apologia

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Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties—but because “Slow Poison” is an apologia for Uganda’s Idi Amin, a bloodthirsty tyrant like few others in modern history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

This isn’t meant to be gym shorts apologia.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2023

The critic Jerry Saltz penned an apologia for his role as a judge on the first season, describing it as “bad for art.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2023

"Red Table Talk" comes close, although is decidedly not a platform for celebrity apologia or a waystation on one's quest for absolution.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2022

Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring fatuous and hollow.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer