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"waif" Definitions
  1. a small, thin person, usually a child, who looks as if they do not have enough to eat

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Having disobeyed the Waif, she retrieves her sword (a key symbol of her identity), goes on the lam, and ultimately kills the Waif.
But why would her killing the Waif be an accomplishment?
The Waif has found her, as we knew she would.
The Waif: Killed by Arya Stark in an unseen duel.
" To his left was a scrawny, disheveled waif labeled "U.
But some tinfoil hat-wearing individuals believe that Arya never actually survived that battle with the Waif (Faye Marsay) in season 4, and that the woman we see is actually just the Waif in disguise.
Yep, it looks like the waif could well be in trouble.
But the show's version apparently has just Jaqen and the Waif.
I once was a monster, now I'm more waif than wolf.
" — Faye Marsay (The Waif) "[I'd want] a four-pronged Stark rule.
Do they signify Arya killing the waif in the next episode?
Arya was actually wounded, and the Waif was really after her.
There are other obvious flaws to the "Arya is the Waif" theory.
It's pretty anti-climactic after the countless scenes of excruciating Waif vs.
We got to watch her stick-fight with the Waif in the House of Black and White, then stick-fight with the Waif on the streets of Braavos, all while learning a thing or two about stick-fighting.
Lady Crane was killed by the waif, and the chase was on again.
I wanted to look like the girls who won meets — waif-like, agile.
Plus, Arya will need to escape from the Waif for a second time.
The Waif seems to always know of Arya's whereabouts and her inner doubts.
Finally, there's this theory that Arya and the Waif are the same person.
Or would the Waif steal Arya's face and wreck havoc back in Winterfell?
Namely, why would the Waif want to murder the Freys and fulfill Arya's list?
The Waif, on the other hand, was everything Jaqen H'gar wanted Arya to become.
Take a close look at this photo, of The Waif standing in a doorway.
What if the Arya we see here is actually the Waif, wearing an Arya mask?
Arya might not be the Waif, but Arya definitely isn't who she used to be.
Earlier this year, Half Waif released a murky gem of an EP called form/a.
He's a big dude, 6 foot 3, and at the time I was waif-like.
One Redditor put forth the idea that Arya and the Waif are actually one person.
Then, by the '90s, that emphasis shifted back to more skinny, waif-like body types.
They offered an alternative to the waif thin models years ago by using models with curves.
Of course, to do this look right, the woman must be a skinny "gamine," or waif.
After she fails to murder Lady Crane, Jaqen gives the Waif the "okay" to kill Arya.
In doing so, Kloss shifted her image from runway waif to bankable big name and athlete.
Body types run from waif-slim to roundish; hairstyles include Rapunzel-long tresses, bobs and fades.
Many of the comeback characters this season were never part of the anonymous 1990s waif wave.
In the film, Starr plays a homeless waif adopted by the richest man in the world.
When she got permission to kill Arya, the Waif was told not to let her suffer.
Would the Waif be revealed as an invisible aspect of Arya's id à la Fight Club?
Parker says the cultural image of the "waif" and trying to achieve that ideal is emotionally taxing.
Arya removed the old woman's face to reveal the Waif, the woman always hanging out with Jaqen.
The Faceless Man prefers to speak to only Arya or the Waif at one time, not both.
"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" contains a major rite of passage for our girl (or our Waif).
The preview featured a man in shadows standing behind the waif, who had curly hair and shoulder pads.
"That's your problem, not mine," the Waif replies, before beating a flailing, confused Arya with her long stick.
Barefoot, with one hand extended in need, she looks directly at the viewer in dire, unsullied waif-ness.
Dragged to a police station, a man then claims the waif chopped off his arm with an ax.
His mouth was too small, his cheeks too plump; LA cosmetic surgeons turned him into an unrecognisable waif.
Arya pushed the Waif away, then plunged into the river beneath the bridge, blood clouding up the water.
Rounding out the bill are Sad13, the songwriter Sadie Dupuis's side-project; Sports; Half Waif; and T-Rextasy.
Rounding out the bill are Sad13, the songwriter Sadie Dupuis's side-project; Sports; Half Waif; and T-Rextasy.bkbazaar.
