NOUN
- an allegorical play popular in the 15th and 16th centuries; characters personified virtues and vices
How To Use morality play In A Sentence
- The cartoons are little morality plays aimed at bucking up the national will, putting steel in the spine, gently guiding the reluctant towards their duties.
- From this perspective, the function of good and/or evil in the morality play is important but subordinate to the role of protagonist/hero.
- Any history of the Third Reich is a terrible morality play, a tragic lesson in how not to think or act.
- We must remember biblical stories are not morality plays where good and evil are obvious. Christianity Today
- But economics is not a morality play. Times, Sunday Times
- It is apt that Virgo frames his story like a fable, as all melodrama has its origins in morality plays and/or folk tales.
- We must remember biblical stories are not morality plays where good and evil are obvious. Christianity Today
- Rather than fortitude, courage or conviction, his morality play teaches resignation, passivity and submission.
- SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. — At first, it seemed like a morality play: school officials stand by as an innocent high school freshman, new in town, is harassed into suicide by a pack of older teens.
- He's a one-man morality play. Times, Sunday Times
