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nimbus

[nim-buhs] / ˈnɪm bəs /


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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

In any case, Ms. Morris continued with her writing life much as before, only wearing skirts, necklaces, a nimbus of graying hair and a perpetual smile.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2020

The effect was less a series of scaffolding than a surreal nimbus — a white thought in a green shade.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2020

White hair surrounded his otherwise bald head in a nimbus and plugged his big ears like cotton.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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