and jumpy. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

We caught up with the elusive Geek & Sundry leader, and soon-to-be possibly bestselling author, when she stopped by our photo booth. Comic-Con 2015: Five questions with geek queen Felicia Day 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

His use of thick chromatic harmonies is less dark and elusive, more ludic and radiant, than Wagner’s writing. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

Though it is written in five movements, its structure is defiantly elusive from beginning to end. Music Review: Utrecht String Quartet at the Frick Collection 2013-01-22T23:00:32Z

The piece is a 15-minute, through-composed setting of two elusive yet compelling poems by Wallace Stevens: “Banal Sojourn” and “The Snow Man.” Music Review: Julia Bullock Gives New York Recital Debut at Merkin Concert Hall 2014-03-12T20:33:31Z

Mr. Beck intelligently conveyed the elusive nature of these difficult and unconventional études, which Debussy dedicated to Chopin. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z

Screening the masterpiece in the historical theater, Eidson said, "sounded like something that might be a little bit more elusive." In a first, 'Citizen Kane' to screen at Hearst Castle theater 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

In general, the show’s long game — that is, why you should care enough to commit — is elusive, even as it strings episodes together with matinee-serial cliffhangers. Review: This ‘Wheel of Time’ Goes Nowhere Fast 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Across the river in Kingston the Web site’s recommended “short trail that leads through the woods to the top of a bluff” in Hasbrouck Park was elusive. Following the Hudson River School Art Trails in 3 States 2012-08-30T21:34:56Z

Seems there’s still power in the elusive literary figure — just a bit less so. Cultural Studies: Missed the Author?s Tour? See the Video 2010-07-09T18:01:00Z

It's not just that she becomes more elusive the more photographs you see, it's more the tightrope walk she takes between an almost adolescent self-obsession and artistic self-exploration. Francesca Woodman ? review 2010-11-21T00:08:00Z

The charm of the column, which is impossible to read without gagging, can be elusive. Nesting, the Vice Media Way 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

They play every phrase and episode of these elusive scores with vitality, insight and character. Classical Recordings: Schumann: Complete Works for Piano Trio 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z

He talks to Clemency Burton-Hill about the elusive role of the maestro. VIDEO: The elusive craft of conducting 2012-05-25T10:20:53Z

All this while labouring over songs, gigging in innumerable small venues around London and searching for the right producer to guide her towards that elusive record deal. Rumer: 'If Burt Bacharach says you're good, it's time to start believing in yourself' 2010-08-28T23:05:00Z

This exhibition confirms that in many ways De Kooning was at heart a figurative painter, one in pursuit of an elusive, semiabstract reality that taunted him from the space between his canvas and the model. Art in Review: WILLEM DE KOONING: ?The Figure: Movement and Gesture? 2011-06-16T22:00:28Z

My ailments were absolutely nothing by comparison to Stephen’s, yet what he needs is elusive at best, prohibited at worst. With pancreatic cancer, what Stephen needs is legalised cannabis 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

The Cloisters, the Met’s medieval branch at the northern tip of Manhattan, offers multiple sightings of a particularly elusive creature: the unicorn, star of the celebrated Unicorn Tapestries. Art Review: ‘Search for the Unicorn’ at the Cloisters 2013-05-23T22:00:41Z

Unexpected moments of tranquillity, like finding yourself in a near-empty Roman arena during a heat wave, are becoming more and more elusive. The Selfie-Drone: Invasion of the Vacation Snatchers 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

There is a particular difficulty in discerning whether this book is good, not because the text qua text is somehow elusive or inscrutable but because one struggles to read it without sweeping for psychological clues. The Idealized, Introverted Wives of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fiction 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Throughout, Briercliffe remained a steady but elusive presence, scowling out from yellowing photographs, bespectacled and tweedily inscrutable. TV Review: Britain By Bike and Baby Beauty Queens 2010-07-28T07:00:00Z

But with the latter, finality can be eternally elusive. 'Madagascar': Puzzling through a young man's disappearance 2011-01-26T23:20:38Z

The novel is famously unfinished: In a world poised to enter a cataclysmic war, definitive resolutions are elusive. ‘The Man Without Qualities’ Acquires a New Volume 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

It is an abandonment, a forgetfulness, and therefore most elusive when we search for it. Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot – review 2013-05-24T06:30:12Z

The lyrics ponder time, mortality, love, war, nature, cities and the elusive joy of life — often cryptic and allusive, sometimes utterly transparent. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

“How do you represent something like the smog, which always looks like it’s in someone else’s neighborhood — how do you show something so elusive and hard to put your finger on?” Kim Abeles Turns the Climate Crisis Into Eco-art 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

It’s like one of those maddeningly elusive regional English dialects: you need to get the hang of it, and it always takes longer than you would have thought possible. Adapting John le Carr? Novels for the Movies 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z

There is an indescribable quality of something evocative yet elusively incomprehensible about her work. ‘The Complete Works of Auden’ showcases writings beyond the poetry 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

His art is at once a touching act of hero worship, a surreal historical document, and a freakish and deathly capturing of the elusive stuff of life and creativity. Mini artists' studios 2011-08-28T19:01:01Z

Its arrival coincides with a short film and within that, a dance — elusive, dreamlike and worthy of its leading man: a singer who knows how to move. Down the Rabbit Hole With an Off-Kilter Thom Yorke 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

The result is an elusive, defensive self-portrait that never digs deep and a jab at period mores that remains anecdotal. Warren Beatty’s Self-Sparing Embodiment of Howard Hughes 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Happiness is elusive, and to some degree irrelevant. Review: ‘Let the Sunshine In’ Shows the Complex Radiance of Juliette Binoche 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Are the elusive stories Braggadocio unfurls real or are they only his "reconstruction of the facts"? The question takes on added resonance in the landscape of the newspaper office, where nothing is as it appears. In 'Numero Zero,' Umberto Eco has his mind on conspiracy — again 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

He was especially proud of securing one of the first in-depth interviews with the elusive jazz great Miles Davis. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Since then, she said, her quest for any return to normalcy has proved elusive. Can screaming in a field ease mothers’ anger? These women are trying it out. 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Radical Islam, Henry yearns to tell her, is an elusive enemy. Olen Steinhauer's new novel reunites spies with a shared history 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Sleeping has always been very elusive to me.” Jackie Hoffman Kvetches Her Way to Royalty in ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Even when he’s cooking for the elusive 99% purity potency, he goes about his business with the geniality of a mother baking a batch of cookies. Unseen on screen: the secret movie cameos you might not know about 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

But seeking to sculpt something as elusive as the art’s atmosphere, gently and with care, is what drives him. The lighting designer: First, do no harm 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Her appeal is substantially more elusive, partly because Ms. Tautou maintains the same sour look for much of the movie, her mouth tightly knotted. Movie Review: In ‘Thérèse,’ a Woman Struggles in 1920s France 2013-08-22T21:01:30Z

The score risks sounding amorphous at times, but Ms. Saariaho prevents this by injecting shards of dissonance, elusive harmonies that slip and groan, and spiraling figures that create moments of dizzying intensity. Three Varied Visions of Spirituality at the White Light Festival 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

Sonnet 76: Shakespeare’s sonnets have always inspired particular fascination because they’re supposedly the writings in which the elusive man most reveals himself. Shakespeare on drugs: The secret narcotic history of the world’s greatest playwright 2014-04-23T15:15:00Z

When reassurance is elusive, a degree of sanity, in the form of perspective and understanding, is the next best thing. The Art of the Impeachment Podcast 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Other dreams, simpler and yet fleetingly elusive, would also seem to be within their grasp. Television: ‘Jersey Shore’ Cast Looks at Life After Series 2012-12-07T18:48:56Z

Strangely, Pollard remains more elusive in this book. Revelations and Reckonings in a Sex Scandal From Long Before #MeToo 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The nation remained on a war footing, the executive response remained expansive, and the old ‘normalcy’ remained elusive.” Review: Charlie Savage’s ‘Power Wars’ Dissects Obama’s Evolution on National Security 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

At its core is the account of a late-in-life friendship between the unnamed narrator and an elusive older man named Earl, whose protracted death takes up the bulk of the book. Andrew Holleran’s Work Has Traced the Arc of Life. Now, He Takes on Death. 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

I am interested in more elusive and nebulous subject matter. Paul Graham: 'The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether' 2011-04-11T06:00:06Z

From there, he blurs the line between intelligible text and elusive textual fragment, just as Silesius’s words blur the distinction between God and the self. Review: Works by Stefano Gervasoni at Miller Theater 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

What frustrates her is how low the bar is these days, and yet how elusive it remains to her, his best student, the more she tries. Ivanka Trump goes to Washington (and all she got was dumped by Nordstrom) 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

However elusive and unattainable that concept may seem, the quest for the perfect prom dress is a rite that's plagued generations of teenage girls. Finding that prom dress 2011-04-14T19:43:35Z

The answer remains elusive, because even in his most personal letters, Burns was not baring his soul so much as striking poses. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z

Healing means retreating back into herself, her soul made elusive once again. Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” Is a Revelation of Spirit 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Harold's methods of trying to kill himself in a quest for his elusive mother's attention are varied and inventive, but offered in their deadpan way, they're a consistent source of laughs. `Klown' inspires list of 5 inappropriate comedies 2012-07-27T16:10:10Z

Ms. Porter fills in this historical record, but the man at the center remains elusive. Review: In ‘Bobby Kennedy for President,’ a Don Draper of Politics 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The words are simple and seemingly direct, yet elusive. Review | Bad Moves band’s shared vocals rock the Black Cat 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

“I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is based on a novel by the Canadian writer Iain Reid, a spare and elusive story that provides Kaufman with a stable enough trellis for his own florid preoccupations. ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

I love Professor Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes novels, elusive as he is. Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

And this revolutionary spirit in music, along with his personality—soft-spoken, kind, gentle, elusive, elliptical—was the theme of the day. Ornette Coleman and a Joyful Funeral 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

What we said: “The Truth starts as a droll tale but then morphs into something else, something stranger and more elusive, something with a hint of fairytale magic realism.” The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Aroma, dependent on air currents for dispersal, was elusive where I was sitting. Review: ‘Mytho? Lure of Wildness’ Teases the Senses 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

And the more you explore, the more things may change, says Chen, hinting at elusive, possibly dynamic spaces. This Is the Creator of Journey's Stunning Next Big Indie Game 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

And “The Image Book,” for all its historical sweep and erudition, has the feeling of a personal testament — elusive, almost hermetic, but still motivated by an urge to communicate. ‘The Image Book’ Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

But none would have been as elusive, unreasonable and devastating as the Web has been in destroying his past and poisoning his future. Books of The Times: Russell Banks?s Novel ?Lost Memory of Skin? - Review 2011-09-25T22:26:09Z

The first is a bookstore, Albertine, named after the elusive love object of Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past.” French Embassy Starts a Festival and Albertine, a Bookstore 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

A moral — or at least one unmuddied by questions — proved elusive. Natalie Babbitt, author of young-adult classic ‘Tuck Everlasting,’ dies at 84 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

The virus itself deserves scorn and mockery, being the source of all this misery, although it is an elusive target, being inanimate and invisible. It’s OK to Find Humor in Some of This 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

That’s the shifting landscape where our parents, whether living or dead, will always reign as the most familiar and elusive people we will ever encounter. Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

For the most part, the focus of research in this area is on what others do — that elusive “normal” standard. Motherlode Blog: Talking Sex After Childbirth, and After Children 2013-12-17T17:13:45Z

The chicken that a novice cook could prepare without fear of missing the elusive moment when the bird is cooked enough, but not too much. A Chicken That Grows Slower and Tastes Better 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Still searching for the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker, and following leads from an amateur birder online, Mandrick travels to Eglin Air Force Base on Florida’s swampy panhandle. Jungle Mold, Ornithology and Lawn Care: 3 New Novels Find Hilarity in Unexpected Places 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

But in the short term, a writer’s standing is more elusive. David Foster Wallace and the Perils of “Litchat” 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

From the first statement of the opening theme in the piano, Mr. Adès played with a blend of clarity and sensitivity that made the elusive music all the more mysterious. Music Review | Anthony Marwood, Steven Isserlis and Thomas Ad?s: At Zankel Hall, Subduing the Ravel Trio 2010-03-21T20:59:00Z

Even so, when I interview this elusive singer-songwriter after one of her rare concerts, she says, “I lack confidence.” The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Prospects for a vaccine are so far elusive and health disparities are widening, so why the optimism as expressed by the Obama administration’s goal of getting to an AIDS-free generation? New AIDS optimism 2012-07-09T08:19:00Z

But now, said Noah Tepperberg, an owner of Avenue and Marquee in New York and Lavo in Las Vegas, “the idea of creating an elusive place that people want to get into is gone.” Andy Russell Bets on Social Media to Reinvent Night Life 2012-11-28T23:47:11Z

His mood is buoyed by the temporary presence of a lovely young typist, Judy, played by Emily Barber with an alluring yet elusive air. Review: The wolf is at the door in 'Cornelius' 2013-06-12T22:22:08Z

Environments like this make emotionally fulfilling sex seem even more elusive than these young people already believe it to be. ‘Virgin Territory,’ About Celibate Youth, Debuts on MTV 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

This worshipful documentary is built around a rare interview that the director Tamra Davis filmed with the elusive artist in 1985. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Succession’ and ‘Like Father’ 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

His Beethoven is of the early-music variety: Phrasing was curt, timpani were thwacked and vibrato proved elusive. Review: Orchestras Large and Small and a Composer Portrait 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Accompanying these elusive images, Danke's objects look human or suggest people being spirited away. Artist of the week 92: Raphael Danke 2010-06-17T16:08:00Z

In fact, many young readers may not guess the answers correctly the first time through the book, especially since both the brief clues and the digital illustrations are a bit elusive. 'Traction Man' and other beachy keen new books for kids 2012-07-20T01:19:36Z

For more than 40 years, the musician also hosted a US radio show, giving listeners an insight into the elusive topic of jazz improvisation. Jazz pianist Marian McPartland dies 2013-08-22T10:30:31Z

Though a precise tally is elusive, Basques once roamed Idaho’s sheep ranges in formidable numbers. Cultured Traveler: Herding Sheep in Basque Country (Idaho) 2012-08-24T19:19:51Z

Endlessly interesting, its drama is both elusive and omnipresent. Review: John Zorn and Talea Ensemble Play at Ecstatic Music Festival 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

But since then — he’s now 32 — Mr. Hearne’s style has become more nuanced, elliptical and elusive, while losing none of its fire. ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Subdued, weighty, elusive sonorities spread throughout the orchestra, and spread is the right word: Mr. Eotvos has uncanny skill at giving sound a spatial dimension. Review: A Peter Eotvos Premiere and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

In typical Godardian fashion the film manages to be both strident and elusive, argumentative and opaque. | 'Film Socialisme': On a Mediterranean Cruise Ship Steered by a Godardian Crew 2011-06-02T23:04:32Z

In a way, Googlenopes represent the elusive frontier of thought — places that the human mind hasn’t yet dared to go. Perspective | The never-ending search for the audacity of nope 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

For almost the entire hearing, Sondland was wrapped in the warm certainty of an elusive form of privilege. Perspective | Gordon Sondland’s most dazzling accessory: Resting happy face 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

The dynamic of the show is looking, bringing the wavering and the elusive into focus. Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

In truth, happiness as a theme is an elusive concept. Where is happiness in 20th-century fiction? 2013-05-27T10:51:21Z

A writer could paint on “too ample a canvas” and find “pictorial fusion” elusive. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

When Vanda compliments him on his thorough grasp of his play and its characters, Thomas makes a telling comment about the elusive nature of self-knowledge. | 'Venus in Fur': ?Venus in Fur,? by David Ives, With Nina Arianda - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z

Can either the boy-centric Best Picture nominees or the elusive Best Actress pictures say that? The Boy Next Door Is the Bad Movie Hollywood Needs Right Now 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Throughout the book, we meet characters caught between openness and concealment, unsure of what either will bring, their identities problematically fluid and tantalisingly elusive. Black Vodka by Deborah Levy – review 2013-02-18T19:00:02Z

But Mrs. Huxtable wrote in her Breuer review that good architecture is about an “elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.” Review: A New Whitney Lets New York City Pour In 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

So far, a dozen concerts in the 2021-22 season have been canceled or postponed, management has cut off the health insurance of the striking players, and a compromise remains elusive. The Pandemic Struck Orchestras With Underlying Conditions Hard 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The film’s star—our forest-dwelling friend the Sasquatch—is famous, but he’s also famously elusive, and mysteriously hard to photograph. The Screening Room: “Undiscovered” 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

They have volunteered to help find a site for a secondary school in Camden, London, in what might possibly be an example of that elusive thing, the "big society". Britain's best young architects 2011-01-09T00:04:06Z

The songs suit slow-dancing all alone, wishing for that elusive true partner. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

On that LP, her fifth, she moves swiftly and elusively, constantly changing shape and direction. Esperanza Spalding Will Record ‘Exposure’ in Front of the World 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert’s performance of this thick, complex, elusive work was arresting, transparent and luxuriously beautiful. Philharmonic?s Alan Gilbert and the Youth Movement 2010-07-09T22:48:00Z

Like so many Americans, I’m optimistic that maybe this next paycheck will finally allow me to scramble my way up into that elusive comfortable income bracket. My life on food stamps: I felt ashamed buying olive oil 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The result was inevitably highly speculative, and Langer's caveat emptor – that Hitler was "elusive to the diagnostician" – did not protect him from future criticism. The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts by Daniel Pick - review 2012-08-01T07:00:03Z

Together, the films made her something of an “it” girl, a favorite of critics and reporters determined to identify the character of an elusive free spirit. Karen Black, Versatile Character Actress, Dies at 74 2013-08-09T00:10:51Z

And once again Mr. Hwang uses one man’s callowness to probe the elusive and illusory nature of love. Theater Review: ?Chinglish,? by David Henry Hwang, at Longacre Theater ? Review 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z

Like all her work, the end result is both intriguing and elusive. The best photography books of 2012: an alternative selection 2012-12-21T16:01:33Z

Critics praised Mr. Harlan’s skill at capturing Washington’s elusive character and getting a read on a personality that “had vanished into the roles it had played,” as he once put it. 2010-01-30T05:31:00Z

The lyrics are deliberately elusive and, like too much of the play, unsatisfying. Theater Review | 'Sounding': Swimming in Murky Waters Infested With Death and Life 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z

His style is eloquent, allusive and elusive, and he urges us to read Heidegger's essay on boredom which the philosopher considers "the basis of existence". Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z

Despite the acclaim that greeted their 1998 compilation album of remixes, “The K & D Sessions,” they stayed fairly elusive, and in recent years they have worked separately. Music Review: Old-School Electronica to Trip the Mind, Tickle the Eye and Sway the Body 2010-10-13T22:14:00Z

In “Being Future Being” — which unfolded over two weekends in two parts, at the park and then New York Live Arts — she and her collaborators commune with trees in both direct and elusive ways. A Choreographer Who Merges Art, Activism and the Natural World 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

This isn’t the first attempt to lasso the elusive actor and demystify his genius, and it probably won’t be the last. Review: ‘Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work,’ by Susan L. Mizruchi

But the opera, based on Mr. Maher’s play of the same name, swamps the original’s dry, brainy wit without providing that most important, elusive quality: enough variation in the variations. Theater Review: ‘The Hunchback Variations’ at 59E59 Theaters 2012-06-11T02:00:00Z

And in "Tales of the Grim Sleeper," filmmaker Nick Broomfield delves into the case of an elusive serial killer who terrorized Los Angeles for two decades. Far from Hollywood din, New York Film Festival puts focus on quality 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Sure, everyone is wearing masks, and social distancing rules make dining hall dinners a little drearier, but there is at least the promise of the ever elusive Covid bubble. The Boarding-School Boom 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z

