Apologia pro Vita Sua

American  

[ap-uh-loh-jee-uh proh vahy-tuh soo-uh, vee-tuh] / ˌæp əˈloʊ dʒi ə proʊ ˈvaɪ tə ˈsu ə, ˈvi tə /

noun

1. a religious autobiography (1864) of Cardinal John Henry Newman.

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Example Sentences

“How soon we come to road’s end,” Charles Wright begins his poem “Apologia Pro Vita Sua.”

From New York Times

But this beauty, this sweetness, may be deceptive, or worse: “The Wrong End of the Rainbow” finds him suggesting that memory is “telling us just those things / she thinks we want to hear,” while “Apologia Pro Vita Sua” warns that “Even a good thing remembered, however, is not as good as not remembering at all.”

From New York Times

The show proceeds as a sustained, cryptic, circular apologia pro vita sua, in which childhood tragedies and grown-up losses in love are anatomized like corpses in a forensic lab.

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Most of those books were an apologia pro vita sua.

From New York Times

But if “Ode to Joy” sometimes sounds like a rambling apologia pro vita sua, it holds the attention.

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