Arya risked her life to save Lady Crane from death, but then the Waif T-1000 killed her anyway.
After being stabbed in the stomach by the Waif, we watched Arya stumble, terrified, through the streets of Braavos.
Arya's supposed "assertion" of her identity could really just be evidence of the Waif settling into her new persona.
So, perhaps by wearing the Arya mask, Arya's unique hangups, fears, and desires have been communicated to the Waif.
She's as improbably innocent as a waif out of Dickens (or from the final scene of "La Dolce Vita").
She's homeless, begging in the streets and having to endure random beatings from H'ghar's assistant, the Waif (Faye Marsay).
"See you tomorrow," the Waif told Arya, in what might have been the most chilling line of the night.
After being brutally stabbed by the Waif, Arya escapes by diving off of a bridge and into the water.
The Waif approaches Arya on a bridge, disguised as an old lady, and stabs her repeatedly in the abdomen.
Some people are speculating that it's not even Arya who gets stabbed — but the Waif or the Faceless Man.
In the run-up to Arya's final confrontation with ballistic schoolmarm the Waif, the internet was ablaze with conspiracies.
Wearing the face of an elderly woman, the Waif approaches Arya from behind and stabs her in the stomach repeatedly.
After Arya's stabbing by the Waif in episode six, fans speculated intensely about just what they had just seen happen.
Will Arya finally get to Westeros so we can put that whole waif storyline behind us once and for all?
The role of Anastasia ranges from waif to grand duchess with mad scenes, love scenes, and plenty of juicy monologues.
But the Waif had a personal vendetta and set about to do just that, stabbing her repeatedly in the stomach.
I had a few jobs at venues and doing merch for bands like Half Waif that have all been postponed.
Getting repeatedly stabbed by the Waif (Faye Marsay) and tossed into dirty city water during season 6 should have killed Arya.
Wrong. Arya returns triumphant and ends up fighting the Waif in a dark room using the skills she learned while blind.
Maybe the "Arya" who was stabbed wasn't really Arya but rather the Waif — and Arya was the perpetrator of the attack!
While Arya sleeps, and Lady Crane rummages around for more drugs, The Waif shows up and ends her rather gruesomely (+20).
The intriguing Lady Crane, who seemed as if she could become more significant, was killed in perfunctory fashion by the Waif.
Arya spent a long time in that horrid House of Black and White and with The Waif training just for this.
Seeing them together reveals their sameness: Most artists didn't move beyond AnnLee's minimally depicted, passive-waif persona and endless self-reference.
"The term that gets so much associated with that decade is the '90s is the moment of the waif," McClendon said.
The true protagonist, who must always be reacting to her companion, is flattened as a character and becomes a nearly mute waif.
We didn't get to see the demise of the Waif, one of the show's most hated characters this side of Ramsay Bolton.
Arya has since killed the Waif and given her face to Jaqen, so it seems that they were always two separate people.
Faye Marsay, the actress who played the Waif, added fuel to this (slightly bonkers) theory in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
It deflates like a punctured balloon, setting up a big confrontation between Arya and the Waif, then completely failing to follow through.
She is forced into a fight she can't possibly win by her "friend" from the House of Black and White, the Waif.
I don't know how it's possible for a soulless killing machine to be hammy, but The Waif preordered this honeybaked with relish.
And the Waif embodies the part of her that wants to kill off her true self and become a new person — nobody.
We're talking gnarly stabs, here — it appeared that the Waif was motivated by her jealousy and dislike for Arya when fulfilling Jaqen's orders.
Perhaps there was a rush for time, or the showrunners never figured out a way to make Arya-Waif fight scenes more compelling.
In one of Game of Thrones' most thrilling fight scenes, the Waif chases Arya through Braavos, eventually stabbing her in the stomach twice.
But Arya's kindness to Lady Crane was repaid in the form of medical treatment, after which she got the drop on the Waif.
We thought she seemed unlikely to kill the Meryl Streep of Braavos and she did not, which no doubt delighted the horrible Waif.
She is reedlike, wavering and tremulous — a waif forever on the verge of a nervous breakdown — and she mostly inspires our protective instincts.
