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Example sentences for: apologist

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But the question the Swedish Academy forces us to address is not whether Grass is a Soviet apologist.
He was--and, weirdly enough, still is--writing principally as a Nixon apologist aiming to trivialize Watergate itself.
Co-host Sam Donaldson comes up with the ball and concludes, "I'm not an apologist for Newsweek , but if their editors decided they didn't have it cold enough to go with, I don't think that we can here ...
This makes the black intellectual not only a propagandist but also an apologist, at times, of the most hypocritical sort, blowing up trivialities while ignoring profundities because of their ambiguous nature, all the while operating with the urges of a philanthropist, discarding merit in the name of equality of space or for "educating" the public in favor of a good cause.
Or as Joshua Quittner writes in Time , "sometimes I got the feeling that Lewis so reveres his protagonist that he became his apologist."