white feather

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In the final scene of “Forrest Gump,” a white feather dances from Forrest’s feet, into the air, representing one of the movie’s major threads: Are life’s joys and agonies predestined, or are they indiscriminate?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

Sara’s closest friends also created a memory box in Ms Chambers' office, containing photos, messages and the white feather.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2024

After the Oscars, just two days before his surprise retirement announcement, Roach put Ann Demeulemeester in a tiny white feather top for the Vanity Fair afterparty and worked with several others on Hollywood’s big night.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023

And “Icarus” frames white feather shapes in tongues of yellow sunlight, implying a wing falling toward the blue water below.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2020

She was crowned with braids and vines and what he first took for butterflies but quickly saw were orchids, with a single long white feather at a jaunty angle.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor