apologies

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The data lined up with the results from the first study, showing, for both male and female apologizers, that the counter-stereotypical apology was more effective.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

Write this one down, half-hearted, reluctant apologizers everywhere: saying you’re “sorry” for how someone feels or thinks is saying you’re not at all sorry for how you behaved.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2013

And we wondered what it would be like to bring all the great apologizers together for a special event, something we call Apologalooza.  

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2013

But the underlying problem represented by America’s inadequate apologizers runs pretty deep, said the Rev. Gary Dorrien, a professor of social ethics at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2010

She doesn’t bother because they are both chronic apologizers, and chronic apologizers know that sorry is also just sorrow for the general state of the world.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti