morality play

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Recent Examples of morality play 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 But the set, in which Dylan played the electric guitar and embraced rock ’n’ roll publicly, was more complicated than a morality play pitting backward folk purists against forward-looking rockers. Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024 Both saw foreign policy as a morality play pitting good against evil. Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for morality play
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Noun
  • Meanwhile, Democrats, whose votes may not be required to propel Trump’s budget into law, are nonetheless practiced at pummeling the majority party using a political and up-to-the-minute economic narrative.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Taking narratives to a whole new level, Split Fiction casts you and your significant other as Mio and Zoe, a pair of down-on-their-luck writers who become trapped in a combination of their stories (sci-fi meets fantasy) due to an accident at a groundbreaking literary tech firm.
    Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Season 3 of Mayfair Witches, starring Alexandra Daddario, will dive deeper into the mythology of witchcraft, introduce new ‘spellbound’ families and feature some of the historical happenings of Salem, the infamous town of witch trials and folklore.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Animation fans rejoiced: The show will be one of the first kids shows ever to center on African—in this case, Nigerian—characters, culture, and mythology.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • First, there is the technology myth, the belief that older employees cannot keep pace with digital advancements.
    Dan Pontefract, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Because Jordan only gets better and better in memory and myth.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025

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