morality play

How To Use morality play In A Sentence

• During this time people put on morality plays about ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical creatures.
• A simple morality play starring villains and victims always draws a bigger, more indignant crowd than the more involved narrative of structural inequality.
• We see this same science fiction morality play told yet again in 2010: The Year We Made Contact, the film that could never be as great as the unsurpassable 2001: A Space Odyssey, but which remains one of the best realistic science fiction films yet made. MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy)
• A simple morality play starring villains and victims always draws a bigger, more indignant crowd than the more involved narrative of structural inequality.
• What American audiences want most, she learns, is clockwork morality plays about neglectful mothers and errant wives.
• So much for the morality play. Times, Sunday Times
• At best, superheroes are adolescent morality plays.
• He detects a rise in self delusion, a diminution of individual identity and a selling-out of the soul, and reveals a hardening distaste for falsehood and pretence in his darkly-amusing morality play.
• In many ways, the film is a morality play, but it is equally valid as a thriller or a character study.
• History might be a morality play, but it doesn't mean that its participants are stereotyped cardboard cut-outs.