waif

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Recent Examples on the Web Shelley Duvall, the saucer-eyed, rail-thin waif who starred in seven films directed by her mentor, Robert Altman, and avoided the ax wielded by an unhinged Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, died Thursday. Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2024 But that was before director Denis Villeneuve wowed audiences by cutting the first book in half and plopping Hollywood's hardest-working waif (Timothée Chalamet) into an unforgiving landscape riddled with monstrous, holy worms. EW.com, 13 Nov. 2023 Meanwhile, the emerging popularity of the waif threatened to undermine the supermodels’ status. Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023 As a model, Grace Coddington could morph from bohemian waif to Helmut Newton hottie in the bat of an eye. Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021 Phoenix Best has a pure and rich voice as the street waif Éponine. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2023 The late-Nineties waif obsession led to a stretch when many runways featured girls who resented as bland, interchangeable adolescents. Bridget Foley, Town & Country, 26 Apr. 2023 Keane specialized in kitschy portraits of staring waifs. Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023 From a fallow-faced waif in the early episodes to restored and radiant by the series’ end, when Blixen has successfully reinvented herself as a writing genius. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Apr. 2022

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“Waif.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waif. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.

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