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
It is evident that this spiritual reticence, if we may so term it, is not a parti pris; for no fixed principle, save perhaps the one hinted at above, is apparent in the book.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various
But they decided to treat the question as one treats a scientific matter—with perseverance, with courage, and without parti pris of any kind.
From Mentally Defective Children by Alfred Binet
