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Example sentences for: waif
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(The PDFA no longer takes money from Philip Morris, RJR Reynolds, and Anheuser-Busch or other booze and smokes companies, but even so, the alcohol connection remains: Margeotes/Fertitta and Partners, which created the waif spot, also designs Stolichnaya vodka ads.)
The waif smashes china and plumbing fixtures in the commercial, screaming angrily about how heroin will ruin your life.
Having apparently grown tired of obsessing over just how skeletal the Ally McBeal Über -waif has become, the tabs take a different tack: They bare their fangs and become positively McCarthyesque in their zeal to rat out celebs who've become the least bit unsvelte.
She stares doe-eyed into the camera, like the naked waif in Edvard Munch's Puberty , who seems just at that instant to realize her true vulnerability.
In broad outline, it echoes Great Expectations , Dickens' story of Pip the waif who is befriended by Magwitch the convict, though Carey's book is also partly a reflection on how Dickens' novel came to be written.