sylphlike

I’d seen Bell onstage, severe and sylphlike in the musicals “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” and “Ghost Quartet,” and knew enough of her experimental music to feel curious.

Dutch bicycles are sturdy beasts, which take more effort to move than sylphlike road-bikes.

Ms. Waters glided onto the New York avant-garde in 1965, at the age of 19, startling those around her with a sylphlike voice and a haunted air.

In contrast to them, however, Rima is a creature of air and light and exquisite sylphlike beauty.

PALATINE, Ill. — Tall and sylphlike, an athlete with delicate features and a blond topknot, she changes clothes behind a privacy curtain in the girls’ locker room at her high school.