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"elfin" Definitions
  1. (of a person or their features) small and attractive

132 Sentences With "elfin"

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Based on these differences, the researchers can say that the elfin mountain toad is a truly unique species, until now hidden away in Langbian's elfin forest.
Stack his heels, until his elfin figure became a giant.
You know, they were slightly elfin-looking or had big eyes.
She's also engaging and elfin, and just a little bit hip.
Together (or so the Inner Elfin Council believes) these two can bring about the revival of elfin power, "the rebirth of the mists," and effect "the last alliance," a fruitful collaboration between nature's magic and human art.
But for Safira, an elfin 1003-year-old, this meal is a luxury.
The young wife, Patra, has an elfin quality that belies an essential passivity.
Mr. Bertschmann is an elfin man with comely features and a warm smile, Mrs.
"He would ask a quiet question more than being out front," Mr. Elfin said.
There she was, surrounded by elfin mountain laurel, Joe Pye weed, penstemon and masterwort.
The FWS said Tuesday it is listing the elfin-woods warbler as a threatened species.
His father, Joseph, was a truck driver, and his mother, Bessie (Margolis) Elfin, was a homemaker.
Mr. Elfin left Newsweek after years of battles with higher-ups at the magazine in Manhattan.
Last Christmas, Blondeau, dressed as an elfin lumberjack, reclined on a tree placed on its side.
He was in his 70s now, a short man with an elfin face and boundless energy.
These elfin creatures have a delicate prettiness that suggests a cross between supermodel and baby llama.
Charismatic and curly-haired, elfin in velvet and dress shirts, he became Floyd's lead guitarist and frontman.
An elfin, white-haired election observer, Josep Maria Vieta, slipped onto the school's steps and whispered conspiratorially.
At Newsweek, Mr. Elfin had a reputation as a witty, no-nonsense, sarcastic and high-strung boss.
It's winter, and the hundreds of well-groomed men, of women sporting elfin shoes, just wanted some comfort.
Sessions, who is 73, has jug ears and is of modest height, giving him an almost elfin quality.
It shares some of the sleek virtual-world look of Spielberg's film, right down to the elfin player avatars.
Two years later, Mr. Elfin joined Newsweek as a features writer for the magazine's back-of-the-book sections.
The culprit was Marine Serre: a surprisingly elfin radical, 5 feet and change tall, soft-spoken in the extreme.
The elfin Smart car made a noble stab at our market, but is leaving it while remaining in Europe.
His pointy nose and a frame that nearly matched the dimensions of the wheelchair lent him an elfin quality.
The same group is also known as APT33, Refined Kitten, or Elfin, and has previously been linked to Iran.
If you are a little "elfin" yourself, you are bound to be pleased by mentions of your spiritual kin.
Mist and fog are ubiquitous in elfin forests, which the plants rely on it as a major source of precipitation.
She has a short, Jean Seberg hairdo and elfin features, but her manner is serious and no-nonsense, occasionally brusque.
Elfin, who got a no-decision, finished by allowing those three hits, no walks and one run in six innings.
But Mr. Elfin defended the rankings as an effective way for students and parents to comparison-shop for higher education.
The elfin Mr. Keating, the saturnine Mr. Ruddy and the radiant Ms. Street all move persuasively between fragility and strength.
The little boy's elfin ways have woken Papa Toothwort and perhaps remind him of some early unruined version of himself.
Cameron, who has white hair and was wearing denim overalls over a purple striped shirt, has a bouncy, elfin energy.
It may look like the elfin mountain toad lives in idyllic surroundings, but reality for this little Legolas is no fantasy.
The elfin "upper class" Eloi are seemingly content, but are in fact easy prey for the ape-like "working class" Morlocks.
His wife, Andrea Chamblee, and his friend David Elfin put the finishing touches on the project and ushered it to publication.
LeBron James just may have saved elfin Canadian pop star Justin Bieber from committing political hari-kari last week, according to TMZ.
