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

The effect was less a series of scaffolding than a surreal nimbus — a white thought in a green shade.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2020

But a nimbus of noise accumulates around the simple-seeming chords.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2019

And don’t forget nimbus the rain cloud, I add, that’s something.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

The smaller scale of this scene, and the nimbi given to Christ and the Apostles point to its having been the work of a special artist.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare

The remaining effigies are depicted on the foreheads, hands and nimbi of the larger ones.

From Religion in Japan by George A. (George Augustus) Cobbold

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

There were large nimbi and small nimbi about their drooping heads, but the face was always the same.

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy

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

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

Both mother and child have round nimbuses, the former in plain circular bands of russet and orange, the latter consisting of bands of pale blue surmounted by a scarlet cross.

From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley