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Recent Examples of morality playMeanwhile, 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, 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 See All Example Sentences for morality play
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.
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Vegas goalie Carter Hart, icky narrative and all, was the best player in the series.