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Recent Examples of morality playIn recent years, several of the slender towers on Billionaires’ Row have been afflicted with excessive swaying and creaking, problems that are gleefully treated in the press as morality plays about rising inequality.—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 What Nafisi does best, and the reason her work has endured, is precisely to refuse cartoonish portrayals and basic morality plays.—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2025 But the set, in which Dylan played the electric guitar and embraced rock ’n’ roll publicly, was more complicated than a morality play pitting backward folk purists against forward-looking rockers.—Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024 Both saw foreign policy as a morality play pitting good against evil.—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for morality play
Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth.
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Sofia Giannuzzi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025
For years, a persistent myth has circulated in cannabis industry circles: that Steve DeAngelo—founder of Harborside and one of the most visible figures in cannabis reform—was responsible for eliminating California’s one-acre cultivation cap.
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