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
That said, “The Colonel and the King” often reads like a Parker apologia, or at least a concentrated effort to set some records straight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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
Victory and Reasonableness.—Unfortunately in the æsthetic wars, which artists provoke by their works and apologias for their works, just as is the case in real war, it is might and not reason that decides.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
