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

The silhouette of low domes and pencil-thin minarets piercing a nimbus of pale sky above was the continent of Asia.

From New York Times ● May 12, 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

Looming through the tall windows along the back wall, dark skies were crammed with nimbus clouds.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

The remaining effigies are depicted on the foreheads, hands and nimbi of the larger ones.

From Religion in Japan by George A. (George Augustus) Cobbold

And from Cloudology, by the changing of primary clouds into compound; and these resolving themselves into nimbi, for rain; or gathering into cumuli, for fair weather.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 by Various

There were large nimbi and small nimbi about their drooping heads, but the face was always the same.

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy

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

There, too, were the brass crowns, or nimbi which were intended to protect the heads of the gods from bats and birds.

From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman

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

Flashing around me, and from Lakla and O'Keefe, were nimbuses of flickering scarlet flames.

From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt

The village houses receded through shifting distances of pale gloom; one could scarcely distinguish the white slants of their roofs, and the lamp-lights which shone out newly in some of the windows made rosy nimbuses.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman