Ultimately, the symbolism, the heavy moralizing, the pre-ordained outcome and cardboard characters made The Visit seem like a medieval morality play, with all the dramatic thinness that can entail.
With its heavy emphasis on morality and nationalism, the new legislation bears some resemblance to the Imperial Rescript on Education of 1890.
And in a field littered with good intentions, heavy doses of morality, and scant evidence of results, the Carrera program is a solid success: a three-year evaluation of its 12 sites in poor neighborhoods nationwide found participants had one-third fewer pregnancies, and births, than those in the control group.
Yet with increased machine capabilities and human longevity come heavy questions of morality and spirituality.
The address was heavy on God and morality and the need to re-establish a spiritual base in the United States, a recurring Gingrich refrain.
It was from the realm of imaginative desire that Winckelmann drew the ideals of sunny health and nakedly uninhibited joyousness which "ancient Greeks" held out for generations of German thinkers oppressed by cold weather, bourgeois morality, and heavy woollen clothing.
Like the first Broadway production, which swept the Tony Awards in what was admittedly a dry season, this version doesn't avoid shrinking Twain's multidimensional book into a folksy, tuneful morality lesson, heavy on homilies and inspirational hymns.
It's too bad that, for reasons of shock-shocked morality and heavy political correctness, we can't really revel in it.
Most said it was.With 15.6m members and 47,000 churches, Southern Baptists are among the heaviest hitters in America's debate on public morality.
