apologia

Example Sentences

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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

These apologias look past how the women running against him interact with him and his campaign, the media and culture more broadly.

From Washington Post

That the pundits dusted off 13-year-old propaganda to rationalize killing Soleimani is a clear indication that they were desperately grasping for any imperialist apologia within reach.

From Salon