A Girl Gets A Second ChanceIn Braavos, Arya is STILL getting her ass kicked by the Waif, who is pulling serious Matrix moves.
She made "The Ocean Waif," a touching romance about an abused young woman and a writer that gives (almost) equal weight to both.
LE: Part of the storyline was Gianni and Donatella fighting, because it was back when all the really thin waif models were coming in.
Or at least give me a director's cut of "No One" where we get to see Arya exact some sweet revenge on the Waif.
There's certainly evidence for it — Jaqen H'ghar only ever spoke to one of the characters, the Waif always knew when Arya was lying, etc.
So, even if Arya isn't the Waif, the lessons she learned at the House of Black and White are clearly imprinted onto her behavior.
In short, she was replaced by a waif in an ivory gown who had to ask her true love, Ethan, to do her in.
And now this week, once the Waif arrived with her knife, Arya drew her sword, extinguished the candle — and the scene cut to black.
Despite being a fan favorite, the badass, needle-wielding character found herself stuck in endless Braavosi Fight Club-esque training montages against the Waif.
Diski riskily interrogates the ingratitude lurking beneath her feelings toward Lessing — the aristocratic savior (of the Communist-Sufi-literary variety) to her Dickensian waif.
Their fatal error is to mistake each other for their fictional avatars—the sexy artist and the appealing waif—and truth takes its revenge.
A series of self-portraits featured Mapplethorpe performing several extreme gender identities: a butch greaser, a boa-wearing starlet, a made-up, nude waif.
From Syrio Forell, to the Hound, to the Waif and Jaqen H'ghar—I don't think anyone is more uniquely suited to assassinate than Arya.
Arya jumps into the river, the Waif presumes her dead, and Arya emerges from the water moments later — alive but bleeding to death. Shit.
As far as we can tell, it's possible that the Faceless Man and Arya are the only ones who can even see the Waif.
Levine lives down the road from Hall with his wife, Nandi Rose, a former Pinegrove member, who now leads her own band, Half Waif.
And yet: Not only does Arya recover being stabbed in the gut seven times, she manages to kill the Waif in a pitch-black room.
The Internet didn't buy that a little holistic medicine would be enough to heal Arya and power a parkour escape from The Terminator The Waif.
In one widely shared photograph, a waif of a girl was pictured being carried by a broad-shouldered Nigerian soldier to a waiting army aircraft.
But now, this season, the showrunners have decided to build this storyline around what seems to be a personal grudge the Waif has against Arya.
Arya is even beginning to be able to fight back in her blind state, getting in a nice wallop to the Waif at one point.
You'll recall that she was brutally stabbed in the gut multiple times by The Waif after leaving the Faceless Men and readopting her own identity.
"I miss New York, and that's the loneliest feeling," Nandi Rose Plunkett sings on "Lavender," her second album (coming out on Friday) as Half Waif.
"Moon Jae-in is not a naïve waif," said Gordon Flake, the chief executive of the Perth USAsia Center at the University of Western Australia.
In season 6 of Game of Thrones, the Waif is ordered to kill Arya after she refuses to follow Jaqen H'gar's orders for the last time.
As for Vlad, we haven't seen a curmudgeonly older man/young waif dynamic this good since the Hound and Arya parted ways on Game of Thrones.
As we've seen in Ellaria Sand, The Waif, and all of the Northern lords thus far, the showrunners aren't taking that much care with writing motives.
As she walks through the streets of Braavos bleeding out, she seems to fear that she is being followed by the Waif, who could be anyone.
However well you think you're rocking that Breton-via-Topshop t-shirt, there's a Charlotte Gainsbourg-esque waif in the Fifth Arrondissement somewhere doing it better.
It took a moment to register this wan waif as the Hollywood star who commandeers sexiest-women lists and the attention of Justin Timberlake, her husband.
In "Road House" (1948) and "On Dangerous Ground" (1952), both new on Blu-ray (from Kino Lorber and Warner Archive), Ms. Lupino is one tough waif.
The book opens with a death: A "waif with flickering eyes and acne-picked skin" has leapt from the roof of a country house in Kent.
His paintings are peopled by waif-like barefoot seamstresses and peasant-woman workers; out of the windows of his immaculate workshops, brightly-coloured cows benevolently wander by.
