apologia
Example Sentences
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Basically, Republican voters and leaders have spiraled into a vicious cycle of apologia for fascist violence.
From Salon
"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
"But this whole situation has done as much damage to the softer version of Putin apologia"
From Salon
Barely two months after the paper’s owner and publisher, the L.A. empire-builder Harrison Gray Otis, had taken over the paper, he ran this florid apologia for the meager, capricious river:
From Los Angeles Times
While most works in this genre read as elaborate apologias, Coates immediately strikes a different tone.
From Washington Post
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