most illusive
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The Americans are not naive about the chances of achieving the most illusive of goals in the Middle East, amid some of the worst bloodshed in the region's modern history.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2024
The mystery of the disease was most illusive.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
What is specially distinctive is her gift of selection, by which she brings out the most illusive psychological contrasts.
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
Besides, the Ridge is not like the roof of a house, but a most illusive series of irregular knolls with small plateaus or valleys between, a sort of miniature broken tableland.
From My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer
He possesses, as Miss Cassandra says, that most illusive and indescribable quality which we call distinction for lack of a better word.
From In Château Land by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
