nimbus

Scheib’s staging, just Bayreuth’s 11th “Parsifal” production, paid homage to Wieland Wagner’s breakthrough 1951 minimalist sets with a circle of light that represented both the knights’ round table and a flying nimbus above the wasteland.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

Humanizing Bunny is in keeping with the show's general nimbus of empathy for all of its personalities, even its villains.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2022

She can create hovering nimbus clouds of harmony with the best of them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2021

This is a kingdom in which the phrase artificial intelligence bathes “everything it was applied to with the nimbus of a bright future.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2020

The chicken flapped its wings wildly; downy feathers floated around Mami like a nimbus.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

The panels are round-headed, and the sky fills the space behind the figures with their gilded nimbi.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

Both mother and child wear heavy nimbi, ornamented with gold.

From The Madonna in Art by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

There were saints with glories or nimbi round their heads, Madonnas and kneeling Magi, the manger under a kind of penthouse, and similar subjects—subjects the highest that could be chosen.

From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

We set out at seven a.m. on the next day, when an Azyab or south-easterly wind was promised by the damp air, the slaty sea, and the gloomy nimbi on the hill-tops.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sinai hills clouded over: cirri strata high up; nimbi in fragments below.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Even when the music whips up complex, noisy nimbuses of competing motifs, the fast, finely judged changes within the dense activity are preparing you for variations on the weather.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022

White dogwood branches looked like clouds, the pale saucers of their blossoms arranged in white nimbuses.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2018

A mid-17th-century watercolor with gold and ink shows them with flaming nimbuses over their heads, rather than the round halos of Western art, and yet Mary is dressed in Western style.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2015

The village houses receded through shifting distances of pale gloom; one could scarcely distinguish the white slants of their roofs, and the lamp-lights which shone out newly in some of the windows made rosy nimbuses.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Flashing around me, and from Lakla and O'Keefe, were nimbuses of flickering scarlet flames.

From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt