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Recent Examples of morality play
Meanwhile, in deep-blue strongholds, law-abiding people and small shop owners keep getting treated like background characters in someone else’s morality play.
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Larry Clifton, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, in deep-blue strongholds, law-abiding people and small shop owners keep getting treated like background characters in someone else’s morality play.
—Larry Clifton, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2026
The Colbert-Talarico controversy became a convenient morality play.
—Jay Caruso, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
But culture wars tend to reduce every conflict to a simple morality play, as Hlavacik repeatedly shows.
—Jonathan Zimmerman, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
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Larry Clifton, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, in deep-blue strongholds, law-abiding people and small shop owners keep getting treated like background characters in someone else’s morality play.
—Larry Clifton, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2026
The Colbert-Talarico controversy became a convenient morality play.
—Jay Caruso, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
But culture wars tend to reduce every conflict to a simple morality play, as Hlavacik repeatedly shows.
—Jonathan Zimmerman, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morality play
Noun
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Here, against the intimate interiority of this elegant narrative, untamed urges clash with Confucian ideals of filial piety and Buddhist undertones of the suffering caused by worldly attachments.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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Vegas goalie Carter Hart, icky narrative and all, was the best player in the series.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
27 May 2026
Noun
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Copyright © 2026 by Sharon Blackie DR SHARON BLACKIE is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author, and a psychologist with a background in mythology and folklore.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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That mythology is why the powder-throwing is playful rather than aggressive.—
Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
2 June 2026
Noun
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Platforms delegate the illusion of control and trade on a libertarian myth to obscure the autocratic reality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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The genus name Kank honors an ancient myth of the indigenous Aonikenk (Tehuelche) people.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
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