wispy

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"You can't sculpt and cast something that is..." he paused, trying to find the right word, "wispy."

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

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

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The sunken cheeks and blue-gray eyes, the wispy eyebrows and silver hair, the shoulders knotted around her ears.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish