The mother has always been an elusive figure for me.

Sturges proves to be a somewhat more elusive figure than most.

Baartman herself remains an elusive figure, more emblem than flesh and blood.

During the first six months of research, Blunt remained a distant, elusive figure, she said.

Rochester was the elusive figure behind my father's death, and he had some connection with Wild.

The label is named after an elusive figure of Irish myth.

But in the last decade he has been an elusive and unpredictable figure.

She was an elusive figure of the south.

He was a dark, hard, and yet elusive figure in the quick, restless light.

Obama is an elusive, remote figure in these pages.