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
But now, the Spring, her charm and his own firm parti pris working together, it seemed to him that he could never forget Betty, could never wish to forget her.
From The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit
One cannot love the parti pris of these works, but one cannot deny M. Denis a great charm of naivete, an intense feeling for decorative arrangements and colouring of a certain originality.
From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Camille Mauclair
Has he any parti pris, for or against?
From Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Henry Graham Dakyns
