sylph

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

This all comes together in her first solo, just after the curtain rises, when the sylph shows us how light and supernatural she is, and how much in love, with a skimming, spinning dance.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 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

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

Ms. Gerring’s female dancers aren’t sylphs or deities; they’re worthy colleagues to the four men.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2015

Only in the light “Chopiniana,” a dream of sylphs and a Romantic poet in a wood at night, does Fokine’s original company give his dance theater any substance.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2012

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