Parker and Stone believed many viewed the economy as an important, elusive entity without truly understanding how it works, and felt it mirrored faith in religion.

Still, that elusive entity necessary to any woman who wishes to be taken seriously by society was missing: a rich and powerful husband.

If there's a God of this universe, he's a tired television writer relying on faded clichés, not the subtle, elusive entity the filmmakers want him to be.

Most of these elusive entities are corporate shells with no other visible assets in Liechtenstein than letterheads in the drawers of some local lawyer.

Justice may pursue him, but he is the most elusive entity in the cosmos.

The answer cuts to the quick of that elusive entity that historians, sociologists, authors and artists have been seeking to define for centuries: the German soul.

The crew members of "Star Trek" 's Enterprise have to contend with an elusive entity when they bring relief to a troubled planet.

With rumors of the "God of Fighting" circulating, Armor King revealed to his student that the elusive entity was the one most likely responsible.

Interesting to see that gramatically speaking, Redknapp considers goals to be an ephemeral, unquantifiable, almost elusive entity.

These are all related to an effort to fix a civic identity on an elusive entity, the City of Angels.