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How to stop over-apologizing—and what to say instead.
At its best, an apology is an expression of sincere personal remorse for one's own actions, rather than a form of inflammatory rhetoric or empty emotional coercion. A non-apology apology, on the other hand, is seen as a way of qualifying, or even avoiding, a "real" apology, and may even be used as the opportunity for yet another veiled insult.
The earliest English use of apologia followed from the Greek sense "a speech in defense". Writing in the Renaissance period, Thomas More wrote his Apologye of Syr Thomas More, Knyght, made by him Anno 1533 after he had geuen over the office of Lord Chancellour of Englande.
A “true apology does not include the word ‘but,'" she says. According to Lerner, a good example of an apology goes like this: “I’m really sorry about what I said at the party last night ...
Apology, Xenophon's version of Socrates' defense; A Mathematician's Apology (1940), an essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy; Apologeticus or Apology (c. AD 197) of Tertullian; Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864), a defense of Catholicism by John Henry Newman; Apology of the Augsburg Confession (1531), a defense of Lutheranism by Philipp Melanchthon
President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she made a direct appeal to him during a prayer service marking his inauguration to have mercy ...
A non-apology apology, sometimes called a backhanded apology, empty apology, nonpology, or fauxpology, [1] [2] is a statement in the form of an apology that does not express remorse for what was done or said, or assigns fault to those ostensibly receiving the apology. [3] It is common in politics and public relations. [3]
A sincere apology to my friends who became moms first. ... This Mother’s Day, I’m apologizing to my mom friends and vowing to be a better friend now that I “get it.” ...