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Observer's David Cote commented, 'Big-voiced Eva Noblezada is pluck personified as a waifish Eurydice.'

We nibble frothy, lemony oxalis leaves (like the elegant, willowy, waifish cousin of clover) in the kitchen garden's glasshouse, where micro herbs are grown for the restaurant, and explore the hotel's bank of veg beds.

But much of the novel's plot concerns the jealousy that arises between Zenobia and her waifish half-sister, Priscilla, as they compete for Hollingsworth's attention.

In the thick of it, as always, were David Silva and Bernardo Silva, both 5ft 6 ins and of waifish build.

For Caleb Reynolds, sheriff of Azure Springs, securing justice for the waifish and injured Em is just part of his job.

On the other hand, Christine, as played by the composer's wife, Sarah Brightman, reflects a waifish nature consistent with a voice that, although rangy enough, is certainly not of the size and weight associated with traditional operatic sopranos.

"In the 1990s, the ideal figure became even thinner, where the toned "80s babe' gave way to the waifish, 'heroin chic' supermodel of the '90s--thin was in."

Katie Walsh writes based off the trailer and poster, many have surmised that this is Aronofsky's tribute to Rosemary's Baby, and there are similarities: the waifish young blonde wife (Lawrence), the egotistical artist husband (Bardem), the overbearing older couple (Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer), who make themselves at home despite the discomfort of the subservient, passive bride.

There were comparisons to previous girlfriends, all of whom had been waifish blue-blooded blondes.

Timid and waifish, the woman's girls hid behind her legs, peering around the shop with liquid eyes.

Winona was the emblematic star of her '90s heyday: waifish but iconoclastic, and equally at home in buttoned-up period pieces like The Age of Innocence as she was in Tim Burton films or the iconic coming-of-age portrait Reality Bites where she played a grunge-era everygirl.