Example Sentences

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And said support is qualified to the point nearly of illusiveness, which I’ll get to in a second.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2016

No problem there — the mystique and illusiveness of Dylan cannot be shattered, no matter how much information on his life is available.

From Washington Post

It is also a game in which the alert reader is rewarded by feelings of wonder at the illusiveness of reality.

From Time Magazine Archive

To say the truth, the traveller perhaps wilfully kept hold of this strange illusiveness, and kept his thoughts from too harshly analyzing his situation, and solving the riddle in which he found himself involved.

From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

When their eyes met, Chick caught the magnetic current of personality, the same sense of illusiveness that he and Harry Wendel had noted in the Nervina; only here it was negative, resisting instead of aiding.

From The Blind Spot by Hall, Austin