apologia
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
An apologia writ in hair about what happens when a muscular intellect is married to frail corporate governance.
From New York Times
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
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