naiad
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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
A naiad had brought him a big platter of pastries, and as Tantalus spoke, his right hand chased a chocolate eclair across the judge’s- table.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
In the chalk, marine plants and naiades predominate.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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
Centuries later, the dryads have died from the trees and the naiads from the pools.
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
People and satyrs and naiads all turned toward me, their faces filled with respect and gratitude, and as I passed, they knelt, as if I were some kind of hero.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
