apologia

“How this can be twisted in apologia for McCarthy is beyond me.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School

“The second apologia is that the Lib Dem leadership concluded before the election that their policy on tuition fees was unsustainable.”

The Guardian: Wake up and smell the burning rubber, Mr Cable and Mr Clegg

“Another death-row apologia from the convicted cop killer and self-proclaimed political prisoner, philosopher, and poet.”

Rote From Underground

“(There is one striking exception: his Apology, which purports to be the speech that Socrates gave in his defense ” the Greek word apologia means “defense” ” when, in 399, he was legally charged and convicted of the crime of impiety.”

Plato

“When the Village Voice suggested in 1982 that Mr. Kosinski might not have been the sole author of all of his novels, The Times responded with an unprecedented 6,500-word apologia for Mr. Kosinski, which started across the top of the front page of the Arts and Leisure section.”

A.M. Rosenthal, 1922-2006

“Valatan's Ray Lankford apologia, which is always a plus.”

Viva El Birdos

“Terror Famine as a "lie" and a "slander"; the following year he published a 16,000-word apologia for Stalin's mass murders.”

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“Some responded to my article by calling it an "apologia" for President Obama's first two years in office.”

The Huffington Post: Clarence B. Jones: Buck Up and Stop Whining

“Unfortunately, New Criticism has apparently come to be seen as an all-purpose kind of apologia for complexity of all kinds, a convenient whipping-boy in circumstances in which "complexity" is seen by some as an excuse for evading obvious moral distinctions.”

The Biographical Fallacy