papery
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The show pairs the painting with a Kiki Smith sculpture, created over five decades later, that portrays the papery form of a woman from the waist down, her fetus dangling by an umbilical cord.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Raise and project your voice, he was instructed, so it doesn’t sound so papery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
The core look included oversized jackets with papery tops worn with trailing trousers or long-johns leggings tucked into bright cowboy boots, accented with leg warmers.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Three days later, I pulled the papery leaves from the stems and packed them into a jar of winter tea.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
The top of the elf’s head barely reached the seat of Hepzibah’s chair, and her papery skin hung off her frame just like the crisp linen sheet she wore draped like a toga.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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