| 单词 | morality play |
| 例句 | Farmer listens good-naturedly, interpreting Ti Jean’s words as “a giant morality play, a commentary on social inequality.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z This is the best part of the movie, partly because Ostlund allows the characters to behave like people, rather than just grotesque ciphers in his cynical morality play. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z After animals turn out to be the best confidantes — including the neighbor’s dog — Herschel decides to go vegan, setting up a darkly funny morality play. 24 Works of Fiction to Read This Summer 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Many of his most famous pictures – The Pawnbroker, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and The Verdict – stand as tense, earthy morality plays. Sidney Lumet dies aged 86 2011-04-09T15:44:58Z In many ways the tragic case of Walter Scott is a macabre political and social morality play about America, the law, justice, the color line and power. License to kill: Can any amount of evidence convict a white cop who shoots a black man? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z These works are morality plays about courage and determination. One of the Men Who ‘Set Europe Ablaze’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z A Doctor Tied to Her Patients and the Mob The Fox series “The Mob Doctor,” which begins on Monday night, is an odd hybrid, a medical drama merged with a Mafia morality play. Television Review: ‘The Mob Doctor,’ a Drama on Fox 2012-09-16T21:37:58Z So it's good to see them collaborating on this co-production, directed by Hill, which propels Marlowe's 17th-century morality play into the 21st century. This week's new theatre 2013-02-23T06:00:13Z She cut images from photographs of Renaissance paintings, assembling them into little morality plays concerning gender that again use the monochrome grounds, but matte and restrained. Review: ‘Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld’ Studies Perceptions Shaped by Photography 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The tone and substance toggle abruptly among satire, melodrama and morality play. Review: ‘Trust’ Is Flashy but Ephemeral 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement The other Bostonian morality play is “Black Mass,” directed by Scott Cooper and likewise drawn from the real-life annals of evil in Massachusetts. Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Instead, they’re identified by their stations in the protagonist’s life, as if this were a medieval morality play, or amorality play. Review: As She Was Saying, Brilliantly, in a New ‘Fleabag’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z And when characters are simply reacting to cruel fate, it's not an engaging drama, it's a medieval morality play. Desperate Housewives: getting desperate 2011-08-08T10:24:45Z These were standalone morality plays – literal time capsules – that interrogated what it meant to live, work and love in the US during the turbulence of the late 20th century. When good TV goes bad: how Quantum Leap made one leap too far 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z She nevertheless became a voice for ordinary women, recording three-minute morality plays in the 1960s and ’70s — many written by her, some written by others — that spoke to the changing mores of women throughout America. Loretta Lynn, Country Music Star and Symbol of Rural Resilience, Dies at 90 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Indeed, such is the speed of his ascent and the depth of his downfall, that Apathy for the Devil reads more like a morality play than a memoir. Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir by Nick Kent | Book review 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z It tends to proceed like a morality play, with a firm resolution signaling a lesson learned. Hollywood Bets Big on the Bad Entrepreneur 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z It's an entertaining genre, sprinkled with morality plays here and there. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z His “Everybody” imagined the 15th-century Everyman morality plays as a kind of cosmic, 21st-century lottery — not just for its characters but for the actors playing them. Review: Partying to End the Patriarchy in a Dionysian ‘Girls’ 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The season’s first show will be MacArthur fellow Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Everybody,” a retelling of the Christian morality play “Everyman,” which was written by an unknown author. Shakespeare Theatre’s new head announces his first season, from ‘Much Ado’ to a James Baldwin play 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z In one scene, when her pale face peeks through a black cowl, she could be a figure from Ingmar Bergman’s medieval morality play The Seventh Seal: Death’s kid sister. David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Thanks Very Much, But You Really Didn't Have To 2011-12-20T15:00:53Z "Concrete Cowboy," therefore, is a familiar morality play where hard work competes against easy money, and Harp and Smush fight for Cole's soul. Idris Elba drama "Concrete Cowboy" brings audience along for a crowd-pleasing ride 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z His life resists posterity’s best efforts to make it resemble a morality play. What Life in Confinement Meant for Ezra Pound’s Work 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z “But after a while, once we’ve met the principal players, the speechmaking starts and a potential comedy of political manners turns into a pious, tendentious morality play.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Front Runner’ and ‘The Emoji Movie’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z To know Candy Montgomery's case is to recognize the layers of obvious metaphor and subtler ones in this morality play. Review: Here's the true crime of Hulu's "Candy" 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z But when he confronts his colleagues about their reading of Manson as a figure from a morality play — “That’s a little bit Old Testament, don’t you think? Good, evil, black, white ...” — they revolt. Netflix’s 'Mindhunter' Is the Perfect Crime Drama for Our Times 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The Outer Limits offers monsters and adventure, but its stories are more like mysteries than morality plays. The Outer Limits: box set review 2013-03-08T08:00:02Z The Beast Below looks for all the world like a RTD story: a Technicolor morality play light on intricate plotting and heavy on modern moral parallels. Doctor Who: The Beast Below ? series 31, episode two 2010-04-10T18:00:00Z Her public image weighed heavily in the international community’s imagination, which was decidedly more familiar with the morality play of “The Lady Versus the Generals” than with the longer history of Burma. ‘The Hidden History of Burma’ Traces the Vanishing of Hope 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The question at the heart of this pointed morality play is ultimately not whether you’ll sell your soul, but how much it’s really worth. ‘99 Homes,’ ‘Paddleton’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The plot, meanwhile, pares Dee's complicated life to an assimilable morality play. Nicki Minaj; Dr Dee – review 2012-06-30T23:07:10Z McCorvey’s conversion was a cinematic story, a morality play, and who you thought was good or bad depended entirely on what you thought of abortion. Perspective | ‘Jane Roe,’ from Roe v. Wade, made a stunning deathbed confession. Now what? 