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Recent Examples of morality play
Playground By Richard Powers Playground seems on the surface to belong in the first group—the flat-character morality plays that have come to define Powers’s later career.
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Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024
The most celebrated Spanish novelists and directors of the Franco era offered accounts of people’s lives that avoided simple morality plays and partisan games.
—Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
Since then, all sorts of filmmakers have splashed drama and morality plays on the wide-open canvas of the Western, with varying degrees of success.
—and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024
Basie watch the scene, made no move to stop it, and in fact quite evidently enjoyed the morality play.
—Larry Tye, TIME, 9 May 2024
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Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024
The most celebrated Spanish novelists and directors of the Franco era offered accounts of people’s lives that avoided simple morality plays and partisan games.
—Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
Since then, all sorts of filmmakers have splashed drama and morality plays on the wide-open canvas of the Western, with varying degrees of success.
—and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024
Basie watch the scene, made no move to stop it, and in fact quite evidently enjoyed the morality play.
—Larry Tye, TIME, 9 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morality play
Noun
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This would seem an ill-fitting narrative for Warhol, who questioned the idea of authentic individuality.—
Richard Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
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Their journey as parents has been a central narrative on their long-running TLC series Sister Wives.—
Jane LaCroix,
People.com,
1 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Brigid, also known as Brigit or Brighid, is a prominent goddess in Celtic mythology, particularly within Ireland and Scotland.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
20 Jan. 2025
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To the south is the open sea, home of a goddess who looms large in local mythology.—
Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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As a result, the company flipped a few myths on their head, and shared the findings with Travel + Leisure.—
Alison Fox,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Jan. 2025
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Your film deconstructs the beauty myth or the Cinderella myth.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Jan. 2025
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