All 9 Uses
aura
in
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
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- Every photograph reinforces the aura.†
Part 1 *
- We can't get outside the aura.†
Part 1
- We're part of the aura.†
Part 1
- Murray, happily deferring to me, went to a corner of the room and sat on the floor, leaving me to pace and gesture alone, secure in my professional aura of power, madness and death.†
Part 1
- We all had an aura to maintain, and in sharing mine with a friend I was risking the very things that made me untouchable.†
Part 1
- There was a sense of Protestant disrepair about her, a collapsed aura in which her body struggled to survive.†
Part 1
- He seem ed to be watching me, one department head measuring the aura of another.†
Part 3
- The sense of eerie and invincible stillness washed off, the aura of knowingness, the feeling he conveyed of an ancient and terrible secret.†
Part 3
- His trainer was always there, his friends drawn to the aura of inspired risk.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(aura) A distinctive quality, mood, or feeling that seems to surround a person, place, or thing; or, more literally, a glowing light shown around someone's head or body in spiritual or artistic images
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In medicine, an "aura" can reference a sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.