Sentence examples for parti pris from inspiring English sources
noun
A bias or preconceived opinion.
"Of course I'm parti pris.
In other words, they were not parti pris.
All of which is recorded by the ingénue Cassandra, herself distinctly parti pris.
(As they had signed the protest, they were parti pris and barred from conducting it).
But that does not mean she has no opinion, no parti-pris.
Or astrologers, crystal gazers, voodoo merchants, druids, witches – all self-described and self-selected as such, and all parti-pris in their own way?
You can tell who's who: applicants have year-round tans and expensive suits; objectors wear worried brows; and behind them are phalanxes of architects, "developers" (they used to be called speculators), basement-extension businessmen and parti-pris surveyors.
This parti-pris philosophy downgrades the value of the book and accounts for its many weaknesses.
The younger McLuhan may have wanted it not to look like a family enterprise, and therefore possibly too parti-pris, but in fact this well-curated collection of material (mostly on video) benefits enormously from being the work of someone very close to MM who herself has long worked in the television business -- and could track his various broadcast and privately-recorded appearances.
