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 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 James, William

But that, I admit," I added, "strikes one always as a sort of parti pris with her.

From The Sacred Fount by James, Henry

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 Phillips, Claude