The stereotypical Parisian, with her waif-like figure, perfectly mussed hair, and baguette strategically tucked under her arm, is not representative of the women who inhabit Paris.
If she were the Waif, why would she be happy to see Jon (Kit Harington), who, coincidentally, also was stabbed in the stomach during their long separation?
Or is there a chance that she will simply become another quiet royal waif, swallowed whole into luxury and impartiality, her dresses more important than her voice?
But Arya managed to escape and lead the Waif on a chase through Braavos back to a room she'd recently been sleeping in — to spring a trap.
I wrote it off because I am a naive waif who, after six seasons of OITNB, still do not think a character would actually kill their sister.
So she gives Lady Crane some scene notes ("good, but more murdery"), botches her own job, and hits the road, with the Waif evidently on her tail.
Céline Sciamma's "Girlhood" brushes aside the archetypal waif-like Parisian girl of French beauty advertorials with four Franco-Senegalese teenagers from a council estate on the banlieues.
The latter exemplified the beauty standard of my American half (with British and Eastern European ancestry): the waif-like thinness, fair skin, and chic protrusion of bones.
Like the streetwalking Cabiria (played by Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina), Charity was a tarnish-proof waif, a sunnier cousin to the whore with a heart of gold.
A thrilling chase scene ensued, in which the Waif doggedly pursued her prey, only for Arya to lure her into the dark, where she had the advantage.
Onscreen, the Waif from the temple of the Many-Faced God tossed a bo staff at Arya Stark, then began hitting her before she could defend herself.
But I'm interested in whether the Waif will turn out to be just an amuse bouche at the start of a 17-course tasting menu of Arya's Revenge.
Even later than that, she went to Braavos to become a Faceless Man and survived what should have been a death sentence at the hands of the Waif.
Seemingly having forgotten that the Faceless Men could be anyone, she lets a random old woman who reveals herself to be the Waif walk up and stab Arya.
The Vampire Diaries couldn't even save its waif-like narrator from the need to be protected in death (her boyfriend is guarding her frozen-ish-in-time body).
"As an illustrator and woman, I've looked at a lot of magazine images and didn't want these [imaginary beings] to be shrinking, small, waif-like characters," Goodman says.
For me it was about a level of empathy that grief invokes in Hobie, because he too is grieving when he receives this strange waif on his doorstep.
Humphrey Bogart and William Holden play two bickering brothers, Linus and David Larrabee, and Audrey Hepburn is Sabrina, the awkward waif turned Parisian goddess who captivates them both.
Later when the Waif questions her about the Hound, Arya says she didn't kill him because she'd taken him off her list, and didn't actually want him dead anymore.
Vietnamese generals stride past Australian admirals in tropical whites; a giant of a Fijian officer waits near a waif-like Saudi delegate, his gold-edged robe denoting princely rank.
QUEBEC — When Alexandre Bissonnette learned of Justin Trudeau's now-famous tweet welcoming refugees to Canada, the waif-like 21990-year-old political science student told police that he snapped.
As embodied by the magnetic Ms. Ramos, Win is a sharp and resourceful waif, and it is hard to tell who is getting played in her deal with Thom.
As Charlie Jane Anders of Wired posits, what if the Waif, a fellow assassin in the House of Black and White, has been masquerading as Arya Stark all this time?
But in terms of establishing motivation, history, background, or anything that would distinguish Tikka and Leilah from archetype of Helpless Waif and Evil Villainess — none of that exists in Bright.
Anyway, it takes her about five seconds to get herself cut by The Waif — a newly draftable character, who will make +20 stabby points off this (scored as an incapacitation).
Over in Braavos, the other Stark daughter has her eyes back but is still getting smacked around on a regular basis by the Waif, who has some serious class issues.
Ostensibly still a teenager when he started publishing his stories, JT Leroy appeared in public as a soft-spoken waif in a blond wig, dark glasses and baggy, androgynous clothes.
A small part of me thinks that Arya died in that dark room, and the person walking around Winterfell now, goading Sansa into fights, isn't Arya at all – but the Waif.
In the books, Arya does interact with two Faceless Men the most — the Waif and the "kindly man" — but the House of Black and White is a place bustling with activity.
