apologia

Example Sentences

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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

Demonstrators disrupted the campus, calling his theory an apologia for the status quo.

From Washington Post

It is, as she puts it, a “little apologia” for West taking that dirty Hollywood money and basking in the sun.

From Los Angeles Times

But to me, her statement read more like a classic apologia, a self-absolving explanation — one vetted, no doubt, by an attorney to avoid admitting liability for Sebold’s pointing to the wrong man in court.

From Los Angeles Times