Over a century and a half later – after decades of advertising, propaganda, and PR, compositing, enhancement and outright manipulation – we are more cautious about seeing photographs as impartial representations of reality.
Nevertheless, large expenditures to get a candidate elected to the bench undermine both the appearance and reality of impartial justice.
Judges must be impartial — in both appearance and reality — so federal law sensibly requires that they disqualify themselves from cases if they own stock in a company that is a party in the matter.
On his account, all that is required of constitutional interpretation is an impartial judge committed to the "reality of objective truth".
But in a world where ever fewer people care about, or even understand the nature of, fiction, where readers and viewers demand facts and reality, outdated books of supposedly impartial information can be a useful reminder of just how slippery facts are — as unreliable as the most unreliable narrator.
Now, it is reality that is casting its impartial verdict.
I read that the law requires you get an "impartial tribunal" that "preserves both the appearance and reality of fairness".
They also questioned the presupposition that the more universal, abstract, impartial, and rational knowledge is, the more closely it mirrors reality.
In general, the novel is scrupulously impartial, awarding many different levels of society their proper badges of reality.
It would not have "condemned a European to death for shooting an Arab… [and] by suggesting that the court is impartial between Arab and Frenchman, the novel implicitly denies the colonial reality".
"The reality is the civil service is there to give impartial advice to ministers.
