(1) Here they led within 90 seconds against a team whose fragility has been all too clear this term, and still contrived to wilt almost apologetically.
(2) Cameron signalled he had no intention of ousting Cable after telling an "end of term" press conference today that the business seceretary "was very apologetic at Cabinet this morning".
(3) One day, they are gone, leaving only an apologetic note on the kitchen table.
(4) In the second half of Pantene's commercial, previously-apologetic women revolt.
(5) He makes the case for spending cuts not in ideological terms, but almost apologetically, as a grim necessity forced by circumstances.
(6) Puncheon's long free-kick was met by Marouane Chamakh on the edge of the six-yard box, and although the substitute's header was saved by David Marshall, using his legs, the ball ran to Ledley who nudged it home, almost apologetically.
(7) Appearing on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, New York's public radio station, Lehrer – no relation to his host – said he was "not apologetic" and said the debate had been the first "unrehearsed" moment of the presidential campaign.
(8) Ellie Lee, a sociologist at Kent University, agrees with this stealth aspect: "People will say secretly to their friends that they enjoy their work, but you have this really apologetic presentation of self amongst working mothers – you know, 'I'd rather work a bit less, I'd rather be with my children'.
(9) Dimond claims the person asking him questions for the habitual residence test was "very apologetic" for even making him undergo it.
(10) Fouad asked with meek and apologetic smile if he could have our phones.
(11) Look, I say, apologetically, I'm going to press ahead.
(12) The fishmonger is summoned and scurries away apologetically.
(13) said the woman arranging our new mortgage, apologetically.
(14) Bronwyn Bishop vows to stay in office despite referral of helicopter trip to police Read more “She has repaid the money with a penalty and, as she said on the weekend, obviously she is sorry, obviously she is apologetic.
(15) Apologetic and stony faced, the boss of the Japanese carmaker Toyota repeatedly expressed "sincere regrets" for faulty accelerator pedals linked to dozens of deaths and injuries yesterday as US lawmakers pounded his handling of a safety crisis afflicting more than 8m vehicles globally.
(16) The letter I received from East Coast customer services was apologetic, and admitted having let me down both in terms of the malfunctioning machines and the advice given to me by their staff, but the fine was not revoked.
(17) She said the waiter was polite, as was a supervisor who was very apologetic but stated that it was hotel policy for mothers to cover up while breastfeeding.
(18) Bristling with sonic ideas and anchored by a massive chorus, it’s a confident return for Flowers compared to that slightly apologetic 2010 debut.
(19) She still lives with her mum, and wasn’t so much exasperated by that as faintly apologetic for her good fortune.
(20) My words, disordered and vague, tumble out of my mouth in hurried little apologetic bursts that start badly before imploding.
Apologia
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There can be disproportionate apologias as well as disproportionate sentences.
(2) For Brown to get me out on polling day, a major apologia will be required: "I am terribly sorry.
(3) For the first time, really, Bush was hip, raved about by music journalists without any hint of apologia or reservation.
(4) All this implies a more complex, dynamic, and sophisticated view of competition than one usually finds in apologia for free markets.
(5) Nor was logic: "We have struck a blow for the preservation of justice, civilisation and Christianity - and in the spirit of this belief we have thus assumed our sovereign independence," was the coda to his long apologia on UDI day.
(6) I feel the need to say this because in questioning Desmond Tutu's decision to empty-chair Tony Blair at a South African seminar , some will assume it is some sort of apologia for the war.
(7) The new Feschrift ends with an autobiographical chapter by Hall himself, the Latin title of which, "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", pays homage to Cardinal Newman – an author not much read in planning circles.
(8) Then, in 1954 he was the ex-boxer, the one who could have been a contender, in On The Waterfront, that curious apologia for informing made by Kazan and Budd Schulberg after they had testified to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
(9) Americans, too, will wake up and see through Zero Dark Thirty's apologia for the regime's standard lies that this brutality is somehow necessary.