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z He thought he was making something closer to a morality play; he didn’t count on the public’s thirst for arterial spray. The Wild Bunch at 50: the enduring nihilism of Sam Peckinpah's western 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z From the Greeks to Shakespeare and Brecht the theater has a long if irregular history of morality plays. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z Perhaps every play ends up being a morality play. Julie Blackmon's absorbing photography of everyday Midwestern life — or is it? 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z And so, in the tradition of history and morality plays like “A Man for All Seasons” and last year’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Ruined,” Mr. Conroy turned to theater as a means of provocation and catharsis. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z But it wouldn’t have actually been a digestible morality play. Perspective | The point we’re missing about ‘BBQ Becky’ and her sisters 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z It is a morality play corrupting to both white and Papuan players cast into these absurd but very funny roles. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska – review by Lloyd Jones 2013-06-13T06:12:13Z But after a while, once we’ve met the principal players, the speechmaking starts and a potential comedy of political manners turns into a pious, tendentious morality play. Review: A Sex Scandal Upends a Campaign in ‘The Front Runner’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z With the grown-ups in danger of selling their souls, “Wild” is partly a morality play, gesturing in the direction of Christopher Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” — and also toward Brecht, Dr. Seuss and “Urinetown.” Review: ‘Wild: A Musical Becoming’ Is Finding Its Footing 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The inhabitants, a querulous black family, become hostages and the film becomes a volatile but claustrophobic morality play that the cinematographer, Rodney Taylor, fights valiantly to inject with light and air. ‘Supremacy,’ With Danny Glover 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z From the beginning, the Olympics had a chauvinistic streak, but the Cold War raised the stakes and turned them into a quadrennial morality play. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z But we prefer a clean arc in our morality play: in the end, we like scammers most when they fail. The Fiends and the Folk Heroes of Grifter Season 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The variously panicked, evasive, corrupt, craven and honorable characters were players in an ongoing morality play. Lumet, his films embodied grace under fire 2011-04-10T19:29:00Z Like many earlier Westerns, the Cowboys & Aliens novel is a political morality play on horseback. Cowboys & Aliens: Two Great Genres, One Mediocre Movie 2011-07-28T22:05:00Z That fact makes it trickier and more ambitious — a morality play, with top notes of Greek tragedy, which remains purposefully coy about its morality. 'The Slap' may challenge notions of fault, but abuse is abuse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z All that felt less like a dream than a frantic, finger-wagging morality play set to music. Review: An Immersive ‘Seeing You’ Sends Its Audience to War 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z And those fans have shown themselves perfectly willing to use whatever means necessary – legal or not, as if we were all in our own Walter White-inspired morality play – to get at those shows. Is Breaking Bad the show that finally breaks how we watch television? 2012-07-16T16:23:25Z This scene exemplifies the sort of sentimental morality play that has — unexpectedly — become one of the hallmarks of C.K.’s work. How Louis C.K. became the Oprah of comedy 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z In the latest production by Washington’s Synetic Theater, an original morality play titled “The Mark of Cain,” the dastardly central character undergoes a series of physical transformations. Perspective | The president opens his mouth daily, and the American theater bites back 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z And the director Mary Zimmerman’s inventive production conveys the right mix of whimsical fairy tale and disturbing morality play through a simple, colorful staging, with sets by Daniel Ostling and costumes by Ana Kuzmanic. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z In Bill Cain’s “9 Circles,” a contemporary morality play inspired by Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” the psychic damage of war does not belong to Reeves alone, and neither do the responsibilities of conscience. Review: ‘9 Circles,’ a Soldier’s Story (and the Damage Done) 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Thomas, however — thanks to a dive into Dante’s “Divine Comedy” — is increasingly drawn to making what one character calls a “medieval morality play.” Review: ‘The Face of an Angel’ Dabbles in Murder and Culpability 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It's also a programme that at its core is a morality play, examining what any of us might be capable of given the right incentives. Breaking Bad: from Mr Chips to Scarface 2012-05-18T23:03:00Z In a review for The Times, Robert Abele writes, "Unfortunately this 'Story' never finds its footing as either a creepy morality play or a performance-driven two-hander." 'True Story': James Franco-Jonah Hill drama doesn't convince critics 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The film is a Manichean morality play, a struggle between good and evil played out in blissful denial of psychological complexity. Dvdsdave Kehr: Rain City Woes and Escape in the Desert 2010-12-03T16:01:00Z Usually she’d been drinking, sometimes she was introspective, occasionally she seemed to regret the starring role she’d played in America’s morality play. Perspective | ‘Jane Roe,’ from Roe v. Wade, made a stunning deathbed confession. Now what? 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Nottage said in an interview that writers working on history and morality plays have to make careful choices, to construct powerful narratives that audiences in any country or city can relate to. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z Aaron Glantz knows that he’s living the dream — the good guy who does well in the morality play of American real estate. Two Histories of Financiers Profiting From Real Estate While Homeowners Go Belly Up 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The brothers appear to share a vision of life as a dark morality play. Brothers Jerome and Joel-Peter Witkin and their 'Twin Visions' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The track is a morality play of sorts about the dangers of drunk dialing your ex, something Drake does painfully well over a slow, woozy beat that mirrors his desperate state. Drake's Take Care Was Worth The Wait 2011-11-15T14:00:12Z Equal parts morality play and cautionary parable, the material reads on one level as a corrective memo from its creators about the perils of losing one’s way. Theater Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “What We Do Next” is a three-person chamber drama that takes the scheming and blackmailing of political thrillers like “House of Cards” and shapes them into something like a morality play. ‘What We Do Next’ Review: A Political Morality Play 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z In a way he is Disney, mining childhood traumas into animated gold; in another way Hitchcock, preying masterfully on an audience’s expectations; in another way Hergé, weaving adventure-story clichés into morality plays of calculated innocence. Spielberg's 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It's Tintinastic! 2011-12-21T18:03:02Z It’s possible that everyone involved in making the show believed that they were creating a modern morality play. Greed, Melodrama and the Unexpected: What Made Dallas TV’s Greatest Happy Accident 2012-06-13T10:00:01Z These are not the preoccupations of escapist entertainment; they're the foundations of a morality play. Braaaains! The 10 essential zombie films 2010-05-30T18:01:00Z New York Times theater critic Brooks Atkinson praised her “fire and skill” in the powerful Miller morality play that many have read as an allegory against the McCarthyite anti-communist witch hunts of the day. Madeleine Sherwood, actress in ‘The Crucible,’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ dies at 93 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Is House of Cards a morality play, or an amorality play? How similar to real life politics is House of Cards? 2013-07-04T02:13:44Z The casting is strong all around, which helps pull the series through its weaker stretches, when it does start to drift into a morality play or an overwrought junkie melodrama. Review: American Crime Is a Mystery With Meaning 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z There are living tree-people with root-like appendages, and a dance that teeters on the edge of "I am a tree" new age nonsense but also casts itself as a morality play. Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet? 2012-10-01T13:08:55Z At its best, though, “The Feral Detective” is a worthy morality play about our warring impulses for conflict and comfort. Take a Very Dark Trip Through the California Desert With ‘The Feral Detective’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z I'm just annoyed that this whole limp story boils down to a Judeo-Christian morality play between good and evil. How can the "Lost" finale not suck? 2010-05-21T20:42:00Z In this shallow but enjoyable all-American morality play, Carl falls but rises, chastened, to pursue happiness and fulfillment operating a food truck whose specialty is Cuban sandwiches. Movie Review: ‘Chef,’ a Culinary Comedy by Jon Favreau 2014-05-08T19:55:37Z Mozart's next-to-last stage work, a mixture of fairy tale and Masonic morality play, is a miraculous creation whose music has a sublime simplicity. Peter Brook reduces Mozart to bare essentials 2011-07-07T06:31:08Z Its characters have to be functions of the tract, and have worked best in poems, fables and morality plays created to accommodate such ciphers. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z Reading the book can feel like watching a morality play about the virtues of being slow to judge. A Trump Biography for Teens Is a New Lens on the President’s Totalizing Awfulness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Rubbing his hands together and occasionally crouching, he declares his lines unsmilingly, like a villain in a medieval morality play. Theater Review: National Theater of China Offers ‘Richard III’ in Mandarin 2014-03-27T22:00:36Z Robert Redford replaced him with another writer on “The Horse Whisperer,” and Spielberg brought in playwright Tony Kushner to work on Roth’s script for “Munich,” a morality play about Israeli assassins targeting Palestinian militants. Screenwriter Eric Roth on 'Killers of the Flower Moon' and a life of big scripts 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z While it doesn’t venture far from its evident stage roots, neither does “What We Do Next,” a sinewy, tautly calibrated morality play, ever stray from the decidedly contemporary issues at its complex core. Review: The path to redemption is murky in taut political thriller 'What We Do Next' 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The action begins to drag, the twists get more belabored and what played at first like a gleefully unapologetic exploitation-movie exercise threatens to become a late-breaking morality play. Review: The enjoyably grisly 'Cocaine Bear' is nothing to sniff at 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s a scripted, athletics-based morality play with over-the-top characters and dramatic story lines, as well as so-called “feuds” settled through choreographed “violence,” which is different from legitimate fighting competitions like boxing and mixed martial arts. In the World of Wrestling, a Heavy Hitter Steps Into the Ring 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z A morality play involving the clash of free-spirited bohemians and a religious conservative who insinuates himself among them, the work shed timely light on the relationship between brutal patriarchy and reproductive freedom. Best theater of 2022: So many L.A. bright spots in a challenging year 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z By embracing a childish binary universe, war was turned into a morality play. Why I write about war — and why I can't escape it 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Directed by Jennifer Chang, “Everybody” is an adaptation of “Everyman,” the medieval morality play that has a prominent place in theater history textbooks but is rarely seen on the secular stage. Commentary: Four veteran stage actors discuss taking on risky roles later in life 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z “I wanted to make sure that we didn’t create a show that felt like a morality play,” Estrada said. ‘This Fool’ is a singular, authentic TV depiction of South Los Angeles 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “A raid is a morality play with a beginning, middle, and end, in which a set of brave warriors prepares for battle, strikes their objective, and ends the life of a bad guy.” Review: How can a country always at war ever find peace? Author Phil Klay keeps asking 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z They offer a quick-pulse stream of consciousness in a morality play where ancient brutality meets raw, digitized immediacy. TikTok and Twitter capture Ukraine war in frighteningly real time 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Once again, by embracing