Assertion: apology | /r/HasProperty | offered in the passive
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: This apology, it must be said, seems to bear only a passing resemblance to the mea culpa sort of apologies we all grew up with; it often is offered in the passive (“mistakes were made”), or the conditional (“If I have offended anyone I am sorry”), and rarely entails an outright admission of wrongdoing on the part of the apologizer.