Consequently, what Major has done is to have written an apologia and a defense.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

How this can be twisted in apologia for McCarthy is beyond me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School] Reference

Valatan's Ray Lankford apologia, which is always a plus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viva El Birdos] Reference

She may be thinking of "apologia" or "apologetic," meaning a defense or justification.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Although I thought Ann's Rush apologism was unseemly and unfounded, I have to say I basically agree with Jon Chait..."] Reference

Some responded to my article by calling it an "apologia" for President Obama's first two years in office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarence B. Jones: Buck Up and Stop Whining] Reference

= How "apologia" came to be = Things you should know about apologetics + Four Types of apologetics 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Philo prepared a long philosophical "apologia" for the Jews and set out with five colleagues for Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria] Reference

Greek word apologia, which means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]

Greek word apologia, which means "defense".    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

This riveting apologia will supercharge the debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies Abounding] Reference

Apology said, please allow the Roundup an apologia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midterm Roundup] Reference

Many took a similarly dour view of Berendzen's apologia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was It Illness Or Immorality?] Reference

Apology said, please allow the Roundup a brief apologia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midterm Roundup] Reference

It was Shakespeare's apologia, Whatever you call those things.    From Wordnik.com.  [the dirty duck]

Hilary broke into a strange apologia: tender, oblique, guarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tied Up in Tinsel]

Typical leftist apologia for the country you lead but in effect despise.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Raising a pair of flanges, Pyrrpallinda forestalled any further apologia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running from the Deity]

Contrast Killinger's apologia with the last time that JPMorgan Chase & Co.    From Wordnik.com.  [JPMorgan Shining Like A Dimon] Reference

Bruce Feirstein's utilitarian apologia; Ben Schott measures the immeasurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [May 2007 Table of Contents] Reference

The Speech was, in fact, an apologia and political reaction to the Wright videos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Explains His Break From Trinity Church] Reference

This is just flat wrong and forms the basis for the rest of his pointless apologia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama On FISA: Telecom Immunity Issue Doesn't Override National Security] Reference

For Democrats, the only silver lining was that many people never saw their apologia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bobby Jindal Gets an Honor and Maybe a Curse] Reference

A few days later, I heard Mr. Mortier deliver an elaborate apologia for his dead regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silliness and Subversion Taint the Salzburg Opera Festival] Reference

SIEGEL: "Her study is nothing more than an apologia for the inarticulate, undereducated.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2002] Reference

We've got this naif narrating and giving an apologia pro vita sua after the death of his guru.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting It On] Reference

Robert McNamara's apologia, In Retrospect, is quite revealing on that, probably unintentionally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

As the bronze Harding Prize medal reads: "Ut apologia est non satis" ( "when sorry isn't enough").    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiger Woods, Rahm Emanuel Win Prizes for Best Apologies] Reference

But kinder advisers would have urged Ross to wait before publishing this apologia -- or not publish at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Yorker Love Story] Reference

McCain chastises him on "Meet the Press" and, presto, Durbin issues a blubbering apologia on the Senate floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: McCain's Moment] Reference

“Tsunami” is crafted, in part, to be an apologia for Western solipsism, but the film ends up reinforcing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revisiting the Tsunami] Reference

Sadly I lack the time needed to keep abreast with this exchange of comments and apologia for the stati quo and ante.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The NY Times piece is largely an apologia for the press corps, explaining why Clinton deserved the coverage she got.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Press Unfair To Hillary? New York Times Weighs In...] Reference