At six Joe's coffee shops across the city, detailed one-page apologias popped up last week explaining why the cost of an average cup is going up 10 to 20 cents. ❋ Sumathi Reddy (2011)
But the reality is that our society largely issues apologias for, not denunciations of, police abuse. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But after a deep inhalation I had the great pleasure of talking with many people outside the theater as we re-pieced the film together, shared details some noticed but others had missed, listened to the negative reviews and countered with our own apologias for a film that had genuinely moved us. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So, today, there's me doing my Gordon Brown and David Miliband impressions and stuff for, a surprisingly good looking, charismatic and persuasive, Aaronovitch and, equally surprisingly, listening to Mr A's profuse apologias for, and bigging up of, nulab and Miliband. ❋ Newmania (2008)
His books included "Past Imperfect," "Marxism and the French Left" and other works critical of French intellectuals whom Judt believed naive ( "authors of apologias and their accompanying theorems") about Stalin and the Soviet Union. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Or is this simply another of those inept, guilt ridden apologias for colonialism’s irreparable wrongs? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Instead of giving the parenting police the bird on matters like food, sleep, work, and schools — or having a life — we write apologias. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Something like “if govt does X, then it must also do Y” where Y can range from the president having to wear a chicken suit for a day, to (more palatably) the president having to publicly read a pre-drafted apology for having renaged on the deal (a real eat-crow apology, make it withstand the apologias that follow). ❋ Unknown (2009)
In this case, Cohen obviously is driven by personal pique, as Goldberg has done excellent work pointing out the fatuity of Cohen's various apologias for Iran. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This is a story as important as Watergate, but for the most part, the MSM will ignore, play down or write apologias for it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Your mugwumpery and apologias lead naturally to the question of whether you're a stockholder. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Nowhere in all theses apologias for the conduct of Israel is there any mention of the future. ❋ Unknown (2009)
At minimum, though, I can promise you my series won't be the usual corporate brochure copy about China you get from the Tom Friedmans and Fareed Zakarias - the triumphalist apologias insisting how wonderful China is doing because the limo drivers are so friendly and the views from the 55th floor of Shanghai's five-star hotels are just so goddamned spectacular. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What I find most objectionable are some of the comments, sometimes by women poets, giving apologias or excuses for the why of the status quo, especially the editor who complains that she is not getting submissions of essays on certain women writers, but who doesn't do anything proactive to get those submissions. ❋ Desayunoencama (2007)
Note: the Snopes and Urban Legend descriptions on this episode are somewhat skewed, omitting entirely the RFP and its legal basis, and focussing only on the apologias afterwards. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Court Intellectual is the intellectual who, "in return for a share of, a junior partnership in, the power and pelf offered by the rest of the ruling class, spins the apologias for state rule with which to convince a misguided public." ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Bank of England's apologias over Northern Rock have been protests that regulation is a mess and government indecisive. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Those who perpetrate this kind of diseased splatterporn always make excuses for themselves, and it is generally the same excuse, for their apologias are even less original than their fiction. ❋ Superversive (2006)
The word “apologia” in Latin meant giving a [rational] explanation for something, not saying that you’re sorry for something. He gazed for a little while [into the fire], seeking in the [analysis] of his emotions his apologia. ❋ Sky Del Rage (2020)
