If Gregor needed to send a subtle diplomatic insult to the Cetagandan Empire, which he doesn't just now, I suppose we could return them with elaborate apologies.

The film also portrays Khosrow's elaborate ceremonial apology before the Russian Tsar.

He had said as much with that elaborate apology he had left her with, as though he would have done things differently if it had been left up to just him.

Three Democratic presidential candidates who were chastised by the N.A.A.C.P. for skipping the group's political forum in Miami on Monday upended their schedules today to fly south and make elaborate apologies.

Instead an awkwardly phrased letter had arrived in which the Dean made many elaborate apologies and said how he had recently been struck by the inappropriateness of clergymen employing magicians.

Nor was he likely to regain it without a full and elaborate apology.

Renewed yells from the penitent, and an elaborate apology to myself from Imam Din.

But once you find out you went in the wrong direction, I want an elaborate apology.

Ryan was offering what could only be seen in South America as an elaborate apology for something that would never be admitted, and whose full revelation could only damage everyone involved.

So all this preamble, in addition to being fascinating, said Richard, is an elaborate apology to me?