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 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
Among the many quack remedies for poverty, the most venerable and the most illusive is thrift or saving.
From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis
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
The effect is most illusive, nor should I have guessed the truth had I not seen the reflection of my own figure in the glass.
From Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath by Lansdown, Henry Venn