The Waif (this is, apparently, her official character name) goads Arya into a fight while the girl is sitting and trying to win the pity of those who pass her by.
Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones saw the character regain her fighting spirit, defeat the Waif once and for all, and shut down this whole "a girl has no name" nonsense.
If Arya could beat the stuffing out of the Waif (Faye Marsay) blind, terrified, and with a boring old pointy-end-free staff during season 6, imagine what she could do now.
I assume that Arya had been training herself to fight in that room in the darkness, and that that training helped her get the upper hand on the Waif and kill her.
The adrenaline-pumping highlight of the episode is Arya (Maisie Williams) in no-holds-barred sprint through the congested city streets with her murderous nemesis the Waif (Faye Marsay) in hot pursuit.
Boho chic implies loose, floaty silhouettes that drape oh-so-casually on waif-like limbs, a look that flatters exactly 0.0032 percent of the female population whose last name is not Olsen.
Perhaps Ferreira looks like you, your best friend, or your mom — she definitely doesn't look like a "traditional" straight-sized runway waif, and that's such a refreshing, body-positive change of pace.
Her roles included a trumpet-­tooting waif in "La Strada," a prostitute in "Nights of Cabiria," and a housewife visited by fantasies in Fellini's first color feature, "Juliet of the Spirits" (1965).
This one suggests that the ways the Waif (the Paris Geller of Game of Thrones) attacks Arya during training mimic the ways Arya's loved ones have been injured (see GIF above for details).
AL: That fashion show very much represented the turning point in fashion from these happy supermodels with smiles on their faces and swagger in the hips to this more of a waif look.
I fought for what might have been a minute or two, as his star athlete body weighed down my waif frame, and my thin arms managed only to lift millimeters from the bed.
"The idea that he is some kind of naive waif who doesn't understand how Washington works or the criminal system [works] is absurd," said Akerman, who was the former assistant special Watergate prosecutor.
After Arya FINALLY bests the Waif in a fight, the Faceless Man leads the former Stark to the pool in the Hall of Faces and fills a small bowl for her to drink.
The theory suggests that Arya is suffering from some sort of dissociative identity disorder, and the inner war between her two selves is playing out between the Waif and Arya in real life.
Arya, blind and begging for change on the streets, begins her training with The Waif, during which she's knocked down but gets up again, which she will have to do again the next day.
One such possibility, as seen in episode 7 of this week's Game of Thrones, is that the Waif used the face of an elderly woman to stab and (presumably, except not) kill Arya. Damn.
Ellen Page is captivating as the title character, a waif who turns up on the doorstep of her boyfriend's mother, Margo (Allison Janney), after he bails on their living-in-a-van life. (Ms.
With Pinegrove, Plunkett helps to broaden the band's blooming alt-country rooted deep in the New Jersey woodlands; as Half Waif, she makes room for globe-twirling prism pop in search of a home.
Black Christmas is set in a sorority, and its female college students, including Kidder and Hussey, make Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie in Halloween look like a prudish waif left over from an entirely different era.
But instead she ended up in an extended "Karate Kid" training phase at their House of Black and White, doing menial labor for Jaqen H'ghar and taking regular abuse from an unpleasant girl called the Waif.
Examples include Jon Snow's return, certainly, but also the Hound's return, Arya's dispatching of the Waif, Ramsay's death and the Knights of the Vale's last-second battle-swinging attack in last week's Battle of the Bastards.
The Rockefellers' 219 Picasso, "Fillette à la Corbeille Fleurie" (Young Girl with Basket of Flowers), had been expected to eclipse that result, but the subject of a naked teenage waif proved problematic, and bidding was restrained.
We saw this story in Firefly, and we even saw Stewart play a supporting role in another valedictory "iconic character mentors young murder-waif" film when he laid Professor Xavier to an uneasy rest in Logan.
In the prince's castle in Act II, Ms. Opolais's Rusalka seems like a lost waif as a strange ballroom dance takes place around her, with the courtly participants going through all manner of angular, jutting movements.
The Waif, the Redditor suggests, is simply a figment of Arya's imagination (caused by the House of Black and White's magic) which is working to kill the humanity holding Arya back from fully becoming a Faceless Man.