a childish binary universe of good and evil from a distance, war was turned into a morality play, gripping the popular imagination. Why I write about war — and why I can't escape it 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Everyone knows how bubble stock stories like this usually end, but Jakab moves this particular morality play into new territory. When Robin Hood is the Pied Piper: A new cautionary tale of the meme-stock bubble 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Caruso’s historical drama/romance/morality play “Redeeming Love” opens with the Shakespeare quote “all that glitters is not gold,” and a pair of hands thrusting a pan into a river, searching for treasure. ‘Redeeming Love’ review: This gold-rush-era film lacks cinematic riches 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Caruso’s historical drama/romance/morality play “Redeeming Love” opens with the Shakespeare quote “All that glitters is not gold,” and a pair of hands thrusting a pan into a river, searching for treasure. Review: 'Redeeming Love' yields no rush, gold or otherwise 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Souls are at stake in a play that offers a modern spin on a subject that was a favorite of early morality plays: the battle between good and evil. A livestreamed 'Clyde’s' starring Uzo Aduba is the next best thing to being in a theater 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Q: I was struck by the morality play aspect of the story. ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ has been a critical standout on Broadway this fall. Its superb cast sheds light on how that happened. 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Hence, this morality play ringed by accordion, a novelty in ranchera music but one used here to evoke the U.S.-Mexico border, where norteño music reigns. Appreciation: 10 essential songs of ranchera legend Vicente Fernández 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z Such historical figures are more than bit players in our own morality play. Opinion | A new book casts Winston Churchill as a racist imperialist. This is misguided history. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But it also exaggerated the extent of the chaos and treated it as a stage for a new sort of political morality play, with its own cast of heroes and villains. Kyle Rittenhouse and the New Era of Political Violence 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Admittedly, how morality plays out in the world is always complex, with numerous exceptions to the correlations above. Staunch atheists show higher morals than the proudly pious, from the pandemic to climate change 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z The pivot into morality plays came fast, and he has since cranked out more than 400 videos. The Internet Demands Uplifting Videos. So He Stages Them. 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z The lasting appeal, Ostrum thinks, comes from the morality play of the story: People like to think that if you’re a good person, eventually you do get the golden ticket. ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ at 50: The tender yet terrifying movie that never lost its flavor 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Olmos, a highly respected industry veteran, made “American Me” as a morality play to warn youth about the dangers of prison life. Danny Trejo opens up about being typecast — and a close call with the Mexican Mafia 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z The Chauvin trial — with its medical experts and tearful witnesses — is unfolding against this debate as if a real-time morality play on the consequences of bad policing. As trial of officer charged with murdering George Floyd transfixes nation, the future of policing is on the line 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z The expansive right-wing propaganda machine gets to work exploiting every catastrophe caused by Republican neglect and using it for a morality play about how government itself can never be trusted to handle important responsibilities. Texas disaster exposes what happens when Republicans replace governance with trolling 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z What you need to know about this unfolding morality play is that it is the inevitable outcome of decades of lax regulation, cheap money and misguided notions about the efficiency of financial markets. Perspective | GameStop mania exposes SEC’s failure as regulator 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Now, it’s an ongoing morality play about Truth, in which reporters become famous as they confront Mr. Trump for lying, and the president delights his base by berating them. Journalists Aren’t the Enemy of the People. But We’re Not Your Friends. 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z Which was a challenge and fun, but it was very much as if we were doing a little morality play every week. Sliding beer mugs and drinking on the job, Christina Applegate and Ted Danson look back 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Too often, the US is cast as a protagonist in a morality play, wrestling with demons that will eventually be defeated if only the right conditions are met. Racism in America is not the exception – it's the norm | Nesrine Malik 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The composition, not unlike the sermon’s lessons, is a morality play with the general as the star. Commentary: Napoleon has it all over Trump when it comes to spinning plague propaganda 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The Roosevelt incident has the ingredients of a morality play at sea: A captain desperate to protect his sailors, who takes actions that his superiors view as a sign of faltering resolve and judgment. Opinion | Acting Navy chief fired Crozier for ‘panicking’ — and before Trump could intervene 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z “It’s like a morality play,” Arthur told me. Column: Did Astros win by cheating? The numbers say no 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Safia Dirie, one of our writers for most of the run, one day turned to me and said, “Is ‘Power’ a tragedy or a morality play?” and we discussed it at length. Showrunner Courtney A. Kemp: 'Power' fought a racist double standard — and won 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z I don't see any misalignment as obvious as the housing bubble; inequality and homelessness are bad things, but macroeconomics isn't a morality play, and injustice doesn't necessarily lead to recession. Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman is here to fight the undead 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Even so, Bliss’s “enlightened” tenure was neither a morality play nor a true strategic success. Remembering America’s first (and longest) forgotten war on tribal islamists 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Yet history is not a self-righteous morality play, and it cannot boil down to heroes and villains. Review | A history of America’s fight against monopolies 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z “Everyman” is mostly used as a literary term, introduced into the language by a 15th century morality play written in Middle English. Column: Let's get rid of the term ‘everyman,’ especially when referring to Tom Hanks 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z What surrounds them is largely trite and artificial, a morality play with little depth in the creation of its characters. Review: 'South Central Love' finds budding romance in bleak circumstances 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z But “Copperhead” never rises above the level of a clumsy morality play; it’s a novel that’s too facile for the issues Zentner seeks to address. Review: White supremacists and the alt-right descend on a small town in the melodramatic ‘Copperhead’ 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z The result is stately Stravinskyan ritual, particularly in the formalized use of the Los Robles Master Chorale, creating an 18th century morality play for the 21st century. Review: Stravinsky's exceedingly slow ‘Rake's Progress’ from West Hollywood to Ojai 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Zooming out a little, however, it's almost stunning what a neat and tidy morality play Assange's life turned out to be. Oh, the irony: Julian Assange's support for Donald Trump comes back to haunt him 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The fallout was nothing short of a morality play acted out on a national stage. Charles Van Doren, central figure in 1950s quiz show scandal, dies at 93 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z He often cared less about the sports than about sports as a mode of guy talk, a morality play, a ground for argument, replenished each day. The Rise and Fall of a New York Shock Jock 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z In Wolfgang Fischer’s physically bracing, waterborne morality play “Styx,” one person’s lifesaving skill set collides with a system unwilling to deploy that aid. Review: German survival story ‘Styx’ mixes politics and existentialism 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Nor that it’s an updated version of a 15th-century morality play called “Everyman.” Everybody is everybody in ‘Everybody’ at Strawberry Theatre Workshop 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Too bad none of this morality play has been honest, good, or true. Senate Moves Toward Friday Showdown Vote on Kavanaugh’s Confirmation 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But others said they entered the cathedral with the morality play that is unfolding in the Senate weighing on their minds. Amid fight over Kavanaugh, annual Red Mass for Supreme Court skips the politics 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z “It looks like a metaphor, like a morality play: all of humanity marching in one direction,” Eisenberg told me as we took in the view one sweltering July afternoon. Deborah Eisenberg, Chronicler of American Insanity 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z “This long, drawn-out morality play isn’t in the country’s best interests. It needs to be resolved. Of course, he’d have to agree to do what I told him.” David Boies Pleads Not Guilty 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z If slasher films are morality plays borne out of America’s latent Puritanical values, Halloween is the film that codified it all. 2018’s Halloween is a slasher movie that actually has a message 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Of all the wacky characters in this stranger-than-fiction morality play, Thaw may be the only one credited with a modicum of self-mockery. There’s Plenty to Read About the ‘Trial of the Century’ 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Instead, she’s scripted a simplistic morality play whose thrust is Them bad, Us—audience members, Persons in Charge—good. The Soullessness of “Straight White Men” 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z An abstruse and technical set of regulatory breaches suddenly became a morality play, a story of swaggering villains who fixed the market as if it was a horse race. How to get away with financial fraud 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Macroeconomics is more like a really unpredictable machine than it is a morality play in which one set of policies is inherently more righteous than the other. We Ran Out of Words to Describe How Good the Jobs Numbers Are 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z It was also praised on Gab, a social network popular with the alt-right—a loose agglomeration of groups with far-right ideologies—as a morality play about a downtrodden Aryan warrior. Making Movies in the Trump Era for the Audience Hollywood Ignored 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z She knows, as we all do, that sporting events aren’t morality plays. Sister Jean: how a 98-year-old-nun became the hottest property in basketball 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z I think the challenge of writing a novel like this is not to let your story become some kind of morality play. Talking to Tayari Jones about 'An American Marriage' and Oprah 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z It’s not a morality play but a simple fact of economics. Americans’ savings falls again — here’s why that matters 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Cronenberg trims King’s sprawling novel into an economical psychological thriller — a morality play racked by psychic torment. An American Cinemathque retrospective shines a light on the best and worst of Stephen King film adaptations 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Medieval morality plays featured characters called Justice, Truth or Vice. Immersive experiences, the future of philanthropy 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Jews reading this might wonder how they became characters in a morality play by Vargas Llosa, but we needn’t worry — his criticism is “an act of love.” Opinion | What happens when famous novelists ‘confront the Occupation’ in the West Bank 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Her sympathizers note that she reached the top of the world in an era when Eastern bloc athletes served as stage props in a political morality play. Track and Field’s Oldest (and Most Suspect) Record Is in Danger 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z A lot of his rhetoric of being threatened, being victimized — it’s a morality play. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Donald Trump “looks like Mussolini” but can be overcome 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z What we got at the hearing was the raw morality play, told in Comey’s words, about his dealings with a president whose behavior frightened him. Opinion | In James Comey’s testimony, there are no happy endings 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z A morality play in the most authentic, honest sense, its first local airing at Seattle Public Theater benefits from sterling work from the director and the cast, writes reviewer Misha Berson. Review: In ‘Grand Concourse,’ what happens when meaning well goes awry 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z All too often, young fatalities are given little more than cameo parts in a morality play of someone else’s creation. Beyond the blade: the truth about knife crime in Britain 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z What role does morality play in a future world of artificial intelligence, artificial life and immortality? Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’ 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The thing that is extraordinary is that the more familiar morality play and showdown dated back to the Cold War, where it was clear that Russia was the “Evil Empire,” according to Ronald Reagan. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Donald Trump “looks like Mussolini” but can be overcome 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Like “An Octoroon,” “Everybody” is both a response to and a dismantling of an earlier text: “The Somonyng of Everyman,” a fifteenth-century morality play about Christian salvation and how to achieve it. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, from the Heart 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Some baseball fans and voters, though, don’t want to see a morality play, either on the field or in the Hall. All-Star. Defendant. The New Plaque at the Hall of Fame? 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z He presented more nuance than white-hat-versus-black-hat, wrote Native characters as protagonists and was willing to take risks, Baca said, as in the morality play against big business and the military complex of “The Golden God.” The celluloid legacy of Las Vegas, NM 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z His latest novel is a morality play in which Satan and his son Death face off over Jacob’s soul. Rabih Alameddine’s new novel explores the ordeal of remembering 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z What happens to Lacie amounts to an exaggerated morality play about the dangers of conformity and the small pleasures of individuality, but the broadest gestures don't matter. Black Mirror’s "Nosedive" is a vicious take on social media 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z “His fate is being portrayed as a strategic morality play in which the CEO bet big—and mistakenly—that the commodities boom would continue,” notes a Journal editorial. The Bipartisan Message on ‘Rigged’ Elections 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z His fate is being portrayed as a strategic morality play in which the CEO bet big—and mistakenly—that the commodities boom would continue and so would demand for Cat’s tractors and earth-movers. Caterpillar’s Rough Dollar Ride 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z History in its day to day is not a morality play. The Republican Inferno 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z In an economic morality play, that means “no hard work, no raises.” Recovery runs deeper, but still miles to go 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z From the outset, “Star Trek’s” episodic morality plays managed to entertain while also commenting with critical optimism on those tumultuous times. How Star Trek embraced diversity 50 years ago — and continues to do so today 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The 34-year-old American's two doping convictions have lent the air of a morality play to the battle for sprint supremacy between the pair. Bolt targets third sprint sweep to close Olympic chapter 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Abigail Fisher, the plaintiff in the latest round of affirmative action cases heard before the Supreme Court, is the perfect villain in a liberal morality play about the evils of racism. Abigail Fisher’s Supreme Court loss: A massive blow to mediocre white people coasting on their racial privilege 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In a series of low-key rallies that began in the spring, Sanders started treating the college towns of eastern Iowa to a midwest morality play. Bernie Sanders: the upstart who pointed the way toward a political revolution 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Some will see a simple morality play here, that these people have been improvident. Workers need more help making retirement cushion 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z The event is a morality play of sorts, a migration of pilgrims paying homage to the powerful sermon of the story. Remembering Harper Lee's Hometown 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Sports have somehow become as much a morality play as they are about athletes making plays. Stop pretending like you know your favorite athlete – you don't 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z This all amounts to a morality play about the risks of short-termism. Britain’s new ambassadors 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Impeccably crafted and acted, it's the kind of meaningful morality play that voters feel good about supporting. December's Oscar hopefuls have to catch up with 'The Martian,' 'Room,' 'Mad Max' and more in the race 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z If this were a morality play, the final scene would belong to the President of the United States. Searching for Signs of a Change in Charleston 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Reeves sees "Knock Knock," which hearkens back to erotic thrillers like "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct," as more of a morality play than a simple fright-fest. Lost in a 'Walking Dead' maze with horror film director Eli Roth 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z This story is almost a political cliche, repeated so constantly in the media that it has the taint of a moldy morality play rather than a true political lesson. Donald Trump is the harbinger of GOP doom: The devastating history lesson that Republicans are completely ignoring 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Related: How NBA's free-agency morality play screws over the players In another year, he would have been certain to be picked in the draft. What happens in Vegas ... the strange world of the Korean Basketball League draft 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z But that’s not going to happen as long as fans buy into the false morality play that still surrounds free agency. How NBA's free-agency morality play screws over the players 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Preservation of trust is in part a morality play. Greece’s crisis could be good for Europe 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z There is a morality play at stake in this history. The Longstanding Struggle Over Fannie and Freddie Is Not Over 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Mayweather's comments reminded us that Saturday's bout is a sporting contest rather than a morality play. Purity at heart of Mayweather-Pacquiao 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Their game against Kentucky, 38-0 and presumably unbeatable, may be seen as a morality play. Wisconsin Final Four team has a family tree with deep coaching roots 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z It is crafted as a