(1) De Profundis was the closest Oscar Wilde ever came to a queer apologia and defense, written as a letter from Reading Gaol over a three-month period in 1897.(2) Or maybe it's his special gift for issuing halfhearted and self-serving mea culpas, an apologia disguised as an apology.(3) It may seem like I write only an apologia for the action we took, to support that publicly damned legislation.(4) Morrison said that he u2018did not want to write an apologia for the IRAu2019 or to u2018mythologiseu2019 them.(5) The letter appears to serve as an apologia for Plato's involvement in events in Sicily.(6) The election addresses of the candidates contain the familiar apologia .(7) And the list of generic influences - the apologia , the memoir, the road story, the nouveau roman - extends on and on.(8) If all this sounds like an extended apologia for the Catholic Church, I suppose it is.(9) Brownley perceives this u2018chasmu2019 as so great that the first two chapters serve as a theoretical apologia for even discussing the state.(10) Too many reviewers, Morris felt, had interpreted the book as an apologia .(11) an apologia for book banning(12) Is this a stock article or an apologia for minor celebs recently in trouble with the law?(13) In response, the artist published an extraordinary apologia in a local cultural weekly.(14) An apologia , even when desperately, heartbreakingly wrong, is a sort of bridge between evil and good, an acknowledgement that there is something here that needs explaining.(15) This is not to excuse or condone the excesses of his regime, nor is it an apologia .(16) Although I have no evidence that its scholarship is anything but solid, the possibility exists that the site might represent, or at the very least be seen to represent, an apologia for the crimes of the Nazi Regime in Germany.
