Sentences with word «sylph»

Shaw's 20th - century backwoods are a tatty double of the painted rural idylls where sylphs of yore romped.

How it worked: The simulacrum sylph known as Mia Ash was constructed using images grabbed from the Instagram account of a Romanian woman, a real person.

Sent by Ben and his beloved sylph bride, Willow, to an exclusive girls» prep school, headstrong (and half - magical) Mistaya Holiday has found life in the natural world a less than perfect fit.

The face pictured in Portrait (Under Water), 2007, channels Gauguin's Yellow Christ; the figures in Dark Girl and Untitled (Jungle Painting), both 2007, are evocative of Munch's alienated sylphs and Kirchner's stalklike subjects, here transposed from street to tropics.

I am jealous of Henrietta Sontag, Hadley, Ondine, Lauren Bacall, sylphs of all stripes, Emily Dickinson, Mary Moore (of Trenton), Mary Moore's mother, Marie Taglioni, Marilyn Monroe, Fanny Cerrito, Carolee Schnee - man...

They bring to mind a sense of enchantment and transcendent realms where magical, otherworldly beings like fairies, elves, trolls, sylphs and nymphs reside.

If an imp or sylph or whatnot drops off a package and orders its delivery, she must do it.

If an imp or sylph or whatnot drops off a package and orders it

Accompanied by a sylph that can alter the direction of foreground light sources, gameplay largely consists of guiding your shadow through a looming tower of perplexing puzzles and malicious monsters.

Around her feet a hunt is taking place — Uccello's Hunt in the Forest but with a sylph instead of a stag — while the sea behind is teeming with boats, whales, crabs and bizarre creatures like monsters on a medieval map.»

The work of fantasy normally accomplished by the gaze, which transmutes this tree into a demon, this one a sylph, all the poetry of the encounter with the object is here accomplished by the object itself, which is fantastically overdetermined.

A rippling pileup of sylph - like figures, cast from acrylic resin, has somehow landed at the Hepworth.

Pleased to see that at lunchtime she disappears and returns (late), perspiring encouragingly, and clearly in no state to deal with any cases; so have pleasure in sending away all litigants, counsel, solicitors etc on grounds that DJ is indisposed, which will no doubt reach the ears of court manager Jade who never has any difficulty in retaining her sylph - like figure much to lady DJ's annoyance.

Also complaining how busy she was over Christmas: so many parties to go to, so many people to see, so many cards to read; she really must try and get to gym to recover what she refers to as her sylph - like figure, otherwise she may have to replace her entire wardrobe, and could it be that this increased weight has cost her her gong?