morality play featuring an extended monologue by the captured pilot in which he details how the coalition of Western countries and local Arab states wages its air war against ISIS. The Burn Video: Why ISIS Did It 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z There’s no morality play to be found here. As Passes Miss the Mark, Peyton Manning’s Future Begins to Waver 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z PASADENA, Calif. — On a big day for college football, a national semifinal game between Florida State and Oregon was as much a morality play as a game between two of the country’s best teams. Oregon Looks Bold and Exciting, and This Time It’s Not the Uniforms 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Will this be a great football game, or a great morality play? Rose Bowl will still be a highlight of college football bowl season 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Football seems to have become something of a morality play. Marcus Mariota of Oregon Wins Heisman Trophy, and Hawaii Rejoices 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z The story had become a pious morality play, a creation myth to preserve and propagate national values. This Thanksgiving Let’s Finally Stop the Nonsense About the Puritans and Pilgrims 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Others saw it is a morality play about guns and their misuse in a frontier society. The Pistorius Trial Is a Parable About Celebrity, Not South Africa Still is, as coach of his son's high school football team in Pensacola, Fla. His citizenship often gets lost in the silly morality plays that these games become, especially when Notre Dame is involved. Notre Dame versus Florida State was an even bigger game in 1993 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z It is a morality play, on a macro level, with more offshoots than a bamboo forest. Notre Dame-Florida State is key game in first four-team playoff season 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z When the Spurs win this, they will be seen as the “good guys” in this basketball morality play, a drama that has no bearing on reality. Before the inevitable in the NBA Finals, let’s thank LeBron James for carrying the league There’s a temptation to make a morality play of this. The Miami Heat Dispirited and Disorganized in Loss to San Antonio Spurs 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z In Bloom's laboratory, a one-year-old baby watched puppets enact a morality play. Naughty or Nice? When Does It Begin? 2014-05-01T12:30:00Z What if, in the final unfolding of this morality play, the heroes turn out to have acted unheroically? Who Killed Anna Mae? 2014-04-25T15:27:49Z Many see the story as a type of morality play. The dream that caused a gold rush 2014-01-12T00:45:01Z The origin of the term "everyman" was an English morality play written in the 15th Century. Is Breaking Bad's Walter White one of TV's truly evil characters? 2013-09-27T01:33:45Z “Let’s stop making a morality play out of the issue,” Logan wrote on Speedendurance.com. West Germany Engaged in Sports Doping in 1970s, Study Says 2013-08-08T17:14:59Z But as one top Florida defense lawyer, Michael Band, said on Sunday, “Trials, for better or worse, are not morality plays.” News Analysis: In Zimmerman Case, Self-Defense Was Hard to Topple 2013-07-15T03:10:05Z In this morality play, saving leads to investment and investment leads to growth. Why Austerity Can Be a Dangerous Idea 2013-04-18T11:05:24Z Republican leaders hate being cast as villains in Democratic morality plays, but their solutions are incomplete. Lexington: Coalition v tribe 2013-01-24T16:02:29Z Our reaction to Walter White throughout the series is telling, and proves that the show is meant as a morality play. Is Breaking Bad's Walter White one of TV's truly evil characters? 2013-09-27T01:33:45Z While there’s no excusing a rip-off, it’s too easy to view the Samsung-Apple case as a morality play about Apple, the uber-innovator who took on a brazen foreign competitor and won. Gangnam Style vs. Samsung style 2012-08-29T15:24:00Z These Very Serious People present economics as a morality play, in which debt is a sin, and we have all sinned, so now we must all pay the price by tightening our belts together. Paul Krugman: 'I'm sick of being Cassandra. I'd like to win for once' 2012-06-03T19:00:00Z But economics isn’t a morality play, nor is the rupee’s decline a parable that may be used to goad recalcitrant politicians to get back on the high road of economic reform. India Ink: Who Cares if the Rupee Keeps Falling? 2012-05-24T05:10:23Z John Heywood is important in the history of English drama as the first writer to turn the abstract characters of the morality plays into real persons. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z This is meant as a lesson, this modern morality play. Is Breaking Bad's Walter White one of TV's truly evil characters? 2013-09-27T01:33:45Z "In the main, he suggests abstract intellect performing in a morality play, exhibiting no emotion but intellectual pride." Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z That, in turn, sets up some very easy morality plays. Reuters Magazine: Felix Salmon: The devil in the CDS 2012-01-27T16:12:36Z The author capitalizes on the suspense of choice, characteristic of the morality play, by dramatizing it in conflicts between Vice and Virtue. The Harlot's Progress, The Rake's Progress (MS., CA. 1778-1780) 2012-01-25T03:00:37.903Z His interludes link the morality plays to the modern drama, and were very popular in their day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z He saw the Depression as something of a morality play, in which economic devastation would “purge the rottenness out of the system.” Why Not Give the Greeks Their Say? 2011-11-03T19:34:09Z The point of each series is to explore different issues of the Federation and universe it inhabits, while at the same time getting back to both classic science fiction and morality plays. How to Reboot Star Trek for Modern TV 2011-10-27T16:41:34Z "People look at foreclosure as a morality play, not as a broad economic one," said Elyse Cherry, chief executive of Boston Community Capital, a nonprofit financial institution that is working with lenders to avert foreclosures. Administration ramps up mortgage refinancing effort 2011-10-24T07:54:00Z In the beginning of the 15th century, morality plays became popular. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Twice in the history of the world, once in the later Middle Ages and in the older days in Greece, dramatic literature originated anew in religious mystery and morality plays. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z It's like watching a medieval morality play, with the forces of Good and Evil battling for power. Paris and London 2011-08-06T00:40:35Z But if mutual fund branding is a kind of morality play, this is no time to be complacent. Strategies: The Wages of Virtue and Vice 2011-07-16T17:33:27Z Jurors often see trials as morality plays and are less focused on technical details, said U.S. At chipmaker trial, investors play Rambus roulette 2011-07-08T17:02:53Z The legend of Robin Hood was popular, as were town miracle plays on leading incidents of the Bible and morality plays. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z That category includes Foxsports.com’s Jason Whitlock, who predicts the Bulls will win the morality play. Leading Off: Psyched for the Semifinals 2011-05-13T16:37:37Z Drug companies have done their share of sinning over the past decade, but that’s no reason to turn every controversy over drug development into a morality play in which Big Pharma is a villain. Stop Demonizing Drug Companies Over Pay-To-Delay Deals 2011-05-09T20:50:40Z To some with the gold, this is simply a morality play. High & Low Finance: A Cloud of Ill Will Over the Euro Zone 2011-04-14T20:23:46Z The next development of the drama was the morality play or allegory; the well-known Everyman is the most finished specimen of this kind of play which we possess. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z In any case, the public will find it hard to follow a simple shutdown morality play. Obama Needs Clinton Rerun to Gain in Stalemate: Michael Waldman 2011-03-03T00:03:53Z If there was any consolation to losing the Super Bowl for Ben Roethlisberger, for being cast as the villain in the morality play that dragged on all week, that was it. Roethlisberger: 'I let a lot of people down.' 2011-02-07T05:48:09Z But that's no reason to turn every controversy over drug development into a morality play in which Big Pharma is a villain. Stop Demonizing Drug Companies Over Pay-To-Delay Deals 2011-05-09T20:50:40Z It is exactly during Columbus' Century that these mystery and morality plays reached their highest development and greatest perfection of expression and presentation. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z As for the morality plays we have had one of them repeated to us in recent years, "Everyman," and well it has served to show how able was the genius of these old dramatic writers. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z It is time to shelve the morality play regarding Rex Ryan. Sports of The Times: As Jets Advance, Ryan Leaves Criticism Behind 2011-01-09T19:17:25Z His genius was his ability to convert complex economic problems into simple morality plays. DealBook: Another View: Lessons From Pecora Were Ignored 2010-10-14T16:30:00Z They are characters in a vast morality play, teaching us what, and what not, to do. Book Review: The Importance of Being Famous 2010-08-12T21:00:00Z The series of morality plays, "The Interlude of the Four Elements," "Everyman," "The Pardoner and the Friar," "The World and the Child," "Hick's Corner," "God's Promises," and the "Four P's," are typical examples. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Right now the morality play is, it’s her fault. Euro Crisis Tests Germany?s Leadership 2010-05-11T00:10:00Z At times, it reads like a morality play, at other times like a modern-day farce. Steven Pearlstein reviews 'The Big Short' by Michael Lewis 2010-03-14T05:00:00Z Then the histrionic muse, never far beneath the surface of youth, came forth and transformed the scene into an extemporaneous drama that was a howling success in spite of its leanings towards the morality play. Sube Cane And the Vice of the morality play degenerates into the clown of the performance, while even the Devil himself is made a cause for laughter. How to See a Play How much the appreciation for the morality plays has risen may be judged very well from some recent expressions with regard to them by students of the drama. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z We feel very little human interest nowadays in reading over the old morality plays, whose characters are merely allegorical abstractions. A Manual of the Art of Fiction This was to be expected; to have a contemporary meaning the actors of the old morality play had to appear in modern dress and with up-to-date scenery. Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving In the reign of Henry VI the mysteries were in part superseded by the morality plays, although the former did not wholly go out of style until the time of Elizabeth. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide And the suggestion is strengthened when the popularity is recalled of the morality play of Everyman a few years since, that being a revival of a typical mediæval drama of the kind. How to See a Play In modern times the apparatus of suggestion is in language, not in pictures, carvings, morality plays, or other visible products of art. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals In fact, the history of integration goes beyond the dimensions of a morality play and includes a number of other influences both institutional and individual. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 They are as frankly self-revelatory as if they were characters in a morality play. Irish Plays and Playwrights Were one staging a morality play and in search of the personification of impertinence, he need look no farther than this cocksure youth. Man to Man "Termagants" was applied to resisters, as used in the old morality plays. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish The fifteenth century saw the full development of the religious mystery plays, and the allegorical morality plays, which with their comic interludes had become popular from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century It's a morality play, and the first character is about to take the stage. Eastern Standard Tribe Another little drama of Mr. O'Riordan, "Time," is almost a morality play. Irish Plays and Playwrights The quiet one grinned faintly at him, but the two neutral directors passed him loftily, as if they were Virtue scorning Vice in a morality play. Bunker Bean Skelton's "Magnyfycence," which he calls "a goodly interlude and a merie," is, in reality, a morality play as well as an interlude, and marks the opening of the modern drama in England. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction In contrast with these two, who shape their course by the light of their own souls, the authorised exponents of morality play a secondary and for the most part a sorry part. Robert Browning Here is the second character in the morality play. Eastern Standard Tribe To appreciate fully the chaste treatment of Chretien one must know some other forms of mediaeval literature, such as the fabliaux, farces, and morality plays, in which courtesy imposed no restraint. Four Arthurian Romances The newspaper article to which I have referred was describing the "old morality play, Everyman" which had been performed in the church. America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat It is a curious reproduction, with a slight difference in cast, of the morality play of an earlier time. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction In miracle and morality play, they reappeared in beauty. Welsh Fairy Tales The story is somewhat like that of the old ballad of "The Children in the Wood," but it is here transformed into a kind of morality play. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Mystery and morality plays are of a very ancient origin. The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? |
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