(n.) Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.
(n.) An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.
(n.) Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.
(v. i.) To offer an apology.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) It took more than three decades before an apology of any kind was forthcoming from the Met.
(3) Corbyn’s planned apology attempts to pre-empt the findings of the long-delayed Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.
(4) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(5) However, LaBoeuf's subsequent apologies were themselves discovered to have been copied from other sources ; his quoting of Cantona's lines are entirely true to form.
(6) Last week, Park offered a public apology after acknowledging Choi had edited some of her speeches and provided help with public relations, but South Korea’s media have speculated Choi played a much larger, secret role in government affairs.
(7) Balls immediately called for an apology from Osborne for the "totally false" allegations.
(8) But he makes no apologies for seeking the limelight.
(9) Speaking on the BBC's World at One, Carlile also revealed that Rennard had held back from officially sending his apology until after the elections had finished so as not to damage the party's chances.
(10) On Thursday, North Korea's Olympic team accepted repeated apologies.
(11) The form and timing of the apology will be agreed by the trust's committee.
(12) Regression analyses suggested that such aggression-inhibitory effects of an apology were mediated by impression improvement, emotional mitigation, and reduction in desire for an apology within the victims.
(13) The majority of EU delegations are willing to make a compromise on an apology, but some are still unable to accept this."
(14) A Liberal Democrat MP who likened the atrocities against Palestinians by "the Jews" to the Holocaust has made a public apology in the face of widespread anger.
(15) On Thursday Belhaj met with British government representatives, who declined to make any apology.
(16) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
(17) As Tories demanded a personal apology from the prime minister, the former home secretary Charles Clarke said the position of Draper should be "looked at" along with that of Charlie Whelan, once a key Brown adviser, who was copied in on the email exchange.
(18) (Hodge is privately wealthy, and owns shares in Stemcor, the hugely successful steel business started by her father; she denies that the company avoids paying tax, and demanded and received an apology from the Daily Telegraph when it suggested this was the case.)
(19) Hazard was assumed to have avoided criminal charges when the matter was dropped after he and the teenager met and made mutual apologies.
(20) And I am issuing an apology and correction on my website immediately for having made this comment about the beautiful city of Birmingham.
Exegesis
Definition:
(n.) The process of finding the roots of an equation.
(n.) Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.
Example Sentences:
(1) These observations have far-reaching implications regarding contemporary dental curriculum, particularly concerning exegesis of the MPD syndrome theory and concepts of dysfunctional dental occlusion.
(2) His unique contribution is his ability to recognize and pursue the uncertain entity, until chance observation, the evolution of the illness, or new technics of study make its exegesis possible.
(3) This paper argues on a number of levels that before subjecting the book to psychoanalytic exegesis every effort should be made to understand its conscious intentionality.
(4) This paper is an examination of the motivations for the idea, an exegesis of Freud's writings on the subject, and a review of critical opinion.
(5) When we are close to nature, we sometimes find ourselves, as Christians put it, surprised by joy: “A happiness with an overtone of something more, which we might term an elevated or, indeed, a spiritual quality.” Exegesis of Pope Francis’s encyclical call for action on climate change | Letters Read more He believes we are wired to develop a rich emotional relationship with nature.
(6) Selective exegesis of the various editions of his textbook has led to a rigid view of his contribution.
(7) But by a strange dialectic of exegesis and opacity, it and they remain oblique.
(8) Alongside came more popular works of exegesis - a Historical Association pamphlet on Cromwell (1958), the bestselling (but not adulatory) biography God's Englishman (1970), the textbook The Century Of Revolution (1961) and the hugely successful Penguin economic history, Reformation To Industrial Revolution (1967).
(9) It is also possible to detail painstakingly the techniques of coping with each complication, but such would require book rather than chapter exegesis, and those who need these details are referred to the bibliography.
(10) Francis has made it not just safe to be Catholic and green; he’s made it obligatory.” Exegesis of Pope Francis’s encyclical call for action on climate change | Letters Read more Ivereign added: “It captures his deep disquiet about the direction of the modern world, the way technology and the myth of progress are leading us to commodify human beings and exploit nature.
(11) The exegesis of the Ilias provides us with ample information on the state of war surgery in archaic Greece.
(12) The "arts" conjures up images of committees of bores, worthily reverent exegesis, the horrors of dance, the misfit between opera and even a 42-inch screen, and ancient avant-gardist cliches – "ahead of its time", "ground-breaking", "controversial".
(13) It seemed like a brain-dead flagwaver at the time, but Quentin Tarantino gave a famous exegesis (allegedly nicked from his Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary) of the movie's throbbing homoerotic overtones in his cameo in the 1994 independent movie Sleep With Me, an early sign that whatever the critics felt, Tony Scott enjoyed the respect of his fellow directors.
(14) In 1966 he was awarded a PhD in Hadith (the sayings of Muhammad, Islam's second source after the Qur'an itself) and Tafsir , exegesis of the Qur'an.
(15) We can do an eight-page exegesis of one number,” Hammond says, “for example on how likely it is a company is going to default on its debt.
(16) The extent of control of counter-transference and defence analysis in various work-contexts is introduced: in the contract of further training (as a concretion of career-identification), in exegesis (as the central professional activity of protestant theologists, especially clergymen), in socio-cultural comprehension of collective professional duties and aims.
(17) The author is professor of palaeobiology at Leicester University Exegesis of Pope Francis’s encyclical call for action on climate change | Letters Read more NOT THE FIRST TIME Previous mass extinctions Geological history includes many periods when species have died in large numbers.
(18) · Wall Street Journal 1999 appreciation · Philip K Dick on philosophy: a brief interview · 2019: Off-World: Blade Runner-related archive · The Ten Major Principles of the Gnostic Revelation, from Exegesis