Maria, living on a farm in France, must use her ability to communicate with nature to bridge the human and elfin worlds.
Mario's more serious counterpart in the Nintendo stable of characters has long been Link, the elfin protagonist of the Legend of Zelda series.
At the broader end of the spectrum is Short, one of the great, incorrigible clowns, whose elfin face belies a deeply eccentric comic sensibility.
The drop-in Family Art Project will be devoted to making ribbon wands and tiny elfin houses from leaves, twigs and other natural materials.
There is a Green Giant Instagram account, which purports to chronicle a cross-country road trip taken by the giant and his elfin buddy, Sprout.
The late appearance of Ms. Cloud, steely yet elfin in pale gray, adds another psychological tension; her sliding steps, both crisp and plush, are vaguely hypnotic.
"What we all had for dinner was pure essence of Agnew," Mr. Elfin wrote with his colleague Robert Shogan in a post-dinner memorandum that Mrs.
The first episode is about a selfish American jerk, Eleanor (the elfin charmer Kristen Bell), who dies and goes to Heaven, owing to a bureaucratic error.
The hope of a book like "The Show That Never Ends" is not only to extol Keith Emerson's hands, Peter Gabriel's wardrobe or Jon Anderson's elfin tenor.
"Lina wants to dedicate the Oscar, but she would like to change the name Oscar to a feminine name," Rossellini said, standing next to the elfin Wertmüller.
Kudos also to Rina Maejima's elfin Connie; Mallory Cunningham's pitch-challenged Christine; the smoothly professional Spencer Pond as the dance captain, Larry; and Alex Polzun's back flip.
Ms. Mangini, elfin and energetic, was once a nerdy teenager, she said, who was voted most likely to be president by her New Jersey high school classmates.
In the last few years, it's spawned a mania across Asia for a pure and innocent look characterized by flawless features with a doll-like, elfin androgyny.
The island encompasses three distinct ecosystems — coastal/tide pool, dry forest and rain/elfin forest — with a diversity of plants and animal life both indigenous and imported.
My internal aim was to look like Kate Moss — ridiculous, I know — but I often spent days hating my face and wishing for her perfect, symmetrical elfin beauty.
"He was a pivotal figure," said Bob Morse, the chief data strategist of U.S. News, who worked closely with Mr. Elfin to hone the methodologies behind the rankings.
Both men elongated the figure, but in Klimt's case, this resulted in a kind of elfin romanticism, while Schiele's knobbly portraits can look like prefigurations of heroin chic.
Donahue comes across as the peer mediator from your high school, while the quick-talking, elfin-featured Kasher reads as the Hebrew version of a Norse trickster god.
An elfin 21-year-old model with dreadlocks named Thomas Castro was buying a ring, encrusted with diamonds and in the shape of two panthers, for his mother.
Among its regulars was one Jane Auer Bowles, an extravagant woman of elfin physique who, by the end of her days, had taken to wearing a conspicuous wig.
They took careful, comparative measurements of its body proportions, shape, and appearance, and using DNA sampling, found that the elfin mountain toad was genetically distinct from the other species.
Small, slight and bespectacled, with a thoughtful elfin manner and a ready grin, he looks perhaps half his age, and chats freely and easily, without any apparent writerly agony.
Mr. Oppenheimer is a charming interlocutor and, with his easy manner and slightly elfin face, he soon becomes an emblem for scientific inquiry at its most accessible and exciting.
Mr. Elfin, who was the special projects editor at U.S. News (he also wrote a column about Washington politics), faced pushback about the quality and meaning of the rankings.
The comedy began when Tom Zé strolled onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday night, an elfin figure dressed in a white shirt and blue-jean overalls.
"He was elfin and wore high-waisted mom jeans," Ms. Barry, wrote in "The Jungle Prince of Delhi," the article she recently published on the man and his family.
