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 it is certain that he did not write with their settled parti pris of making history a vehicle of controversy.

From Gibbon by Morison, James Cotter

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

Her taciturnity in society has been somewhat ungenerously laid to a parti pris.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha