apologia
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Whether we are meant to believe or dismiss this apologia for the chivalry of the Old South is debatable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
This form of rationalization and denial is embarrassingly evident in a recent apologia by David Brooks, the New York Times’ notion of an ideal conservative.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025
This isn’t meant to be gym shorts apologia.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2023
But with Columbia at its center — he insists he’s not overly impressed by the people who constitute his primary subject — the movie can’t help but function as an apologia for the ruling class.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
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
While most works in this genre read as elaborate apologias, Coates immediately strikes a different tone.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2022
Literary and oratorical apologias for the rebellion were accompanied by a flurry of monuments to Confederate leaders, including those in Statuary Hall.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2021
The project’s declared aim is to “measure apologias and critiques of empire against historical data”.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2018
All the characters wind up presenting their own apologias, often with descriptions of pasts that explain their present.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2018
Since then have come many apologias in explanation and extenuation of the Church's decided stand in this matter for so many generations.
From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Stimson, Dorothy
