apologia
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Murray hired a personal trainer, then “beseeched Roosevelt for a repeat invitation. The apologia and commitment” brought Murray back into Roosevelt’s good graces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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
Instead of this torturous apologia, Lewis could have acknowledged the obvious: He was duped.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2023
The bank is nearly a year into an extended apologia for its consumer woes, which at one point included Marcus, a consumer division named after the company’s founder.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 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
With forensic prose, she cut through complacent apologias for war photography and set photojournalistic images of violence squarely in the context of viewers’ voyeurism.
From New York Times ● May 24, 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 Dorothy Stimson
