elusiveness

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Directors Hammerling and Baghdadi don’t have a huge mystery on their hands, and the direction and choice of imagery and editing generate a sense of ethereal wonder and elusiveness, rather than suspense or high drama.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Page, nicknamed MVP, outpointed Cannonier in trademark fashion with the American unable to deal with his speed and elusiveness.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025

“We felt her presence in the lack of it,” he writes of her funeral, a fitting coda to her elusiveness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025

His elusiveness even sparked theories about whether he existed.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2025

It was difficult to be specific when the core of a man’s character was elusiveness.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis