sylph

But the heroine of “Coppelia” isn’t anything like the unattainable sylph of “La Sylphide” or the vaporous Wili of “Giselle.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

This Galadriel is not the cosmically attuned sylph we know from the films.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2022

And with her voluminous arms and lush sense of suspense, Ms. Phelan floated across the stage in dreamlike walks that made her seem more sylph than woman.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2019

Ori and the Blind Forest sees a catlike, snow-white biped with wings who darts like a sylph across the screen on a journey to revivify an evanescent forest.

From Time ● Nov. 7, 2016

“A monster, a maiden, a sylph of the ice. You kissed me, whispered stories in my ear. You sang to me and held me as I slept. Your laugh chased me into waking.”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

On the small dance floor, three sylphs swayed to Depeche Mode like pussy willows in the breeze, while a man with a bushy blond beard wafted by, wearing a dashiki.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2019

She’s a superstar in a comedy universe dominated by boys’ clubs and sylphs, and she’s funny as hell.

From The Guardian ● May 30, 2016

“Emeralds,” which is set to selections from Fauré’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” and “Shylock,” draws on balletic traditions of woodland glades and evasive sylphs, poets and sighing lovers, emphasized by Peter Harvey’s garden grove décor.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2011

Pieces such as Bleeding Fairies in 1977 deconstructed the ballet stereo-types of swans, nymphs, sylphs and earth mothers in a menstrual riot of radical feminism.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2011

The knockers— hardy mountain dwellers accustomed to the cold—carried those who would have otherwise frozen: some of the dryads, or the winged sylphs, whose bodies were limp in the wintry air.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo