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

Trailing tendrils of organza tended to augment the otherworldly effect, as did a few odd dashes of color — Crayola “blush” or a shade of orange inspired by one model’s nimbus of fiery red hair.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022

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

Mateo points out the dark nimbus clouds, and I’m straight wowed I get to live in this moment with someone who doesn’t deserve to die.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

The gold thread which is freely made use of all over the cope, upon the draperies, nimbi, and surrounding foliage, is marvellously bright and sparkling, although nearly six hundred years old.

From Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie

I have printed nimbiferi in preference to nubiferi because Jupiter is linked with nimbi at two other passages.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg

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

There, too, were the brass crowns, or nimbi which were intended to protect the heads of the gods from bats and birds.

From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman

Device, the Virgin and Child, their heads surrounded with nimbi; the former holds in her right hand three lilies, the latter a globe and cross.

From Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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 trees already showed shadows as of a multitude of bird wings; the peach-trees stood aloof in rosy nimbuses, and the cherry-trees were faintly a-flutter with white through an intense gloss of gold-green.

From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Their brandished spears made nimbuses over their heads; and this time their response was like the baying of hounds.

From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman