A story or narrative from which one can derive a moral about right and wrong.
‘his story can be seen as a modern morality tale’
‘On The Waterfront is a great morality tale about corruption and redemption’
‘It is a simple morality tale of bad guys beating up on good guys.’
‘It felt like the final word on a fraught subject that is too often reduced to a simplistic modern morality tale.’
‘Nice Girl is a morality tale which is intended to help teenagers avoid learning hard lessons the hard way.’
‘The book is not the tendentious morality tale one fears.’
‘That movie degenerated into a plain, old-fashioned Hollywood morality tale.’
‘But the biggest news story of the week is rapidly developing into a bleak morality tale, the moral being that all is never what it seems when it comes to money.’
‘No disrespect intended, but none of them compares with Faber's morality tale.’
‘The Rules of Attraction is ultimately a morality tale in which the absence of moral fibre is paid for in blood and misery.’
‘Even the somber morality tales of the eighteenth century are made more palatable through verse.’
‘They are, in essence, morality tales - the moral being, be grateful for what you have, for what you get in exchange might not be any better.’
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