elusive quality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofelusiveandquality
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elusive
adjective
uk/iˈluː.sɪv/us/iˈluː.sɪv/
difficult to describe, find, achieve, ...
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quality
noun
uk/ˈkwɒl.ə.ti/us/ˈkwɑː.lə.t̬i/
how good or bad ...
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(Definition ofelusiveandqualityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They may also explain theelusivequalityof the ' middle sort of people ', apparent only to some contemporary observers, and rarely to the group themselves.
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To sum up so far: "identity" is an important butelusivequality, and "national identity" even more so.
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He focuses on defining theelusivequalityof ability, measuring learner output, and changing curriculum development.
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This is an extraordinarily difficult parameter to measure, depending, as it does, on so many factors and being such anelusivequalityto describe objectively.
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Apart altogether from technical qualifications, we find in him a special critical faculty, anelusivequalitywhich some of us call "hunch".
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That is part of the curiouslyelusivequalityof what is known as "publicity," rather than the blame of any newspaper proprietors.
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Leadership is anelusivequalityand many people search for it.
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It is thatelusivequalitywhich is the essence and spirit of a garden or building or indeed a combination of both.
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In innovation there is anelusivequalityin the creation of change.
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This place brings together men and women in search of that mostelusivequalityin this modern, brittle, and materialistic age, happiness and the joy of living.
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Happiness is a veryelusivequality.
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Judgment is a veryelusivequality.
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It is a sense of physical weight, the illusion of mass, the appearance of maturity or advanced age, and theelusivequalityof dignity.
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But the biggest theme is undeniably the search for theelusivequalitythat allows humanity to overcome all opposition and manage the unique feat of conquering the entire galaxy.
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