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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.
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Larry Clifton,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2026
The Colbert-Talarico controversy became a convenient morality play.
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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.
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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
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During his time in Lawrence, Peterson was short with explanations for his absences or altogether disinterested in providing any, a public-facing strategy that allowed others to take control of the narrative.
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SpaceX went public on June 12, with AI central to its IPO narrative.
Noun
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While the new Supergirl stars Alcock, 26, as a very different kind of Kara from the one Slater played, the actress believes this new story fits perfectly within the character's mythology.
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The work interweaves South and Southeast Asian mythologies and histories with Western cultural touchstones—from canonical artists to sacred texts—often with a deliberate sense of unease.
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The piece’s name is also a nod to a Greek myth, in which the 50 daughters of King Danaos—the Danaïdes—were ordered to kill their husbands on their wedding night.
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Reinventing the Batman myth for a new generation of fans, Absolute Batman reimagines the Dark Knight as a working-class hero up against impossible odds on a mission to prove that even in an era of wealth, power and corruption, one good person can change the world.
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“Morality play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morality%20play. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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