The hot duck is hot no matter what he does — he will even be hot when he molts, just in a more waif-y, artistic way — but this koala is hot only because of his particular pose.
There are tear-splashed melodramas like Alice Guy Blaché's "The Ocean Waif" (219), but also slapstick comedies like Mabel Normand's "Caught in a Cabaret," starring Charlie Chaplin (21920), and Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley's thriller "Suspense" (1913).
"We saw her two years ago when she was 14, but she wasn't ready," Ms. Brokaw said of another young model, Mariana Zaragoza, a teenager from Guadalajara, Mexico, who had the immense eyes of a Margaret Keane waif.
Neither took custody of their adopted war waif, and the last documented instance of the name "Bela Simons" was on the information sheet filled out upon her arrival into the United States by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: the to and fro of handles an endless game of searching, for the token piece of gold thin, slim waif of... are you hiding in my book leaves, did you find a comforting corner?
What follows is a kind of ridiculous chase scene in which Arya, who is still bleeding and high as a fucking giraffe, manages to evade The Waif doing the best T-1000 impression this side of the Narrow Sea.
CreditCreditGösta Peterson, via Turn Gallery Gösta Peterson, a self-taught photographer who made fashion history with his magazine covers of a once-spurned black model, Naomi Sims, and an androgynous British waif nicknamed Twiggy, died last Friday in Manhattan.
The presentation of Joan would also capitalize on Lampert's distinctive looks, which defy previous portrayals of Joan as a buxom warrior (the celebrated painting by Ingres) or as a gamine waif (Jean Seberg in Otto Preminger's film "Saint Joan").
"Probable Depths" arrived more quietly that same day, and the cassette might have been lost in the spring shower if it hadn't been for the loyal followers of Nandi Rose Plunkett, a singer and producer known as Half Waif.
In Braavos, Arya spent Season 5 doing nothing, stabbing a guy in the eyes, then going blind, and has spent Season 6 being blind, learning to stick fight while blind, and getting the shit punched out of her by the Waif.
In the end, the wild-haired Amazon became a blond waif and the psychotic Asian-American became a man from California, and the college girl (who in real life had already graduated), aged 10 years and became a Chinese-American executive.
Up until a few episodes back when Arya ran afoul of her direwolf (who seemingly recognized her), I had bought into the conspiracy theory that our Arya had died back in Braavos and been replaced by her foe The Waif without our knowledge.
My idealization of her twisted into unbounded resentment: she'd gone off to work and had affairs and left me to the mercies of my father's rages; she'd bought herself fur coats and Sonia Rykiel pantsuits while I looked like a waif, etc.
The survivor of a set of four silver soup tureens themed to the seasons is here; it symbolizes winter, with the sculpted handle of its lid depicting the crouching form of a little barefooted waif, the wind at her back, tending a brazier.
Young, offbeat brands — including fashion labels like Hood By Air, Eckhaus Latta, and Vetements, and makeup companies Milk and Glossier — ditched the whole 'delicate waif' motif and defined their labels through street casting, booking a diverse hodgepodge of friends, collaborators, and people scouted on Instagram.
He was a small, underfed waif with cuts on his head where the monks nicked it, shaving it against lice, but he held himself with exquisite dignity,and there could be no doubt that in his own mind, in that moment, he was a warrior.
Directed by Griffin Dunne, her nephew, who includes footage from his recent interviews with her, it shows that despite her cultivated image as a nervous waif at the mercy of moods and the Santa Ana wind, she could be ruthlessly practical and utterly unsentimental.
Last seen lying in wait for the Waif in the dark — at least that's how it looked to me — Arya on Sunday made travel plans in broad daylight and otherwise behaved in oddly leisurely fashion for a woman who just defied a band of deadly assassins.
At Silent Barn on April 6, she'll play songs from "form/a," the latest Half Waif EP (which she produced herself), swaying between the electronic bass of new tracks like "Night Heat" and the light step of "Turn Me Around," nudging everyone near her into motion. ♦
Salomé Richard plays Ana, a 26-year-old waif who, after living abroad for the summer, returns to Strasbourg, France, where she briefly absconds with a Porsche she'd been driving for a film production, remodels her ailing grandmother's bathroom and juggles an assortment of romantic encounters.
