apologia

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While “Tangled Up in Blue” does not, by any means, operate as an apologia for police, it at times elides the responsibility of officers in creating a “Dickensian” narrative that Brooks abhors.

From Washington Post

Critics on the left are likely to regard Scarborough’s celebration of the Truman doctrine as an idealistic apologia for American imperialism.

From The Guardian

The argument, then, for why we should still read Faulkner is not a “man of his time” apologia.

From Washington Post

Others are mostly cockamamie, like the theory that Kubrick had made the film as an apologia for his role in faking the moon landing.

From The Guardian

The nearest to a controversial film is Joker, which has collected flak for its portrayal of mental illness as well as its supposed apologia for incel violence.

From The Guardian