wispy

With his wispy goatee beard and baby-faced features, he looks even younger than he is.

And the clattering syncopated loop that repeats through “Oblivion” is there mostly as a contrast to the wispy and diaphanous vocals, which are so thin and leavened with reverb that they threaten to float away.

The scenes follow her attempts to shake off her dependency on Xavier, gliding in an elegant but wispy and uncentered way between memories, philosophical maunderings and embellishments of imagined interactions.

Air’s intense focus gave these wispy songs a strong backbone too.

Kurosawa’s title isn’t referencing our cyber era’s wispy metaphor for data security; he’s talking bad weather, the kind that’s here to stay.