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
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
With a nimbus of curly white hair, a bushy white mustache and cheerful, beat-up features, Mr. Kahn invites encounters, a scruffy celebrity.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2020
The sun was setting on Islamabad by then, a flaming red nimbus in the west.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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