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

With his bald pate and nimbus of gray, scowling behind spectacles, he had long been a favorite of editorial cartoonists.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 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

The bitterns boomed and the marsh harriers skimmed over the reeds and millions of widgeon and mallard and tufted ducks flew about m various wedges, looking like champagne bottles balanced on a nimbus of wings.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White