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Recent Examples of morality playThe 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 They are also all transformed into morality plays of sorts—although, unlike in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the morals in Trump’s America are inscrutable.—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for morality play
However, now the scandal has spread out of Britain to U.S. staff and American publications, the pro-Meghan narrative no longer contains a baked in explanation for the existence of the anti-Meghan perspective.
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Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
Draft one, sign one, trade for one but this same narrative comes up every year, this franchise seems incapable of understanding the importance of having one.
Comprised of interviews with landlords, homeowners, real estate investors, and city officials, this book dispels the myths around the narratives that paint these Detroit homeowners as irresponsible.
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Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
15 Jan. 2025
While this myth has been debunked by experts, professionals still advise against going to bed without drying your hair for a plethora of reasons.
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Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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