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There are all sorts of apologies".
As Lance Armstrong launches what some are calling his "apology tour," beginning with an Oprah Winfrey interview, it's worth considering what it means to give a meaningful apology and what sorts of apologies are close to worthless.
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As with the other sort-of apologies on this list, Sullivan's is dodgy.
Howls of international protest forced him into a sort-of apology.
This nugget of therapy talk is passed from one character to another in Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg," offered as an explanation, an excuse and a sort-of apology.
Williams has now removed the post (though it can still be read, until the end of time, at Media Matters's partner site PoliticalCorrection) and has replaced it with a sort-of apology.
After the review went up on The Times's Web site and even before it appeared in print, Wilson issued a sort-of apology on her own Web site.
The implication, of course, is that nobody could have known at the time, which is why I'd classify this as a sort-of apology.
But he more than tops it with his next reply, which quickly devolves from a sort-of-apology to him ejaculating his neuroses all over me.
Did I startle you with my fearless truth-telling?" shit, and then issuing a sort-of-apology in which he used the word "I" 13 times and the word "sorry" once.
Coffman is becoming known for walking back statements made in front of friendly microphones, most memorably his repeated sort-of apology for his assertion that Obama isn't an American "in his heart" and his statement that he didn't know whether "Obama was born in the United States of America".
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