How To Use Apologia In A Sentence
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By now, many readers will have been turned off - and perhaps be confused - by the cascade of apologias and recriminations which have come from the participants in the still ongoing ‘blame game’.
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The secretary of state for Northern Ireland appeared on television to read a special apologia for detention without trial.
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(Like much of Davenport's work it is imbued with a Fourieresque utopianism and homoerotic sensualism that is both deeply appealing in its relish of the world's intellectual and sensational richness and deeply unsettling in its openness to critique as pederastic apologia.)
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
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`It's something many people do, as if their...' I didn't want him to digress on to an apologia for Florence's behaviour.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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`It's something many people do, as if their...' I didn't want him to digress on to an apologia for Florence's behaviour.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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As the bronze Harding Prize medal reads: "Ut apologia est non satis" ( "when sorry isn't enough").
Dan Mirvish: Tiger Woods, Rahm Emanuel Win Prizes for Best Apologies
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The left have seen the work as an apologia for privilege and property.
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The letter appears to serve as an apologia for Plato's involvement in events in Sicily.
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`It's something many people do, as if their...' I didn't want him to digress on to an apologia for Florence's behaviour.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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It doesn't seem to occur to her that the real reason is because of her disgusting apologias for mass murder.
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So now in addition to the “ends justify the means” and “de minimis non curat lex” apologia for RW dictatorships, we have an implicit “no true Scotsman” argument: “No real RW gummint has secret police and a surveillance state” (even if they torture and kill their dissidents and anyone else that gets in theirway).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
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If all this sounds like an extended apologia for the Catholic Church, I suppose it is.
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Is this a stock article or an apologia for minor celebs recently in trouble with the law?
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He had always intended to celebrate this garden, and when he was preparing to return to Batsford in 1915 he wrote to me that he was going to write an _Apologia pro Horto meo_, as long before he had composed one _pro Banibusis meis_.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
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Or maybe it's his special gift for issuing halfhearted and self-serving mea culpas, an apologia disguised as an apology.
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(The true espresso, I submit, is modern Italy's gift to the world -- their great and most eloquent apologia.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Some are better than others and the desire of anthropologists to relativize everything is not all that compelling when it moves, as here, to apologia for tyranny.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote
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An apologia, even when desperately, heartbreakingly wrong, is a sort of bridge between evil and good, an acknowledgement that there is something here that needs explaining.
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Socrates was condemned to death (poisoned by hemlock, so the legend goes) after his ‘Apologia’.
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His lengthy introduction offers an apologia for the study of sources as distinct from intertextuality.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Irrespective of the director's stated intent (see my interview below) to not muckrake (for lack of a better phrase) he inadvertently does, while straddling a fine line, also inadvertently serving the company's interest, by structuring a grand apologia and cautionary note to the future.
Michael Vazquez: Weekend Film: On Into Eternity
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Squill waved an imperious hand and revisited an apologia designed for budget-request meetings.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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Apologetics (from the Greek apologia: a defense) is that branch of Christian theology which seeks to provide a rational justification for the truth claims of the Christian faith.
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The election addresses of the candidates contain the familiar apologia.
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In June, the blustery, flustery Lewis Black published his non-apologia, Me of Little Faith; a couple of weeks later, the death of George Carlin reminded everybody what a cranky old infidel he was.
An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …
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`It's something many people do, as if their...' I didn't want him to digress on to an apologia for Florence's behaviour.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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I often gravitate back to the Narnia books or Lewis's brilliant retelling of the Cupid & Psyche myth, Till We Have Faces, but this time, I've headed for the essays / apologias instead.
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Mier's Apologia frequently approximates the picaresque narrative's structure and thematics, and it reveals a baroque style.
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Although I have no evidence that its scholarship is anything but solid, the possibility exists that the site might represent, or at the very least be seen to represent, an apologia for the crimes of the Nazi Regime in Germany.
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[69] Apuleius _Apologia_, 523: Pleraque tamen rei familiaris in nomen uxoris callidissima fraude confert, etc.; id., 545, 546 proves further the power of the wife: ea condicione factam conjunctionem, si nullis a me susceptis liberis vita demigrasset, ut dos omnis, etc. -- evidently the woman was dictating the disposal of her dowry.
A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.
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Since Lewis's apologia and attack in The New York Review of Books borrows verbatim from his congressional testimony (e.g., his ecological homily on the polluted meaning of the word Arabist), it is proper for me to sketch out the reality of his position and of his "scholarly" activities.
Orientalism: An Exchange
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Brownley perceives this ‘chasm’ as so great that the first two chapters serve as a theoretical apologia for even discussing the state.
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Norbrook offers such a spirited apologia for his methodology that you will forgive him most things.
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The result was an anguished 1,500-word confession cum apologia.
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So now in addition to the “ends justify the means” and “de minimus non curat lex” apologia for RW dictatorships, we have an implicit “no true Scotsman” argument: “No real RW gummint has secret police and a surveillance state” (even if they torture and kill their dissidents and anyone else that gets in their way).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
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We've been asked time and time again to de-Christianize our Apologia science curriculum.
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It may seem like I write only an apologia for the action we took, to support that publicly damned legislation.
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And the list of generic influences - the apologia, the memoir, the road story, the nouveau roman - extends on and on.
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An apologia, even when desperately, heartbreakingly wrong, is a sort of bridge between evil and good, an acknowledgement that there is something here that needs explaining.
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This is not to excuse or condone the excesses of his regime, nor is it an apologia.
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He'd finished his apologia and seemed to be waiting for me to comment.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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In response, the artist published an extraordinary apologia in a local cultural weekly.
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Kagan spends the first about 10 sessions presenting an apologia (sort of) for the physicalist [5] view that the soul is "[something the body can do]" [1] rather than an immaterial entity intimately associated with the body (what is called the dualist view).
By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog
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Then, with at least some of the root-causers, their political sympathies and antipathies naturally incline them towards apologia.
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Too many reviewers, Morris felt, had interpreted the book as an apologia.
