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

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

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2019

She had a capacity for excess, and a nimbus of exhausted hedonism trailed along with her.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 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

Each have nimbi of a blue colour, surmounted by crosses, with globular extremities.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

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 Newman, John Henry

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

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

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 Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

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 Hardy, Thomas

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

Glories or nimbuses in high relief set thick with gems surround the faces, and sparkle as they reflect the light from the multitude of candles burnt in their honour.

From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther

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 Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins