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And now, as played with fierce physicality and grueling commitment by Annette Bening, Diana is a movie character: an impossible person who achieved the impossible, a naiad whose truer mythological counterpart might be Narcissus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

I’d forgotten Cyane, the naiad, who rises from the river to beg Pluto not to take Proserpine.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

Minthe was a naiad, a water nymph stationed at a tributary to one the better rivers of hell.

From Slate ● May 4, 2012

Leighton set his youthful figure — a classical nymph or naiad — in a Mediterranean setting.

From Washington Post

It was a perfect keepsake from her stay—a paint-by-numbers drawn by a naiad depicting the location of the bravest act of her life.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

In the chalk, marine plants and naiades predominate.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von

To my relief, the directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, working with the screenwriter Julia Cox, trace Diana’s mythic roots not just to the naiads, but to zealots like Captain Ahab.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

In “Alas, the Nymphs… ,” the latest installment in the “Men Go Down” trilogy by John Jahnke and his company, Hotel Savant, the naiads are in modern-day Turkey, re-enacting a vengeful memory from ancient Greece.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2015

Behind each lollops a flowing train of antic naiads and tough river gods.

From Time Magazine Archive

Birds hiding amidst twisted foliage, snakes coiled around trunks of trees . . . fern-crooks . . . feathers . . . scarabs . . . naiads swimming . . . knights in full armor.

From Time Magazine Archive

As soon as we got in the river, I looked over the edge of the boat and found a couple of naiads staring at me.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan