papery

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Being back at Disney, Dudamel admits, is very emotional, especially conducting “Walküre” with Gehry’s sets of billowy, sumptuous clouds and fanciful white papery horses.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

The show pairs the painting with a Kiki Smith sculpture, created over five decades later, that portrays the papery form of a woman from the waist down, her fetus dangling by an umbilical cord.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The walls are lined with papery things — sheets of newspaper and fragments from a map.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2024

The surgical team spent hours cutting through the layers of papery membrane and soft tissue that protect his brain.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2023

“They’re disgusting. Those papery wings and their stupid bug bodies . ..” She shudders.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth