("Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures").
The phrase describes the first-person narrator (Swift's Gulliver, Humbert Humbert in Lolita, Stevens in The Remains of the Day) whose account is so partial that the reader must see beyond it.
Nowadays, agave is known for being the base ingredient of tequila on an industrial scale, but in days of yore, the ancient pre-Columbians were so partial to a tipple that they worshipped the plant as a goddess named Mayahuel.
Surely not for a long time and meanwhile there is plenty of evidence that faith-based groups, be they the Salvation Army or the Nation of Islam, do a much better job than any government agency of weaning the young away from drugs and street crime.The better criticism of George W.'s compassion is that it is so partial.
That in turn begs the question why governments and intelligence agencies are being so partial in their arguments as they seek to justify expanded surveillance powers.
Yet, being so partial and imperfect, Rando engaged the user's imagination — asking you to construct the missing social narratives yourself.
Some have seen the sort of impersonal concern that utilitarianism may demand as an indication that it unsuitable for human beings, who are so strongly partial to themselves and their own (see Williams, 1981 and Wolf, 1982).
Iris pallida Aurea Variegata, whose gray and yellow leaves are so handsome, is partial to the heat-collecting stones.
This highlights the pitfalls of using uptake metrics such as SUVmax, that are so sensitive to partial volume effects and reconstruction parameters, with fixed thresholds for malignancy.
Legal historian John Phillip Reid argued that the testimony of both sides was so politically partial that it is not possible to objectively reconstruct the incident.
