Word: apologia
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...spokesman’s further apologia that the proceeds of PetroChina’s listing "will only be used in [China]," is just plain unverifiable. Money is fungible, and CNPC has invested millions of dollars in Sudanese oil projects. This oil money bankrolls the Khartoum regime; PetroChina has the power to influence what is going on in Darfur by tightening the regime’s pursestrings...
...might have thought that travel publishers and style professionals would be thunderous in their denouncement of such conformity, but they are its ideologues. Design Hotels-a group whose 142 member properties probably corner the world market in white furniture and puzzling chrome ornaments-compiles the raving apologia of academics and designers in its own, biannual journal (sample: "Hotels of the avant-garde are rapidly becoming the starting points for experiences of reality that allow orientation in a world that is both falling apart and coming together"). Thames & Hudson publishes the Hip Hotels series, an anthology of vacuity, as well...
...modern apologia for literature seems to center around the idea that while science makes life possible, the arts make life worth living. By creating, preserving, and studying literature, we keep our culture from descending into a nihilistic, materialistic abyss, reminding man of his higher spiritual yearnings and his endless possibilities. This is especially important in an age in which the world seems to be splintering into factions of secularists and religious fundamentalists; literature must fill the void that the death of God has created...
Just when you thought there was not one word left to be added to the vast canon of postcolonial literature-no more stern apologia from superannuated officials, no more sobbing memoirs of privileged childhood from the waifs and strays of empire-along comes a work that is neither a defense of colonialism nor a veiled lament for its passing. The glib assumption one first makes of Peter Moss's No Babylon-coming as it does from British Hong Kong's former propaganda chief-is that it will be the kind of memoir any undergraduate seminar could destroy in minutes, excoriating...
...that end, the film’s fans have busied themselves filling reviewers’ inboxes and various internet message boards with passionate apologia for the film and ardent denunciations of its detractors...