Words similar to apologia

Example sentences for: apologia

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On August 9--the 25th anniversary of Richard Nixon's presidential resignation--the Wall Street Journal's editorial page published a Nixon apologia by Crowley headlined "The Day Nixon Said Goodbye."
My essay is "equally biased and inflammatory," he writes, and whereas Goldhagen delivered a fierce attack on the Germans, my own essay is effectively an "apologia" for them.
An introduction and apologia.
Lenny Bruce began his apologia this way--and I quote from bad memory--"The continuation of crime, disease, suffering, and death is what keeps me, Albert Schweitzer, and J. Edgar Hoover in business."
The first adverb casually banalizes German brutality; the second diminishes its extent; together, they come dangerously close to apologia.