morality plays

Definition of morality playsnext
plural of morality play
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Noun
  • Currently in post-production, the film combines Cambodian cultural narratives with English-language accessibility.
    Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 14 May 2026
  • Clark has pioneered new techniques in hybrid filmmaking—merging traditional production with GenAI tools—while also creating some of the most advanced fully generative narratives to date.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • America has its own mythologies of masculine desire, and many of them are worse.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
  • His works are also challenging to date precisely, due in part to his displacement and transpacific migration, and the Spencer show reflects this by abandoning a chronological framework in favor of a thematic exploration of his own mythologies.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Barker combines the monkey’s paw and Pygmalion myths in this story of a young man who wishes that his dream girl would fall in love with him.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 23 May 2026
  • They were not asked about Hutson’s defence, not asked to dispel any myths about Hutson, not led in that direction in any way.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 21 May 2026
Noun
  • Because either McCluskie is one heck of a con man who rolled both Becerra and Williamson, making both believe what was happening was kosher with entirely different tales, or someone isn’t being entirely honest.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026
  • But even Black athletes whose athleticism gifted them an extremely exclusive express lane in life can tell you stories about growing up a minority in America, or tales their parents or grandparents have told.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Shi spoke of the need to sign players determined to become Wolves legends.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 18 May 2026
  • Walter Scott owner and winemaker Ken Pahlow originally bought Koosah grapes from Oregon wine legends Kevin and Carla Chambers, who planted both Résonance and Koosah vineyards before selling them to Louis Jadot, which kept the name Résonance for its Willamette Valley venture.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 17 May 2026
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