Usage examples (5)

• I have the sense that our existence in Second Life is sylphic, immaterial and airborne.
• Except instead of pretending to be an axe-wielding dwarf or a sylphic elf woman, you're just you in the never-ending campaign of your life.
• It's not because of the quirkiness of her lyrics (and, dear lord, is Spektor ever quirky), or her sylphic voice, or her everygirl persona, which acts as the warm,...
• Much I had heard and read of the swiftness and graceful motion of the antelope, but had no conception of the exquisite ease of its airy, floating perfection of movement, until...