Shortly thereafter, a profusely apologetic Schickele entered through an air-conditioning duct.

Thus, the term " milquetoast " entered the language as the label for a timid, shrinking, apologetic person.

Each time Letch `` went up '' in his `` lines '', I was the one to be patient, helpful and apologetic while he indulged in outbursts of temperament, profanity and abuse, blaming others, going into `` sulks '' and, on more occasions than I care to count, storming off the `` set '' for the rest of the day.

She begins by claiming that her opponent was an “ expert in rhetoric ” as compared to herself “ a woman ignorant of subtle understanding and agile sentiment .” In this particular apologetic response, de Pizan belittles her own style.

Tertullian in an anti-heretical apologetic alludes to instances of the ' interpretation of tongues ' as one among several examples of ' spiritual gifts ' common enough in his day to be easily encountered and provide evidence that God was at work in the church:

Calvin was a tireless polemic and apologetic writer who generated much controversy.

As an apologetic treatise it was intended to point out the futility of pagan beliefs and to establish the reasonableness and truth of Christianity as a response to pagan critics.

Among apologetic writings was the Ad quaestiones magorum ( 429-436 ), now lost, in which he justified the Old Testament sacrifices as alternatives in opposition to the Egyptian idolatry, and exposed the fables of the Magi who worshiped the elements ( Church History v. 38 ).

But, though Semler was not inconsistent with himself in attacking the views of Reimarus and Bahrdt, his popularity began to decline, and towards the end of his life he felt a need to emphasize the apologetic and conservative value of true historical inquiry.

In 1982, John Warwick Montgomery nominated Schaeffer for an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, which was conferred in 1983 by the Simon Greenleaf School of Law, Anaheim, California in recognition of his apologetic writings and ministry.

Middleton was attacked from many quarters, and produced several apologetic pamphlets.

Pascal's Wager ( also known as Pascal's Gambit ) is an argument in apologetic philosophy which was devised by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, Blaise Pascal.

According to Willy Ley: " The first reaction in professional circles was, naturally, surprise, and hard on the heels of the surprise there followed an apologetic attitude, the apologies being directed at a long-dead great astronomer, Sir William Herschel.

Aristobulus was a Jewish philosopher of Alexandria and author of an apologetic work addressed to Ptolemy VI Philometor.

) You can adapt a piece of pre-Christian Jewish apologetic, which claimed that Plato and other Greek philosophers got their best ideas indirectly from the teachings of Moses in the Bible, which was much earlier.

" is the apologetic cry that is reiterated in his writings-when the people he was visiting were still in bed and he himself was suffering from hangover.

This book, together with the later rival and apologetic history by Cardinal Pallavicini, was criticized by Leopold von Ranke ( History of the Popes ), who examined the use they have respectively made of their manuscript materials.

Hill was not apologetic for the killings, and in his last words he encouraged others who believe abortion is an illegitimate use of lethal force to " do what you have to do to stop it ".

We found out it was the Red Hot Chili Peppers, so our manager called their manager to find out what the hell was going on, and their manager was very apologetic, and said, ' We're really sorry, we want you to know this doesn't reflect the management's position, or the band's for that matter, it's Anthony Kiedis who wants this.

Friedlander wrote that the glorification of Judaism in the letter was no more than self-defense, though “ the book does not mention the antagonists of Judaism by name, nor does it admit that its intention is to refute direct attacks .” Stein sees in the letter “ a special kind of defense, which practices diplomatic tactics ,” and Tramontano also speaks of “ an apologetic and propagandist tendency .” Vincent characterizes it as “ a small unapologetic novel written for the Egyptians ” ( i. e. the Greeks in Egypt ).

Kreisky was notable for his apologetic approach to former Nazi party members and contemporary far-right Austrian politicians.

The team was apologetic over the blunder and promised to tweak the design after that competition.

In 1991 Phiber Optik, while attending the first CFP conference in San Francisco with Craig Neidorf, was invited to join a telephone conference bridge by fellow hackers where an apologetic Shulman expressed his remorse at how the situation had been blown out of proportion and his view that Goggans had crossed the line in informing on other hackers to law enforcement in an effort to increase the prestige of ComSec.

They produced two sorts of works: theological and " apologetic ", the latter being works aimed at defending the faith by using reason to refute arguments against the veracity of Christianity.

The apologetic character of Justin's habit of thought appears again in the Acts of his martyrdom, the genuineness of which is attested by internal evidence.

* De Mortibus Persecutorum has an apologetic character, but has been treated as a work of history by Christian writers.

Marvin Mayer notes that some scholars regard the idea of dying and rising deities in the mystery religions as being fanciful but suggests this may be motivated by apologetic concerns, attempting to keep Christ's resurrection as a unique event.

