Phillipa Soo

My mother took my brother and I to a production of 'The Tempest', and it was in this very small - it could have been the basement of a church or a black box. The space was vast, but there were maybe 15 seats in the middle. Ariel came out wearing a nude sparkly thong and spike heels, and the muses had these gossamer see-through gowns on.

American Actress

Anohni

Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.

English Musician

Richard Jefferies

A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.

English Writer

William Godwin

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.

Louis Sullivan

It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.

American Architect

Edgar Allan Poe

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

American Poet

Rene Ricard

I had to make my history quick because there would be no future, merely a gossamer world blown about on the zeitgeist, till zeitgeist, the wind of the times, is blasted away by kamikaze, the wind of God.

Steve Rushin

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.

American Journalist

Stacey D'Erasmo

Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.

American Novelist

Used to describe something that's ultra-light or fine — often metaphorically to stress delicacy.

Metaphorical Use

Favors poetic or expressive descriptions where you evoke a sense of elegance or fragility.

Figurative Descriptions

Can be used to discuss non-physical entities like feelings or ideas as being delicate.

Non-material Concepts

Used in fashion to describe very light fabrics or designs ideal for airy, delicate garments.

Fashion and Fabric

Can imply a level of transparency that suggests vulnerability or exposure.

Suggestive Translucency

Describes connections or links that are weak or easy to break, not just physical objects.

Tenuous Connections

Associated with autumn when spider webs, or 'gossamer', are more visible with morning dew.

Autumn Association

Often highlights the delicate beauty found in nature, especially in the early morning.

Natural Beauty

Specifically refers to the fine, thread-like quality of spider webs in this context.

Spider Web Texture

 day are laid sometimes by the really big Queens whoops we understand he fell on his bottom and it's all for this time when the termite elites come out of these holes and they're fly off in those enormous clouds of gossamer wings often

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 Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul."

Gossamer

Metaphorical Use

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