Cities and regions look for the miraculous "Bilbao effect", the kind of urban and regional regeneration bought about by Frank Gehry's Guggenheim museum in that city, but it is an elusive panacea. The drain in Spain: the country's arts crisis 2011-03-27T20:31:00Z

Their voices curling upward with the metallic twang of throat singing, the six vocalists gradually explore the note’s overtones, forming elusive, slippery chords dotted through with whispers, whistles and babble. Flourishes From Denmark, Stockhausen’s ‘Stimmung’ and Marc-André Hamelin 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

“I went from grocery to grocery,” futilely stalking the elusive object of her family’s desire. Cauliflower is so hot right now you may not be able to afford it — or find it 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

For many figure skaters, artistry remains that elusive muse. Critic’s Notebook: In Olympic Figure Skating, ‘Compete’ Has Replaced ‘Perform’ 2014-02-18T22:52:26Z

She sings standards, show tunes and old novelties in a taut, flinty, elusively beautiful voice, erring toward material with difficult lyrics and tough places in history. Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Album Tackles a Newer Archive: Her Own 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Even Cara Delevingne, as the elusive Margo in Paper Towns, manages to stare down the film’s hero while informing him that he loves the idea of her, not her as a whole. Summer 2015 films put real women above Manic Pixie Dream Girls 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

But recapturing that early momentum at this 11th hour might prove elusive. 'Birdman' looking solid in Oscar race, and momentum is a big reason 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

The value to be found there remains as elusive for Mr. Shepard. ‘A Particle of Dread,’ Sam Shepard’s Take on Oedipus 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

When the victim's classmates are interviewed, a terrifying pattern emerges: All the students seem to be elusive when authorities question them. 'Defending Jacob': a father in courtroom battle for son's life 2012-02-01T19:24:04Z

The tomorrow of “After Yang” is casually multicultural, visually detailed and at times thematically and frustratingly elusive. ‘After Yang’ Review: Do Androids Dream of Sheep, Babysitting, Being? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The nature of their relationship is also pleasantly elusive — are they lovers? Psychedelic Comics Like Beautiful Tattoos 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Powell and Pressburger, Beecham and Ashton rearrange the story so that Stella, who inspires Hoffmann to envisage her as a succession of elusive or doomed heroines, is here a ballerina rather than an actress. ‘The Tales of Hoffmann,’ Newly Restored, Opens at Film Forum 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Momentum, like chemistry, is an elusive and essential quality in any good TV show. Review | As a fast-paced caper, ‘The Flight Attendant’ soars. As a story about alcoholism, well, there’s turbulence. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

So what is it about “A Fan’s Notes”? Partly, it’s the language, which is lush and elusive, beautiful even when describing the most degrading events. Frank Gifford and 'A Fan's Notes' 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

It is, instead, a meditation on a series of loosely related themes drawn together, somewhat tenuously, by the familiar yet elusive sensibility that Hitchcock brought to Hollywood and then to American television. | 'Double Take': Grimonprez Makes Hitchcock a Symbol of Cold War Era 2010-06-01T22:24:00Z

The vague and elusive goal is for videos to go viral. Cultural Studies: Missed the Author?s Tour? See the Video 2010-07-09T18:01:00Z

But it has that elusive, alchemical magic that those in the industry spend their lives chasing and the more it supplies, the greater the craving for it becomes. Scandal; Summer's Supermarket Secrets – TV review 2013-07-05T09:24:00Z

The third instalment of Michael Korstick's exploration of Charles Koechlin's piano music is, if anything, even more engaging and teasingly elusive than its predecessors. Koechlin: L'Ancienne Maison de Campagne Op 124; Sonatines Op 59; 12 Esquisses Op 41 etc ? review 2010-12-02T22:04:00Z

To him, a full understanding can only be elusive. Anthony Bourdain doc ‘an act of therapy’ for an acute loss 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

But "Home" is as striking as it is elusive, as seductive as it is ephemeral. Review: 'Home' is a sweet place that can't be nailed down in Scott/Powell Performance's sumptuous performance 2010-05-21T17:12:00Z

He has also become one of today’s most elusive artists. Jonas Kaufmann: A Tenor in Demand, Now in Short Supply 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Camp Bestival boasts a six-piece band called Introducing, who will recreate Discovery by this year's most elusive festival headliner, Daft Punk. Tribute bands take centre stage at the festivals 2013-05-10T23:00:05Z

She plays with that ambiguity in this plush, elusive nine-minute piece. Ode to Meredith Monk From American Composers Orchestra 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

What makes “In the Family” so elusive is that it is structured less by story events than whisper-soft subtleties of characterization and unspoken social subtexts. | 'In the Family': ?In the Family,? From Patrick Wang - Review 2011-11-04T00:09:36Z

Decisive and elusive, he’s the movie’s uncompromising star. Review: 'In the Heart of the Sea' Is a Classic Man-vs.-Nature Story 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

It proved a good hunch: Keller, who grew up in North Carolina, read Alibar’s draft and detected the elusive theatrical quality he likes to describe as “magic in the bottle.” From 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' to 'Burnpile' at the Kirk Douglas: Lucy Alibar finds her voice 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

But at least some of that frustration may be passed along to the audience, particularly since Jonah’s interior life remains elusive even as he assumes a kind of dishy posture. Review: In ‘Where the Mountain Meets the Sea,’ Missed Connections 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

But as a subject, he has been elusive, a shadow on the run with his camera, who still worries, at 73, about falling into “the traps of the rich.” What It Was Like to Be Photographed by Bill Cunningham 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

Dean creates webs of deliquescent, wintry sounds, through which the singer threads the atomised texts, syllable by syllable; it's fragile and transient, and finally delicately elusive. Cheltenham festival 2010-07-12T20:45:00Z

But still, predictably, nothing from the book’s elusive subject. New '33 1/3' book explores life of mysterious chanteuse Bobbie Gentry 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

The Season 6 finale of this post-apocalyptic drama series sees the believers and nonbelievers go head-to-head in the lunar city-state of Sanctum, while the mystery of the anomaly grows ever more elusive. What’s on TV Tuesday: A Woodstock Doc and ‘Plus One’ 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

At one point they trace their own forms with pens onto the wall, and then Ms. Carson and Mr. Currie add further framing devices, authors trying to render elusive subject matter. Dance Review: Poetry in Motion by Anne Carson and Rashaun Mitchell 2010-07-21T22:15:00Z

But then many objects in this exhibition are elusive in terms of attitude and meaning, and were probably meant to be that way. Art Review: ?Through African Eyes? at the Detroit Institute of Arts 2010-04-15T22:09:00Z

But the quiet part of it is maybe more elusive now. The Trailblazer: Q&A with Wild author and advice columnist Cheryl Strayed 2012-06-14T14:46:49Z

It was the third time this month that the elusive “HH” had tagged her windows. Style Invitational Week 1372: Trash talk, 1880-style 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Success remains elusive, however, with demand for Dafen’s original art tepid and artists who are interested in creating original works few and far between. China struggles to shed reputation as global capital of art copies 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Clear and present danger is far from optimal, but the crew of the Sentinel military watch tower would probably take it to the elusive and slippery danger they face. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

She is, he realizes, the elusive feminine ideal he has sought through all his many years and that he has loved in Emma, Florence and Gertie. ‘Winter’: a passionate reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s troubled love life 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Christianity and the horrors of the second world war are fed into the mix, too, as the book tries – with an elusive logic typical of Sjón – to unify its disparate themes. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z

That's an interesting observation, suggesting that sanity is in the eye of the beholder, that reality is elusive. 'The Farm' cultivates little suspense for a thriller 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

With two meals under my ever-expanding belt, I’m partial to the restaurant’s Asian bent, and not just because those fine flavors are so elusive within the city. José Andrés’s China Chilcano previewed 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

It's a very elusive quality and something definitely happens on screen, but not even in front of your eyes. Director Gus Van Sant gets romantic with "Restless" 2011-09-15T18:34:26Z

If you’re new to biscuitry, I’m here to assure you that tender and light are not as elusive as biscuit mavens might lead you to believe. Want perfectly tender, light biscuits? Dorie Greenspan has 5 tips and a twist. 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

They’re so elusive it’s almost mythical, particularly if, as I do, you dwell in Anchorage, a city just a bit too far south and entirely too bright. The aurora borealis skipped this Alaska photography class. But some swinging light cords saved the night. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

When one sporting publisher realized that “hunting stories — hunters pitted against elusive, dangerous animals in forbidding terrain — possessed unique narrative power,” as Dray writes, the hook-and-bullet genre was born. How Hunting Became a Macho Sport 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Now Shirley wants to assemble her brood to break the news, but they’re such a fractious bunch, the task proves elusive. | 'Madea?s Big Happy Family': A Fractious Family With Cancer on the Agenda 2011-04-24T21:46:55Z

The elusive and carnally adventurous Adam instructs Hannah to hold a physically uncomfortable sexual position. Awkward Sex, Onscreen and Off 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

It is tonally elusive, cerebral and subdued, but this is a film with a healthy, if self-conscious IQ. Beginners ? review 2011-07-21T14:00:00Z

Bennett concludes, “Acceptable standards and best practices remain elusive and are often subject to debate.” Are zoo animals happy? There’s a simple empathy test we can apply 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

These are odd, difficult men, and the reader may wonder whether one of them is the elusive killer. Book review: ‘Irene’ by Pierre Lemaitre 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

But you will find the world that they, and Jamaica Kincaid’s characters, left, the one that keeps pulling her back to revisit in her elusive fictional universe. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

He explored the allusive structures and elusive ambiances noted by Messiaen, with the technical intricacies of the multilayered “For Octaves” and the cascading runs of “For Eight Fingers” revealed with crystalline articulation. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z

Of the five species, the macaroni is the most elusive. In the Falkland Islands, a quest to see as many penguins as possible 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

But, of course, that control is elusive; many things are missing now, including her husband’s income, and no one in the family knows exactly what to do. Colm Tóibín’s ‘Nora Webster’: A masterful portrait of a grieving woman finding herself

The idea of home for this family has been as elusive as it has been embattled. Even with Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne, 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' fails to connect 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Nor is the identity of “Heisenberg,” which seems more shimmeringly and satisfyingly elusive each time I see it. Review: ‘Heisenberg’ Features an Explosive Pairing of Actors 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

As the neurological disease progressed, freedom became ever more elusive. Sailing Into Today on a Boat From Our Past 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

A mesmeric set of canons for nine instruments, it sounds at once simple and elusive, at times blanketed with a still calm, at others coursed by a polyrhythmic, microtonal blizzard. Bach, Reich, Bartok, Beethoven and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Ms. Bush has been an elusive musician, and her reticence has contributed to her mystique, as well as to several theories about why her she cut short her live performance career so precipitously. ArtsBeat: Kate Bush to Return to the Stage After 35 Years 2014-03-21T17:56:50Z

By turns elusive and confessional, Ms. Weldon liked to say she divided her life into two segments. Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy, Dies at 91 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

JCC was allowed to exist as an elusive figure, a man alone and out of time. TV review: Evidently John Cooper Clarke; 24 Hours in A&E 2012-05-30T22:00:02Z

Though his music is driven by explosive and irrepressibly pulsating patterns, its rhythmic profile is curiously elusive: you want to tap your feet, but two feet rarely seem enough. Crash Ensemble; Nicolas Hodges – review 2012-11-19T17:53:07Z

On Monday's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert tackled the mini-mystery of what exactly is wrong with the elusive leader. Stephen Colbert examines North Korea's cheese crisis 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

But Latinos tend to be elusive on screen. Hollywood basks in diversity praise but Latinos ask: are we invisible? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

“Astonishingly, a very private woman has unpredictably made generations of personal history available to those touched by her art, inviting us to better understand and to more fully engage the elusive woman behind it.” Eudora Welty letters released 2 decades after author’s death 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Whether nafas is innate or acquired is up for debate; what endows a cook with this energy remains as elusive as breath itself. Do You Have Nafas, the Elusive Gift That Makes Food Taste Better? 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

The fish, who are apparently somewhat elusive, use the teeth for eating barnacles and hard-shelled animals. Fish with giant human-looking teeth caught 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

The shiny teapot and lamp in Mac Adams’s “Postmodern Tragedy” photographs are similarly elusive; they deflect attention from themselves by reflecting scenes of sensational violence. Art In Review: ‘From an Object’s Point of View’ 2012-06-21T22:08:46Z

Baroque imagery, bizarre humour and labyrinthine plots made his elusive and allusive oeuvre unlike anything else in contemporary cinema. Ra?l Ruiz obituary 2011-08-19T14:53:12Z

So without getting into the elusive, irritating question of “urban authenticity,” perhaps it is time to broaden the definition of cities to recognize those differences. Invasion of the faux cities 2012-09-22T15:59:00Z

When the narrator eventually finds her elusive brother, he is unrecognizable for reasons I won’t spoil here. Life Advice From a Dead Grandmother Who’s Returned as a Bird 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

After a rigorous, correct and undeniably “Dior” show, this question must be asked: Is the elusive successor on the doorstep? Fashion Review: Dior?s Couture: True to Code 2012-01-23T18:05:24Z

The movie is all over the place, searching for an identity that proves almost entirely elusive. 'Dirty Girl': Road movie takes too many turns 2011-10-20T20:08:07Z

For Winslow, the mermaid is a fetish, a replacement for something that remains elusive and that — as a flashback suggests — he can’t fully voice. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

The accumulation of many such beginnings is frustrating from some angles, and from others, it amounts to an elusive poetry. Review: A South Korean Troupe’s Physical Risks and Daunting Tasks 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Dancers, especially, are driven toward perfection — it’s hard to fight the mirror and the aging body, but Boss seemed to be that elusive thing: happy. What Set tWitch Apart as a Dancer? His Generous Spirit. 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Having won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, Secretariat became the ninth horse to secure the coveted yet elusive Triple Crown. Secretariat won the Triple Crown 44 years ago 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

And then there’s every drug addict’s nightmare: that good high she experienced at the beginning that made everything okay has become much more elusive. I can’t bear to watch my mom detox 2014-04-13T20:00:00Z

It's almost all in this vein, and I find it enchanting: vertiginous and elusive, but worth the effort, because right. Paperback of the week: Marginalia on Casanova: St Orpheus Breviary I by Miklós Szentkuthy – review 2013-01-04T22:55:07Z

Few things are as maddening or as elusive as trying to convey the character of a wine, both for the reader and the writer. 15 Helpful Words for Talking About Wine 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

Neon harpsichord levitates the elusive lyrics, sung delicately by Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser. Reissue of Massive Attack’s Mezzanine Highlights Band’s Influence 2013-11-15T16:52:52Z

Few people in the world could claim to really understand Harper Lee, the novel’s elusive author, who died Feb. 19 at 89 in Monroeville, Ala. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

When the elusive Tom appears late in the movie, it is immediately clear why he and Laura are together. Movie Review: ‘Ex-Girlfriends,’ by Alexander Poe, With Jennifer Carpenter 2012-11-27T21:49:51Z

What more can we learn about the elusive Wright? Steven Wright, Master of the One-Liner, Tries His Hand at a Novel 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

It arrives not as a sampler of possibilities, but as a single-minded statement: a group of songs that are emotive yet elusive, slow but infused with undulating motion, at once earthy and otherworldly. Meet Zsela, a Singer Perfecting the Art of Taking It Slowly 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

In a field of inquiry characterized by elusive concepts, dizzying “isms” and subtle taxonomies, philosophers are in continual battle to resist simplification. Hilary Putnam, Giant of Modern Philosophy, Dies at 89 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

But the holiday still seemed generally elusive in the culture. Amid Upheaval, Juneteenth Takes the Cultural Spotlight 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

These roles depict elusive, independent, challenging and inspiring women. Critic’s Notebook: Peter Martins and City Ballet Over 30 Seasons 2013-06-11T21:24:09Z

“In the end, the last work is a rather elusive phenomenon,” Blotkamp admits. Does “Late Style” Exist? 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

A social media post by the elusive British artist had been liked more than 1.4 million times on Instagram as of Wednesday. Banksy unveiled Valentine’s Day street art. A local council dismantled it. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lang captures the conflicted emotional currents of the story in his elusive, austere music. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The artists in this exhibition continue that line of inquiry, frankly depicting their own and others’ bodies in ways that are honest, graphic, elusive, erotic. In ‘Get Naked,’ artists take back control of the female image 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z

As elusive as the work looks, there’s a truth-in-advertising directness to it. Art Review: In the Beginning Was the Word 2011-02-16T13:00:07Z

Drawn from seven years of shooting, the documentary charts Womack’s life in Russia, where she says success is more elusive than in the United States. ‘Joy Womack: The White Swan’ Review: When Success Is a Stretch 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

For two days I’ve been tiptoeing around, daintily creeping through the brush so I don’t snap a twig and alert the elusive turkey. First-time hunter vs. turkey: Thanksgiving dinner is on the line. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

A graduate seminar in music theory could devote considerable time to deciphering the elusive harmony. Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

“While these human results are interesting and may shed new light on the elusive modulators and causes of human ALS, they are very preliminary,” he said. Motor neurone disease researchers find link to microbes in gut 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

In a recent interview with The New York Times on Facebook Live, he discussed why Dvorak’s concerto remains somewhat overlooked and, playing excerpts, analyzed its elusive beauties. Review: A Fast-Rising Czech Conductor Leads the Philharmonic 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

There was a flicker of fancy on “Elevator Ride” and “Walk in the Rain,” ballads about elusive contentment; there was tension in “Darker Things,” in which Mr. Hampton tries on a winter coat of pessimism. Music Review: Alan Hampton Performs at the Living Room - Review 2011-09-14T22:05:03Z

That it seemed so elusive on the ground made it that much sweeter. United's Biscoff betrayal: How dare the airline think a pedestrian Oreo Thin even compares? 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

Yet if there is a core to this show beneath the polychromatic cleverness, it remains elusive. In ‘Buggy Baby,’ Shadows Creep In 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

They yearn to be free from the violent, enervating menace of white racism, and to flourish in the elusive American promised land. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Is it any wonder, then, that "Read up on the film before you choose to see it" is proving to be an elusive concept? "You pays your money" 2011-07-13T17:40:05Z

In the first movement, passages of grim turmoil in this elusive piece are balanced by elements of regal elegance and somber restraint. Review: Stately Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, a Brave Danish String Quartet 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Charm is one of those elusive things that's hard to quantify, but you know it when you see it. 'The Artist' ? silent love letter to bygone era 2011-12-22T21:31:05Z

The perfect series finale is elusive, and almost always a matter of luck instead of intention. S'all done: "Better Call Saul" closes with a journey through time and regret 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

In Stoker, thematically a cousin or nephew to , Park switches his method from romantically demonstrative to allusive and elusive. Stoker: Gloom with a View 2013-03-01T04:30:31Z

She was very much the extrovert, in contrast to Langston’s fine manners and elusive quality. Review | A look at what brought Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes together. And what tore them apart. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

But his coded emotional settings seemed elusive, even baffling, as did his stylistic relationship to current art. Howard Hodgkin, Whose Paintings Were Coded With Emotion, Dies at 84 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The result is something of a scrapbook in verse, rewiring the vicissitudes of the news cycle into something more elusive and personal. With Poets Respond, Rattle gives us the news from poems 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

And while there’s always some narrative implication in the music, it’s never too elusive to grasp. New Music: Iggy and the Stooges, Darcy James Argue, Kenny Chesney 2013-04-29T21:31:45Z

Mr. Adams and Mr. Sellars collaborated on the elusive libretto, which uses Spanish and Latin texts as well as English. The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

“I found it much easier to get into that state of creative flow that is so elusive to the writer,” Ms. Waldman said. How LSD ‘Microdosing’ Saved Ayelet Waldman’s Marriage 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

