What's the difference between apologia and apologist?

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.

Apologist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Abbott’s few remaining apologists in the domestic media have vaingloriously announced today that our prime minister is putting the mighty US “on notice” about tax evasion.
  • (2) But now people are thinking about the public school elites, aristocracy, City of London investment bankers, corporate lobbyists, and the imperialist warmongers, apologists and conspirators in the media, not as instruments of good government and a healthy democracy, but as dangerous impediments to it.
  • (3) But as the night echoed with chants denouncing Taliban apologists as traitors,some in the crowd quietly admitted their doubts.
  • (4) AQA's apologists, staggering out of the committee rooms in which these bizarre choices have been hatched, will no doubt contest that one criterion for their selection is that the works should be eminently "teachable" i.e.
  • (5) The only question is how long can its apologists hold out, as costs soar and supporters slip away in the night.
  • (6) Even the most ardent Kobe apologist cannot deny that he committed an aggressive act of infidelity and made himself look terrible in his initial statements to police, where he lamented not simply paying off his alleged victim.
  • (7) John Hall Bristol It is hardly surprising that people such as Chris Patten have turned into apologists for the EU when they were shunted off to the Brussels gravy train - yet they still seem to think we want to hear their views (Grandees turn on Cameron over plans for EU, 30 May).
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Mann calls Ken Livingstone a ‘Nazi apologist’ Ken Livingstone was doing his usual schtick in the London Evening Standard this week, defending Shah .
  • (9) It’s not just talking about how much you love and respect your wife, or, in the case of all the Tony Abbott apologists, how he’s surrounded by strong women.
  • (10) Sources consulted include publications from inside and outside the country, by apologists for and opponents of the regime, and a variety of commentators.
  • (11) The favorite cry of US government apologists -– everyone spies!
  • (12) But so, in a more profound way, have both the apologists and critics of western capitalism.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Mann calls Ken Livingstone a ‘Nazi apologist’ As in all groups of people, down every street and in every office in the land, the Labour party contains a fool with ill-informed views who likes to be a bit controversial.
  • (14) Having written about these matters many times before, I know exactly how some people reflexively try to radically distort the argument beyond recognition in order to smear you as a Terror apologist, a Terrorist-lover or worse, all for the thought crime of raising these issues.
  • (15) Hearing only from dedicated NSA apologists as witnesses: that's "oversight" for Dianne Feinstein and her oversight Committee.
  • (16) Pearce is no apologist for the looting, as her YouTube performance showed, but she is in no doubt about some of the issues around her, the way young men feel trapped: "The problem here is that you are born and you come out of hospital and you are brought to the estate and you hardly ever leave it after that.
  • (17) The Good Life launched him on a much more varied theatre diet, including Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the Lyric, Hammersmith, in 1980; George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man (his was a richly nuanced, physical performance as the battle-weary Bluntschli) in 1981; Ray Cooney's Run for Your Wife (as a bigamous taxi driver, with Bernard Cribbins as his "cover" and apologist) in 1983; and Sir John Vanbrugh's The Relapse at Chichester in 1986, as the hilarious chatterbox Lord Foppington.
  • (18) Since the coalition government came to power in 2010, immunity to reason has been obligatory among Trident apologists.
  • (19) You certainly shouldn’t be on Labour’s national executive.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Mann calls Ken Livingstone a ‘Nazi apologist’ It is the second time Livingstone has been suspended from Labour; the first being when he put himself forward as an independent candidate for the London mayoralty in 2000.
  • (20) Police state apologists will try to sell fear, even though “20 years of falling crime and aggressive policing means that police violence – justified or otherwise – now appears to be a much larger share of all violence,” as Harry Siegel wrote in the New York Daily News .

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