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
Occasionally he would lean forward, silhouetting himself entirely but for some unruly wisps of gray hair, which glowed like a nimbus.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2020
This is a kingdom in which the phrase artificial intelligence bathes “everything it was applied to with the nimbus of a bright future.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2020
The chicken flapped its wings wildly; downy feathers floated around Mami like a nimbus.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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