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Recent Examples of morality playBoth saw foreign policy as a morality play pitting good against evil.—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 The Tudor drama morphs into a morality play via Sir Thomas More, beheaded by Henry in 1535 for refusing to recognize him as supreme head of the Church of England.—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 18 June 2024 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.—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 See All Example Sentences for morality play
There will be a narrative, at least nationally, that this Drake season, or even this Drake upset (technically), came out of nowhere.
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Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
21 Mar. 2025
Yet, Manhattan Institute authors use older findings to push their narrative, ignoring the global, flawed data.
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Taylor Millard,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Mar. 2025
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