wispiness

In any case, these cameras prove that wispiness no longer means settling for mediocre photo quality.

Simbel in his defeat has lost much of his recent wispiness.

It is also fragile, but it is saved from wispiness by Leighton and Quinn.

Thin to the point of wispiness, pale nearly to the point of translucence, she gives off a vulnerability that begs for sanctuary.

If Helva noticed the odd hollowness, the occasional wispiness as if the tone were half-supported, her sensors were keener than the ears of the adoring crowd of young students and patient officials.

'The childlike, gum-chewing naïveté, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones."

Congressmen from rock-ribbed Republican districts who've never had to confront a dissenting view applaud themselves for their manly courage while scorning the effete wispiness of Northeastern Republicans who go home and battle derision every weekend.

Don't hesitate to order one of the dessert soufflés early in the meal; their wispiness makes a perfect light ending to a dinner that may begin with an appetizer of smoked venison sausage over green lentils or with fruit-garnished foie gras.

Down the corridor in the same direction, limping, leaning on a stick, came an elderly lady in an elegant but old-fashioned coat, with a toque-like hat set at a dashing angle on her head and a certain wild wispiness about her pinned up grey hair.

'Much luck, doctor,' Festenburg said hollowly, and then he, too, became a streak of foglike wispiness that eddied gray and indistinct around him, blending with the disintegrated remnants of the desk, the walls of the room, the objects that a moment before had been utterly stable.

Mr. Foss's concerto, played with what looked and sounded like impersonal concentration by Sharon Isbin and conducted by the composer, moved from sometimes evocative but oddly reserved and inconclusive wispiness to a blowsy optimism at the end, complete with a crude quotation from "America the Beautiful."

Heavy Angela Pintaldi jewelry that weighted necks and hands, thick-soled shoes that held the models to the runway and tiny inset beads or minerals that made dresses clack against the legs as if the body were being polished counterbalanced the sheer wispiness of the devore dresses, trousers, skirts and one-shoulder camsioles.

Then, on a weekend's trip to Grayshotts Health Farm to recharge the batteries and the credit cards, I attended a lecture on meditation given by a simply marvellous, crumply GP with about as much airy-fairy, guru-y wispiness as, say, Denis Healey, and I was moved to find out more.