Elfin, soft-spoken, plainly dressed in a black blouse and a long black skirt (with white sneakers peeping out from beneath the hem), Ozick was an affable and attentive presence.
"She was short and elfin like with a round friendly face," said John Verzani, a math professor at the College of Staten Island and a vice chairman of the conservancy.
At the same time, the FWS is also proposing to designate a critical habitat for the elfin-woods warbler, which would range for more than 85033,000 acres across Puerto Rico.
Moments after Elfin picked Lewis Brinson off of first base — he was called safe before the call was overturned on video review — Bour pulled his pinch-hit homer to right.
"We have to flame-proof everything in the entire exhibition," said COO Sean Di Ianni, 31, a delightful, slightly elfin man who joined the group a few months after it began.
An elfin-looking man with a scraggly beard and a penchant for robes, Schacknow declared himself an oracle of God, sent to save mankind by eradicating all evil from the Earth.
No Bauhaus or Smiths; without a slinky and elfin arm around Mick Ronson while singing "Starman" on Top of the Pops, there's no Morrissey, Marc Almond, Boy George, or George Michael.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as the elfin Frenchman, who seemed to dance on a metal cable strung more than 100 stories in the sky as New Yorkers gazed up in amazement.
When I saw him this spring in "Everybody," he popped out of a seat a few rows behind me with a beard that made him look like an elfin Santa Claus.
And in the space that used to house a Sears store, residents of the area created a "winter wonderland" — an elfin village fashioned from discarded cardboard boxes that once held refrigerators.
It moves quickly and does a nice job of weaving together two story lines involving an elfin world that is threatened when a giant tree, known as the Ellcrys, begins to die.
Inside its theater, under ornate murals of fairy tale tableaus and elfin creatures the house packed in a mix of curious newcomers, friends of the film, and many of the stars themselves.
Only blocks away from "Lieutenant," Orlando Bloom — once the elfin prince Legolas in "The Lord of the Rings" — is slaying 'em in a revival of Tracy Letts's "Killer Joe" at Trafalgar Studios.
The elfin Ms. Kondo, perhaps the world's only decluttering celebrity, was promoting her new book, "Spark Joy," a more prescriptive manual (it comes with illustrations) than her last, which is a publishing juggernaut.
The elfin mountain toad in its mossy natural habitat (Image: Nikolay A. Poyarkov Jr.)Far up in the Langbian Plateau in southern Vietnam, a dense, dark forest gently breathes with a passing breeze.
In it, she is sitting on a bed, a pale and puny young woman dressed in clothes that are somehow institutional-looking, with a sheaf of long hair falling around her elfin face.
An elfin brunette, Ms. Hamill doesn't look much like the Becky of the novel, but she pursues Becky's wickedness with delight and without apology, which is to say she's good at being bad.
Under this definition, my World of Warcraft sugar babying wasn't quite catfishing — I wasn't stealing photos or making fake social media accounts, but I was agreeing to flirt for cash from behind an elfin mask.
Natsumi Goldfish, with her series "Half-Humans," envisions a series that combines the upper bodies of elfin, female-presenting subjects with the lower bodies of wild animals — vaguely reminiscent of Disney's Fantasia's segment on centaurs.
An elfin black man in lingerie belting out a jittery New Wave song about a 32-year-old nymphomaniac who keeps her 16-year-old brother as a sex slave — the shtick was hard to ignore.
An elfin figure with a warm, discursive manner (asked for a brief summary of his work, he spoke for thirty-two minutes), Xue worked in Japan and the U.S. before returning to teach at Tsinghua University.
Mel Elfin, a longtime Washington bureau chief for Newsweek who moved to the rival U.S. News & World Report in 19973 and helped build its college rankings feature into a major educational franchise, died on Saturday in Washington.
Her jaw thrust forward like a prow, her elfin eyes belying her regal bearing, her wide-screen mouth wrapping itself around those slashing, implacable consonants — they're all exactly as you remember them and want them to be.
