Pain and Gain is an oddly old-fashioned morality play, rooted in character and most concerned about telling a story worth telling.
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Now that an employee has turned the tables and betrayed the firm, it is tempting to see some kind of morality play buried within.
In Key West, he told about writing "Morality Play, " a novel set in 14th-century England, about a traveling troupe of players that put on Bible plays.
So and always, you see sports as some sort of morality play rather than this thing that you do to get away from your life and have a little bit of distraction fun.
An idea for a morality play: capture the madness of an era when investors, entranced by new technology, a novel set of economic assumptions and an all-powerful Federal Reserve, lost their heads, blew an exuberant bubble and suffered a painful bust.
The first entirely artificial language of which any record survives, Lingua Ignota, was created by the twelfth-century German nun and mystic Hildegard von Bingen, who is better known for having composed what may be the earliest surviving morality play.
Not until late 1985, when Marcos suddenly called a "snap" presidential election in an attempt to capitalize on opposition disarray, did Cory finally acknowledge that she alone could unite the anti-Marcos forces and transform the race into a political morality play.
In a peculiarly American way, the cabin-fee issue has therefore turned into a sort of morality play in which these people argue that the government should keep their rents low in order to prevent something even worse: the prospect that public lands might become solely a province of the rich.
Financial fair play is a question of morality, ethics and common sense.
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