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
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 Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth
Not yet; for Berlioz is the most illusive of men, and no one has helped more than he to mislead people in their estimate of him.
From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary
He did it from pure selfishness, and because he was determined to possess the most illusive, tantalizing, elegant, and utterly unmoral little creature that the sun shone upon.
From The Shape of Fear by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson
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 Palmer, Frederick
