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Recent Examples of morality playBoth saw foreign policy as a morality play pitting good against evil.—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 In Elia Kazan's still-explosive working-class morality play about a palooka-turned-longshoreman who stands up to union-boss corruption on the docks, Brando is both hypnotic and heartbreakingly human.—EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025 In 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 See All Example Sentences for morality play
The gallery’s setting, marooned on the tiny island of Illa del Rei reached by boat from the Mahón harbor, feels cut off from reality, and is an ideal stage for her looped, surreal narratives.
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Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
There’s a dangerous narrative that refugees threaten national identity.
There is a peculiar power in how Lee framed this story within the mythology of the American West.
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Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
The main hook was its more layered and mature take on the lore surrounding the character and the more fantastical mythology built around this specific story.
When the photographer Víctor Zea was a child living in Lima, Peru, he was taught an Inca myth of origin.
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Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
Getting up to speed on the modern-day reality of actual EV usage and charging habits proves to be the antidote to overcoming the ever-fading yet persistent myth of range anxiety.
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Melanie Marshall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 June 2025
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