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
In any case, Ms. Morris continued with her writing life much as before, only wearing skirts, necklaces, a nimbus of graying hair and a perpetual smile.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2020
The farther down they went, the more the Dust light gave everything a nimbus of golden mist.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