He’s joined by the elusive Swiss-born New York artist Bruno Jakob, a painter distinctive for using clear water and bodily energy as his mediums. Last Chance: ?Evryali Score Mysteries,? Ghosts at David Zwirner 2010-07-28T20:00:00Z

Rouland, a vile and dangerous man, and Jack are both after an elusive prize. Sorrowline by Niel Bushnell - review 2013-04-13T11:00:00Z

These parents may not find the elusive balance that everyone talks about, and juggling a million needs is exhausting, but humans thrive when doing work that matters. Perspective | A nanny is the go-to for the kids. How can these parents reconnect? 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

End Of Love continues these themes, exploring elusive loves and fragile memories with tragicomic aplomb. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-18T00:08:35Z

Every spread contrasts a picture apiece by each of them, and the connections between them are mostly delicate and elusive — a hue, a texture, an incidental structural effect, now and then an object. A Spotlight on the Season’s Top Photography Books 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

But Prokopi himself, who doesn’t say much and seems constitutionally incapable of showing his cards, remains elusive. The Bizarre Tale of the ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

It is the elusive very special and unique something created by Daniel and Toby, by their personalities, humanity, special taste, intelligence. The Shuttered Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Is a Cultural Crime Scene 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles offered not just sunshine and cheap housing, but something more elusive, and more explosive: hope that the social and political activism of the previous decade was yielding fruit. Why Did Los Angeles Become a Cultural Mecca in the Early 1970s? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

She found a way to match the strict Modernist demand for utility and practicality with the elusive quality known as good taste. Charlotte Perriand’s Work Transformed Rooms. Now It Fills a Museum 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Merwin, a prolific and versatile master of modern poetry who evolved through a wide range of styles as he celebrated nature, condemned war and industrialism and reached for the elusive past, died Friday. W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

But he recovered quickly and resumed his search for Rockefeller’s “Rosebud,” the elusive transformative object or episode that would decode his enigmatic persona and herculean career. Richard Norton Smith Dissects Nelson Rockefeller 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

But the show remains elusive, lost somewhere in the void between the knowing tomfoolery and something more charged and serious. Third Person: Bonnie and Clyde Redux 2010-07-22T21:31:00Z

Due to the sudden population explosion, farms couldn't keep up with the surge in demand, rendering affordable food an elusive commodity in many parts of the state. You think 2020 was the year of sourdough? Look back to the Gold Rush 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

Yet this extraordinary woman, seemingly incapable of despair through roughly two decades of struggle, remains elusive. ‘Nasrin’ Review: Righting Wrongs in Iran 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

His piano music invites freedom and fantasy, especially “Davidsbündler,” a suite of short, sometimes whimsical, sometimes elusive, deceptively complex pieces. Classical Recordings: Inner Personalities of Composers and Performers 2011-04-10T02:00:18Z

In “Hommage,” Mr. Dean evokes the Brahms sound and style through a hazy, elusive contemporary sensibility. Emanuel Ax Concert Pairs Brahms With New Works 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

In this comic novel about the elusive work/life balance, Alice is truly a person to love and root for. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s a strange, captivating movie, graceful and elusive, with a distinctive pedigree. Is Moviegoing Undemocratic? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Meloy’s best work is her short fiction, particularly the lithe, lean stories, as alive and elusive as fish in a stream, of the masterful “Half in Love.” Maile Meloy’s ‘Do Not Become Alarmed’: This summer’s big literary novel? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Waiting to feel good was an elusive proposition, physically and emotionally. Sexy dresses that barely fit 2013-01-02T00:30:00Z

But don’t expect melodramatic fireworks: The shows depict lives in turmoil with deceptive simplicity — an elusive quality that the Transport Group captures in the graceful revivals now in repertory at the Gym at Judson. Review: Pathos Times Two: A Double Dose of Inge, in Close Quarters 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Except, that is, for the rose-throated becard, an elusive bird known to nest farther upriver near Roma, which is where I was headed the next morning. Explorer: 9 Sites Near the Texas Border: the World Birding Center 2010-04-10T03:06:00Z

The bookstore will also host a scavenger hunt that will lead to the elusive Moaning Myrtle hangout. 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' goes on sale Saturday night. Here's what you need to know. 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Working with a minute budget, it was conceived as a kind of anti-spectacle, with a vision of art as a loose and elusive social experiment, not a brand to sell. The Havana Biennial Is Running at Full Throttle 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Pinpointing just how much the jeweler produced, however, remains elusive. Antiques: Giving a Craftsman His Due 2012-09-27T21:56:26Z

Mr. von Trier was elusive when asked to explain how the diamond expresses the movie’s essence. Lars Von Trier Wants to Turn All His Movies Into Diamonds 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

The math is elusive, but when the calculus works out right, the formula can give the vague texture of poetry to anything from a card trick to a hit in the nuts. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Then, because of a series of untimely events — including the advent of sound — the full “Napoleon” disappeared, becoming one of cinema’s most elusive objects of desire, alongside Erich Von Stroheim’s nearly 10-hour version of “Greed.” Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z

In the stage version those qualities remain elusive. Theater Review: Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man,’ at the Huntington Theater 2013-01-28T22:57:11Z

This one is built around a typically geologic misadventure involving the hapless Scrat, the prehistoric squirrel-thing, and his elusive acorn from the "Ice Age" features. 'Rio': A rare bird that justifies the 3-D process 2011-04-14T22:08:36Z

I struggled to accomplish surprisingly elusive tasks like throwing away the garbage, securing a parking permit, identifying the demarcation line between the men’s changing area and the women’s in the public pool’s locker room. ‘What Would You Think of Living in Luxembourg?’ 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Halfway through, however, the teal series featured some rather clumsy shapes; and the creative message was elusive on several white ensembles with rather unflattering speckled prints. Givenchy, Kenzo, Chloe get tough, Celine delights 2013-03-04T02:31:05Z

Here are four visual examples from the film that illustrate his craft, and why he deserves that elusive Oscar. The Bright (and Dark) Side of Roger Deakins 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

“It was very elusive and mysterious,” she added. A Mystical Novel of Golf Makes It to the Movies 2011-07-25T16:29:48Z

The custom-built kitchens, including cabinets, shelves, ovens and workstations were constructed to maximize space and efficiency, and provide an elusive sense of “sameness” on the road, said Chris Mitchell, the company’s owner. Less Cocaine, More Vegetables: Concert Tour Cooking Goes Healthy 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

I liked the cut of a more basic striped, strapless bandeau, but the otherwise obliging “Olivia” proved elusive at the precise moment I struggled to fasten the clasp. Critical Shopper: Swimsuits at Zimmermann and Malia Mills 2012-06-19T18:14:51Z

But I did return with the prize of a shooter’s lifetime: scores of photos taken of these rare, elusive and exceedingly beautiful animals. Stealthy, scarce and spectacular: Viewing tigers in India 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Allen does both less and more with Bobby’s night-club adventures, not exploring subjects new to him but looking with a cold lucidity at familiar but elusive ones. Youthful Illusions in Woody Allen’s “Café Society” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Afterward, contentment remains elusive as new tensions arise. ‘Family in Transition’ Review: A Parent Prepares for Change 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

The Interview” → “The Nature View”: Satire about two wildlife photographers who sneak across the DMZ to shoot an elusive North Korean cuckoo. Style Invitational: Think up a game crazier than this one 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Sometime during your tour of London, perhaps at the center of the dizzyingly crowded Piccadilly Circus, you might find yourself on the hunt for one rather elusive treasure: peace and quiet. Finding Oases of Calm in 3 European Cities 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Motherlode got its start with a magazine piece I wrote three years ago about the elusive goal of “equally shared parenting”. Motherlode: Equal Workloads for Husbands and Wives 2011-07-25T16:00:53Z

And I’m reminded that for those like me, the status quo is a mirage, elusive no matter how hard we chase it. I Was Bullied for Being Arab. Nine Inch Nails Threw Me a Lifeline. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

The elusive wallet in question was stolen at The Elizabethan, a pub and restaurant in the town of Dunfermline. Man’s stolen wallet gets returned 20 years after it went missing: 'Proper time capsule' 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

The songs may be elusive, but individually their brutal confidence and spiky wit leads me to believe that they're genuinely the most exciting act to emerge since Generation Bed-Wet took over the British musical landscape. Outfit try stardom on for size 2012-06-15T23:03:00Z

Other solutions might be better, but they are elusive because of the overwhelming size of the problem: How do you fact-check a tsunami? Perspective | Twitter’s refusal of political ads won’t end viral lies. But it beats Facebook’s profit-focused shrug. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

In the most elusive role, the bossy elder Stepsister, Roman Zhurbin is compelling and often wonderfully absurd. Frederick Ashton’s ‘Cinderella,’ at American Ballet Theater 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

But happiness is elusive to define, and money isn't the only thing that influences it. The World's Happiest Countries 2010-07-14T21:00:00Z

The elusive, fitful first movement, an apotheosis of a heroic funeral march, was at once exactly executed and inexorable. Music Review | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra: Carnegie Hall Concerts Mix Mahler and Kissine 2010-03-29T04:39:00Z

In following his curiosity — his passion for reading, his instinct for community advocacy and his inherent business sense — Martinez not only created something heretofore unseen but he also did something even more elusive. Rueben Martinez, winner of the Innovator's Award at the L.A. Times Book Prizes 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Nothing in dance writing is more elusive than trying to account for the successful response of choreography to music. Dance: How Shall We Know the Choreographer? By His Dances and More 2010-03-12T00:29:00Z

But as Gloria turns out to be far more elusive — and perhaps deceitful — than Paul, and we, may have realized, their adventure confronts harsh realities of violence and mental illness. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

By contrast, the exquisite The Woods hinges her existence on the prospect of one elusive kiss. Sea of Bees ? review 2011-02-14T22:45:00Z

Theroux, Ortega said, used legitimate documentary methods to draw out an elusive, uncooperative subject. Subject of Scientology film: Louis Theroux used 'morally bankrupt tactics' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

But that artist is famously particular and elusive. Career Surveys for David Hammons and Adrian Piper 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The question of a woman’s proper role — onscreen and off — becomes a steady refrain, particularly with the introduction of Shahrzad, a legendary actress and the movie’s third, most elusive face. ‘3 Faces’ Review: On the Road in Iran (and Off It, Too) 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Subtitled “An Episode in the Life of an Artist, in Five Parts,” “Symphonie Fantastique” is Berlioz’s musical representation of an opium reverie haunted by its dreamer’s obsession with an elusive, beautiful woman. Review: Head Tripping the Light Fantastic in ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

But where she really excelled was in the two series of sketches: more pictorial and concrete in the “Waldszenen,” more abstract and elusive in the “Gesänge.” Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-21T20:08:54Z

Perhaps friendships are more elusive than we think, and so delicate they will die unless actively nurtured. We just clicked: why I set out to find a new group of friends online 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

The elusive Mr. Murray, as is his custom, did not respond to an interview request. Going Back to ‘Groundhog Day.’ Again. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

For the past decade, Ambrose Akinmusire has played trumpet with a fresh style: elusive and rarely resolving, but also ruby-red and urgent. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

“Shtisel” is generous, lighthearted, and nostalgic—even when the origins of its nostalgia remain elusive. Seeing Inside the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Community on the Netflix Series “Shtisel” 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

In early April, the website began appending a list of sources to every article, including the names of elusive Hollywood publicists. Johnny Depp Is NOT Best Friends With This Lizard, Despite Report 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

And dramatically she drew out every elusive nuance of this confounding character. Review: A Conductor Delivers a Magnificent ‘Parsifal’ at the Met 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

If there was one element from 1978 that remains elusive in Marriner’s “Planets,” it’s mystery; he’s always certain where he’s going. Ageless Neville Marriner leads the Colburn Orchestra 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

If high frame rate looks good anywhere, it remains elusive. ‘Avatar’ and the Headache of High Frame Rate Filmmaking 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

Success proved elusive, though, and Mr. Purdy did little to advance his cause. James Purdy, a Fabulist Haunting the Fringes 2013-08-26T21:23:20Z

Works by the elusive British graffiti artist Banksy sold for double their estimate or more at an auction in London featuring his and work by other contemporary artists, Bonham's said on Thursday. Banksy works fetch double their estimates at London auction 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

And freedom is so elusive, so prized in Senna’s work. ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

A mournful trumpet and elusive flute joined in, suggesting the bucolic, wistful side of Copland, though with flintier harmonies. Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

She taught herself to capture the elusive lights, first on film and then on a digital camera, landing her work in countless homes and multiple publications, such as Nature Photographer Magazine and NASA.com. The aurora borealis skipped this Alaska photography class. But some swinging light cords saved the night. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

In its first half, we learn of Rodriguez, seeing photos of him — always in dark glasses, as befits an elusive creature. 'Searching for Sugar Man' enthralling doc about singer Rodriguez 2012-08-23T20:53:04Z

On a stage, particularly, generating genuinely scary effects is an elusive art. Review | ‘Woman in Black’ wants to scare you the old-fashioned way 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

But the questions Laser has about sex, love and biology are at once more basic and more elusive than the relatively simple matter of whether he likes girls or boys. Film: They Grow Up So Quickly, Don?t They? 2010-07-09T04:31:00Z

Here is abstract art for our time, tactile and elusive.• Nan Goldin, Tony Cragg and Robert Rauschenberg ? the week in art 2011-07-22T12:06:33Z

The title notwithstanding, the master’s latest work — mischievous, mournful and maddeningly elusive — is fairly chatty. A Brief Look at 10 New York Film Festival Features 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Confirmation hearings of Supreme Court justices often focus on the elusive question of “temperament,” especially among Republic moderates in the Senate who will decide Gorsuch’s fate. Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch in his youth: “Fascism Forever” 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Which is the only way for actors to achieve the elusive, interconnected oneness of a truly great cast. Why the Tonys Need an Award for Best Ensemble 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

On Sept. 30, she made her debut in Balanchine’s “Mozartiana,” with Chase Finlay as her partner, and Anthony Huxley bringing new illumination to the ballet’s most elusive role of all, the Gigue. New York City Ballet’s Powerfully Eventful Fall Season 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Still, unlike the shadowy and elusive Jack the Ripper, the serial poisoner had done little to cover his tracks, and this time Scotland Yard got their man. Review | A true-crime columnist turns his attention to Victorian-era serial killer Thomas Neill Cream 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Torres del Paine: With an impressive mountain range as its centerpiece, this national park covering roughly 1,000 square miles includes glaciers and fjords and is home to countless birds and the elusive puma. Next Stop: Chilean Patagonia’s Peaks, Up Close 2013-01-02T23:04:03Z

For his part, Welles, whose image flickers throughout — as the beautiful young man he was and as characters like Kane, Othello, Hank Quinlan and Falstaff — remains both elusive and indelibly present. Review: ‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’ Documents Orson Welles’s Last Film 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

It's a very elusive story, very difficult to dramatise. Christopher Wheeldon: the golden boy grows up 2010-05-04T20:30:00Z

You might never have cracked Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” and still use the phrase “great white whale” to mean an obsessive but elusive goal. Bright Young Things, Revisited: War Clouds a Childhood Idyll 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

The elusive toaster strudel is a deep-rooted memory from my '90s childhood. A DIY toaster strudel that combines tangy cream cheese and brown sugar 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

The word is ubiquitous — it’s what the director shouts at the start of each scene — but its meaning is elusive. Film: Brace for Impact ? It?s Action Movie Season 2010-06-23T18:10:00Z

But his informant proved elusive, and the lost film finally arrived in New York only three years ago. Art Review: Images of War, Finally Unpacked 2010-09-23T22:45:00Z

But there are also moments when she simply slips from the room, elusive as a ghost. Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm – review 2013-07-28T07:00:00Z

It’s seductive, demanding, elusive and impossible to separate from its image. When Filming in New York, the City Is Always the Star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

But a satisfactory “why” for Herr Warum’s ultimate end remains elusive. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

But there’s another reason for the new classes: The goal of becoming a restaurant chef and owner is increasingly elusive, thanks to competition for top jobs and a stagnant restaurant market. Lights! Camera! Culinary School Will Teach Instagram Skills 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

That reversal of fortune transformed a mild-mannered backup point guard into a high-school-hoops version of Captain Ahab, eternally obsessed with capturing his own elusive white whale. No Fan of Sports, a Graphic Novelist Learns to Follow the Bouncing Ball 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

I got a little disillusioned with chasing some elusive notion of truth and wanted to enjoy making images again. Mishka Henner's erased images: art or insult? 2012-05-23T14:49:29Z

He lives in an abandoned church and commutes on foot to a soul-crushing job doing something with data for a corporation owned by an elusive Big Brother-like figure known only as Management. ‘The Zero Theorem’: a virtual tale that doesn’t quite add up 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The title comes from a quote by Jackie Kennedy, in which she referred to her husband as “that elusive unforgettable man.” Galley Girl: A JFK Resurgance and a Year in Heaven 2011-11-21T09:55:55Z

There is this figure of the enigmatic, elusive female who had disappeared. Harlan Coben on why even bestselling authors get those self-loathing writer blues 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Men are frequently unfaithful, domineering and elusive, while the wives in such stories as “The Disappearing” and “The Jesters” anxiously insist, “We are protected. We are very happy.” Unnerving short stories by Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates

Others, like “Proven Badlands” by the songwriter Annie Clark, a k a St. Vincent, took a more elusive form. yMusic to Bring Its Versatility to Ecstatic Music Festival 2012-02-03T17:45:10Z

The quartet “Where Is Evil” binds the opera’s four voices into a tight matrix of counterpoint as the orchestra shifts from startling blasts to patches of elusive harmonies. Review: ‘Anatomy Theater,’ an Opera, Puts Convicts Under the Knife 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Upstairs a cool, eerie mood is created by swaying and rotating mirrored mobiles and fragments of elusive audio. Artist Cerith Wyn Evans fires up the White Cube 2010-05-13T11:51:00Z

A quiet, elusive film like "Manakamana" will not be to everyone's taste, but if you get on its wavelength, you will hate to turn away for fear of what you might miss. 'Manakamana' an absorbing, voyeuristic portrait of humanity 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Rich Bertoia, the company’s auction coordinator, said that Mr. Greene is widely admired in the field for turning up “such elusive finds.” The Period Room as Reconstruction Site 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

With beloved but elusive new best friend Artemis Starla, she plots a protest to drive Lululemon back to suburban shopping malls. Review | ‘The Roxy Letters’ is just the kind of comic novel we need right now 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

I feel like truth and the transcendent and the mystery — it’s so elusive that whatever gets you to even the perimeter of an understanding of the mystery, I won’t knock it. Pete Holmes Opens Old Wounds in HBO’s ‘Crashing’ 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Representatives of the elusive artist, whose identity is unknown in public, could not immediately be reached for comment. Banksy graffiti lands in LA ahead of Oscars 2011-02-17T00:32:04Z

Commendably, she stretches her acting muscles, but Hazel’s internal struggle remains elusive. Review: In ‘Big Sky,’ Starring Bella Thorne, Mortal Fears Collide 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

A single, driving idea proves elusive, but that doesn’t become frustrating. Review: ‘Arabella’ Brings Intrigue to the Munich Opera Festival 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

But these weren’t mere clever tone-paintings — “Metamorphoses” felt intensely probing and often incantatory, as if conjuring up whole new worlds from the dark, elusive depths of the paintings. Review | Avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan makes music beyond the keys 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

His knowing, elusive style might better fit into one of the alternative niches in the comedy scene. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The couple are seeking a few elusive items. At the Met, Honoring Kimonos and a Scholar of the Same 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

There is a painting by Watteau, that most elusive of artists, that shows a young girl in silver-blue satin dancing pensively in a glade. Watteau: The Drawings; Esprit et V?rit?: Watteau and His Circle ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:24Z

His film serves as a poignant reminder that, for all the incredible technical advancements of the past century or even the past decade, that particular goal still remains elusive. ‘32 Sounds,’ a Film Performed Live, Probes the Power of Listening 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

Jake's obsession with the stars is shared by Sara, and that obsession is linked intuitively by Jake with his sense of fate: "that elusive moment when disaster sends its first calling card." 'The Constant Heart': Beware the devotion of a complicated woman 2012-09-19T21:10:09Z

Overwhelming grief is an elusive subject for any movie, but as films like “The Sweet Hereafter” and “The Messenger” have demonstrated, a sensitively written and directed film about unspeakable loss can open the floodgates. Movie Review | 'The Greatest': Sarandon and Brosnan as Grieving Parents 2010-04-01T22:17:00Z

One of the most elusive skills in narrative nonfiction, and Hesse has it, is knowing the proper order to arrange your facts. An Arsonist and His Femme Fatale Partner Fuel ‘American Fire’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

It was an unusually long concert and yet it seemed to pass all too quickly and effortlessly: the tempos judicious, the touch sure, the phrasing eloquent — and the impact elusive. Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

But when you recall how ingeniously Kneehigh interwove film and live action in Brief Encounter, this seems a strangely prosaic attempt to capture the elusive poetry of the Demy original. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - review 2011-03-23T00:24:15Z

Willis Aronowitz spoke with Salon about her new book and the often elusive nature of sexual satisfaction. Can women be saved from bad sex? "Finding your desires is a conscious process," says author 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

In the troika of preschool concerns, access and affordability directly affect parents’ lives while the elusive concept of “quality” is mainly felt by the children themselves. “Well, that’s the big mystery about God”: It’s amazing what a 4-year-old who’s given the opportunity to speak freely in preschool can come up with 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Somehow — he was elusive about aspects of his chronology — he also made it through Catholic grade school. ArtsBeat: After a Flap, a Work Draws Attention 2010-12-09T20:09:00Z

There will be many who find To the Wonder elusive and too effervescent. Roger Ebert's funeral targeted by Westboro Baptist church 2013-04-08T13:15:30Z

Raiders of the Lost Ark 13: Indiana Jones finds the elusive ark, only to discover that all it contains is the remains of Millard Fillmore. Style Invitational Week 1304: What if you could wonder . . . whatever? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Sibelius's most elusive symphonies, the Sixth and Third, framed the programme, but received rather awkward, effortful performances in which nothing seemed to follow naturally from what had come before. Proms 35 & 36: BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds; Glamorous Night – review 2012-08-10T11:11:19Z

Because beyond the obvious — You Are Here in Central Park — my exact location among the 843 acres, dozens of statues and sculptures, seven bodies of water and seven meadows was elusive. Central Park: A green island in Manhattan

The elusive artist confirmed the picture was his when he posted a video of him creating it on his Instagram account. Elusive artist Banksy confirms he’s behind prison artwork 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

The influences are varied and ever-present, but subtle and elusive. How Jonny Greenwood Wove the ‘Phantom Thread’ Score 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Markus offered a more elusive response: “There are varying theories. I am very entertained by that theory.” "Avengers: Endgame" writers aren’t crazy about bringing more multiverse stories to the MCU 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

The elusive Cornell inspired a work that relied on inference and sympathy. Dore Ashton, Art Critic Who Embraced and Inhabited Modernism, Dies at 88 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

In particular, work/life balance seems to prove elusive. The Internship: how cinema sold its soul – but didn't get paid 2013-07-01T14:45:37Z

But then, the impulses behind much of his work have been complicated and elusive: a childhood memory, a dream, a detail from an old master painting, or from his own work. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z

He also is notoriously elusive and rarely grants interviews. Running Deep, the Roots of King Sunny Adé 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Yet the author’s cordial, storytelling tone, one in which the narrative voice speaks, in once-upon-a-time fashion, from an era distant from the novel’s setting, keeps any definite parallel intriguingly elusive. In ancient times 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Harvey’s story is told through a combination of historical facts and fictional reimaginings of the obsession that drove the reverend to seek out the elusive creature. Books to Watch Out For: July 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Some, like a mystery surrounding an elusive criminal mastermind, are serious. Review: `Two Worlds II' is a diamond in the rough 2011-02-09T12:39:10Z

Largely set over a few days, it traces the emotional and psychological entanglements that emerge once the men meet Nadja, an initially indistinct, intriguingly elusive figure in red, one who Leon voyeuristically observes from afar. ‘Afire’ Review: His Flaws Are Petty, Pathetic and Funny 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

Considering how much Manning wrote about him and what a compulsive talker he was, he remains elusive and silent. Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David - review 2013-02-16T08:01:01Z

Although Kiara has faced some financial struggles with maintaining the property since her mother died, it remains a haven for guests seeking that ephemeral and elusive trait: authenticity. Encountering Another Jamaica 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

But when we, the agitated, try to breathe deeply and locate our spiritual center, it’s elusive. What does a pandemic sound like? For many of us at home, it’s a heartbreaking silence. 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

But the siren song of the White House, that ultimate and elusive prize, still calls to Joe. Jill Biden has never wanted to be first lady, but Joe can’t win the White House without her 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

“Mad Men” keeps confounding expectations — the ’60s fashion, mores and cultural landmarks keep getting more familiar, but the characters maintain an elusive weirdness. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z

I refer to the elusive drama written and directed by Maggie Kiley, not the erstwhile spiritual phone line. Review: 'Dial a Prayer' seems to have a lot to say but does so unclearly 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Carol’s feelings, while equally intense, are more elusive, partly because the reader experiences them at second hand, from Therese’s point of view. Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

In “Issue #3,” for instance, Cave marvels at the elusive nature of writing. The Brutality and Tenderness of Nick Cave’s Newsletters 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

He was, paradoxically, an innovative poet who quietly fulfilled the old, elusive Romantic doctrine of humble attentiveness to Everyman. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z

The membership card—$2,500 for customers in the U.S.—grants entry to a pile of great art events as well as to the far more elusive scene that surrounds them. Become an Art-World Insider for $2,500 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

Still, you can't deny the benefits of repetition in cooking, particularly on something simple yet maddeningly elusive, like making a perfect omelet or cooking a steak just right every time. How long does it take to master a recipe? 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

Tell Facebook you have solved the elusive Riemann hypothesis, proving conclusively that the zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: What to do with that half-hour before a nuclear missile strikes 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

In doing so, she proves some tomorrow needn't be permanently elusive. Bet your bottom dollar that NBC's "Annie Live!" will usher in a new inclusive era for an old classic 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life’s work remains elusive. ‘Fifi Howls From Happiness,’ From Mitra Farahani 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

The redemption she seeks, though, may prove elusive for Heard, as the deck remains stacked against accusers. Amber Heard was the “perfect victim” — and perfect still isn’t good enough 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

It also made him a notoriously elusive figure for biographers. Books of The Times: ?Charles Dickens,? by Claire Tomalin; ?Becoming Dickens? - 2011-10-24T22:30:07Z

There are passages in it where one will feel lost in the author's elusive wake, and seem to be stumbling blindly through the golden dust of an Attic glade, yet the music is always captivating. Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe ? review 2011-07-29T22:00:40Z

“The way he’s trying to express it could be mysterious or enigmatic or elusive. Or it could be celebrating the beauty of certain scenes or the chaotic nature of things, the strange nature of things.” Opening Paul Allen’s Treasure Chest 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

In one of the essay’s most striking passages, he argues that “the signal term” for this sensibility “is an elusive one: ‘fun.’ The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Paradoxically, popularity is now both infinitely quantifiable and infinitely elusive. What Was, Is and Will Be Popular 2013-09-06T22:52:30Z

If anything, the project is itself a little elusive, which is often the nature with AR, a slippery medium that is still often confused with virtual reality, though they differ considerably. ‘Liberty Bell’ Tolls for Sites Where History Is Alive and Kicking 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

The humanities, after all, deal with elusive questions of aesthetics, existence and meaning, the words that bring tears or the melody that raises goosebumps. Digital keys for unlocking the humanities' riches 2010-11-18T02:01:00Z

The Hebrides Overture, with which Marriner opened, was efficiently played, but phrasing was rather foursquare, orchestral balance was elusive, and there was little of the poetic exhilaration that animates the piece. ASMF/Marriner – review 2012-12-20T15:54:59Z

Mr. Chappelle has different demons and is a more elusive storyteller. Dave Chappelle Returns to Stand-Up, With Stories to Tell 2013-08-15T11:55:00Z

The country is perhaps best known to tourists as the home of half of the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas, and this year there are more opportunities to spot the elusive creatures. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z

Late into the night, the lobbies and bars of the convention centre continue to ring with the sound of two thousand devotees, all pursuing that elusive, endlessly seductive barbershop chord. The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project ? and smile! 2010-07-27T21:29:00Z

That piece, written in a pungently modernist musical language, unfolded as a long, uninterrupted, strangely riveting but very elusive single movement. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

The film has brought renewed attention to the elusive 74-year-old Davis, who was hailed as the queen of funk in the early 1970s but who mysteriously disappeared from public life in the ’80s. ‘I didn’t just fade off the planet.’ Reconnecting with ’70s funk queen Betty Davis 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

There are some not-so-subtle parallels between Mr. Canin’s creative ambitions and his struggles as a writer, and his protagonist’s tortured pursuit of elusive mathematical truths. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

And Washington truly “ranks as the most famously elusive figure in American history, a remote, enigmatic personage more revered than truly loved.” Books of The Times: Dusting Off an Elusive President?s Dull Image 2010-09-27T23:42:00Z

There's quite a lot of music in "M3GAN" in general, perhaps aiming for that elusive Gen Z crowd with tunes by the likes of Taylor Swift. How "M3GAN" weaponizes music 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

Your Toes evokes a more elusive feeling: theatrical rapture. On Your Toes at Encores!: Dancing With the Real Stars 2013-05-10T21:01:31Z

That is what you think of when you think of the poetic, elusive “Somewhere.” What Is ‘West Side Story’ Without Jerome Robbins? Chatty. 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

Their sense of scale is elusive and independent of their physical size. Flower? Animal? Person? The color-drenched questions in Mimi Lauter's drawings 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

While Crump scores civil monetary awards — “we never lose these cases” — criminal justice has proved largely elusive. Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

It’s the ultimate American oh-what-a-feeling, perpetually for sale and eternally elusive — and it’s been a bonanza for publishing. ‘On Consolation’ Searches for Solace in the Face of Grief and Misery 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

The hope is to form a stable of show creators who will return for future projects and to secure those elusive hits that can define a network. Ditching Spike in Favor of Kevin Costner and Some Mean Teens 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

It is part of Booth’s point, I think, that when money is as elusive as it is for these people, character is indeed primarily defined by privation. Review: Shrinking Lives at a Big Box Store in ‘Paris’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

A key is their ability to create "deep black," elusive in video technology, says Emmart, who attended a recent demonstration at the Adler and whose own institution's Hayden Planetarium has installed 12 of the projectors. Countdown to 'wow' at Adler's new Sky Theater 2011-06-21T23:38:00Z

And is the elusive Mrs. Haven part of a grand conspiracy, out to destroy our narrator? In 'The Lost Time Accidents,' John Wray balances the logical and the ludicrous 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Assange may be elusive and mysterious -- and for governments, profoundly troubling -- but one thing he's not is powerful. Assange: Bond villain -- or Bourne? 2010-12-03T16:04:00Z

The true story behind an American folk song may be elusive, and yet the musical tradition hands these tunes forward, not unlike the family watch. The Elderly Bearers of a Folk-Music Tradition in Rural Tennessee 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

He began with Beethoven’s “Andante Favori,” a lilting, lyrical yet elusive piece, and the original slow movement of Beethoven’s mighty “Waldstein” Sonata. Review: Trifonov, in Risky Program, Doesn’t Fail to Thrill 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Scott’s book moves swiftly through its elusive topics. Review: In ‘Better Living Through Criticism,’ A. O. Scott Offers Insight 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

As for why this works, it’s in the nature of the fable, in which recognizable figures traverse elusive but also recognizable worlds. In 'Dinner at the Center of the Earth,' Nathan Englander deepens and expands what he does so well 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

“This one really whipped my butt,” Tyson admitted playfully, adding that Fonsia “is one of the most elusive, intricate characters I have ever attempted to put together.” Cicely Tyson: A pioneer stretches her acting muscles in a new career chapter 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

She remains as elusive in this admirable book as in life, as in the photographs that remain to us — a round-cheeked young person with a decisive mouth, not quite meeting our eye. An Enthralling New Look at the Mystery of Lizzie Borden 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

This installment features the elusive former Northern Soul star Dean Parrish, who also worked as a session guitarist for Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The Philharmonic’s performance captured the engaging yet elusive quality of the episodic first movement, and the dancing, bucolic third movement was especially vibrant. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

Hapless, hopeless, elusive: these seem to be aspects of the artist as well as the art. Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures – review 2012-09-29T23:05:27Z

As one of Broadway’s most in-demand directors, Mantello is used to figuring out exacting scripts, but he initially found the one for “Grey House” to be elusive. In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

While those were on my to-do list, I was primarily hoping to find something slightly more elusive: the lost city of Atlantis. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Because the etiology of allergies proved elusive, those who treated the disorder were accused of practicing “witchcraft,” as one allergist complained in 1956. Review: ‘Another Person’s Poison,’ Matthew Smith’s Book on Food Allergies 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

Occasionally, a scene overruns or a satirical point proves elusive. Will Franken – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-09T15:24:46Z

The purpose of all these different lists is to effectively capture the elusive phenomena of consumer choice — the individual decisions that reflect genuine widespread interest. What Was, Is and Will Be Popular 2013-09-06T22:52:30Z

Yet despite these exhibitions, neither O’Keeffe nor any other woman would break into “Janson’s History of Art,” the leading textbook, until 1987, and equality remained elusive. The Resurgence of Women-Only Art Shows 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

The elusive spice in the fried “Hot Chicken” tower is the Ethiopian seasoning mix berbere. Where to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in Virginia Beach 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Now they're after an equally elusive target: a sense of humor. Ted Danson brings a smile to 'CSI' 2011-09-20T20:07:04Z

The absence of this elusive cosmopolitanism constitutes a serious obstruction between the two countries, hindering their ability to reset the terms of the game and get along. 1949: The Year That Set the Course of Chinese-American Relations 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Though the story is elusive, the images speak for themselves, and they are stunning. ‘Zama’ Review: Trapped in the Tropics 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Black, on drums, struck an elusive truce between bombast and finesse, driving his agenda along with the pulse of the tune. Review: Jim Black Trio at Le Poisson Rouge 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Influence among artists is rather elusive and subjective. American theatre: the wonder years? 2010-04-07T13:29:00Z

The texts are elusive, acquiring disquieting ambiguity when juxtaposed with a video that Mr. Schramm created at Dr. Walker’s request. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Visitors may find this concept even more elusive than that of this year’s camp show, which drew people in and frustrated them in equal measure. The Met’s Next Big Fashion Show Revealed 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Her gradual unmooring from any stable sense of reality, and her perseverance in spite of that dislocation, strike me as utterly familiar, even as the causes of her alienation remains elusive. ‘Memoria’ Review: In Search of Lost Time 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Training also helped create coherence and style—that most elusive of human touches. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Sarah is extraordinarily elusive and the book itself, as it jumps between past and present or draws a veil over a private conversation, abets her escape. Why I conducted a 16-year ‘affair’ with my mother 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

The third season ventured to North Africa as the Khaleesi went on her travels in search of an army and those ever elusive ships. The 7 kingdoms in “Game of Thrones” are actually these 5 real-world places 2014-04-29T22:57:00Z

But clear reasons for the firing remain elusive. A Firing and a Question of Race Roil the Oregon Bach Festival 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

The search for that elusive something propelled her from one subject to the next. Jenny Diski, Author Who Wrote of Madness and Isolation, Dies at 68 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

To enter the beguilingly allusive and elusive “Correspondences” is to again be a child holed up under the kitchen table, straining to hear the grown-ups murmur. Newly Released: ‘Communion Town’ by Sam Thompson, and More 2013-12-25T20:57:22Z

Here, the bar’s elusive rabbit hole hurtles you into a Southern-style honky-tonk where a beer and a shot are the call of the day and taxidermy is a synonym for décor. The Hidden Bars of Sydney 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

This all has an effect on our perception of the acoustics, but with each successive concert I’ve begun to detect some subtle gaps between the more inviting visuals and the elusive sound of the hall. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The events of that night remained tantalisingly elusive. 'The humanity of black characters is often forgotten': behind Oscar-tipped One Night in Miami 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

“Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and system-less, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.” Germans can’t get enough Mark Twain 2013-01-10T22:39:00Z

It’s elusive: You need a feeling for this kind of music, and you need to live with it. Leif Ove Andsnes on Chopin’s Ballades, ‘the Peak of Romantic Piano Music’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

One name for that elusive quality might be empathy, but it might be something even simpler. Review: Indelible Heartbreak, Moment to Moment, in ‘A Woman’s Life.’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

As soon as you say what you see in his abstract configurations of swollen blobs, probing protuberances and welcoming crevasses, you feel that your words exaggerate the playful relationships that unfold in his elusive images. What to see in L.A. galleries: John Altoon, Maria Lassnig, a funky fairy tale and stenciled magic 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

It is a refuge, a nest, a beacon of welcome, a source of dignity — the most basic of needs, and for many people over many too many decades, outrageously elusive. The Reconciliation Must Be Televised 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

The real plains are the folds of the brain, which contain the elusive matter of memory. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z

Jude is stubbornly elusive even throughout the novel’s 720 pages, less of a character than an amalgam of scars and cipher for the attention of others. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The good guys remain elusive as the father sickens, and he talks of the boy inevitably being alone on the road. Review: ‘The Road,’ by Cormac McCarthy 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Like everyone, I see other people’s ideological rabbit holes with ease and clarity, but my own are maddeningly elusive. Perspective | The cure for partisanship in food debates: Start listening. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

It’s that Ms. Weber is able to arrange words musically, so that they capture the elusive, unfinished melodies that haunt our memories of childhood. Books of The Times: When Granny Met Gershwin, and Other Gossip 2011-07-25T18:39:38Z

Jack Sparrow, who, in this swashbuckling go-round for the franchise, tries to find the elusive Fountain of Youth. New DVDs: 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' 2011-10-17T20:07:10Z

Like much of her music, “Chemtrails” often bends backward to grasp at an elusive and irretrievable prelapsarian state. Lana Del Rey Takes a Road Trip Into the Past 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

And her life of Penelope Fitzgerald is shorter and sparer than the others — like Fitzgerald, who was elusive and a little mysterious, a great writer of concealment. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

Nice to see the Mint doing an especially good job with a play by the elusive N.C. Review: In ‘A Day by the Sea,’ Words Unsaid or Said Quite Bluntly 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Ultimate answers about the suicide, or about the nature of Cobain’s relationship with Ms. Love, are still elusive, though. Review: ‘Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,’ a Documentary by Brett Morgen 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Though greatly sought after because of his place in musical history, Schneider was an elusive figure. Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk founder and electronic music pioneer, dies at 73 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

Even when derived from actual ones, Palasik's forms are archetypal and elusive. Review | In the galleries: Roving photographers capture street scenes around the world 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

In the turbulent months after the uprisings, when the promises of democracy and greater social freedom remained elusive, some novelists channeled their frustrations and fears into grim apocalyptic tales. Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

But as a central figure, MacGowan is simultaneously vivid and utterly elusive. Here Comes Everybody by James Fearnley – review 2012-06-14T07:00:01Z

For most of them, feeling comfortable in their own skin isn’t so much elusive as it is unimaginable — nearly as foreign an idea as getting bigger jeans when the old ones are too small. Review: ‘Stuffed’ Details Fights Women Wage With Their Weight 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

The tablet proved to be elusive, first tracking at his arrival gate. Making the case for luggage tracking 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Huston, as he’s followed in Ross’s lenses, is exuberant and expressive, but, like many complex artists, he is also a figure of elusive, iridescent ambiguity. Lillian Ross’s Brilliant Chronicle of the Power Struggle Behind a John Huston Film 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Even with her help, the images she identifies are elusive. Berkshire Tour: Formalism Relaxes, Handcraft Goes Digital 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

In “Smiley’s People,” the old bloodhound comes out of an uneasy retirement to track down the elusive Soviet spymaster Karla, of whom he has caught a faint but distinct whiff, too tempting not to follow. ‘The Night Manager’ Brings John le Carré Back to the Small Screen 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

While such ingenious literalism possesses its own quirky appeal, it also reveals the elusive quicksilver nature of cockney identity. There's more to cockney culture than being born in earshot of Bow bells 2012-06-26T11:50:01Z

His “desert effect” proved intriguing, a kaleidoscopic tapestry for piano whose vigorous and elusive flourishes were fervently played by Karl Larson. Review: String Orchestra of Brooklyn Plays a Program of Spare Works at Roulette 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

The album’s stomping title track posits a lucky, seductive, elusive imaginary friend, “the boy named If,” who always escapes consequences. Elvis Costello & the Imposters Are Still Blasting Away 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

It feels like a bit of a bait and switch that, for the sisters, such depth is implausibly elusive. Review: In ‘Plano,’ Two Multiplying Husbands Outnumber Three Sisters 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

With Adebimpe holed up, the rest of the touring party would go out in search of the elusive good times. TV On The Radio keep heart despite nine types of trauma 2011-04-11T09:00:00Z

The connection between the movie Chris dreams up and the one she’s in seems both elusive and obvious, as do the possible autobiographical implications of “Bergman Island.” ‘Bergman Island’ Review: Love Among the Cinephiles 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s Seventh, slyly quoted at one point, was a model for Shapero’s piece, which opens with an elusive Adagio, all flickering chords and sustained sonorities, that shifts into a bustling, densely contrapuntal Allegro. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Yet true knowledge remains elusive and experts are often mocked and dismissed by the public. Author Tom Nichols on how Trump won: “People looked up from their phones and said, ‘Where’s my money?'” 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

You can find a pierogi on any corner, but this soup is an elusive thing. B.A. Parker Can’t Get Enough of K-Dramas 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

Subtlety, transparency, a feeling for the elusive character of the music: these were the hallmarks of the performance. Music Review: Chicago Greets Its New Maestro, Who Arrives With Unusual Fare 2010-09-24T16:47:00Z

Brown remains elusive and vague throughout, a shadow projected on a wall. A Sleepy Biography for the Author of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

I pulled out my laminated picture of the hang — an elusive musical instrument, introduced in 2000, which I’d come all the way to Switzerland to find. In Switzerland, a musician searches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of instruments 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Not many actors truly display or have that elusive "star" quality that semi-explodes from those who are truly stars. ‘The Night Manager’ Premiere: Do You Have to Love le Carré to Like This Show? 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Hope is elusive, but it will return eventually. The Worst Year Ever, Until Next Year 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

And having an Oprah moment has never seemed more tantalizingly elusive. Who Will Be Oprah?s Last Star? 2010-11-15T19:07:00Z

From Sleep” is beguiling, “Sleep” is more tranquil and, by design, more elusive. Music to Sleep By 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Pooh’s house proved as elusive as a “woozle,” but there was one good contender for Piglet’s: a tree with a little fissure at the base, just the right size for “a very small animal.” The English countryside that inspired ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ still enchants kids of all ages 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

If Delhi is the voice of power and bureaucracy, and Mumbai is the sound of showbiz cacophonies, Calcutta is ghosts and whispers, strange resonances, elusive melodies. Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri – review 2013-04-06T06:01:32Z

What they would often discover is that the prize at the end of their scavenger hunt was elusive. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

It’s become clear during this operation that the right wing has lost its patience in all matters regarding that elusive term, “freedom of speech.” Israel’s Other War 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

As a child I held a suspicion that these links concealed elusive truths about my mother — truths she kept from me and my sister. The day Vida Wayne vanished, wearing a quarter-million dollars in jewels 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Unlike an Oscar, which typically boosts box office and DVD sales in a quantifiable way, the value of an Emmy is more elusive. How much is an Emmy worth? 2010-08-02T17:33:00Z

Enunciated for evocative weight, “thing” was a placeholder for a concept or a process whose correct name either proved elusive in the moment or remained yet to be discovered. The Indelible Substance of a Semester with Toni Morrison 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Bruno says hard data is elusive about how many performers with disabilities are working onstage or in film in any given year. New staging of ‘Tommy’ to include Russell Harvard and Monica Lijewski 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

That includes those closest to us; it also includes our own, elusive selves. Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The truth is that the locus of responsibility is maddeningly elusive. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Agboh, a former writer on CBS's "The Good Wife," said her goal with "Power" was to tell a story about the elusive road to redemption. 'Power' explores the dark corners of clubs and drugs 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

The combination of them onstage was transfixing, their communication elusive. Neil Greenberg’s “This” 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

The story follows Miles Halter’s experiences at prep school in Alabama, where he falls for an elusive and beautiful girl named Alaska. John Green Takes Fans Inside His Creative Process 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The big four networks continue to lag behind their cable counterparts in the race to accumulate that elusive buzz, though it’s not for a lack of trying. This Is Us emerges as safe winner in terrible year for network pilots 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

It is as if it is here and not here, evident and elusive, finished and foetal at once. Let me finish: how to stop interrupting… and change the world 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

You think you can read Broughton’s thoughts just by gazing into her feline eyes, only to realize that whatever she calls the truth is elusive. 6 Best Summer Blockbusters You Have to See 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

The Transport Group, directed by Jack Cummings III, reconceives the story of lost love and elusive happiness. The New Season of Theater: Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

A short while later the elusive seals slipped from my mind as we approached Ukonvuori, an impressive 165-foot-high forested mound of granite named for the Finnish god of thunder, one of Kolovesi’s main attractions. In Finland, Slippery Seals 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

But for me, it always comes back to that one central question, the elusive answer of which is at the heart of this book's long-lived success: why do we read Great Expectations? Dickens's Great Expectations 2010-12-29T09:00:03Z

In one of the few skeptical assessments of this elusive quality, Pauline Kael, reviewing “Sophie’s Choice,” suggested that Ms. Streep was too controlling, too calculated, to create characters of full and spontaneous humanity. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z

It's an ideal many find irresistible in spite of the fact that – or, indeed, because – upward mobility is more elusive than ever. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z

Although she has been interviewed extensively in France, there is still something elusive about her. ‘The Governesses’ Offers Subtle Lessons in Shame, Constraint and Lust 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Yet where appropriate, as in the elusive second theme of the first movement, the music relaxed without any loss of thrust. Music Review: At Mostly Mozart, Osmo Vanska and Antti Siirala 2010-08-15T22:23:00Z

“The sensuality of the painting strikes the viewer directly, while the subject remains elusive and open-ended, keeping the viewer engaged.” Sir Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June Makes Its New York Debut 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

The dancers rarely stop moving, yet something is too elusive in this choreographic experiment: energy. ‘Quantum’ at BAM Fisher Mixes Movement and Light 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Perhaps mystery is the point: Maybe CBS hopes that by keeping Mr. Corden’s charm elusive, viewers will continue tuning in to learn more. Review: James Corden Is Amiable, if Not Particularly Special, in ‘Late Late Show’ Debut on CBS 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

That simple pleasure has proved elusive since May, when the fireworks began in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where Astin lives. Fireworks proliferate across U.S., but why is unclear 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

His style, a combination of the concrete and the elusive, was epitomized in his poem “Preludes”: Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 83 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

She often uses simple language in elusive ways, though there are occasional flashes of directness: Review: Joan Shelley Offers Celtic-Tinged Melodies 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

But Menzies might also have relished his role as an authorial eminence grise, exercising his creative power in indirect, elusive ways. DVDs: Another Trippy Rabbit Hole 2010-02-27T03:01:00Z

Nearly 50 years after the Staples Singers drew record crowds at the Apollo, it remains one of the country’s most elusive goals. Jamie Foxx, Alicia Keys and Justin Timberlake Perform at Apollo Theater Party 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

In a new biography, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan strive to bring into focus the elusive figure of the artist himself. Review | Francis Bacon was an elusive figure. A new biography presents novel details of his iconoclastic existence. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

The demonic subject of murder ballad The Almond Tree is an elusive deer, whose skittering movements are mirrored in the music's shifts from eerie piano to impish bass. Hannah Peel: The Broken Wave - review 2011-01-27T23:40:01Z

Among younger women, facts and figures are elusive. These Companies Really, Really, Really Want to Freeze Your Eggs 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

The feat was ultimately accomplished by leaving a note on the door; the owners had been elusive because they had just purchased the vacant home, and had not yet begun their planned, and extensive, renovations. ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ at 20: When Wes Anderson Imagined New York 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Times praised it, noting, "If it doesn't spin an entirely satisfying yarn, its roar is still irresistible, even when the object of protest remains elusive." Green Day's "American Idiot" hits Great White Way 2010-04-17T03:25:00Z

The second, more briskly chronological half of the book is stronger than the thematic sections of the first half, where the structuring principles are more elusive. Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge – review 2013-03-25T08:00:09Z

But where certainty is elusive, common sense is the best defense. Images coming from Ferguson, Mo., reveal unfiltered, uncomfortable truths

But if he is a sceptic, his ex-wife is not, and Mark becomes haunted by an elusive search for happiness, forgiveness and conviction. You Came Back by Christopher Coake – review 2012-07-21T23:04:04Z

More troublesome is that the characters are thinly drawn, and what the show is getting at remains elusive. Review: In ‘Assembled Identity,’ They Laugh Alike, They Walk Alike, but They’re Not Twins 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

But now that the elusive Salinger is gone, what will happen to his iron-fisted control over his writings? 2010-01-30T04:10:00Z

To hear Nivola, 49, tell it, good fortune has been elusive. Alessandro Nivola Put His Foot Down and Won the ‘Many Saints’ Role Anyway 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

It was music that couldn't easily be defined or pinned down, elusive and allusive, much like Plant himself. Robert Plant in ghost dance with roots 2011-04-11T00:28:26Z

The crime, naturally, provides an excuse for the comedy, the racial content of which has apparently proved a bit elusive, at least for certain members of the news media. Buddy-Cop Banter With a Brogue 2011-07-17T01:13:02Z

And by that I don’t mean big, topical subjects, but more elusive, philosophical ones about our attraction to our own annihilation and the nature and limits of language. Theater Review: In Far Over Their Heads: Life at the Pool?s Bottom 2010-10-27T04:30:00Z

Steeped in bebop, Ms. Jordan’s singing is still limber and adventurous, but also marked by discretion, that increasingly elusive virtue. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

“Turks call it an ‘intervention,’ the Greeks call it an ‘invasion,’ ” he said, recalling the Turkish landing of 1974, amid tales of gun-running fishing boats and martyred student militants, broken treaties and elusive reconciliation. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Howland isn’t interested in redemption or instruction — but something more elusive. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

Even when its meaning is elusive, the language sings. Theater Review: ‘Gibraltar,’ Adapted From ‘Ulysses,’ Plays at Irish Rep 2013-06-25T22:02:32Z

Coming to terms with the fact that you’re going to die is elusive. Should the terminally ill control their death? 2012-09-22T13:00:00Z

With minimal movements and eerie concentration, Ms. Rampling spoke 11 of Plath’s lengthy, elusive poems, all performed from memory. Review: ‘The Night Dances,’ With Charlotte Rampling and Sonia Wieder-Atherton 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

It does not include Jandek, because it is possible to be so elusive that your albums are not on any streaming services. The Enduring Appeal of Magical Mystery Musicians 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

One is a grand space opera, with catchy Wagnerian leitmotifs and blaring immensity; the other is atonal and elusive, full of amorphous sound that rarely coalesces into melody. ‘Psycho’ and ‘Close Encounters’ Roll at the Philharmonic 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Very subtle in its off-white nuances with a touch of grayish blue, its figural subject was too elusive to stimulate bidders that evening. Auctions: A Serious Moment for Contemporary Art 2011-07-01T13:30:36Z

Monochromes in shades of slate and iridescent cobalt, the pieces are impeccable, uncanny, elusively beautiful, close cousins to Tauba Auerbach's spray paintings of a few years ago that mimic wrinkled and folded surfaces. Amir Nikravan paintings at home in intellectualized hall of mirrors 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Modesty has always been an elusive goal when it comes to toilets. 11 historically significant toilets 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z

There is also a formidable intelligence at work, both tactical and political, and an elusive, almost mysterious quality as well. ‘Harriet’ Review: Becoming Moses 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Balsamic vinegar may be one of the most elusive ingredients in terms of identifying, and thereby writing about, its flavor profile. The balsamic break-down: Here's what makes this Italian condiment so special 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Other mysteries include the search for the elusive shape of the universe. Liked the book? Try the app 2010-07-02T23:05:00Z

“It adds a viscosity and a teasingly elusive flavor, if you’re not used to it,” Mr. Berry said. Shake Up Your Evening Cocktail With Some Honey 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

But "the unshaven prickle/ of a sharpened razor" which the "pang" evokes is itself elusive: the phrase produces a tingle, rather than a specific image. Poem of the week: How Snow Falls by Craig Raine 2010-12-06T10:27:00Z

A related gift is the space to finally be still; more than any exotic destination, stillness appears to be the elusive luxury of our age. In Defense of the Three-Week Vacation 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

He’s been personally elusive and at times inscrutable. Prince’s power move: Opting out of Spotify and Apple right as the streaming wars heat up 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Matthew Iwanusa sings lead vocals in a high tenor that stays clear but undemonstrative, calmly delivering terse, elusive lyrics: “Forward motion/’Cause I would like to be one/Decide on me/You’ll try you’ll see.” New Music: New Music From Caveman, Los Campesinos! and the Fall 2011-11-14T22:59:39Z

Asked in an interview why "The Assassin" ended up so narratively elusive, Hou replied: Cannes Film Festival: Why Hou Hsiao-Hsien made 'The Assassin' so elliptical 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

Recordings of the full opera have been elusive, particularly on video. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Diana is hunting an elusive gray wolf, one of many returning to the Sawtooth Mountains after near-extinction, thanks to a federal government effort that drew strong opposition from the livestock industry, as well as hunters. A Lighter Matthew Barney Goes Back to School, and Back Home 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The well-known reticence of Leonardo, whose notebooks were not published until the late 19th century, and the scarcity of his work have made him elusive prey for the art historian. A. Richard Turner Dies at 79; Wrote ?Inventing Leonardo? 2011-09-23T04:55:22Z

Coleman-Wright led a cast which was often stronger dramatically than vocally, especially in the female roles, where high notes remained an elusive commodity. Bliss; BBC Prom 61: H?nsel and Gretel 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Yet just below the elegant surface lurks a bold and inquisitive musician alert to every ingenious nuance and quirk of these elusive scores. CD Reviews: An Israeli Pianist Plays Mozart 2010-04-02T13:45:00Z

What’s more, as time went by, the poems grew increasingly abstract and their meaning more and more elusive. Who was Wallace Stevens? A new biography looks at the man and his work. 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

She sees Dali’s painting as an invitation to a dance, with his flower-shrouded woman as the elusive star of a jaunty ballet. Review | Washington Ballet opens its new season with three eye-catching, yet incomplete premieres 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Yet even when focused on the music, the mechanisms stay elusive. The Playlist: Ed Sheeran Returns With a Foot in the Past and an Eye on the Future 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Woolfson is not to be discouraged, however, and is often awake in the small hours in search of the elusive aurora borealis. Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary by Esther Woolfson – review 2013-03-15T17:42:01Z

"People think of packaged food as notably elusive," she said. Recipe for Coke causes quite a stir 2011-02-20T06:02:33Z

Presented at the "secret warehouse"of the daring and elusive experimental Seattle troupe Implied Violence, "Amniotes" is set in Kansas, and concerns the "continuation of life on Earth in the face of its immediate demise." New works pepper Seattle stages this month 2010-08-05T20:35:00Z

Some of its impact derives from Andrew Davis's conducting, which is beautifully subtle in its negotiation of Dvořák's elusive mix of genuine magic and underlying sadness. Rusalka ? review 2011-07-26T17:40:19Z

I used to find him sly, but what is far more striking now is his impulsive, elusive eccentricity. A Pan-American Dance Sampler at the Joyce 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

But while she is more content and at peace, the actress remains an elusive and guarded personality whose politeness during an interview is sometimes punctuated by terse responses. So not 'Raven': Former Disney star goes for more grown-up laughs 2011-07-08T17:22:04Z

Turnover is generally extremely limited at leading ensembles, where players are often tenured and can remain in their posts for decades, leaving few vacancies and making meaningful demographic change elusive. U.S. Orchestras Gradually Diversify but Are Slow to Hire Black Musicians 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

Yet, even as the Royal marks his 80th anniversary, this triple bill shows how elusive MacMillan's choreographic identity remains. MacMillan triple bill | Dance review 2010-03-24T22:05:00Z

Striking that elusive balance between the illusion of total narrative anarchy and an underlying sense of order requires delicacy and discipline. How True Blood's supernatural hedonism changed genre television 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

The wildlife includes bison and horses, yipping prairie-dog colonies and elusive mountain lions. Oil drilling threatens solitude of national park 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

Active circulating — vs. active looking or passive waiting — might be your elusive happy medium. Carolyn Hax: Waiting vs. searching for new love

For a more realistic approach, Wilson offered some tips on bagging — figuratively speaking — these elusive subjects. In a limited engagement, the fireflies blink in sync in the Great Smoky Mountains 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

American Muslim identity is one of the most palpable, elusive and intellectually challenging ideas of our time, and intellectual freedom, knowledge and imagination are essential in opening up the discourse. We need diverse influences: Artist Shahzia Sikander on her multicultural past and our future 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

The film fascinates even as the man himself remains elusive. 'Killing Kasztner' documents Jewish man who negotiated with Nazis 2010-07-15T20:54:00Z

He was one of the most elusive and brilliant artists of the late 20th century. Dieter Roth: the video-diary Rembrandt 2012-08-01T17:15:01Z

Dance is something else: peripheral, elusive and in need of expensive lighting equipment. Museum Shows Leap Beyond The Frame 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z

The work was composed for Widmann, and it's hard to imagine any other violinist bringing quite the same intensity and commitment to this elusive, two-movement piece. BBCSO/Bringuier ? review 2012-02-13T17:51:34Z

In “Company B” he employed just the right elusive gravity opposite Amy Young in the despairing “There Will Never Be Another You.” Dance Review: Celebrating Paul Taylor at Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2010-08-08T22:44:00Z

Yet the search never stopped, and Xenakis managed to stay elusive until his death in 2001, along the way building a legacy that is being observed this year, the centennial of his birth. With a Sound Forged in War, Iannis Xenakis Embraced Chaos 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

Your movie talks about Los Angeles being elusive as a subject, tough to get right. 'L.A. Plays Itself,' but do films get it right? 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

What interests me, however, is less physiological, more elusive: walking as a way of life. How Walking Changes Us 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Yovanovitch signaled that she was there for country, for elusive, nonpartisan facts. Perspective | Marie Yovanovitch’s eagles, sabers and U.S. flag spoke before her testimony began 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

Nepalese food, best expressed at Royal Nepal in Alexandria, is a more elusive commodity. Review | Help save this restaurant: Everest Kitchen’s Nepalese fare is worth the trek 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

Chalk that up to another difference of opinion on the elusive nature of truth. Tabloid: The Honey Blonde and the 'Manacled Mormon' 2011-07-14T21:10:00Z

That lends "Source Code" an elusive, almost arty shimmer beneath its glossy, action-movie surface. Pick of the week: Jake Gyllenhaal in the cool, romantic "Source Code" 2011-03-31T22:32:00Z

It may be a while longer before Menswear get that elusive platinum disc. How Menswear typified Cool Britannia and Britain's creation myth 2012-11-23T12:50:55Z

Among the fellow filmmakers that Krasinski said he commiserated with during this period was his friend Paul Thomas Anderson, the elusive auteur. John Krasinski and the Tense Wait for ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

Since then, Mr. Capaldi, 56, has spent several months filming “Doctor Who” in Cardiff, Wales, trying to bring to the role his own personal take, which he says is more sardonic and elusive. Peter Capaldi Goes From ‘Doctor Who’ Fan to Its Star 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

His nickname made him seem elusive, a figment of her outsize fantasy life. Motherlode Blog: Widowed, and Keeping Dates Like ‘Glamourpuss’ and ‘Crunchy Dad’ at a Distance 2013-07-14T14:02:31Z

His dancing was animated and enhanced by an all-too elusive quality: a generous spirit. What Set tWitch Apart as a Dancer? His Generous Spirit. 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

But it’s an elusive skill: A host has to be prepared to strike up meaningful conversations with dozens of strangers each day. Help Wanted: Someone to Soothe the Restaurant Line 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Both may influence that picture – but there is a final, elusive element of choice. The six self-ies of life: what every parent needs to teach their children 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

That didn’t stop the specter of that performance from feeling as real, and as elusive, to me as his murdered father’s was for the young prince. A Battle of the Hamlets 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

With Mozart and Beethoven you knew where you were, but Schubert, neither completely classical nor openly Romantic, slithered elusively out of my grasp. Schubert: lieder of the pack 2011-03-10T22:43:00Z

That simple pleasure has proved elusive since May, when the fireworks began in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where Askin lives. Who will solve the great fireworks mystery, and will we ever sleep again? 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

Despite her accomplishments on the continent, however, Steier said that work in the United States has been elusive. American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mosquito probably isn't the album to bring them the elusive major commercial breakthrough. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito – review 2013-04-11T14:29:01Z

An Artist With an Ever-Increasing Desire to Disappear “Jack Goldstein x 10,000,” the first American museum retrospective of this brilliant but elusive artist, is both a celebration and a cautionary tale. Art Review: ‘Jack Goldstein x 10,000’ at the Jewish Museum 2013-05-16T20:01:08Z

The subject of a career-spanning retrospective that begins Friday at the Museum of Modern Art and continues through June 4, Vertov is at once a central and an elusive figure in film history. Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin 2011-04-10T01:03:01Z

The combustible chemistry between Chancellor and Stephens is elusive. Private Lives – review 2013-07-04T11:35:00Z

The tango, in all its serpentine, flicking unrest, remains an elusive lover, even as Leda/Dante goes from romance to romance, woman to woman, conquest to conquest, weaving a tangled web of human deceit. ‘The Gods of Tango’: A gender-bending tale of music and love 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

There’s no blaming her for wishing, with a novel like “Pure Colour,” to be more elusive. ‘Pure Colour’ Seeks Answers About Love, Mortality and God 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

As Dave Kehr explained in The New York Times 10 years ago, for von Sternberg, “plots were at most a structuring device, a way of ordering elusive emotions, hazy atmospheres and almost abstract images.” Ready for Drama (and Meta-Drama)? Start With These Two Masters. 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

In certain respects, it may help decode some of the more obscure or elusive passages in that volume. Review | Bill Berkson’s ‘A Frank O’Hara Notebook’ is a magical artifact from another era 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Next on the menu: cheese, with a narrative detour following little Kayla and her mom, who seek the elusive Jumping Jasmine doll. Theater Review: Radio City Music Hall ‘Christmas Spectacular’ 2012-11-22T21:09:43Z

And all, in the end, academic: Where justice is elusive, your own worth waits patiently for your attention. Carolyn Hax: When bullies don’t get their comeuppance 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Of course in Peer’s case what is finally found is plenty of nothing, an apt conclusion for a man for whom a solid self remains elusive. Review: A Minimalist Version of ‘Peer Gynt’ Still Provokes 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Though as a writer she has a transporting ability to conjure place and atmosphere, Kolbert can at times be a strangely elusive presence in her own book. Can We Patch Up the Natural World We’ve Hurt? 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

It’s all part of the preparation for the Preakness Stakes, the venerable middle chapter of the Triple Crown, horse racing’s most elusive and prestigious prize. At the Preakness, the action off the track is just as colorful as the races 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

The pinot noir is a fantastic value for the price — that elusive combination of pinot flavors and complexity under $20. An excellent California pinot noir for $14? You better believe it. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Many ballerinas have found the whole role elusive. Meet Aurora of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’: Her Native Language Is Classical Ballet 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

“It’s much more elusive to know when you’ve got it right,” he said. Clive Owen, Suave and Roguish, on Making His Broadway Debut in ‘Old Times’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Poetic justice proved strangely elusive, as even those who attempted to help often inflicted harm. Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Legacy Left to Byron’s Wife and Daughter 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

I think about the white woman server at GW Fins in New Orleans’ French Quarter who walked me and my husband through elusive menu sections like appetizers, salads and entrees. Perspective | Trapped in while dining out: When white people make me part of their show 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Her own tips for a good pot of basic rice without the crust were elusive, too. Fluffy. Tasty. Tricky. 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

The destination that Mr. Moran is trying to achieve is both too fraught and elusive for cartography. Theater Review: Martin Moran’s ‘All the Rage’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-01-31T03:00:51Z

Cox, meanwhile, was much more blunt about it when questioned about the elusive reunion: “it’s not going to happen.” Aniston and Kudrow’s “Kimmel” reunion: The best “Friends” appearances on late-night TV 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

That world is one of collapsed time, in which the "gradual shipwreck" of life exists alongside the memories – albeit faulty and elusive – of a past that seems far more intact and filled with possibilities. Ancient Light by John Banville – review 2012-06-22T21:55:04Z

With a valuation of £1.5 million to £2 million, it is expected to reach a new auction high for the elusive, anonymous artist. Will Banksy’s Chimpanzees Laugh to a Record $2 Million? 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

But Chiu’s influence goes beyond a single high-profile exhibition or smaller, more permanent changes, such as the opening of a long-sought but elusive coffee shop in the central plaza of the distinctive round building. Meet the museum director behind the Hirshhorn’s Kusama show 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Repeatedly beaten up and robbed as he travels from one seedy clinic to another looking for an elusive doctor rumored to traffic in illegally obtained organs, Paul narrowly escapes death several times. | 'Inhale': A Life-Saving Journey to the Dark Side 2010-10-21T23:10:00Z

And Ms. Norman, looking the glorious diva and sounding radiant, sang fragments of elusive melodic lines. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z

When people say that this moment in world history feels unreal, they are grasping at a fairly simple but elusive truth. Perspective | Joe Biden warned of a ‘dark winter.’ Why does living in it feel so . . . unreal? 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

The elusive, restless music, brilliantly conceived for the piano, is like a combination of Impressionist Debussy and mystical Scriabin. ?Evgeny Starodubtsev: Piano Recital? ? Review 2011-12-04T16:37:56Z

But what I really want to know is how they summon that elusive capacity to be so, well, nakedly vulnerable. The naked truth about nude art modeling 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

This fear of appearing narcissistic—of being narcissistic, deep down—is where a particularly elusive form of the disorder may live. What Happens When We Decide Everyone Else Is a Narcissist 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

A definitive text, production or even an ordering of scenes proves elusive. Review: ‘Woyzeck, FJF’ Is a Quixotic Adaptation at the New Ohio Theater 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

The increasingly elusive free drink doesn't mean booze is losing its popularity at casinos. 'Free cocktails?' a dying call at casinos 2010-06-14T23:07:00Z

In the last 160 years the arc of the novel — in which redemption is elusive, if not impossible, and vengeance yields only catastrophe — has become an essential part of our narrative lexicon. ‘Moby-Dick’ Marathon in New York 2012-11-15T22:48:31Z

The art of writing — or, really, of practically any job — is an elusive thing to pin down. Critic’s Notebook: TV Shows at Moments of Creation 2013-07-28T19:05:05Z

But I tend to respond more fully to a different kind of art, less finished, more elusive, more lived. Six Artists From Iran at Grey Art Gallery 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Daft Punk became popular figures in the dance music field, known for wearing shiny helmets on stage and being elusive and unpredictable. Daft Punk's analog 'Random Access Memories' tops Billboard chart 2013-05-29T21:38:49Z

She even said it: "Have a drink," like it was this elusive thing that only cool people did. This 4-ingredient family recipe for homemade Kahlua takes hardly any time — and makes a perfect gift 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z

Block worked briefly as a copy reader for the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, whose founder was as elusive as the ethics of his company. Lawrence Block’s memoir recalls a colorful writing career 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

It's more dreamscape than biopic; wives and children pop up and disappear without exposition, while years slip by and locations remain elusive. Midnight in Paris. And 2 a.m. And 4 a.m. 2011-08-31T14:20:00Z

And so on, but despite my best efforts and a huge telephoto lens, I saw only shadows, not the elusive wolves flitting in the distance. Yellowstone during the pandemic: Reliably magnificent 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

At its best, his painting is subtle and elusive. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z

A cure remains elusive, but until that day, let’s celebrate what we’ve learned about prevention and treatment since the 19th century, when the Navy proposed measures such as eating smoked herring and administering seawater enemas. What causes seasickness — and what to do about it 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

From the start then, Rousseau catches the elusive essence of Sebaldian dogma: which is to be both elusive and precise, documentary and fabulous. WG Sebald: Reveries of a solitary walker 2013-04-20T07:00:25Z

The melody is somehow both straightforward and elusive. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

At the same time, the performance’s primary features — physical fragmentation, elusive meaning — are the strengths of other works on the fourth floor. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

With comprehensive immigration reform an elusive goal in the United States, undocumented immigrants continue to be deported from the country in record numbers. ‘Documented’: Personal link enriches look at immigration 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The other inhabitants are the region’s cawing, cooing, slithering animals, including the elusive moray eels Julija hunts. ‘Murina’ Review: Hunting for Independence on Her Terms 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

In “Butterflies of the Balkans,” a group of aging women travel through Europe collecting elusive butterfly species, their final trip before they retire to their children’s homes to be cared for in old age. Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

That new space will retain the original furniture, rugs and leaded-glass windows from the family library in Titusville, if not necessary the original space’s more elusive sensory aspects. Princeton Gets a $300 Million Trove of Rare Books 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The Price of Stardom A sure-fire formula for success on Broadway has been as elusive as the recipe for eternal youth. The Price of Stardom 2010-05-14T03:21:00Z

"I'm not sure you could ever show the creative moment, at least as I experience it. It's too elusive," Leigh said. Now showing: 'Suffering for their art' films like 'Birdman' and 'Whiplash' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

So we could start our local inquiry with movies that, while clearly fictional, have that elusive, bracing feeling of realness. Critic’s Notebook: Four Days of Films at Telluride 2012-09-03T22:16:36Z

Nor because, as blissed-out as life can be here, she still yearns for great film roles, if not the Academy Award that has proved elusive after six nominations. Glenn Close Returns to Broadway in ‘A Delicate Balance’ 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Over the years, Paul McCartney has been the subject of numerous biographical studies, while remaining frustratingly elusive in terms of sharing the nature of his interior life. "The McCartney Legacy": An in-depth study of Paul's angsty transition from Beatle to solo superstar 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

However, to distil the emotional power of Tolstoy's novel into 90 minutes of stage time is a much more elusive task. Mariinsky Ballet: Anna Karenina ? review 2011-08-10T17:30:01Z

Yet when West premiered the album at a Madison Square Garden event last month, Sia and Vic Mensa’s contributions were cut and replaced with an appearance by elusive chanteur Frank Ocean. Kanye West Can't Stop Making Changes to His New Album 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

But her character struggles when she falls in love with an elusive young woman: “Even if you kiss her, you feel that she’s not there,” Demeyer said. How Does Time Pass at This Rave? With Hypnotic Precision. 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

“Le Mozart Noir” — “the black Mozart,” as Saint-Georges, who died in 1799, is sometimes called — will not only present a rare opportunity to hear two violin concertos by the elusive figure. Concert brings to light forgotten works by 18th-century black composer 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Such a claim would seem to place the speaker ahead of many New Yorkers to whom Ms. Taylor remains an elusive figure. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Companion, Diana Taylor, Gives a Rare Interview 2013-12-27T23:22:28Z

I’m not sure Mr. Ives himself has settled firmly on a resolution to the play’s central mystery — the motives and identity of the elusive Vanda — but who cares? | 'Venus in Fur': ?Venus in Fur,? by David Ives, With Nina Arianda - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z

This is not the classic laconic lawman who is the unruffled good guy, or even the amoral warrior, but something much more complicated and elusive. Bill Paxton: sad loss of a superb supporting actor with leading man chops | Peter Bradshaw 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

The elusive origins of the craft, including a proper title for it, remain a mystery. | Ephemeral Designs From the Flower Clubs of Philadelphia 2014-03-10T22:02:38Z

While the Oscar recognition proved elusive — Anne Hathaway won that year for “Les Misérables” — the media coverage of her efforts may have helped put her on the radar of directors. Home-Cooked Spaghetti Dinners and a Glam Photo Shoot: Eight Unusual Oscar Bids 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

On his new album, “Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard,” the elusive elegance of Clayton’s piano sits at the center of a quintet with its own hard momentum. Gerard Way Sneers at the Apocalypse, and 12 More New Songs 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

“This central blurriness in the midst of hypercharged description, furthered by a non-chronological structure, is both fascinating and confounding. It is also, I think, exactly the tantalizingly elusive effect Tallent intends.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

And with airlines under continual pressure to pack flights with paying passengers, that free ticket will only become more elusive as travel demand rebounds. Practical Traveler: Frequent-Flier Mile Awards That Have Little to Do With Flights 2010-10-26T21:12:00Z

On its pages, Rupert Everett slips in and out of worlds like a character from Evelyn Waugh: witty, transient, tragic, glamorous, elusive and brilliant. Rupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm not motivated by it any more' 2013-04-21T07:30:01Z

Navigating between digital technology and laborious handcraft, Ms. King pursues the elusive spark of animation, the moment when a wooden hand waves gently and tentatively moves its wonderfully opposable thumb. Berkshire Tour: Formalism Relaxes, Handcraft Goes Digital 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

But not enough here contributes to a principle increasingly elusive in this country: the greater good. ‘NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial’ Has About 100 Contributors 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

They are not looking for sex and love so much as an elusive real experience. | 'Five Days in March': Finding Refuge From Protests, From Toshiki Okada 2010-05-11T22:31:00Z

But the Brad Pitt on screen remains surprisingly elusive. The Oscars: Brad Pitt Discusses ?Moneyball? and ?Tree of Life? 2011-12-30T18:44:10Z

Several times we found ourselves circling a building or parking lot, looking for an elusive charger, only to find it almost hidden in some remote corner. When hitting the road in an electric vehicle, plan for the unexpected 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

It is elliptical, elusive, neither collection nor narrative exactly but more a set of questions about how we frame our interactions with the world. Eula Biss' 'On Immunity' is a beautiful shot of insight 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Another man mentioned “ghosts,” and an archaeologist named Chris Begley found the city’s legend so captivating that he described it to me as “one of the slipperiest and most elusive mysteries.” Goodbye, iPhone. Farewell, Brooklyn. Let’s move to Honduras and camp with jaguars 2013-01-05T20:00:00Z

An elusive cello melody unfurled to delicately meshed pictures of swans and other white birds. Music Review: Bang on a Can All-Stars’ ‘Rimpa Reimagined’ 2012-12-10T23:08:45Z

The premise of the 17-minute music drama, minimally staged, performed by chamber quintet and sung by soprano Caitlyn Lynch, is that the memories may be there but the words to describe them are elusive. 'Another Sunrise' a powerful telling of Holocaust survivor's story 2012-05-15T16:51:06Z

Jeff Sullivan is a gentle Barrie and Ruby Gibbs beams as the mother of the boys, but deeper connections are elusive. Review | ‘Finding Neverland’ musical at National Theatre needs a better hook 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert is at his best when trying to bring clarity and coherence to an elusive score, and the unconventional Sibelius Violin Concerto certainly qualifies. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-06-11T22:11:00Z

"You and I, the characters which grow on a page, most of the time we're inexpressive, giving little away, unreliable, elusive, obstructive, unwilling," Pinter once noted. Theater review: 2 excellent one-acts open ACT Pinter Festival 2012-07-30T22:51:02Z

Moments later he played an abstraction of the melody, his embellishments swirling in fast little eddies, elusive by design. Music Review: Band?s Rapport Runs Deep, and the Undertow Swings 2011-02-23T22:59:31Z

But this elusive author comes vividly to life in a series of letters he wrote from 1941 to 1943, which few people have seen in the 70 years since. 9 Letters From Young J. D. Salinger Unearthed 2013-04-23T22:10:00Z

Inside the world they built, reality and identity are mutable things, place and memory ephemeral, truth elusive. Review: ‘Distant Observer’ Shifts Shape as Authors Take Turns 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

Ottavio takes it upon himself, as he had promised, to avenge himself on Don Giovanni, but the criminal proves elusive, and Don Ottavio seeks justice: he heads off to press charges. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Maybe the definition of a master is elusive. Music Review: Andras Schiff at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-01T23:23:53Z

“Soldier X” means to address the domestic fallout, but its didacticism makes drama elusive. Review: In ‘Soldier X,’ Rehana Lew Mirza Explores Issues Off the Battlefield 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

Scott-Heron was a born wordsmith and this is an elegant, playfully elusive book to file alongside Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One. Christmas gifts 2012: the best music books 2012-11-29T08:00:04Z

This smouldering gem, embodying Fuchsia's wrath and frustration and her elusive beauty as well as the colour of her clothes and name, is not to be found in any Hatton Garden jeweller's window. Fictional cravings: what are your storybook desires? 2010-03-25T13:30:00Z

But a garden that is merely constructed — instant, overblown and derivative — will find that spirit elusive. How do you cultivate a garden with soul? Hint: It doesn’t happen in a day. 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

“Sunrise” and “Sunset,” the enigmatic outer movements, unfolded with elusive gestures and Middle Eastern harmonies, a long, eerie melody unfurling on the viola in the final movement. Music Review: Avi Avital Helps Revive, and Grow, an Instrument 2014-01-19T22:08:54Z

They are not the only surviving letters by Salinger, but they cover a period late in his life when he was at his most elusive. Letters reveal human side of JD Salinger 2011-01-27T00:16:46Z

In New York, jianbing was once elusive, occasionally spied in Flushing, Queens, home to many Chinese immigrants. Finding the Joys of Jianbing Across New York 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

A haunting, somewhat elusive man known as Fonny, he turns wood, stone and metal into art, and is similarly transforming his identity as a black man in America. ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Review: Trusting Love in a World Ruled by Hate 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

What is this elusive, secret ingredient, you ask? Want to bake the best chocolate chip cookies ever? Reach for salty, savory white miso 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z

The half-hour series, which begins Sunday, is clearly meant to satirize something, but the target is elusive. Review: In Showtime’s ‘Black Monday,’ Financial Ruin, With Laughs 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Every year a few acts distinguish themselves, earning that invaluable commodity known as “buzz,” an elusive combination of music industry gossip and fan chatter, without which albums are not sold and stars are not born. Six Hopefuls Worth Watching at the CMJ Music Marathon 2012-10-15T21:47:30Z

The concert ended with the premiere of Mr. Handler’s “Solstice,” a playful yet elusive 10-minute work inspired to some degree by Central Park itself. Review: Ensemble LPR Plays, With Central Park as an Inspiration 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Macagno has been testing hospital design in a virtual-reality lab, and this work could bring us closer to that elusive hospital where, for example, no one gets lost. Are neuroscientists the next great architects? 2012-11-11T14:00:00Z

