How to Use passion play in a Sentence

passion play

noun
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  • My dad would even play Jesus in some of our passion plays in church.
    — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
  • This made the duo think their downtime fun could be more than simply passion play.
    — Cassandra Girard, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2017
  • To watch an Andy Murray rant is to watch a passion play by and for the passive-aggressive.
    — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
  • Last year’s passion play was canceled for the first time in more than 30 years because of the pandemic.
    — Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Thinking of Ending Things, a riddle wrapped in an enigma and staged like a passion play.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The altar fits into the overall vision for the show as a kind of passion play in which Carrie is sacrificed.
    — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • In relatively good health at 69, Manning opted to roll all of the money over for a future trip to see the passion play.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The only option is the passion play of the boardroom reality show.
    — Ari Schulman, The New Republic, 15 June 2020
  • Church leaders are hopeful that next year, the cathedral members will be able to have the live passion play, and Ovalle hopes for a more normal Good Friday, too.
    — Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2021
  • For ten nights in Muharram these passion plays were performed with growing fervour.
    — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
  • That cast the Pens as props: unwilling characters in a passion play of the president’s making.
    — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2017
  • As much of Latin America shuts down, Nicaragua has urged people to go to the beach, on holiday cruises and to Easter-season passion plays.
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The company works through churches to recruit customers for pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Europe and to see the Oberammergau passion play.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The story transformed resistance to modernity into a passion play with the Jew as villain and, in so doing, helped make anti-Semitism a key feature of right-wing ideology in France.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Planning ahead, many of the lines are already promoting cruises that will include premier seating at Oberammergau’s passion play in 2020 in Bavaria.
    — Ellen Uzelac, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Once every 10 years, the villagers of Oberammergau, Germany, perform a passion play depicting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
  • With the easing of coronavirus restrictions, more people will have access to in-person church services on Easter Sunday, but the traditional Good Friday passion play will be virtual for one more year.
    — Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The script and lyrics, largely airlifted intact from an 1897 stage drama by the French playwright Charles Peguy, have the declamatory fervor of a passion play, with characters serving as philosophic mouthpieces rather than vessels of human drama.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
  • Their performances were both religious and profane, encompassing everything from passion plays to puppet shows to commedia dell’arte sketches.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018

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