How To Use Morality play In A Sentence
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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.
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From this perspective, the function of good and/or evil in the morality play is important but subordinate to the role of protagonist/hero.
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Any history of the Third Reich is a terrible morality play, a tragic lesson in how not to think or act.
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We must remember biblical stories are not morality plays where good and evil are obvious.
Christianity Today
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But economics is not a morality play.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is apt that Virgo frames his story like a fable, as all melodrama has its origins in morality plays and/or folk tales.
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We must remember biblical stories are not morality plays where good and evil are obvious.
Christianity Today
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Rather than fortitude, courage or conviction, his morality play teaches resignation, passivity and submission.
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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.
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He's a one-man morality play.
Times, Sunday Times
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A discourse on medieval morality plays?
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During this time people put on morality plays about ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical creatures.
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History might be a morality play, but it doesn't mean that its participants are stereotyped cardboard cut-outs.
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In many ways, the film is a morality play, but it is equally valid as a thriller or a character study.
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He detects a rise in self delusion, a diminution of individual identity and a selling-out of the soul, and reveals a hardening distaste for falsehood and pretence in his darkly-amusing morality play.
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At best, superheroes are adolescent morality plays.
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So much for the morality play.
Times, Sunday Times
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What American audiences want most, she learns, is clockwork morality plays about neglectful mothers and errant wives.
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A simple morality play starring villains and victims always draws a bigger, more indignant crowd than the more involved narrative of structural inequality.
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We see this same science fiction morality play told yet again in 2010: The Year We Made Contact, the film that could never be as great as the unsurpassable 2001: A Space Odyssey, but which remains one of the best realistic science fiction films yet made.
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A simple morality play starring villains and victims always draws a bigger, more indignant crowd than the more involved narrative of structural inequality.