Her hybrid, impressionistic style leaves details fuzzy and leans too easily on sentiment; yet it also understands immigrant longing as more complex and elusive than economic imperative. ‘I Carry You with Me’ Review: When You Can’t Go Home Again 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

In the hours before Tuesday’s verdict, some residents worried that justice would prove elusive again in a case involving a Black man killed by a police officer. George Floyd’s hometown celebrates Chauvin verdict 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

The shock of the new fades by definition, but if it has hardly done so in the case of Blue Velvet, that may be because its tone remains forever elusive. “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Otto offered a committed performance of the acoustic piece, whose rumbling, chaotic passages evoke a radio jamming device, the chaos suddenly ruptured by elusive fragments from Bach’s Chaconne in D minor. Annie Gosfield’s ‘Signal Jamming and Random Interference’ 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Its energy arises in daily details that Nancy’s increasingly bold and risky impersonations render strange and elusive. “Nancy” Reviewed: A Complex, Untapped Story of a Woman’s Desperate Hoax 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Now that work is less elusive and more accessible. Critic?s Notebook: New York Film Festival Includes a Sneak Preview 2011-10-09T22:05:10Z

A beloved, enduring dance, ingenious in construction, elusive in its hints of story, it establishes so much of the promise of what he would do here. Review: A Balanchine Festival, With Masterpieces in Safe Hands 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Plus—spoiler alert!—the adaptation’s elusive ending could be a little more concrete, or at least pleasing in a cinematic sense. Next Movie for The Fault In Our Stars Fans? John Green's Paper Towns 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Armstrong was considered the group’s least flamboyant member, and in some ways he was its most elusive. David Armstrong, Photographer of Subcultures, Dies at 60 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Sturges becomes an undercover U.S. agent, his work dovetailing handily with his quest to stop the elusive A. Grander, who is still slaughtering vampires. Review: ‘The Last American Vampire,’ by Seth Grahame-Smith 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

There are artful animated scenes, atmospherically setting up the crumbling city he lived in and suggestions that he was an elusive, shadowy figure. Searching for Sugar Man – review 2012-07-28T23:05:46Z

Robert Hunter’s lyrics were written to correspond to the mood of the song, and consist of a series of eerie and elusive images: “Dark Star” crashes, pouring its light into ashes. My Grateful Dead romance: My favorite polyphonic jam, one more time for us all 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

With consensus still stubbornly elusive, we reflexively look for heroes, but they’re no longer martyred draftees, morally damaged warmongers or shining warrior-gods. ‘American Sniper’ exemplifies a new kind of war film: The professional procedural. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

By a logic at once elusive and meticulous, it is also, therefore, about the consequences of inaction. Review: The Hard Road of Decency in ‘The Unknown Girl’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

And her persona is enthralling: she’s both shy and imperious, combining elusive grandeur with tender surprise. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z

For all that, the goal of a "self-sustaining UK film industry", which was the council's brief when it was set up 10 years ago, remains as elusive as ever. In praise of ? publicly funded British film 2011-02-15T00:05:24Z

Rather than focus on what’s most important to the public interest, political coverage focuses far too heavily on who’s up and who’s down — an elusive metric that requires data such as polls and fundraising numbers. Perspective | Journalists shouldn’t make political predictions. I learned this lesson the hard way. 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

A stag appears in the woods and seems to mean something to the narrator, though just what remains elusive. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

What is that elusive thing that turns some people’s daydreams into their next novel for F.S.G.? Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z

Similar themes may weave through all three, including the contemplation of elusive moments. Dance Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

It is, most simply but also most elusively, a sweet and thorny tale of father-daughter bonding with a finely honed edge of generational conflict, propelled by two extraordinarily natural, utterly fearless performances. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

This insured that Winehouse, scarcely the most elusive of quarries, would be chased, flushed out, and torn asunder. “Amy,” Back from Black 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Freeman was just right; his bewildered mildness captured perfectly the tone of the book, which is sometimes comic, sometimes elusive, and occasionally very affecting. Drama on 3: The Unfortunates; An Audience With Ed Reardon; William Quilliam 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

Against Donald Trump’s “meaningless visibility, his compulsive Tourette’s tweeting,” Sinclair contrasts the “measured respect for the printed word” demonstrated by the quietly polite, but elusive book scout Martin Stone, whose death he mourns. Review | Modern life, as seen by a writer without a smartphone 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Wonder has long had the elusive ability to make flamboyant musical choices feel intuitive, or at least unlabored. Music Review: E. J. Strickland Project and Olatuja Project at 92Y Tribeca 2012-01-19T23:32:37Z

The first episode, The Laff Box, looks at the elusive subject of canned laughter. The Making of a Massacre and canned laughter – podcasts of the week 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

For the Human League, however, the pop breakthrough remained elusive. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z

And so the answer to the question “how much meat should I eat?” is maddeningly elusive. Eat less meat, a government panel says. Is science on their side? 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

Tom LoBianco asks all the right questions in “Piety & Power,” his crisp and engaging biography of the vice president, but the answers remain elusive. The Inscrutable Mike Pence 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

These elusive wonder coins bear and accrue value because of the shared faith that miners and moneymakers place in them. Are Bitcoins More Real Than Boyfriends? 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

For one, Colangelo and Gyllenhaal wanted to dramatize the elusive and subjective feeling of poetic inspiration, not an easy thing to pull off cinematically. Hollywood Has Long Turned to Novelists for Help. But Poets? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

When it comes to discussing what these oddball shapes might mean, Mr. Price is notoriously elusive, so one infers what one can. The Blobs Aren?t Talking 2010-03-03T23:54:00Z

Blurred by the film’s own subtly drifting moral point of view, it’s among Gyllenhaal’s most elusive, shape-shifting characterisations: an anti-heroine likely to prompt equally stabbing pangs of sympathy and revulsion in audiences. The Kindergarten Teacher: is this Maggie Gyllenhaal's finest performance to date? 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

And last year, at long last, she ran across something that managed to incorporate loveliness and usefulness in one elusive entity. Possessed : Utility and Looks, in Bed Together 2013-07-19T20:34:43Z

Like other contributors here I am always looking for that elusive perfect funny read. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-02-20T11:23:38Z

For me, the subtle, elusive stretches of the music are the strongest. Review: In ‘Dog Days,’ a Family Clawing for Survival 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

The “compassionate” lens promised on the jacket copy proves elusive. Seeking Asylum but Finding Heartbreak 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

But Jason is also drawn to this strange, elusive girl. Books of The Times: ?The Starboard Sea,? a Novel by Amber Dermont 2012-02-28T23:57:01Z

Chernow, 62, called the nation's first president "the most famously elusive figure in American history." Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z

It’s in that elusive chemistry that takes place between a reader and a gorgeous set of sentences that demand you follow them wherever they choose to go. | 'Gatz': Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past 2010-10-07T02:01:00Z

Memorability is elusive; that's why, when you finally mine it, it's pure gold. Gerry Rafferty's immortal earworm 2011-01-06T21:30:01Z

Ever fearless, Wunder opened with one of the most artistically challenging and elusive works in the piano repertoire: Schubert’s monumental final Sonata in B-flat. Pianist Ingolf Wunder gets carried away with his fearless approach 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

But missing are tone, pace and flavor — that elusive snap, crackle and pop. Review: ‘Three Wise Guys,’ Spreading Good Cheer and Stumbling Into Trouble 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

But one British academic has managed to penetrate this elusive milieu. Superyachts and bragging rights: why the super-rich love their ‘floating homes’ 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

The finale is like a rollicking, twitching, yet strangely elusive dance. Jaap van Zweden Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

An heir to Cavafy, Powell is both more direct and more elusive. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

The elusive artist posted photos of the work on his Instagram site on Wednesday, along with the comment: “My wife hates it when I work from home.” Bathroom Banksy: Street-artist stays home for new lockdown work 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Abandoned by her husband and now her only child, Eve fears her life has turned into “this lifeless hush, this faint but elusive whiff of decay.” The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

At the same time, Portillo also finds that the story of Oscar’s life remains elusive, that the tellers of his stories bring a variety of perspectives and insights that remain contradictory and inconclusive. “The Devil Never Sleeps,” Reviewed: A Mexican Documentary Filmmaker’s Rare Classic About the Mysteries of a Death in the Family 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

Wistfully, she noted that the kind of payday that comes with minting a megahit remains a lot more elusive. D.C.’s secret export: theater 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Trapped as we are in the sucking, pestilent swamp of political and economic woes, it is understandable that Americans would long for that elusive Simpler Time. Fall TV: Been there, seen that 2011-09-13T22:09:05Z

They seem tragic and absurd, like nearly everything else that happens in this movie, which is often elusive in its meanings and operatic in its effects. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z

He reveals how braising infuses foods with the elusive fifth taste, “umami,” meaning deliciousness in Japanese. ‘Cooked’: Michael Pollan gets to the heart and soul of cooking 2013-04-17T19:44:32Z

He also called past attempts to find the perfect nose “elusive and ongoing for decades.” Study: Kate Middleton Has a Perfect Nose 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

With its multilayered textures and dense harmonic language, the music is hauntingly elusive, a quality conveyed in this teeming performance. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

He was charming but elusive to the point of cryptic – like his songs, in fact. 'I'm often at a loss for words' 2011-03-06T00:02:02Z

But there’s another definition of refinement that has to do with painstaking progress, the incremental stretch toward an elusive ideal. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z

As a result, Morrissey remains an elusive figure, both highly public and completely enigmatic—an integral part of popular culture and the perpetual outsider. Morrissey gives the most Morrissey interview possible to Larry King: “Obama—is he white inside? It’s a very logical question” 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

When the rich and elusive Ivy moves in next door and strikes up a friendship, Fern thinks her fortunes are changing. 13 Y.A. Books to Add to Your Reading List This Spring 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

If Serial’s thesis is that facts are elusive, Undisclosed’s counterpoint seems to be that the past is less murky than you might think. “Serial” bombshells aren’t finished: New podcast breaks even more news, and more doubt 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

It's a modern version of Titian's similarly elusive technique. Lucian Freud storms the Pompidou Centre 2010-03-16T21:35:00Z

The reflection rounds out an otherwise elusive persona, one that sounds young and old, and so equally involved and detached that it can be confusing. The Eternal Greatness of Nas's 'Illmatic' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

On set in Charlotte, just a few days before Paper Towns wraps in time for Christmas, Delevingne is as elusive as the vanishing Margo. How 'Paper Towns' Could Turn Cara Delevingne Into a Movie Star 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Her singing is dominant, her performance fascinatingly elusive and full of life—she doesn’t so much deliver a single feeling on cue as command the screen and gradually unfold a complex range of emotions. Review: The Real Subject of Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” Is the Star Power of Bradley Cooper 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

"As a general thing, people want what they can't have, so there's probably something elusive about the Raspberry Rally only being available online," Amatangelo told Salon Food. Girl Scouts not thrilled Raspberry Rally cookies are being resold on eBay for hundreds of dollars 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

He’s an Ohio auto mechanic named Joe in “Mercy Killers,” set in 2010, telling a police officer how everything unraveled once his wife got breast cancer and he battled mounting bills and elusive insurance companies. Review | Milligan’s health-care monologues give voice to patient and doctor 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

After a hug and an introduction to Owen, Kenneth assures Casey that he can arrange a visit to the elusive pool. | Let’s Get Lost 2014-03-07T23:00:48Z

When he writes about realizing that it was not merely his policies that the Tea Party had demonized, but him personally, his sentences are edged with an elusive quality, something detached and impenetrable. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Adams says in a program note that Sila is not just some elusive natural force, but “our awareness of the world around us.” A New Work by John Luther Adams Debuts at Lincoln Center 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

It is a fine attempt overall for a company negotiating its biggest challenge to date; but fluent verse-speaking is an elusive art, which ultimately proves you cannot say everything with flowers. Romeo and Juliet 2010-09-22T21:30:00Z

Unfortunately, the particular magic that might transform a children’s fairy tale into a compelling contemporary musical remains elusive. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z

“A man without a shadow”; a “pleasant man with a pleasant family living in a pleasant North London house”; a bright, telegenic, yet elusive politician with a “smooth facade.” Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery 2010-09-01T20:10:00Z

In person, as on the page, Ms. Williams is funny and frank, as well as elusive. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Ballet upholds narrow ideals for everyone: for men, the archetype of the chivalrous prince; for women, the elusive swan or sylph. Lesbians in Ballet: ‘Has Anyone Like Me Ever Walked These Halls?’ 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

In fact, the iconic houses aren’t the “real” Brooklyn; that elusive land lies farther south. A New History Celebrates Brooklyn’s Heights, and Depths 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

Perhaps her elusive behavior might simply be the folly of youth. Why Won’t Anyone Help Me in This Sex Shop? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

“She kept this school running when women were supposed to keep their minds closed and their uteruses open” is a line used to describe Swinton’s elusive Madame Blanc in the film. Make way for the matriarchy – has #MeToo changed the movies? 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Her 2013 play, “Grimly Handsome,” was similarly elusive but a lot less labored. ‘Nomads’ at the Incubator Arts Project 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

The elusive combination of art and technology is enticing in this era of the selfie. Artechouse Lights Up Washington’s Museum Scene 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Vocally he was commanding if unvaried, a convincing approach to an elusive role. The Flying Dutchman; Medea – review 2013-02-24T00:07:18Z

But here was a quirky and intriguing compositional voice, a score full of pungent harmonic writing and elusive orchestral commentary on the action. Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z

Once again, we didn’t lure any elk or get spooked by grizzlies or spot the most elusive animal of all, the wolverine. Explorer: Searching for Wildlife in Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex 2012-06-08T18:44:25Z

In a matter of weeks, the frenzied search for that most American of spirits and elusive of brands will begin anew. Pappy Van Winkle’s aged bourbon can’t keep pace with consumer demand

The disappearing Arctic ice pack was once a frozen highway used by early-20th-century explorers searching for the elusive North Pole. To the Poles — Before They Started Melting 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Within the meticulously researched and magnificently realized backdrop of European dissolution, Mason finds his few lost souls, and shepherds them toward an elusive peace. A Rifle-Wielding Nun, a Medical Student and a Crackling World War I Tale 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, he said, two main themes were apparent: how “individual lives are shaped and determined by long historical processes,” and “the elusive nature of truth.” U.S. Authors Dominate Booker Prize Nominees 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

By 2014, the year the documentary opens, the department was into its second decade of federal oversight and these basic goals remained stubbornly elusive. Review: ‘The Force’ Follows the Oakland Police From Crisis to Crisis 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Whether Young has figured out how to actually live these beliefs remains elusive. His Blog Explored Notions of Black Masculinity. His Memoir Explodes Them. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

These are characters who want to know, who need to know even when the answers remain elusive: Where is my wife? David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

In motion, she’s different: She swept across the stage as if she were wandering through a maze, and here you could sense elusive myths being revealed and unlocked. Moving to a Disco Beat, or the Clatter of Household Objects 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Actually justice in this case has proven elusive. Is "The Tinder Swindler" one of those true crime tales that might strengthen relationships? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

As the Balenciaga show demonstrated, humor is a strangely elusive quality. Fashion Review: Collections From Balenciaga, Rick Owns, Dries Van Noten, Rochas, Ann Demeulemeester 2012-03-02T00:23:08Z

By pursuing our shared passions for books and theater in a city that specializes in both, might we achieve that elusive family-travel synchronicity? A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

"Slap Shot": Playing the aging player-coach of the Charlestown Chiefs, Paul Newman spends much of this classic 1977 hockey comedy trying to track down his foundering team's elusive owner. Steve Ballmer-Donald Sterling saga has some on-screen analogues 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

From the start, the music is alluring yet elusive. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Gives a Thoughtful Recital at Carnegie Hall 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

This was his night to conduct “Mavra,” and, though he drew colorful playing from the orchestra, the musicians seemed not yet on top of this elusive score. Opera Review: Evening of Comic Opera From the Met and Juilliard 2014-02-12T22:23:45Z

What the point here might be is a bit more elusive. Movie Review: ‘In Another Country,’ Starring Isabelle Huppert 2012-11-09T01:11:30Z

In program notes, Ms. Lash cites her admiration for Bartok and Debussy, whose influences course through “Desire,” from the concision it shares with “Bluebeard’s Castle” to the elusive ambiguity of “Pelléas et Mélisande.” Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

We write not to trace a position so much as to record an experience, or the experience of an experience, which is an inherently subjective and elusive thing. Carl Phillips' 'The Art of Daring' celebrates literature as risk 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

It has evolved into something equally old-fashioned: a huge gathering for the book industry to talk up titles, showcase high-profile authors and try to build elusive buzz for promising books. BookExpo America Draws 20,000 to Javits Center 2013-05-31T22:00:22Z

The film was adapted from a novel by Aislinn Hunter, but the characters’ inner lives remain elusive. Movie Review: ‘Stay’ Explores a Young Woman’s Restlessness 2014-03-21T00:01:51Z

His elusive, not very attractive and rather problematic character makes for a compelling though sometimes faintly misguided biography. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z

Sleep, so elusive, became the air traveler’s ultimate luxury. We’re in the golden age of travel pillows. Too bad we hate them all. - The Washington Post 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

But his authority in this discursive, elusive music was palpable. Hilary Hahn’s most welcome return with her hometown Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

But the film’s uninflected realism and unforced beauty alone make it worthy of exploring and revisiting, as does the simple truth that love is too often an elusive subject in contemporary cinema. | 'Everyone Else': Maren Ade Puts Love Under the Microscope 2010-04-08T22:54:00Z

Death has robbed us of the most important guide we have ever had to our state’s history and culture, our ingenious interpreter of the elusive and many meanings of the California Dream over several centuries.  Kevin Starr will never be replaced: William Deverell remembers the historian and author 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

As Terry navigates his complicated grief, combing through Luka’s tweets for elusive validation of their shared offline life, the show gets baggy. Review: Coffee With a Side of Isolation in ‘User Not Found’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

Ruscha remains an elusive artist and Los Angeles an elusive city, each of them slippery to the last. What a big Ed Ruscha exhibition misses about Southern California 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Today we think of silence as elusive, and so have taken to measuring it. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Perhaps they remain too elusive, as do Mr. de Waal’s sets, which initially suggest portals or gateways, but acquire little resonance through use or the otherwise skillful lighting by Lucy Carter. Review: An American in London (Bernstein, That Is) 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

If the waltzing second movement, with its elusive 5/4 meter, was a little cautious, the talked-about march was taken at a brisk clip and played to the hilt. Music Review: Young Talents With a Fondness for Applause 2011-05-23T21:42:39Z

Yet something about this subject matter remains elusive. How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Single White Female seeks contemporary copycat obsessive-psycho-dormmate thriller for unfavourable comparisons, rip-off sisterhood spookery and share of elusive female horror audience. This week's new films 2011-04-08T23:06:46Z

This is a story with an obvious villain, the elusive killer who terrorized California throughout the 1970s and '80s. HBO's "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" is a haunting tribute to Michelle McNamara and meditation on grief 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

Her pop soprano gets pitched further upward as the track begins; elusive background vocals and synthesizers puff their syncopations around the beat. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

For him the universe of butterflies is like Alain-Fournier's Lost Domain, a place of elusive and endangered beauty, charged with the lost freedoms and magic of childhood. The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of our Emperors and?Admirals by Patrick Barkham ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z

To be fair, those answers are also elusive for the residents of the encircled and occupied city. Review: In ‘Colony,’ on USA, Los Angeles Is Occupied 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

But the scenario is also a perfect metaphor for the incendiary power that film, as a medium, has over him, and over the rest of us, as the decades flicker seductively, elusively past. Review | An irresistible tale of early cinema makes for perfect summer reading 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Where “High Flying Bird” is both confrontational and elusive, intensely physical and analytically abstract, “What Men Want” is plainly foregrounded and simplistically flattened. Review: Taraji P. Henson Redeems “What Men Want” 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

