nimbus

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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 silhouette of low domes and pencil-thin minarets piercing a nimbus of pale sky above was the continent of Asia.

From New York Times • May 12, 2022

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

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2019

He waited, and in a moment she was at the kitchen window with a nimbus of light around her head.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson