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Example sentences for: apologia

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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."
Actually, you won't find much of this kind of machine-gun improvisation in Not-Knowing , at least once past the bracing title essay, the most fully fleshed apologia Barthelme achieved, which barrels from Husserl to "Melancholy Baby" to the past-due bills on his desk in mock-peevish diatribe.
The first adverb casually banalizes German brutality; the second diminishes its extent; together, they come dangerously close to apologia.
After completing her testimony before the Lewinsky grand jury, Linda Tripp gave a prepared statement to the press, from whom her apologia drew sarcasm and incredulity.
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.