But in a curious turnaround, his History by its very impartiality is a Catholic apologetic, and Lingard's desire for impartiality is a reflection of the Catholic political and intellectual situation in the Emancipation era.

Fundamentalism is a movement, rather than a denomination or a systematic theology, which gained ascendance after the release of a ten-volume set of essays, apologetic and polemic, written by many well-known conservative Protestant theologians to defend what they saw as Protestant orthodoxy — covering a wide range of topics, from defenses of the Divinity of Jesus Christ, his Virgin Birth, of the historicity of Biblical narratives, Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, and of Biblical inerrancy against the prevalent higher-critical theories of the day, to the falsity of theological systems such as Christian Science, " Millennial Dawnism ", Mormonism, to the errors of " Romanism "— over the course of 1910-1915, called The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, from which the movement receives its eponymous name.

Butler's apologetic concentrated on " the general analogy between the principles of divine government, as set forth by the biblical revelation, and those observable in the course of nature, analogy which leads us to the warrantable conclusion that there is one Author of both.

Scholars ; L. Michael White and Helmut Koester see the account of the guards in Matthew as an apologetic insertion, an attempt by the writer to explain the Jewish claims that the disciples stole the body ; which were circulating at the time.

His style of reasoning is reflected in the apologetic works by John Warwick Montgomery, Josh McDowell and Ross Clifford.

In this view, apologetic feelings some whites may hold because of slavery and past civil rights injustices would, to a significant extent, be replaced by anger.

It is an early dialectical book, the same tool is later used by Galileo Galilei ( an apologetic for the Copernican system ).

Although in Dialogue with Trypho, the second century Christian writer Justin Martyr wrote of a discussion about " Christ " with Trypho, most scholars agree that Trypho is a fictional character invented by Justin for his literary apologetic goals.

FARMS has been criticized by scholars and critics who classify it as an apologetic organization that operates under the auspices of the LDS Church.

The plan to drive Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Giles apart works for a while ; at their lowest, the four refuse to speak to each other, but each of them realizes in " Primeval " that they were manipulated by Spike and return, apologetic.

" Kenton reportedly felt that Feather had created a great ill feeling toward him by African-American musicians, and no matter how apologetic Feather would be, much of that " prejudice-in-reverse " would remain.

Van Til summarized the main drive of his apologetic by reason of circular logic, saying: "( T ) he only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.

* VanTil. info-writings by and about Van Til and his apologetic.

He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.

Certainly it isn't making the President happy, and he has been doing his apologetic best to explain how the budget got into its unbalanced condition, how he intends to economize wherever he can and how he hopes to do better next year.

Nevertheless, despite his apologetic, Augustine views the story of Jonah as a figure for Christ.

Socialist economists dismiss the term as an apologetic for failures of neoliberal policy and, more fundamentally, their perception of the weaknesses of market allocation.

Countercult literature usually expresses doctrinal or theological concerns and a missionary or apologetic purpose.

A mid-1980s debate about apologetic methodology between Ronald Enroth and J. Gordon Melton, led the latter to place more emphasis in his publications on differentiating the Christian countercult from the secular anti-cult.

5: 1-11 is a post-Pauline insertion that has many features of Lukan language and theology that serves as an apologetic correction to Paul's imminent expectation of the second coming in 1 Thes.

Even the translation of the treatise of Didymus the Blind on the Holy Spirit into Latin ( begun in Rome 384, completed at Bethlehem ) shows an apologetic tendency against the Arians and Pneumatomachoi.

He wrote apologetic works explaining Christianity in terms that would be palatable to educated people who still practiced the traditional religions of the Empire, while defending Christian beliefs against the criticisms of Hellene philosophers.

* De Opificio Dei (" The Works of God "), an apologetic work, written in 303 or 304 during Diocletian's persecution, and dedicated to a former pupil, a rich Christian named Demetrianius.

The apologetic principles underlying all the works of Lactantius are well set forth in this treatise.

He is deeply apologetic to Lena.

On the purpose of Acts, New Testament Scholar Luke Timothy Johnson has noted that " Luke's account is selected and shaped to suit his apologetic interests, not in defiance of but in conformity to ancient standards of historiography.

Some historians, however, point out the " apologetic nature of much of Artapanus ' work ," with his addition extra-biblical details, as with references to Jethro: The non-Jewish Jethro expresses admiration for Moses ' gallantry in helping his daughters, and chooses to adopt Moses as his son.

The works are of unequal merit ; several of them took a high rank in apologetic literature, but they attracted considerable criticism.

The works of Allix, which are numerous, are chiefly of apologetic character.