parti pris
Example Sentences
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But Ozick, however fierce her identification as a Jew, is admirable in her freedom from identitarian parti pris.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2016
France Francis Ponge Le parti pris des choses map Beth Archer Brombert Francis Ponge writes poetry about everyday objects such as oranges and cigarettes.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2011
Our chiefs—yours and mine—want you to go where you are going without any kind of parti pris.
From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
But more than this: the hushing of it up may, in a perfectly candid and honest mind, grow into a deliberate religious policy, or parti pris.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
But that, I admit," I added, "strikes one always as a sort of parti pris with her.
From The Sacred Fount by Henry James
