Sentences with phrase «than any morality play»

But if we take out the story of Joseph in Potiphar's house we lose something more than a morality play.

In this story we have the making of a tragedy, and tragedy is closer to the truth of the gospel than any morality play.

It's ultimately less political thriller or election allegory than morality play in partisan dress.

It feels like for the majority of this decade Japanese (non-Atlus) developers have been increasingly retreating behind clichés to the extent that the characters are scarcely more nuanced than morality play archetypes of the middle ages... it's just another way in which their industry has languished.

Not exact matches

For the full story of Antonio Montesino reads more like a medieval morality play than the dawn of pan-human solidarity.

It's more akin to fingernails scraping a blackboard than an updated morality play.

An apocalyptic 16th - century Bruegel painting hangs on the wall (forgive this one on - the - nose piece of production design) pointing to deadly sins, but the movie, loaded with dream sequences and nail - biting exchanges, is far more complex than a mere morality play.

But if Hostage seems another of those good - cop - atoning - for - past - sins morality plays that Hollywood never tires of making, it's also leaner, meaner and dirtier than most, making it possible to forget you've seen it all before.

More of a commentary on U.S. foreign policy and drone warfare than corporate greed (though it still plays a role here), the movie also has some interesting thoughts on free will and the morality of robotics.

I wish it all added up to more than a stock morality play.

than Dear God, after all — a broad morality play played to the tuppence rabble that earns its half - star for a moment where Steven Carell (late of «The Daily Show») goes nuts on live television.

Guardian writers use «science» as a puppet to act out morality plays, in which their own fantasies are seemingly given authority by the invoking of «stark» or «dire» — typically, the «starkest» or «direst» yet — «warnings» that things are «worse than previously thought».