Sentences with phrase «tale about the morality»

Sure, the game might play like a slightly wonky platformer, but under that The Cave is a tale about morality and the dangers of getting exactly what you wish for.

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What it's about: A message - heavy morality tale starring Bing Crosby, «Going My Way» is about a popular youthful pastor giving a group of young kids direction in life while winning over the more conventional pastor who lead the parish before him.

It's nominally a book about finance, but it's really a morality tale.

And in just that apparent consensus about the ridiculousness of it all, amid all those ashes scattered over a Christian teaching stretching back two millennia, arises a fascinating and in fact exceedingly amusing modern morality tale — amusing, at least, to those who take their humor dark.

Your old stories are the fantasy tales of ancient Middle Eastern men - creative guys, with perhaps a smidgeon of facts about their tribe's history and a few beneficial morality tales, but mainly myth, fantasy and supersit.ion.

If, moreover, one thinks of the tree as the motherly feminine or as a symbol for the whole of nature, the shadows lengthen into a bleak morality tale about an oblivious male chauvinism or about an environmentally destructive anthropocentrism, both ominously foretold when, early on, the boy gathers leaves and weaves them into a crown and struts about playing king of the forest, his nose lifted high in the air.

Yeah and we want all you religious zealots to stay the the hell out of our personal business and not try to create legislation that attempts to control us with your fairy tale ideals about morality etc..

That makes the film a pretty straightforward morality tale about a man, who actually does have a soul, weighing the price of taking advantage of people, who are just like him, against the need to provide for his family, who are living in a hotel with a group of other people who have been evicted from their own homes.

Unfortunately, Altered Carbon is so busy tying itself up in knots that it fails to grapple with the ethical questions — about what defines a person, and a life; about how morality can exist if mortality is conquered — that are at the heart of its tale.

As more young men (and women) learn about sex almost exclusively from pornography, Don Jon's blatant take is both shocking and a bit dull at first, but warms up to reveal a good old - fashioned morality tale.

A thematic companion piece to Jones» directorial debut «Moon» in that they're both morality tales about technology, «Source Code» succeeds in taking a high - concept premise and spinning it into a captivating thriller that's simple in execution yet brain - teasingly complex the more you pick it apart.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan weaves a tale that speaks to human morality and mortality in a way that American cinema, mainstream or independent, doesn't like to think about anymore.

Teacher's Pet is a little like H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau: a morality tale about loneliness, responsibility, and not fiddling around with nature that happens to be leavened by a good healthy dose of fiddling around with nature, lawlessness, and amorality.

The Ray Bradbury short story «A Sound of Thunder,» an unnerving morality tale about modern man's arrogant disregard for nature, ends with time - traveling dinosaur hunters returning to the future to discover that by stepping on...

Set in East Germany during the early 1980s, Petzold's brilliant character study is first and foremost a morality tale about the conflict between individualism and selflessness.

But while the film is a little too dependent on conveniently poor police work and plot holes, it's still a fairly suspenseful morality tale about how far you would go to protect the people you love.

«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» — a dark morality tale about a mother seeking justice for her murdered daughter — also made a strong showing with seven nods, including for best picture, lead actress Frances McDormand and supporting actors Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson.

To some extent a companion piece to «Moon» in that they're both morality tales about technology, Jones has succeeded in taking yet another high - concept premise and spinning it into a captivating thriller that's both incredibly simple in execution and yet brain - teasingly complex the more you pick it apart.

A graduate of Harvard (MA) and Columbia (MA) universities, she is the author of Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality & the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, which explores stories told about women over 500 years across multiple continents, and how they shape our lives today.

Whether he writes a gothic morality tale in which a male exotic dancer is haunted by his maiden aunt from beyond the grave, or about a self - help guru who tells his followers his mission is to discover who's been «crapping in your oatmeal,» Saunders's stories are both indelibly strange and vividly real.

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

In other words, the smoking / cancer episode is not a morality tale about science vs. know - nothing flat - earthers, but rather a tale of dueling scientists, politics, and big players behind the scenes with lots of money and power at stake.

Now, do you suppose that the person in history who actually told this tale, who clearly was not an SS officer (he merely asked the other guy to imagine him as one, as I did here), and who told it well after WWII to a non Jew, while in a discussion about relative morality, «had serious psychological problems»?