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

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, except these prepossessions, they have no parti pris.

From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George

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 Mauclair, Camille