Or a sly commentary on elusive beauty?

When he plays his own compositions - and he rarely plays anything else - he can create the impression of elusive and flickering beauty.

Williams writes that the work's "elusive beauty ... is reinforced by this return to the Aria.

The elusive beauty of both touched upon those they met to echo forever.

Any pain is easily remedied, for there is always another elusive beauty to replace the one before.

And here she was, every bit as elusive a beauty as her photograph 'promised.

Curious little thing she was, she had the soft, creamy, elusive beauty of a ferret.

Nothing he'd ever heard could prepare him, though, for their elusive, humbling beauty and, even motionless, their grace.

"Some pictures have bigger descriptions than others, but all contain the elusive beauty known as . . . Diabolique."

His face had an elusive beauty to it, as if he had seen a great vision and was on an eternal quest to find its reality.