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
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
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 flames amid the rubble consumed the remaining fragments of the house and gusted into the sky, a nimbus of fire.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
