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illusive hopes of finding a better job
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There were no shadows under the trees but everywhere a pearly stillness, so that what was real seemed illusive and without definition.† (source)
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Public gossip attributed the romantic adventures of his verses to his own life, but although he had numerous liaisons, true love remained as illusive and as unattainable for him as Novalis's blue flower.† (source)
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The fate of the world rests on one illusive virus and its cure.† (source)
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But the plague forced inactivity on them, limiting their movements to the same dull round inside the town, and throwing them, day after day, on the illusive solace of their memories.† (source)
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Illusive winter woods in silence, broken by the snap of heavy wings, an owl in flight.† (source)
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She looked from near to far, trying to grasp the illusive something.† (source)
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He was for some time without reflection or thought for the divine charm which is in the things of nature, specially after a fantastic dream; then gradually this view of the outer world, so calm, so pure, so grand, reminded him of the illusiveness of his vision, and once more awakened memory.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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He shouted Christine's name, brandished his pistol, knocked his forehead against the glass in his endeavors to run down the glades of the illusive forest.† (source)
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A heavy mist lay very low on the water, making a sort of illusive grey light that showed nothing.† (source)
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Here were great oaks and splendid evergreens with trunks like mossy pillars, from the branches of which hung garlands of ivy and mistletoe, and persimmon trees, the odour of which pervaded every nook and corner of the wood—an illusive, fragrant something that made the heart glad.† (source)
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Moonlight, in a familiar room, falling so white upon the carpet, and showing all its figures so distinctly—making every object so minutely visible, yet so unlike a morning or noontide visibility—is a medium the most suitable for a romance-writer to get acquainted with his illusive guests.† (source)
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Some who have lain flat on the ice for a long time, looking down through the illusive medium, perchance with watery eyes into the bargain, and driven to hasty conclusions by the fear of catching cold in their breasts, have seen vast holes "into which a load of hay might be driven," if there were anybody to drive it, the undoubted source of the Styx and entrance to the Infernal Regions from these parts.† (source)
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Miss Ophelia and the physician alone felt no encouragement from this illusive truce.† (source)
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Their tears, their laughter, you command with ease, The lofty still they honour, the illusive love.† (source)
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u, with art's illusive aid, The Amrit from their sight conveyed.† (source)
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