The quality of the expression in that slow movement eludes all classification.
The difference between the style of the symphony given yesterday and the "Pathetic" is almost entirely of a kind thateludes analysis.
In many cases of catarrhal stomatitis, both in adults and in children, the affection is of obscure origin and the cause eludes detection.
Sometimes the tumor eludes discovery on account of special obstacles to the physical examination of the abdomen, such as a thick layer of fat in the abdominal walls or a large quantity of ascitic fluid.
Could Hegel himself answer this objection: that poetryeludes all tests--that that which you can thoroughly explain in any way is not poetry, as Swinburne has said?
Philosophy is still powerless to tell us what mind is; the self, the ego always vanishes as we seem to be nearing it, it always eludes our deepest probings--we only demonstrate our failure in regard to our knowledge of it.
He is ever asking woman to charm him by elusiveness and then complaining because she eludes him.
Let us indeed see, whether she who eludes us elsewhere, he at last found in Vivenza's vales.
What is this subtle something that is in me, and eludes me?
And here he drops his napkin in his soup and rises up and bows to a gent who is devastating a potato under a palm across the room.
He was a kind of Bill Devery and Charlie Schwab rolled into one.
For an instant the iron grip of the cliff seems clutching its snowy throat, but with a mocking courtesy the fair stream eludes the grasp, and so escapes.
The pantheistic or monistic notion of Nirvâna eludes criticism precisely because it is void of all precise content.
How perfect his style is may be judged from the fact that it never curdles into mannerism, and thus absolutely eludes imitation.
Municipal freedom eludes the exertions of man; it is rarely created; but it is, as it were, secretly and spontaneously engendered in the midst of a semi-barbarous state of society.
In the presence of music or landscape human experience eludes itself; and thus romanticism is the bond between transcendental and naturalistic sentiment.
The beauty which was the essence of it, which justifies it so far as it will bear justification, eludes statement.
Eludes Sordello, even: the veil rent, Read the black writing--that collective man Outstrips the individual!
Now repeat Firmly and circumstantially the tale You just now told me; it eludes me; either I did not listen, or the half is gone Away from me.
Ah, but the Best Somehow eludes us ever, still might be And is not!
Pursued he bids the sable fountain flow, And, wrapt in clouds, eludes th' impending foe.
It is so active, as well as powerful a principle, that it eludesall our researches.
The hero hastens after his guide but always she eludes him.
Everywhere the effect reveals an element which is indiscoverable in the cause with the result that the identity we seek for ever eludes us.
General differences present themselves to the comparative anatomist and even to the superficial observer; they seem not to be a matter of sex; yet they are really sex differences, though the connection eludes our observation.
The idea of creation confounds me and eludes my grasp; so far as I can conceive of it I believe it; but I know that he has formed the universe and all that is, that he has made and ordered all things.
My finite understanding cannot hold the infinite; what is called eternityeludes my grasp.
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