elusively

One senses some particular meaning close to but elusively below the surface.

But there was something elusively perverse about it all nonetheless.

She studied the picture more closely, finding something elusively familiar in the image.

"The ideal that I've always elusively pursued is for a collaboration.

As he moved around the room, it stayed elusively faint and directionless.

That was what baffled him about the elusively familiar taste of the male mind glow.

Helen in her book Teacher talks (though elusively) about the troubled courtship.

Yet here he acknowledges it and departs from it, not in the least elusively.

He himself hovered elusively somewhere between left and center, a hard-to-hit moving target.

Our penguins remained elusively in the distance, though motionless.

"I didn't kill any of my brothers on the alliance side, but there was much fighting," he comments elusively.

As she spoke, the contentment that had always remained elusively out of reach was suddenly there and hers for the taking.

This morning, however, something was elusively different.

Her offered hand lay on his like a featherweight, soft, white and elusively perfumed.

But The Shadow, swaying elusively, was perfect in his aim.

"I have always my dream," he said elusively.

One of the men looked elusively familiar.

Where she need not go into the house's main bathroom and discover that the scent of his cologne still hung elusively on the air.

His words, in that elusively caressing accent, floated to her in the quiet little office.

Ms. Part was once again caviar, a ballerina who seldom fails to touch the heart, however elusively.

Darkly colored, beautifully organized, this music swims elusively through a received tradition.

'I didn't manage to speak to her,' she said elusively.

Again he studied, his eyes straining under weak candlelight to read figures that seemed to slip elusively across the page.

Mr. Wieland has been something of an escape artist, elusively slipping from one mode to another.

To me, it seemed oddly, elusively sad.