naiad

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

‘To these she is ever present, the spirit of Nature—a sprite of the meadow, a naiad of lakes, a nymph of the woods.’

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2012

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

From Washington Post

The former naiad was having harsh words with them in a foreign tongue, struggling in their grasp.

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 Alexander von Humboldt

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

The major disappointments were a lackluster performance by Amy Shuard, as the tempestuous Cassandra, and the Royal Hunt scene, in which the dancers thundered about the stage like a herd of Cyclopes rather than naiads.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the morning the Romans were scheduled to leave, Piper was sitting on the pier at the canoe lake, trying to placate the naiads.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan