apologia

1 Whether it’s an evisceration or a sly apologia will depend on whom you ask, but it’s a notable effort to wed the puckish to the plangent.

2 But these formal apologia seem to give away the keys to the poetry kingdom — once we read them, we might come to believe that all poems are secretly about poetry.

3 Yet the more you hear of Spasojevic's apologia, the more sincere he seems to be.

4 But the film is not an excuse to issue apologias or vent personal grudges.

5 One character, having “drunk myself sober” late one night, delivers a sarcastic apologia for her life, asking if she’s supposed to say she’s sorry that “our precious freedom’s made me a zombie.”

6 Though a bit repetitive and diffuse, this fine book is as much a philosophical apologia as it is a history.

7 The original apologia for Trump has become his final defense: Trump Derangement Syndrome.

8 Who wants to watch a four-hour apologia for the Confederacy when I can check out Rebecca, The Heiress, or My Man Godfrey?

9 An apologia for war embraced as a classic of pacifism.

10 Above all, though, Jamison’s book is as much an apologia as it is a clinical analysis.

11 The left have seen the work as an apologia for privilege and property.

左派把该作品看做是为特权和财产所做的辩解。

12 The play at other times feels like the dramatist’s guilty apologia for leaving Kyiv when her mother refuses to budge.

13 Birdman represents not just Keaton’s fictional apologia but also his defiant, nearly heroic comeback.

14 The project’s declared aim is to “measure apologias and critiques of empire against historical data”.

15 The poignant literary dividend of Wilde's submission to his fate was The Ballad of Reading Gaol and, posthumously, his extraordinary apologia, De Profundis.

16 Others are mostly cockamamie, like the theory that Kubrick had made the film as an apologia for his role in faking the moon landing.

17 The movie is a celebration of Barbie and a subterranean apologia for Barbie.

18 “White People” is neither an apologia nor a close examination of white privilege; it kind of hovers in the middle, willing to be critical, but only when everyone’s feelings are least likely to be hurt.

19 In a rather eloquent apologia, Cyrus took the long view on the whole phenomenon of pop stardom.

20 “It’s my apologia against what I see as the problematic state of magazines today, both big and small,” he writes.

1 辩白

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2 道歉

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3 申辩

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4 辩护

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5 辩解

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