How to Use passion play in a Sentence
passion play
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During Muharram a community group will often stage a passion play (taʿziyyah) that reenacts the events of Ḥusayn’s martyrdom.
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Charles Preston,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
22 May 2026
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This time, the Antetokounmpo situation is playing out as a passion play of passive aggression.
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Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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The author of A Thousand Ships and Stone Blind reimagines the Greek myth of Medea as a passion play, rife with domestic fury and murder most foul.
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Hamilton Cain,
Time,
3 Mar. 2026
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Even they’re relegated to little more than supporting players and symbolic representations of troubled youth straight out of a BBC kitchen-sink passion play.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
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His 1965 book Theatre in Iran provided a comprehensive study of the historical roots of Iranian theatrical genres like Naqali (Iranian storytelling), Kheimeh Shab Bazi (Iranian puppetry), Ta’zieh (passion plays) and Ruhowzi (comic folk drama).
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Hilary Lewis,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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