| He always ducks the obvious, loud, self-aggrandizing statement in favor of the quiet, inquisitive, other-focused, elusively self-concealing statement. |
| He knew now whose had been the elusively familiar voice he had heard outside Maggie's door. |
| But without a current established, it is surprising in turn to find how obstinately and elusively immovable it can be. |
| Above all, she could be elusively lucid and make herself understood without any bluntness of statement. |
| But the phantom mother that haunted his memory so elusively was not like that, though he could not remember how she differed. |
| But also he advanced, though elusively, slipping to one side of those great paws. |