“It’s a very elusive and for me a fascinating area,” he said. Gilbert to Head Juilliard?s Conducting Program 2011-01-12T22:57:38Z

People turn to it because real justice is elusive. Can we still listen to Michael Jackson? We wouldn't need "cancel culture" if we had justice culture 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

The work seemed to me to occupy a wholly other realm: elusive, mystical, beyond style, beyond era. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, it’s a fun, strange trip worth taking for fans pining for that “Lonerism” follow-up and elusive Northwest tour. Australia’s Pond has a touch of Tame Impala | Concert preview 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

But the plot soon proves as elusive as the boffin, rapidly abandoned in favour of increasingly bizarre left turns and hilarious digressions, including a hilarious routine about devising a new system of mathematics. This week's new comedy 2011-03-05T00:07:44Z

The elusive score is perfectly suited to the story, a timeless, symbol-laden love triangle about unhappy people trapped in an ominous world of shadow and foreboding. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z

But the ethereal texture of the whole, from the heavy-lidded, torpid glissando of the strings as the start, is elusive to all but the most technically assured. OAE/Rattle; Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Manze; A Midsummer Night's Dream – review 2013-02-03T00:05:56Z

Like the elusive, oddball actor, Stipe gives the impression of existing entirely inside his own self-contained universe. 'I'm often at a loss for words' 2011-03-06T00:02:02Z

“The Colbert Report” had advertised with fanfare that Daft Punk, the elusive French D.J. duo, would appear on its annual music show. ArtsBeat: Daft Punk Cancels ‘Colbert Show’ Appearance Because of MTV Conflict 2013-08-07T20:51:31Z

Mr. Gyllenhaal invests every note he sings with the rapt determination of someone trying to capture and pin down the elusive. Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The architects drew on their interest in display devices to capture some of wine’s more elusive qualities. | More Wine 2010-11-24T17:30:00Z

As this grisly decade has revealed, there is no shortage of dead black men whose shooting deaths go unresolved in this country, and no shortage of black families for whom justice remains elusive. Yance Ford’s Powerful Cinematic Memoir, “Strong Island” 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

It truly hits goosebump territory, though, when McAllister’s patient, debonair Coalhouse finally gets through to the elusive mother of his baby, Sarah. Review | ‘Ragtime’ sings with purpose at Ford’s Theatre 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

About 2,000 miles away, in Hanover, Minn., a few hours south of his native Hibbing, Mr. Dylan’s legend also loomed, though his corporeal presence remained elusive. Bob Dylan Sends Warm Words but Skips Nobel Prize Ceremonies 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless and so slippery and elusive to the grasp,” Twain fumed in his 1880 European travelogue “A Tramp Abroad.” Mark Twain Found Inspiration in Germany (Though the Language Eluded Him) 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

The shape of the film, which ambles through her days and nights in a way that feels more causal than it is, reflects the elusive pattern of her experience. Review: ‘Let the Sunshine In’ Shows the Complex Radiance of Juliette Binoche 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

And so many prospective parents feel paralyzed, trying to find the elusive name that is exotic yet not bizarre, classic yet not pompous, on trend but not trendy. First Person: The New Baby-Name Anxiety 2013-05-31T20:39:26Z

Those may be his words in the songs, but he remains elusive. | 'Langston in Harlem': Langston Hughes Poems Become Songs at Urban Stages 2010-04-20T21:21:00Z

A team of scientists gathers to try and get some answers about that elusive hairy beast. Wednesday TV Picks: 'Bigfoot: The Definitive Guide' 2011-02-02T01:55:05Z

But the basic logic remained in place, and radical changes to nuclear doctrine have remained elusive. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

A24’s catalogue varies in genre and style, yet its films share an elusive unifying quality. How the indie studio behind ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Hereditary’ flourished while breaking Hollywood rules 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

By March owners begin renting their homes by the month, sometimes by the week, making a summer-long rental more elusive. The Getaway: Dreaming About a Summer Rental? Act Soon 2014-01-28T20:55:43Z

Will that magical mood of the novel find its way to the screen, or will it prove as elusive as Gatsby’s dreams? Will Baz Luhrmann's noise dampen ‘Great Gatsby’s’ joys? 2013-05-01T18:43:00Z

If Pickett the man remains elusive — if we ultimately don’t learn that much about him other than that we probably wouldn’t have wanted to hang out with him — one can hardly blame Fletcher. Hot Tracks: Summer’s Big Books on Rock, Pop, Soul and Jazz 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Melville left few letters and, despite his fame, is in many ways as elusive a figure as Israel Potter. The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z

The elusive Smiley, found and asked what book he’s reading: “Oh my dear boy, don’t even ask. An old spy in dotage seeks the truth of ages.” Review | At 85, John le Carré emerges with a sequel to ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

But as the years have gone by, the perfectly turned Black Mirror episode, with a fresh premise and devastating pay-off, has felt more and more elusive. Lame, lazy, lifeless: have TV anthologies lost their way? 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

For this reason, fuller pictures of Dante's women have been elusive. The women who appear in Dante’s "Divine Comedy" are finally getting their due, 700 years later 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

The boss was elusive with her facts, and I think it was on purpose. How to be a SoHo nanny and survive — just barely 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless her scintillating body language — extroverted where Odette was introverted — soon shows that she too is elusive. All About Odette, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Kiarostami's early films hardly ran scared of elusive meanings and hanging endings. Cannes 2012: Abbas Kiarostami: 'The world is my workshop' 2012-05-28T17:32:06Z

This “Midsummer” is a little elusive, but it’s not a bad way to spend a beautiful evening outside in the city. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ for a Nimble Audience 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pollock, he said, had produced designs for only a few chairs, but “what he did design was beautifully considered and detailed — designs that have that elusive quality of timelessness.” Charles Pollock, Designer of Popular Office Chair, Dies at 83 2013-08-25T01:40:30Z

Unlike the blunt social media posts of Ye and Irving, this set was a work of art, elusive and layered, displaying finesse and paradox. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

She took control of something much more elusive, wild and damaging—her body’s reception, the ways in which her physicality is received and theorized. Angelina Jolie’s most thrilling decision: Robbing her breasts of their cultural power 2013-05-15T20:10:00Z

But he is also a conduit for corporate America to reach that elusive audience. Up Close: A Founder of Vice Magazine Branches Out 2010-08-16T21:02:00Z

After an election in which facts could be oh so elusive, it’s instructive to look back to 2003. When Fake News Was Funny 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The civil rights drama made the best picture cut, but a best actor nomination for David Oyelowo proved elusive. Oscars 2015: Snubs and surprises 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

For me, there’s also the work that emerges when the artist may not know the end is near, work we explore while searching for clues into the elusive creative process. David Bowie and the sad, inspiring history of making art while dying 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

It would take a brave author to pursue such an elusive quarry. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z

Through that elusive, mysterious thing called buzz, a kind of online giddiness started driving Twitter conversations, Soundcloud shares and iTunes purchases. Social media buzz the new barometer of a hit 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Like Joan Didion’s “Year of Magical Thinking,” “Wave” captures the elusive, shape-shifting nature of grief. ‘Wave:’ weathering the storm of grief 2013-04-03T22:34:50Z

It was endearingly elusive — that is until its re-release earlier this year. A new generation of “plant music” blossoms amidst the Millennial-fueled houseplant boom 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

But as the show grew, the title seemed to refer to the elusive ideal of any long-term relationship: being in the same emotional space at the same time. Review: ‘Love’ and ‘Togetherness’ Capture the Arc of the Romantic Pursuit 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

There's a sense of storytelling here, our minds can touch on the past lives of these fabrics, but concrete meaning is elusive. CoCA juried show: no theme but plenty of meaning 2012-01-12T21:20:06Z

The ingenious logic of the programming felt elusive. Britten Sinfonia/Ibragimova – review 2013-02-28T17:18:51Z

The overall style is lucidly Neo-Classical, at least on the surface; below that surface, though, the pieces are alive with wayward sonorities, elusive intricacies and dark subtexts. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

The Academy is now very much on the lookout for that most elusive and difficult quality: edginess. Seth MacFarlane could well be the grit that turns the Oscars back to a pearl 2012-10-01T19:08:17Z

The death has intensified Mr. Zimmern’s quest to learn balance, something he says is elusive for chefs, athletes, actors and other celebrities. Andrew Zimmern’s Nonstop Road (and Food) Show 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Well, Stockard and I both liked the odd cigarette, so we used to go into the bathroom of her dressing room and have a little elusive cigarette which we shared.” Ian McKellen: 'X-Men was a gay man’s delight, because it was full of the most amazing divas' 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

As other “Emeralds” debuts demonstrated — notably Taylor Stanley and Daniel Applebaum in the lead male role — this elusive ballet is being finely guarded. At New York City Ballet, Balancing the Art of Transition 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Welcome yet again to the evergreen conundrum of the satisfying series finale— an elusive feat, but not impossible. As "Game of Thrones" ends, we have to ask: What do we expect from a series finale? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

The elusive second movement was riveting, as Mr. Runge played the eerie pizzicato cello line with deceptive nonchalance and spectral colorings. Music Review | Artemis Quartet: Beethoven That Is Robust, if a Little Strange 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z

If you've ever had the experience, while walking, of an elusive thought finally coming clear or an inspiration surfacing after long struggle, "The Old Ways" will speak to you — eloquently and persuasively. 'The Old Ways': Walking as a way of 'feeling, knowing and being' 2012-10-28T14:01:04Z

These traces, whether in buildings or objects, or less tangibly in music and stories and memory, were ubiquitous if sometimes elusive in the mellahs of Fez and, as I discovered later, Marrakesh. In Morocco, Exploring Remnants of Jewish History 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

The first goal is elusive, since Minervudottir has been so thoroughly erased from history that there are few details for Ro to build a book around. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

The prospect of developing compositions for large ensembles was even more elusive, and “Musical Prophet” offers tantalizing hints of the directions that, with a little success and a little recognition, his work might have taken. How Eric Dolphy Deepened My Love of Jazz 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Some details of her life in Avalon, such as exactly where she lived, remain elusive. Avalon was home to bride 'Before She Was Marilyn' 2011-04-27T20:22:01Z

A number of the portraits have a similar elusive quality. The Faces Behind Craigslist’s Strictly Platonic Personal Ads 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

It is instead an expression of O’Connor’s love for — and desire to understand — her elusive subject. ‘Emily’ Review: A Brontë Sister’s Savage, Hardy and Free Life 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

This is the key to how exceptional Kennedy, who died in 2000 at age 84, was as an activist — but the person she was remains elusive. What's missing from this book? Pioneering black feminist Flo Kennedy's blazing personality 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

Security is something you can work for, but in our family, it was elusive. Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Gary L. Stewart set out to find his biological father, but that led him to a horrifying realization that his father may be the elusive Zodiac serial killer. Serial: What to Watch, Hear and Read If You're Obsessed with the Podcast 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

As August turns to September, he remains elusive. The greatest role of Bill Murray’s life has been playing Bill Murray 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The trouble is that these set pieces, in addition to feeling fragmented and elusive in meaning, are dwarfed by their surroundings. Manifold Motion's 'Compos Mentis': a little too spacey 2012-03-20T18:45:04Z

Tasting the Amazon is more elusive: Even the açaí smoothie craze brought an adulterated version — overly sweetened and iced — of the way the fruit is served in the rain forest. 36 Hours in Rio de Janeiro 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Cinema’s most wanted men remain elusive, but the fascination of their lives has been watered down by generations of copycats, doppelgängers and descendants. Gotti, Escobar, Manson: Hollywood's problem with real-life criminals 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Its convolutions are mind-bending, and the evidence for police and prosecutorial malfeasance is both abundant and elusive. Review: ‘Making a Murderer,’ True Crime on Netflix 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

In philosophical and legal literature, privacy has been likened to an "elusive status" and "murky conceptual waters". After Leveson: how the judge tried to tackle the 'murky' business of privacy 2013-03-26T13:37:22Z

They’ve narrowed the search down, but a name remains elusive, one of many stories still waiting to be told. Antwerp to Ellis Island: Journey of a Lifetime 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Greta Garbo, the elusive Hollywood actress of the 1930s, was so inscrutable she was known as the Swedish Sphinx. ‘I go nowhere, I see no one’: Garbo letters reveal lonely life of film icon 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

The film, elusive and impressionistic, is at least somewhat successful in capturing that inner tumult. Review: In ‘Becoming Cary Grant,’ the Turmoil Beneath the Suave 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

I was to see many of these animals in the days to follow, but the porcupine-like echidna remained elusive. Cycling Along the Great Victorian Rail Trail 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

For all the drama in her life and the magic in her music, Billie Holiday remains elusive and alluring, just beyond the reach of words. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

He added some words of his own: “Anyone who walked in to Nicolas’s life felt like they were in a dream. He was so exceedingly charming and elusive.” The Wine Thief 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

"Huckleberry Finn" comes as close as any book to the elusive status of "The Great American Novel." Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z

Photograph: Nick Newcomen Some literary fans show their dedication to a particular author by traipsing to book signings or festivals; others track down elusive first editions. Ayn Rand fan spells out appreciation in world's largest book ad 2010-08-23T12:24:00Z

You need not scour the interwebs to discover these elusive vegan products. Trader Joe's 11 best vegan snacks being sold right now 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

Picture 31 of these gigs, back to back, featuring a diverse array of acts whose common denominator is faintly elusive, all of which are being filmed. Goldfrapp; Marina and the Diamonds, Roundhouse, London NW1 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

Tynan praised Hall’s “marvelous ear” for the play’s “elusive rhythms,” a sign that the director’s approach to Shakespeare would continue to be modern in sensibility yet timeless in its appreciation of dramatic poetry. Remembering theater director and Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall, who turned language into life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

The feeling of belonging—elusive, ephemeral, fleeting—is sustenance, he believes, for the human spirit. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z

But many of the Broadway actors agreed that the Grammys may be the most elusive. Richard Gere and Peter Dinklage Bundle Up for ‘Three Christs’ 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

“The Woman Who Left” is less sprawling — more portrait than tableau — and it brings to the screen a character who is at once elusive and unforgettable. Review: ‘The Woman Who Left’ Is an Epic, Intimate Tale of Injustice 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

When international success proved elusive and even domestic success was thin on the ground, the band left RedOne, shed a member, rebranded and unleashed debut single Pretty Girl. Girls Aloud split: who will take their place? 2013-03-21T17:29:06Z

Stephen Moss meets with this elusive, academic mischief maker, Arnold Harvey, the man behind the Dickens and Dostoyevsky hoax, and the events that led to his invention of multiple fictitious academic personas. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z

Her voice trembles and catches, scrapes and cracks, smears some words and obsessively repeats others as she conjures elusive but intense emotions. How a Sooty Old Piano Helped Beth Orton Reach a New Creative Peak 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

She’s so physically elusive that he can seldom if ever touch her. City Ballet to Present ‘La Sylphide,’ a Romantic Ballet Standard 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Even so, many of the songs do indeed find that elusive sweet spot between pop and opera. John Adams' 'Ceiling/Sky' remains earthbound 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

After months of suspense and typically inscrutable standoffishness, Bob Dylan, the elusive Nobel laureate, will finally accept his literature prize at a meeting with members of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm this weekend. Bob Dylan Will Receive His Nobel Prize While on Tour in Sweden 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

And no matter how much firepower the government rains down on the elusive Radio Free Vermont, the state and federal agents are never more dangerous than Keystone Kops. Of course Bernie Sanders endorsed this novel about a rebel in Vermont 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

She prowls the woods for hours, learning how to spot elusive mushroom colonies and to identify dozens of different varieties of mushrooms — which kinds are rare, which are tasty, which are poisonous. A Unique and Affecting Memoir Combines Grief and Mushrooms 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Only staggering computing power will provide that delicate, elusive information. Genetics: The number crunchers who are saving lives 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

This was one of the finest performances I’ve heard of an elusive and challenging piece. Five Days, Three Pianists, Three Generations 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

That might have been the breakthrough period—the moment, as Dylan has said, that he captured that elusive “wild mercury sound”—but the catalogue is rich in the way that Picasso’s was rich. Bob Dylan and the “Hot Hand” 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

That may land differently for a deserving veteran for whom such glory remains elusive no matter how hard she works. How the Academy Awards managed to be both uplifting and disappointing -- everything, all at once 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

The concerto lurches from episode to episode, with the cello at first playing plaintive, elusive melodic lines, interrupted with panicky scurrying figures, atop gurgling ripples in the percussion. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Fame, in “Atlanta,” has been a fantasy, a disappointment, an elusive taunt. The Most Memorable TV Episodes of 2018 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

That remains something of a mystery — as do so many elusive elements of the past, despite the earnest attempts of an intelligent, analytical person like Kelly, to order and understand them. Review: 'Dying City' illustrates the elusive nature of closure after soldier's death 2010-03-25T21:47:00Z

In “Attorney Street,” his seriously haunting new performance piece at the Axis Theater Company, the phantoms summoned by this one-of-a-kind monologuist are both vivid and elusive, as such manifestations must be. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

New technologies are being developed, but an acceptable, reliable, reversible solution remains elusive. Pills, thrills and polymer gels: what's the future for male contraception? 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

That depth, that texture, can be elusive in "Purity," which is a more plotted novel, sometimes to its detriment. In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen confronts his — and our — demons 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

But winning the position requires getting the votes of a “clear majority” of the orchestra’s musicians, which proved elusive after an all-day voting session on Monday. No New Conductor Chosen for Berlin Philharmonic 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

She is now pursuing the elusive subharmonic fourth, undeterred by a suspicion that it may be an impossibility. For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

Seth and Carter, partners in a New York-based recording company, are obsessed with black blues musicians, the more elusive and “authentic” the better — they want the “ghosts at the edges of American consciousness.” The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

And Obama, who needs not remind us that his own inheritance is a more elusive thing, sees the gulf between him and this woman. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

The conceptual opportunity in a memoir such as this is to understand that the reader is stalking the elusive striped beast alongside the narrator. An American Writer Goes Into the Jungle to Commune With a Tiger 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Dudamel's approach was less jarring and more elusive than most, blending shades to emphasize the continuity of line. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Barnes builds a powerful atmosphere of shame and silence around the past as Tony tries to track down the elusive diary, which promises, as missing diaries tend to do, some revelation or closure. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-07-26T16:15:00Z

The distinction between individuals and setting grows ever more elusive, the closer you look. For February, 3 shows at Seattle galleries worth your time 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Descending from Malindidzimu, we continued our quest for the elusive black eagle. A Birder’s Paradise in Zimbabwe 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

There is much that is allusive and elusive in this show, which as you soon discover, is very much in the nature of Taoism. A Dazzling Look at the World of Taoism 2010-04-09T11:55:00Z

They pursue their daily tasks of patrolling fields and villages, meeting with local residents to hear complaints and gather piecemeal intelligence, all the while itching for engagement with an elusive enemy. | 'Armadillo': Fortunes and Misfortunes of War, From a Danish Perspective 2011-04-14T23:21:04Z

Zummo is driven as an artist by the desire to endow his creations with this elusive quality of ambiguity; what the English collector he meets at the Medici court calls "liminality". Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z

She also home educated him for a couple of years when the right school proved elusive. How Disney gave voice to a boy with autism 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

Janacek’s music ingeniously blends folkloric Moravian elements, fragmented phrases and an elusive harmonic language to expose the raw undercurrents of the everyday characters. Review: Gifted Singers and an English Translation Enhance a Janacek Opera 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Her vivid, elusive movies are observational and fragmented, agitated and entropic in equal measure, populated by accident-prone characters notable for their absence of self-awareness. Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

But the more elusive zydeco trail rides seemed, the more important it became to find one, even if it meant wasting an entire day. Louisiana?s Zydeco Trail 2011-04-22T18:55:00Z