Trailing wispily, they looked like tears that had not dried.

As a youth, Sergio dreams wispily of growing up to serve his King.

The girl was very young, wispily blonde.

His scanty brown hair was dishevelled, hanging forward wispily onto his forehead.

Far from being wispily mysterious as this young man's dream woman, Ms. Watts was a forceful presence.

They expanded, wispily, into the salty mixture.

Lo Ying turned to him, his deeply lined, wispily bearded face only a hand's breadth away.

Whatever happiness any of them had is so wispily sketched it is hard to know if they had any.

The woman smiled wispily.

Too wispily cerebral.

Ms. Forti danced wispily to a text about sun, moon and stars in "Big Dipper."

I fear I will look like a wispily bearded dictator in one, which is handy, as a vacancy has just arisen in the Caribbean.

Far from being wispily nostalgic, "Backward-Facing Man" is still fighting to make sense of its characters' late-60's political conviction and wonder what became of it.

And yet the music he makes is often wispily gorgeous, his glowering presence instantly makes the films he's in more interesting and, yes, he can direct.

The driver, a burly and wispily bearded Kazak climbs slowly out, shakes my hand solemnly, and thoughtfully inspects the damage.

Glen walked beside her, his thin, rather sardonic face now distraught, his gray hair flying wispily around his head as if in imitation of the butterflies.

According to Robbie Collin, "Like Crazy is a well-acted and obviously heartfelt film, and at times it's also a wispily beautiful one.

Unkempt locks of iron-grey fell wispily on her shoulders, a straw hat rathe: like the hats that horses wear in Italy was crammed down on her head.

The heartbreaking line, "I'll sleep in your embrace at last," should be the devastating coda for her unrequited love; instead, it slips out as wispily as Eponine does from life.

A man and his dog were going to materialize, were going to appear out of thin air - wispily at first, becoming, finally, as substantial as any man and dog alive.

Mayuna Shimizu, Blue Muse's founder and director, sent veiled dancers fluttering wispily in "Quicksand - No Pain No Gain," then had them return unveiled like avenging spirits.

The oysters, wispily light and airy, are delicious, and while I wouldn't ordinarily choose to flavor a steak with sauce, Ms. Moore's spicy, fruity concoction, reminiscent of a Japanese katsu sauce, is an ideal counterpoint.

The Mongoose satellite reports that fallout will be especially pronounced toward noon and will then taper off, so all you folks who'll be venturing out - " Appearing beside him, her long nightgown trailing wispily, Iran shut off the TV set.

She liked to tease Alix about her hair, which was forever wispily descending from its large wooden slide: Toni's own curled neatly in angelic dyed blonde braids, and sometimes on request she had given Alix lessons in hair management, but Alix could not, would not learn.

And in the meantime there is a homegrown version, "The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir," by Toni Bentley, a book whose demure black dust jacket folds back to reveal the same painting of a wispily clad posterior that was the opening shot in the movie "Lost in Translation."