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

Jones created a dangerous-looking nimbus that seemed ready to burst.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

The rest is covered with silver-gilt plates modelled in low relief to represent the drapery, nimbi, &c.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

Between this and Cyrillus stand three considerable craters with nimbi.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

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

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

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

I had one last go at the buttons, though there weren't any left with nimbuses on them—the darker it got, the clearer that was.

From The Night of the Long Knives by Virgil Finlay

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