As Mag, she is a demon in a cardigan and tight gray perm; offstage, she's charming and self-deprecating, with clear blue eyes and an elfin grin, offering tea (brought from Ireland in bulk) and a Kimberley.
Pirates RH Gerrit Cole (211-23, 223) Elfin has quickly turned things around since his wretched major-league debut in Toronto on June 222, when he was walloped for nine runs (eight earned) over 24 22/3 innings.
Avila added a solo shot to center off Zach Elfin in the eighth to make it 8-4 after Philadelphia scored in the top of the inning on back-to-back doubles by Scott Kingery and Adam Haseley.
This new post-apocalyptic fantasy series, based on the best-selling books by Terry Brooks, follows three heroes: the elfin princess Amberle (Poppy Drayton), the elf-human hybrid Wil (Austin Butler) and the human rover Eretria (Ivana Baquero).
The pain of that loss has made Meg a handful for her mother (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), and highly protective of her younger brother Charles Wallace (an adorable Deric McCabe), a pint-sized genius with a slightly elfin streak.
Much more significant is the fact that, over the last decade, nobody has created more goals in the Premier League than the elfin Spaniard; only two foreign players — Bergkamp and Cesc Fàbregas — have more assists in English history.
Elfin forests have small, short trees, usually no more than about 30 feet (9 meters) tall, and canopies loaded with epiphytes—plants that benignly take root and grow on the trunks and branches of other, typically much larger plants.
What had been wit with an elfin smile started to feel like entitlement, the interviews of a man who, on some level, knew he could crack wise or really say whatever he wanted because he was never, ever leaving.
Most of the Little Sisters of the Sick Poor, like the exigent Sister Lucy and the loving, almost elfin Sister Jeanne, spend their days outside the convent in the service, as their name suggests, of the indigent and ailing.
The show's pointed and effective opening sketch, which featured Kenan Thompson as the would-be Santa and Kate McKinnon as his elfin assistant, began with a boy asking Mr. Thompson for traditional gifts like Mega Bloks and Lazer Tag.
You see, all that elfin crap was nowhere to be found when I went over the handlebars of my BMX bike and landed on my face in front of my seven-year-old son at an indoor bike park.
Annia is full Annie now — she ditches her elfin accent, she calls Greg an asshole, and tells Ellia that she still hates fantasy a genre (Ellia is confused what Annie is een talking aboutbecause she is a just a figment).
In addition, its tools are tailored toward a standard of beauty — female beauty, mostly — that is particular to China and countries like South Korea and Japan: pale skin, elfin features, skinny limbs, eyes wide and guileless as a baby seal's.
When I asked a devoted, elfin publicist in sequined basketball shorts the color of aquarium gravel if his colleagues had dressed up especially for the show, he looked at me with confusion, barely contained derision and maybe a bit of pity.
There's Morro Bay, a playground of sea otters also known as the Gibraltar of the Pacific; the Elfin Forest, a sand dune landscape of miniature California live oaks; and Montana de Oro State Park, a jewel of the Central Coast.
Ever since its debut in 1986, almost every chapter of The Legend of Zelda has featured an elfin hero named Link trying to rescue Princess Zelda and the kingdom of Hyrule from a pig-like demon named Ganon, the embodiment of evil.
For Mr. Elfin, overseeing U.S. News's college rankings posed a challenge that differed from working at Newsweek, where he covered President Richard M. Nixon's groundbreaking trip to China and developed a strong stable of reporters during the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.
The Dark Crystal, set on the dying world of Thra, followed two Gelflings — the last survivors of a small, elfin race — on a quest to restore a crystal power source that was corrupted by a malevolent birdlike race known as the Skeksis.
A trio of reports in June last year highlighted that an Iranian government-sponsored hacking group known as APT33 (also known as Refined Kitten, Holmium, or Elfin) has been targeting the U.S. government agencies and private companies with targeted spear-phishing attacks.
