Prospero maintains Ariel's loyalty by repeatedly promising to release the "airy spirit" from servitude.

After commanding Ariel to speed their trip, Prospero promises the airy spirit the freedom he's wanted for so long.

Ariel is described in the opening cast of characters as "an airy spirit."

Dan Mack interprets the airy spirit of Adirondack twig furniture.

Ms. Jaffe's lightness made her a blithe peasant in the first act and an airy spirit in the second.

We were higher than the mightiest ziggurat, castle, or forest, were in the realm of the airy spirits.

She was always such an airy spirit.

Such an airy spirit, flying on her own gales up above us.

And indeed she did seem to be an airy spirit, a little sprite of a thing.

Shawn successfully demonstrated that dance could depict vigorous flesh-and-blood people as well as airy spirits.