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
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The Rules of Attraction is ultimately a morality tale in which the absence of moral fibre is paid for in blood and misery.
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.
Even the somber morality tales of the eighteenth century are made more palatable through verse.
It is a simple morality tale of bad guys beating up on good guys.
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 book is not the tendentious morality tale one fears.
Nice Girl is a morality tale which is intended to help teenagers avoid learning hard lessons the hard way.
That movie degenerated into a plain, old-fashioned Hollywood morality tale.
It felt like the final word on a fraught subject that is too often reduced to a simplistic modern morality tale.