Passion play

NOUN
  1. a play representing the Passion of Christ
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  • He had shot big game in Siam, pearled in the Paumotus, visited Tolstoy, seen the Passion Play, and crossed the Andes on mule-back; while he was a living directory of the fever holes of West Africa. Chapter 14
  • There has been a great deal of uninformed comment about how this work resurrects the medievalism - that is, supposedly, the barbarity - of Passion plays, but I wonder how many of these critics have actually seen a medieval Passion play.
  • At Lake Chapala, where we live, a highlight is the passion play in Ajijic. Ask an old gringo: Easter, cobblestones and WalMart
  • For the Shias all road led towards Amin Imambada for the Juloos organized by the migrant Iranians , in the form of a passion play depicting scenes between Imam Hussain and Shimr the Commander of the Yazidi forces of the Ummayad Caliphate. Ashura Amin Imam Bada 2008 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
  • The oratorio is arranged in 15 distinct sections meant to parallel the structure of a passion play. Archive 2007-07-01
  • They are undoubtedly right, but the well-known genre of Passion plays of which Gibson's film is one, made no pretensions to intellectual argument or subtle theologising, but was a mediaeval invention for the masses.
  • Allthese theological metaphors make the movie a potential magnet forEvangelical Christians — the first violent, R-rated Passion play sinceMel Gibson's in 2004.
  • In the interests of character development, a passion play would do well to portray Caiaphas in this Johannine way, especially since it coheres with the historical realities of the time.
  • Just look at the ground's configuration: designed for happy-clappy athletic meetings, not the passion play that is football. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was my first week as scriptwriter on NTW's The Passion, in which Michael Sheen returns to Port Talbot, his hometown, to direct and star in a one-off production inspired by the Passion plays. Owen Sheers: a Passion play for Port Talbot
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