The exception -- in terms of injecting any pep into the proceedings -- would be Keira Knightley as Sugar Plum, one of the regents of the Four Realms, who mixes a breathless, elfin voice with a flighty manner that falls somewhere between animated doll and Marilyn Monroe.
There's also Jimmy Smits, as a Bronx politico who offers Zeke a route to Manhattan power; ugly disco mobsters; nasty old Ed Koch; some cringe-inducing family melodrama; and the adorable Jaden Smith, playing an elfin graffiti impresario with an Afro twice his size.
The pressure has even led some parents to adopt drastic measures like saddling their elf with a serious case of the flu or a broken leg just to get some relief from the nightly elfin repositioning — not exactly the stuff warm holiday memories are made of.
It allows the show to flick rapidly between a wide range of genres: from a Coen Brothers-esque suburban romp; to a glamorous seance in the woods, full of mediums and mink fur coats; to an elfin quest plucked straight from "The Lord of the Rings".
As with other titles in the series, the player controls a mute, questing elfin lad named Link across a verdant land of swords and sorcery, amassing items and skills, encountering friend and foe and trying to rescue Princess Zelda from the clutches of the monstrous Ganon.
He had been fired as music director of the Houston Symphony partly for parading round town in blue jeans with Mia Farrow, an elfin actress who became his third wife, while he was still married to his second, Dory, who poured out desperate songs about him.
Avatar: The Last Airbender headwriter Aaron Ehasz has paired with Netflix for #TheDragonPrince, a new animated series about two human princes who forge an unlikely bond with the elfin assassin sent to kill them, embarking on an epic quest to bring peace to their warring lands. pic.twitter.
Slightly elfin features, huge smile, a laid back manner combined with an obsessive commitment, he's a strange combination of mellow and driven, like a hippified snail, but a snail who bears a startling resemblance to Arantzazu Marinez's the Fallen Angel, currently hanging in a gallery in Barcelona.
It is in the word-of-mouth phase of its life, one helped by the affection of women like Ms. Hadid and Molly Bair, the elfin runway model who has become something of a muse to Mr. Williams, working with him and Mr. Knight on Alyx shoots.
" To Trump's base, she wrote, Sanders is "the a la mode on a slice of apple pie, the pom-pom and confetti at a freedom rally, or, perhaps, the elfin princess who can read and direct a person's thoughts by hypnotizing them with her magic pearls.
A prequel to Jim Henson's 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal, the new 10-episode series tells the story of how the planet Thra's troubles began when a species known as the Skeksis began controlling the world's mystical forces at the expense of the more peaceful, elfin Gelflings.
On the one hand, there's the embittered Aunt Pat, who as a girl witnessed the death of her brother during the Easter Rebellion and can't stop talking about it; on the other, there's the fey Aunt Maggie, with her gossamer-spun stories of elfin wars and lost loves.
At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's threat intelligence group that show a shift in the activity of the Iranian hacker group APT33, also known by the names Holmium, Refined Kitten, or Elfin.
I went to Cecil Sharpe House, which is part of the English Folk Dance and Song Society; they have a library, so I got some stuff there.. There are certain songs where they know that they have the music, like the song "Elfin Night" that morphed into" Scarborough Fair" over time.
At the time, his wife, Patricia Peterson, was the magazine's fashion editor, and she had met Twiggy — the elfin, doe-eyed, 17-year-old Lesley Hornby, whose prepubescent boy's figure had inspired the sobriquet — as she arrived in New York as already a 5-foot-19863 blond sensation in Europe.
The elfin Antarctic dwellers of "Little Penguins" are a lot like preschoolers you may know: They savor the excitement of a good outdoor winter frolic, then, having had their fill of the cold, delight equally in the warmth and safety of home, which in their case is a nicely furnished igloo.
