elusiveness

Examples of elusive

elusive
Philosophical arguments address one of the most fundamental yet elusive questions facing behavioral scientists, namely, what constitutes a disorder?
A precise mechanism and pathophysiology, which could account for this pure deficit, is however, elusive.
Despite the many positive responses to priming in the various crops reported above, the precise mechanisms remain elusive.
As a result, these overlapping groups and contrasting methods of definition have caused the nature and identity of the group to remain elusive.
It is an effective tool for quick title searches, for the output of a publisher, for book series, for pamphlets, for an elusive author.
Evidence as to the underlying mechanisms responsible remains elusive.
Good operational measures of, and data on, asset specificity are notoriously elusive.
An inner logic, elusive and yet compelling, lends an unexpected substance to this work of modest dimensions.
Even in the heyday of one-party states, when heads of state controlled virtually every organ of associational life, the spirit world was always more elusive.
Deep conventions tend to be rather elusive because they are typically practiced by following their corresponding surface conventions.
This is a profound work; its darkly glowing sound invites the listener to return to grasp its themes, at once simple and elusive.
Until such functional mutations are identified, the biological mechanisms underlying the interaction will remain elusive.
Early signs may be subtle and elusive and the clinical picture may be masked by consciously or non-consciously applied compensatory strategies.
Yet a definition of what elites actually meant when talking about civilisation is elusive.
The notion of exactness of an endomorphism extends easily to non-measure-preserving, non-singular maps even though a satisfactory definition of nonsingular entropy is still elusive.
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