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Recent Examples of morality play
Both saw foreign policy as a morality play pitting good against evil.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morality play
Noun
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For a long time, the standard narrative for retirement was straightforward: work until 65, the benchmark age to collect retirement benefits set by the Social Security Act of 1935, then retire.—
Andreina Rodriguez,
CNBC,
25 June 2025
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The narrative momentum is slow in the first half of the season.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
25 June 2025
Noun
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There is a peculiar power in how Lee framed this story within the mythology of the American West.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
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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.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Learn the secrets behind wands, wishing trees and other plant folklore and myths.—
Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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Ursula Lindsey The Moroccan writer’s works are a bracing corrective to the myth of his city as a glamorous, bohemian playground.—
Sophia Rosenfeld,
The New York Review of Books,
26 June 2025
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“Morality play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morality%20play. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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