Steve Rushin

Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp of smoke, difficult to grasp, harder to hold, impossible to control while getting both feet down in bounds.

American Journalist

Edwin Catmull

We encourage our people to build their ideas from scratch, and we give them the resources - and, crucially, the candid feedback - that are required to transform the first wisps of a story into a truly compelling film.

American Scientist

Maxine Kumin

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.

American Poet

Golf mogul Donald Trump sports an arrangement of hair that is less a comb-over than a 'do-over, a candy-floss confection of gossamer wisps that comes off as the clumsiest cover-up since Watergate.

Vincent Van Gogh

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Dutch Painter

Maya Angelou

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Andre Aciman

Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps.

American Writer

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Use 'wisp' to describe intangible things like smells, sounds, or feelings in a poetic way.

Abstract Concepts

'Wisp' commonly creates a visual image of delicacy, often used in descriptive writing.

Visual Imagery

'Wisp' suggests a brief or fleeting appearance, especially for smoke or clouds.

Transient State

Describes something so light and insubstantial it seems barely present.

Lightness Implied

When related to hair, 'wisp' often refers to hair out of place, giving a casual feel.

Slight Irregularity

Highlights the minuteness of an object or amount, suggesting it's almost negligible.

Smallness Emphasized

In farming contexts, 'wisp' is practical, referring to bedding material for animals.

Agricultural Setting

Indicates a specific quantity when discussing animal bedding, implies modesty.

Size Contextualized

 little wisps of protoplasm, interacting with each other, and from this activity emerges the whole spectrum of abilities that we call human nature and human consciousness. How does this happen? Well, there are many ways of approaching the functions of the human brain.

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 that's what happy one of the most glorious places I've ever worked out the view is extraordinary you can see all the way to Brazil little wisps of cloud Louis and the light is beautiful the summits of these mountains have been isolated for tens of millions of years

Climbing a Table-Top...

 It's a beautiful graphic. What we found out were that those faint wisps are actually fountains of ice rising up from the surface of this tiny moon. That's fascinating and beautiful in itself, but we think that the mechanism for powering those fountains

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 This heat sustains the flames by keeping the fuel at or above ignition temperature. Eventually, though, even the hottest fires run out of fuel or oxygen. Then, those twisting flames give a final hiss and disappear with a wisp of smoke

Is fire a solid, a...

 How does pollution, which you can see in the white wisps of sulfate pollution in Europe, how does that affect the temperatures at the surface and the sunlight that you get at the surface? We can look at this across the world.

Gavin Schmidt: The...

 to help you say "Yes, and" to your own ideas, to increase the chance that, through the wisps of the cloud, you'll find that moment of calmness where you get your first glimpse of your unexpected discovery, your C. Thank you.

Uri Alon: Why truly...

 his wife Margaret Kilgallen who was also an artist Margaret was beautiful a wisp of a woman with wavy auburn hair and vivid blue eyes self-effacing but stubborn an idealist and an imp she played the banjo and surfed and the

Living in a shadow PIPE...

 The weavers began, eyes fixed and shuttles blurring. Athena conjured wisps of cloud from above and slender threads of grass from below in a spectacle of strength.

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 so light they can sit atop a dandelion puff and be blown away with a wisp of air -- so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong

Regina Dugan: From...

 Death stood motionless, his inscrutable face fixed on the sputtering flame— until all that was left of the doctor was a wisp of smoke.