"his partiality to" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express how someone is inclined towards something. For example, "His partiality to classical music was what made him stand out from the rest of his peers."
In private, he made his partiality to Israel plain.
Carter wasn't always known for his partiality to the cordial.
If only John Howard had been a little more candid in his partiality to the "history" of Keith Windschuttle, for example, maybe we wouldn't have had 11 years under him.
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Rothko registers his messages by challenging assistant Ken--frequently severely upbraiding him for his partiality to pop art as a response to the abstract expressionist movement already threatening to become passé by 1959.
Partiality to his beautiful elegy, had perhaps allotted him a rank above his general merits".
Calhoun (1995, 244) suggests that perhaps Gauguin believes that morality does not demand he give up partiality to his own artistic project.
But, despite his cool Anglophilic rigor and his regard for fair play — an expression that has no French translation — Todd's portrait suffers from a tone of snide and at times vulgar contempt ("Hitler and Mussolini are not Malraux's style") that has the paradoxical effect of heightening Malraux's stature, and the reader's partiality to him, despite his flamboyant self-aggrandizing.
Zimmermann wisely resists making heroes -- or villains -- of his central characters, though he does show a partiality to Hay and Root, the least arrogant and the most humane of the five in their treatment of America's new overseas possessions and peoples.
Mr. Obata, a founding partner at the firm HOK, has now worked on a number of airports around the world — including those in Dallas, Indianapolis and Saudi Arabia — but admits partiality to the airport he helped build in his hometown.
He smokes a pipe and drinks black coffee during the interview, and although he confesses to a love of red burgundy and a partiality to the Michelin-starred restaurants within walking distance of his room, he doesn't seem that interested in the trappings of wealth.
