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
The picture, though it hangs high in the little church for which it was painted, will speak for itself to those who interrogate it without parti pris.
From The Earlier Work of Titian by Claude Phillips
Surely all the usual associations of the word "religion" would have to be stripped away if such a systematic parti pris of irony were also to be denoted by the name.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