It's not so different from my own realization one morning, a few months after medical transition, that I was no longer the scrawny, niche twink I had been a couple years prior, but a waif with long blonde hair and what guys in bars call "exotic" good looks.
After running afoul in last season's finale of the rules of the Faceless Men, the religious order training her, she is now freshly blind, and spent Sunday's episode begging in the streets when she wasn't being whacked with a stick by a girl called the Waif (Faye Marsay).
"I went from weirdo teenager to pixie waif to them not knowing what the hell to do with me," Ms. Ryder said, adding that it wasn't until 2010, when Darren Aronofsky cast her as a washed-up prima ballerina in "Black Swan," that things clicked back into place.
Instead of listening to what their bodies need (be it nourishment, relaxation, or a more gentle form of exercise) sometimes people push themselves to the limit to attain waif-like figures or chiseled abs and look their best at all times, even when sitting or bending over to pick something up.
To ensure fans would not pick up on any important details, The Waif (Faye Marsay), Jaqen H'ghar (Tom Wlaschiha), The Night King (Vladimir Furdik), and Jon Snow (Kit Harington) all came to location in Spain where the scene was set to be filmed, in spite of not appearing anywhere near the final product.
Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will likely hold audiences responsible for consistently underestimating Sansa, though Arya is a wild card—especially if, like me, you are of the unpopular opinion that our Arya died in episode 8 of season 6 and has since been replaced by her face-stealing rival the Waif.
And before you say that it's unthinkable that Maisie Williams would be written off the show, recall that we're talking about face-takers; Arya doesn't have to live for Williams to be back, and the Waif could do some real damage in Westeros disguised as a long-lost Stark-let. Far-fetched?
Fortunately, the Siegel brothers have given us some very likable characters: Oona Lee, a trainee Sand Dancer (think Jedis who would kick butt at sand castle-building contests); An Tzu, a Dickensian street waif who's part plant; and Jax Amboy, the David Beckham of Starball, whose celebrity status makes even enemy soldiers go fanboy on him.
After getting beaten down over and over again by the menacing Waif who oversees her training, Arya bumps up against the limits of her own internal sense of justice when asked to assassinate Lady Crane, an actress whose moving portrayal of Queen Cersei in a play about Ned Stark's execution prompts Arya to feel some unexpected empathy for one of her nemeses.
While surprising given his contemporaries' preference for waif-ish women, the choice is actually a perfectly logical one for Siriano who last season cast 5 plus-size girls, and has made a name for himself on red carpets by dressing a number of high profile, non-sample size actresses, many of whom had complained about designers not wanting to dress them in the past.
Along the way, there are mishaps galore, near misses and hairbreadth escapes, managed by our intrepid young archetype with the aid of some unexpected (and mostly unwelcome) allies and hangers-on: a thievish waif, a good-hearted witch, a literal straw man with arguably more humanity than your average human, as well as the occasional colorful bit player, like the innkeeper with the interesting side job of vivisectionist.
But take but a few keystrokes into YouTube, Tumblr, or Reddit, and you will soon find yourself falling headlong into a bottomless chasm of GoT fan speculation, like Bran is really the Night King, Littlefinger faked his own death, Tyrion is really a Targaryen, Daenerys and Jon Snow made a baby, Arya is really the Waif, Meera Reed is Jon Snow's twin sister, Missandei is really a Faceless Man, Sansa will marry Jon Snow, and, one of my personal favorites, Varys is really a merman.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A Gibson girl with a perfectly coiffed Vidal Sassoon bob wearing a ballgown made of slabs of meat and sausage links; a wide-eyed, silver-haired, childlike waif half submerged in a body of water containing amoebas, protozoa, body parts, and a foetus; Amanda Seyfried as a lady with ermine (in this case, it's a dead cat) and Katy Perry posing like Titian's Venus in a "Garden of Earthly Delights" settings — these are just a few examples of the works of pop-surrealist painter Mark Ryden, who, in his 215-year career, brought the lowbrow art movement out of the underground circuit of Southern California and into the mainstream.

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