Sentences with phrase «almost apologetic»

Seems like Justice Brown was almost apologetic to TREB by the way he explained his decision.

Mr Bowles appeared almost apologetic as he reminded attendees that he was there simply to report Government policy and funding decisions and not to justify them.

LG was almost apologetic about this, saying it wanted to deliver a metal phone that felt as premium as possible, but the mechanics simply didn't allow for it.

«If you watch the taped interview, the police are almost apologetic with this guy,» Clark said of Sargent.

Mohammed is a bicycle and motorcycle repairman, slight of build, shy, almost apologetic in his body language.

DETROIT — The swagger was subdued, the rhetoric calm and almost apologetic, and the introductions of new vehicles — typically accompanied by loud music, out - of - place celebrities and stunts — were more low - key than ever.

She's now almost apologetic as she unpacks the items she's brought for me from home — mandelbrodt baked by an elderly family friend, my favorite boxed mac «n» cheese from the supermarket back home, and socks.

That sense of a sudden change in direction, in genre, is all over World War Z — something in its almost apologetic reserve, something in its unmistakable indecision.

Weary, almost apologetic, our man speaks of struggle, of trying and failing against an unforgiving sea.

I do feel almost apologetic damning Days of Future Past on the basis of a single trailer, but would be keen to hear how readers think the film can possibly function on a character - driven level with so many superheroes to get through.

Padilla was almost apologetic.

We become almost apologetic about our witness to Christ.

With no bad blood with his old squad, Salah chose instead to keep things respectful, and seemed almost apologetic once the ball had found the back of the net.

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However, the Roman Catholic module exam questions almost invariably allow the Catholic view to be stated; therefore it is important to teach a robust apologetic for the Catholic world view, while also critically presenting the opposing arguments of contemporary society and liberal Christianity.

The earliest of the three (St. Mark) is clearly the work of a writer almost obsessed by the apologetic necessity of somehow making intelligible to his readers the scandalous outcome in rejection and death of the ministry of one whom he clearly believed to be the expected Messiah.

That apologetic approach to Christianity is almost irrelevant here.

Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

But this tradition, found no earlier than Matthew's Gospel, more than fifty years after the event, almost certainly stems from much later apologetic, suggesting, as it does, that the Jews, unlike the disciples, were ready for the Resurrection even before it happened.

The dogmatic method in theology is very useful in proclaiming the faith to those who already (or almost) believe it; but in a global society, we shall have to take up the apologetic method again.

The reason for such a sober conclusion is simply that the apologetic method, almost by definition, leaves too much out.

In an anything - but - apologetic apologia, Mary Eberstadt challenges the many spokesmen (and they are almost all men) for the New Atheism in her satire, The Loser Letters.

What we have in these chapters, in turn, is an almost gentle presentation of natural theology, a Christian theological proposal that is argued vigorously against alternative views, and a straightforward apologetic for a certain physics - based conception of God's action in the world.

Mormon apologetics are almost unanimously dismissed in academia outside of BYU.

Kansas» I would say almost in an apologetic way with some side eye to myself.

The campaigns in these games almost feel apologetic, like an item on a checklist that has to be ticked.