How to Use apologia in a Sentence

apologia

noun

• One of the best jokes in movie history is an apologia for evil.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Unilever seemed prepared for the backlash, adding a scoop of apologia to its statement.
  — Emily Heil, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2022
• That talk rankles the old school, which hears it as an apologia for stock prices that seem to be bubbling over.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• Talking Back, Talking Black, then, is a kind of apologia.
  — The Editors, The Atlantic, 13 May 2017
• But Golden Exits is not just apologia for male menopause.
  — Jordan Hoffman, HWD, 23 Jan. 2017
• John’s confession, both his apologia and his life story, is told in the first person.
  — Margot Livesey, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
• This was an outright apologia for racist white separatism.
  — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
• So is his apologia for the insurrectionists since then.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 Feb. 2022
• The movie is a celebration of Barbie and a subterranean apologia for Barbie.
  — Willa Paskin, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• The speeches come, Abelson notes, as Democrats engage in a fresh round of soul-searching touched off by the publication of Hillary Clinton’s post-election apologia.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
• Her insistence that Ellen is unhappy (when, in fact, Montgomery’s Ellen seems the most resilient — or at least healthily resigned — of the three) serves as both an apologia and an attack.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2019
• Discernment and accompaniment of the sinner (i.e., each one of us) is not diminished by a robust apologia of the good that the sinner is called to pursue.
  — Elizabeth Kirk, National Review, 10 Feb. 2018
• The Times’s best needle explainer/apologia, from March 2018, compares the needle to the work that political analysts do as the precinct data rolls in.
  — Dara Lind, Vox, 6 Nov. 2018
• This essay, an apologia pro vita sua (defense of one’s life), seems designed to justify that offense.
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 Feb. 2021
• And the latest apologia came from Hillary Clinton, for whom Weinstein has raised about $1.5 million in campaign donations.
  — Vogue, 10 Oct. 2017
• Barr offers an extended apologia that tries to square his position on putting people to death with his religious faith.
  — New York Times, 27 Feb. 2022
• At just under 900 pages, the book is most thoroughly a sprawling apologia for Roth’s treatment of women, on and off the page, and a minutely detailed account of his victimization at the hands of his two wives.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
• Even though only two of 18 chapters of the book deal directly with Donald Trump, the reader senses the work building toward an apologia for the former president.
  — Greg Weiner, National Review, 24 June 2021
• No such apologia can be made for Baudelaire, who was nonetheless the greatest poet-critic of his time and who will remain a titan for as long as there is literature.
  — Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
• The Times eventually published a long public apologia, penned by the publisher himself.
  — Steve Almond, Longreads, 3 Apr. 2018
• Clear away the tomes and magisterial analyses, the oligarchical apologias, the Thomas Friedman nonsense, and read India's gift to the debate on whether there should be a corporatized world.
  — Paul Spinrad, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2001
• The #MeToo fallout brought about a flood of firings, new organizations and pledges to change, but a vast array of apologia from perpetrators also ensued.
  — Kasia Pilat, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• The regrettable thing is that Heritage’s apologia for policing’s past is being aired at the same exact time as one of the most effective and visible protests over race and policing in recent memory.
  — Barry Friedman, Slate Magazine, 26 Sep. 2017
• The rest of the campaign was a long apologia for Mr. Biden’s strategy of limiting his public exposure by campaigning in his Delaware basement.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 June 2022
• Stated in such bald terms, the reconciliationist narrative seems like pure apologia for the white supremacy.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
• Demonstrators disrupted the campus, calling his theory an apologia for the status quo.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
• The album ends in a heart-rending nine-minute apologia written from the character to his daughter, offering explanations for his bad choices and asking for forgiveness.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
• On more contemporary matters, Guelzo himself has been accused of flirting with apologia.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• Readers often take it as an apologia for, even a love letter to, the postwar suburban ways associated once with Southern California and, later, with much of the United States.
  — Colin Marshal, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• In response to the Times report, Weinstein released a statement, part apology and part apologia, part explanation and part contrition.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017

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