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
The new film is the director’s penance: an apologia to musical lovers who want to see the star do every inch of the dancing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
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
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
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
One of my great apologias for being the idiot I am.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2013
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 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
