Sentence examples for a modern morality from inspiring English sources
Among the last words of Faust: Part Two, delivered by an angel carrying off Faust's immortal soul, are these: 'Wer immer strebend sich bemüht,/Den können wir erlösen' - very roughly, 'Whoever takes pains to keep striving/Is someone we can redeem.' The terms of Faust's pact are, as everyone says, one of the key formulations of a modern morality - 'the morality of modernity itself', Boyle suggests.
It's a modern morality piece".
Here's a modern morality tale.
It is a modern morality — or amorality — play, which means it traffics in button-pushing archetypes.
He tells the story in stark blacks and whites the blacks are white, of course like a modern morality play.
Dazzlingly choreographed by Marie Chouinard and conducted with zest by Roberto Minczuk, the sequence of decadent tableaux added up to a ferociously modern morality play - proof that the partnership between these two men was not of an age, but for all time.
Rod Serling wrote this as a great modern morality play on the value of individuality and the dangers of wanting to conform to one ideal of beauty.
Mary Papadima's illuminating direction deftly shifts between the two foci of McGuinness's text: simultaneously a gripping psychological exploration of three men enduring an extreme situation and a kind of modern morality play meditating on life in the face of death.
This episode explores how Roddenberry and Serling used the future as a stage for modern morality plays, and actors like William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy (above right, with DeForest Kelley) and Nichelle Nichols describe how they prepared to interact on camera with everything including evil alien armies and a giant radish.
The first western to be shortlisted for the Booker, Patrick de Witt's quirky modern morality tale about a pair of contract killers in Gold Rush America will make you laugh.
