Mark I. Pinksy said that it is "a simple morality tale — cautionary and schematic — ideal for moral instruction, save for some of its darker moments," and noted that the film is a favorite of parents of young children.
Might Mad Max's cautionary moral contain something?
The moral exhortations and cautionary tales the Rijksmuseum offers are historically ignorant, visually illiterate and brazenly propagandistic.
Unfortunately, this is a play with grander ambitions than that, and the baffling world of these kids becomes less and less central to a story that involves the media, out of touch parents and the wages of drug use and that is no doubt intended as a cautionary moral tale: the kids are killers and we are all to blame.
In their original evidence arguing for a Welsh exemption to the ban on Tuesday, BBC Wales said: "In Casualty, there were plans to use smoking as a cautionary moral tale with a smoker in a hotel room causing a blaze, which formed the central plot line of an episode.
In 1209, the Jain scholar, minister, builder of temples and army commander Janna wrote, among other classics, Yashodhara Charite, a unique set of stories in 310 verses dealing with sadomasochism, transmigration of the soul, passion gone awry and cautionary morals for human conduct.
The stories in this exquisite collection — vital, eerie and freighted with the moral messages that attend all cautionary tales — reflect only one of Petrushevskaya's many modes of expression.
Mr. Beatty, a senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly and the author of "The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958," tells his cautionary tale with great moral fervor.
No doubt both "Academy X" and "Glamorous Disasters" are meant to be cautionary tales about the moral perils lurking beneath the lifestyles of the rich and almost famous.
In the bipartite world of the Cold War, you could choose to read Thucydides' carefully structured presentation of Athens' decline as a cautionary tale about the moral decay that accompanies abuses of imperial power.
