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morality play

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as in narrative

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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. — 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 And yet, many of us still see economic failure as a morality play. — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 10 Mar. 2026 The Colbert-Talarico controversy became a convenient morality play. — Jay Caruso, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for morality play

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Sunday’s World Cup final will be contested by Spain and Argentina, and there are narratives to be unpacked all over the pitch.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 18 July 2026
The social-media team’s supposed grip on the public narrative about the brand had always been tenuous.

— Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026

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In all likelihood, the legends of those battles, passed down through song, grew into myth, hence how the character of Odysseus was probably born.

— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026
The filmmaker who has spent his career defending the theatrical experience adapts one of literature’s foundational myths on an enormous scale.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 July 2026

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