Sentence examples for moral plays from inspiring English sources

"Angels" has inspired subsequent Pulitzer-winning playwrights like Doug Wright ("I Am My Own Wife"), who calls it "one of the most stringently moral plays to come along in a long time," and Lynn Nottage, the author of "Ruined".

Rather, having formed the moral judgment that she ought to φ, the desire to be moral plays, in the good person, a role in effecting the "psychological transition" from judging it right to φ to wanting to φ (Svavarsdottir 1999, 201).

Blasted is a deeply moral play that creates horror in order to shake its audience out of any sense of complacency.

Yet he went on to defend Saved as "a moral play": "It is impossible to be indifferent to the characters' indifference".

Treating it as routine could level the moral playing field and invite retaliation in kind, and makes every American official both here and in the Middle East a target of opportunity.

And neither do you have to accept Hamas as blameless agents in order to recognize that a state-of-the-art military apparatus subsidized by the US government is on a wholly different moral playing field than a few rogue Islamist-affiliated young men propelling shoddy rockets into Southern Israel (which as of yet have killed just one Israeli, thanks to their Iron Dome shield).

Each of his bags is a miracle of complexity, a moral drama played out in miniature.

While reason retains its position of prominence in her morality, the moral sense plays an important role according to her in motivating agents to act morally.

Otis B. Driftwood, a theatrical agent of dubious morals (played by Groucho Marx), is hired by social climber Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont) to help her break into high society.

(Moral hazard plays much the same role in health care discussion).

If a moral concept plays a role in today's debates, it is only the stern proselytizing of forcing the government to live within its means.