Mr. Crossman, the best known, retains his happy, elfin-animal frankness while showing a new maturity; Ms. Haarmann, alert and responsive, has effortless authority; Mr. Collins is charmingly, lyrically coltish; Ms. Jones, tall with bewilderingly long legs, has an air both wry and innocent; Ms. Flores is tiny, vivid, with juicily textured movement.
Why it matters: The group, nicknamed APT 33, Refined Kitten and Elfin, has been known to use malware to damage computer systems in the past, leading the Microsoft researcher presenting the talk on Thursday, Ned Moran, to speculate that the hackers may be laying the groundwork for future destructive attacks on industrial systems.
This version, whose 60-page script runs a mere 75 minutes, pares Dostoyevsky's bulky classic down to four characters, including Aglaya (Lauren Cipoletti), who has designs on the prince despite his elfin-eunuch vibe; the coldhearted Nastasya (Purva Bedi), whom the prince persists in loving; and the wild Rogozhin (Merlin Whitehawk), who wants Nastasya, too.
Set in Burgundy, Italy and a magical place called the Pavilion of the Mists, "The Life of Elves" follows two girls of otherworldly provenance — Clara, the daughter of a human and her elfin lover, and Maria, an elf child who fully resembles a human being — born just as an evil leader is about to unleash his destructive powers.
The actual story — an elfin historian (the Brangwain Spurge of the title) becomes the first emissary in years sent to the goblin kingdom, where he's met by a goblin archivist named Werfel — is a bit thin, the oft-told tale of opposite numbers learning they're not so different after all once they're forced to spend a lot of time together.
Aside from a permed and mulletted married couple in the 80s, Stone and Hill get to play dueling thieves at a swanky 1940s seance; a drunken elfin mountain guide in a knockoff Lord of the Rings scenario; the tattooed, platinum grilled, pigtail braided son of a New Jersey mafioso; an undercover CIA agent from Texas; and a dopey Icelandic diplomat.
Yet it has been ten years to the day since a 24-year-old Joanna Newsom released her sophomore album Ys. While it was her first album The Milk-Eyed Mender that introduced us to the slightly elfin harp virtuoso with the peculiar voice, alternating between gravelly and squeaky, Ys was her defining album; her OK Computer, her Born in the U.S.A., her Sgt.
As he told it, an elfin figure wreathed in smiles with the joy of it all, the original Bibliotheca Alexandrina had been inspired by the conquering expeditions of Alexander the Great, which had shown for the first time the diversity of mankind and the Earth; and had been funded by Ptolemy I, who wished it to contain "all the texts in the world that are worthy of study".
Earlier estimated times of arrival of the first tsunami waves for different areas: Kodiak 0145 AKST Elfin Cove 0150 AKST Seward 0155 AKST Yakutat 0200 AKST Sitka 0200 AKST Valdez 06503 AKST Cordova 0220 AKST Sand Point 0220 AKST Unalaska 0240 AKST Homer 20525 AKST Craig 20525 AKST Cold Bay 20555 AKST Adak 20620 AKST Shemya 20620 AKST Saint Paul 20635 AKST Langara 07003 AKST Tofino 20700 AKST Neah Bay 20705 PST Long Beach 20705 PST Moclips 0500 PST Westport 0505 PST Port Angeles 0530 PST Port Townsend 0555 PST Port Orford 0505 PST Seaside 0505 PST Newport 07053 PST Charleston 0510 PST Brookings 0515 PST Crescent City 0520 PST Fort Bragg 0525 PST Horse Mountain 0525 PST Monterey 0555 PST San Francisco 0620 PST Port San Luis 0620 PST Santa Barbara 0635 PST Los Angeles Harb 0650 PST Newport Beach 0700 PST Oceanside 0705 PST La Jolla 0705 PST Hear the sirens residents of Kodiak, Alaska heard this morning: Catch up with the latest: U.S. Tsunami Warning System

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