elusive

"And used to interviewees who will be somewhat elusive."

The quarterbacks’ running ability could present the biggest challenge for the opposing defenses Saturday given they are both extremely elusive and able to escape pressure.

It’s the perfect setting, in other words, for a novel by Mr. Banville, who is a master of shadow and suggestion and whose protagonists are often elusive, wavering and easily corrupted.

For Judge, that kind of glory remains elusive.

But full citizenship with political and economic equality was elusive.