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burning bush

NOUN
  1. (Old Testament) the bush that burned without being consumed and from which God spoke to Moses
  2. Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather
  3. deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
  4. densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn

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  • Over a sixty-year career as a writer, actor, coproducer, and activist, Fay Kanin was awarded several Emmys and Peabodys, the ACLU Bill of Rights Award, the Crystal Award from Women in Film, the Burning Bush Award from the University of Judaism, and nominations for Oscar and Tony awards. Fay Kanin.
  • The intellectualist wants to stay and contemplate the burning bush, to draw it to size, to define its properties, to dogmatise its meaning and to describe the distance at which presence to or from it becomes either a mortal or a venial sin.
  • Crab apples and viburnums are also good for wildlife, and pyracanthus (fire thorn), burning bush, and barberry provide winter food after their bitter berries have been softened by frosts.
  • Glaisdale Low Moor was to our south, painted in subtle spring shades with the occasional gorse in full flower burning bush mode.
  • Barberry, knotweed, ailanthus, and the brilliant Euonymus known as burning bush are just some of the horticultural immigrants that continue to out-compete many of our indigenous species.
  • The intellectualist wants to stay and contemplate the burning bush, to draw it to size, to define its properties, to dogmatise its meaning and to describe the distance at which presence to or from it becomes either a mortal or a venial sin.
  • The Burning Bush specialise in Jewish music with klezmer, Hassidic dances, exotic music from the old Ottoman and haunting, mystical ballads of the ghetto.
  • Think of burning bushes or Von Daniken's revelations and you can almost hear the oohs and aahs of some divine miracle.
  • β€˜In that hour of dire need, I wasn't visited by God or his burning bush,’ he writes.
  • On the wall of a neighboring brick house, Virginia creeper and ampelopsis added fuel to the fire of surrounding color, while a maple in the middle distance blazed with all the hues that might have flamed in Moses's burning bush. The Street Called Straight
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