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Recent Examples of morality play
The most celebrated Spanish novelists and directors of the Franco era offered accounts of people’s lives that avoided simple morality plays and partisan games.
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Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
Since then, all sorts of filmmakers have splashed drama and morality plays on the wide-open canvas of the Western, with varying degrees of success.
—and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024
Basie watch the scene, made no move to stop it, and in fact quite evidently enjoyed the morality play.
—Larry Tye, TIME, 9 May 2024
They are also all transformed into morality plays of sorts—although, unlike in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the morals in Trump’s America are inscrutable.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
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Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
Since then, all sorts of filmmakers have splashed drama and morality plays on the wide-open canvas of the Western, with varying degrees of success.
—and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024
Basie watch the scene, made no move to stop it, and in fact quite evidently enjoyed the morality play.
—Larry Tye, TIME, 9 May 2024
They are also all transformed into morality plays of sorts—although, unlike in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the morals in Trump’s America are inscrutable.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morality play
Noun
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These critics attempt to recreate the history, purpose, and thoughtful implementation strategy and create a false narrative to weaken them.Len Fasano, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2025
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But the narrative that there hasn't been much progress since then is undermined by significant under-the-radar advancements.Garrison Lovely, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The Sirens that harken to Greek mythology have features only on one side—the other is a mirror.Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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But to your point about whether there are real consequences of this episode in the mythology of both shows.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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Shafak’s words slice through centuries of rosy myths about motherhood, exposing the raw terror that biological creation might devour its artistic sister.Fidan Cheikosman, JSTOR Daily, 1 Jan. 2025
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Thus, suggested remedies by the AI might be based on myths and completely unverified sources.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Morality play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morality%20play. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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