elusiveness

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It’s hard to imagine an audience resisting the temptation to have the enigma central to the play’s meaning clarified, given its prominence in the plot and the drama’s woolly elusiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

“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

"I thought I'd do something that was more about that idea of elusiveness, and the point where the actor stops and the character starts," he says.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2024

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