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  • And in the midst of it, the picture of the prejudice and bigotry from which I had just come flashed into my mind,   (source)
    prejudice = unreasonable and unfair belief or feeling
  • And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.   (source)
    prejudice = unreasonable and unfair beliefs or feelings -- especially against members of a race, religion, or other group
  • The old man appeared to have forgotten his prejudice against drinking a full liter.   (source)
    prejudice = unreasonable belief
  • It was one of those rare smiles ... [that] concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of  you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.   (source)
    prejudice = bias (unreasonable belief)
  • I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.   (source)
    prejudice = unreasonable and unfair belief or feeling
  • "I thought we weren't supposed to be prejudiced," I said.†   (source)
  • Even among Unwinds there's prejudice and pecking orders.†   (source)
  • To resist against the wrong hostile feeling, prejudice, and lack of knowledge was not very easy for the lower rank soldier like me.†   (source)
  • That's what let me know I had some prejudice buried inside me.†   (source)
  • Ever since marrying Francois, I had clung to the notion that my mother-in-law, in a moment of enlightenment, would cast aside her prejudices and join Francois and me in celebrating our union.†   (source)
  • They're prejudiced against us.†   (source)
  • I'd already decided it was the Chinese that had attacked us, so everything I'd seen had just reinforced my prejudice.†   (source)
  • Even the German could not help but smile, his appetite getting the better of his prejudices.†   (source)
  • I've worried about racial prejudice in my own family and friends.†   (source)
  • In quiet moments, when the young couple talked about the prejudice that Jewish citizens were facing, they sometimes felt like turncoats, like traitors.†   (source)
  • "Well, it turns out that my mother had her own set of deep-seated prejudices," Aech said.†   (source)
  • I am not one to hold a prejudice against any animal, but it is a plain fact that the spotted hyena is not well served by its appearance.†   (source)
  • Your honor, forgive an eccentric old knight his foolish prejudice for the British court system.†   (source)
  • In their broken state, they were judged and condemned by people whose commitment to fairness had been broken by cynicism, hopelessness, and prejudice.†   (source)
  • They can't all be horrible…… It's the same sort of prejudice that people have toward werewolves…… It's just bigotry, isn't it?†   (source)
  • With him in prison gear, that prejudices my client.†   (source)
  • Y'see, when it comes to prejudice, black folks are right up there with white folks.†   (source)
  • Now I discovered that there was inequality and prejudice in this country that I had already come to love.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure the princess has her reasons," Dorian said warily, disgusted by his mother's unspoken prejudice.†   (source)
  • I BELIEVE THAT IT IS NOT THE PURPOSE OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION TO BROADEN AND EXPAND OUR PREJUDICES.†   (source)
  • Terminate with extreme prejudice.†   (source)
  • The practices of intra-family relations lay the foundation for the public manifestation of color prejudice.†   (source)
  • "It's prejudice not to let androids attend."†   (source)
  • Her husband is prejudiced?†   (source)
  • , and after long observation (I'm never prejudiced at the beginning), I've come to the conclusion that she's all three of the above, and lots more besides.†   (source)
  • DRACO: Back to being prejudiced against those with a Dark Mark, are we, Potter?†   (source)
  • But there is a lot of prejudice against you too.†   (source)
  • As I held the cinnamon-colored bundle with auburn hair and doelike eyes in my arms, I swore she would never have to endure the racial prejudices I endured.†   (source)
  • We want to understand what prejudice, intolerance, and hatred did to young Jewish children.†   (source)
  • Our persona was opinionated to the point of absurdity, prejudiced beyond rationality, and functionally insane.†   (source)
  • The market for football players was rooted in subjective judgments and ancient prejudices.†   (source)
  • Carver's problem, then, is how to get from the nasty, prejudiced, narrow-minded person of the opening page to the point where he can actually have a blind man's hand on his own at the ending.†   (source)
  • It was good for the kids to have some awareness of such prejudices, but to see Zeitoun disappointed, to get him so worked up after a long day—it wasn't worth it.†   (source)
  • Chiron said the word assist as if it meant slap upside the head with extreme prejudice.†   (source)
  • She doesn't want to prejudice Hiro's thinking "at this point."†   (source)
  • These things all came at widely spaced intervals, but then as the pain itself began not to recede but to erode (as that Revere Beach piling must itself have eroded, he thought, because nothing is forever , although the child he had been would have scoffed at such heresy), outside things began to impinge more rapidly until the objective world, with all its freight of memory, experience, and prejudice, had pretty much re-established itself.†   (source)
  • People are still prejudiced here," said Flora.†   (source)
  • Would I promote ignorance, prejudice and superstition to protect my family from the world?†   (source)
  • In one form or another this lies behind every struggle for power, every prejudice, every war, and every abuse of relationship.†   (source)
  • Ben taught me Heart of Stone, a mental exercise that let you set aside your emotions and prejudices and let you think clearly about whatever you wished.†   (source)
  • He did not have the courage to defy his own prejudices, and he capitulated.†   (source)
  • "There are some ancient prejudices I overcome," he said.†   (source)
  • Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best.†   (source)
  • I'll do my time without complaining when I've done something wrong, Dad, but I'm not going to put up with your prejudices.†   (source)
  • Squares, he said, because of their prejudices toward intellectuality usually regard Quality, the preintellectual reality, as unimportant, a mere uneventful transition period between objective reality and subjective perception of it.†   (source)
  • Let us remember what is so easy to forget in the mad intensity of wartime: that prejudice and hatred are never right and never to be accepted by a just society.†   (source)
  • Every time I feel prejudice I get a bad feeling.†   (source)
  • They're just prejudiced, that's all.†   (source)
  • This is my prejudice.†   (source)
  • I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here.†   (source)
  • Maybe, in training for that profession in those years before the First World War, he saw ahead of him prejudices he refused to swallow, humiliations he refused to bear.†   (source)
  • Prejudice against GDs?†   (source)
  • There was no prejudice against them because they were accused of crime.†   (source)
  • "You are prejudiced," he said.†   (source)
  • "Rufus is just full of prejudice against everybody," said Leona, and smiled.†   (source)
  • My father did not subscribe to local prejudice toward amaMfengu and befriended two amaMfengu brothers, George and Ben Mbekela.†   (source)
  • And each group, she learned, had its own prejudices toward others.†   (source)
  • Blackavar, who knew his own worth, felt convinced that his mother's blood had prejudiced the Council against him.†   (source)
  • I want you to believe me when I tell you that race prejudice simply doesn't enter into it.†   (source)
  • Eragon doubted that he would everlike an Urgal, but the iron certitude of his prejudice only a few minutes before now seemed ignorant, and he could not retain it in good conscience.†   (source)
  • Hey, y'all, I don't think we should prejudice Zoey against them.†   (source)
  • Yet when he got, along with her mild responses, one of those glances, he was himself strangely subdued by it, and fain to prop his leaning prejudices by contrasting her scant print gown, her slat sunbonnet, and cowhide shoes with the apparel of the humblest in the village which they were approaching.†   (source)
  • She was locked into her prejudices, so any attempt to change her opinion of Ronnie would be pointless.†   (source)
  • He'd never understood that prejudice in the nuclear navy.†   (source)
  • Not being cowboys, they had no prejudice against working on the ground.†   (source)
  • Could it be that people who don't fit the mold make it uncomfortable for others to hold on to their prejudices?†   (source)
  • I call that out-and-out prejudice.†   (source)
  • If only the correspondent could have seen beyond his prejudices and preconceptions and listened to Ira as he described the root cause of his problem.†   (source)
  • We've always faced prejudice.†   (source)
  • Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian.†   (source)
  • There was a big plastic folding table in the front of the room, and a few teachers—Mr. Lee of course, sporting a red bow tie and his own backwoods brand of prejudice; Principal Harper; and a couple of people who must have been members of the School Board—sitting in a row at the tables.†   (source)
  • Inmates pass time discussing the board's five members, analyzing their tics and prejudices to make informed predictions about what might happen in these tiny hearing rooms.†   (source)
  • Prejudiced?†   (source)
  • Then again, similar prejudices were among the reasons peculiars had withdrawn from society.†   (source)
  • The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at it as merely an obsolete prejudice.†   (source)
  • She knew it was a fatal prejudice for an Indian woman.†   (source)
  • Making the blind—or in Calloway's case, the prejudiced—see.†   (source)
  • The truth was that Judge Atlee did a fine job of eliminating those who might possibly begin deliberations with preconceived notions or prejudices.†   (source)
  • The program was playing directly to our prejudices and our fears.†   (source)
  • And your parents followed this remarkable man across the black sea of prejudice, safely out of the land of ignorance, through the storms of fear and anger, shouting, LET MY PEOPLE GO! when it was necessary, whispering it during those times when whispering was wisest.†   (source)
  • A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions.†   (source)
  • But his mind was overshadowed with prejudices against literary accomplishments.†   (source)
  • The professor spoke about the legacy of pain and prejudice, in that Yankee accent, and I could tell that the professor was speaking from insights gleaned on long-ago field trips, from old safaris through the rural South, and had formed petrified opinions that no amount of new information could change.†   (source)
  • Thirteen years ago the Agency gave him the name Jason Bourne, the original Bourne a dead man by then, and sent him out in deep cover on a Four Zero assignment-a termination with extreme prejudice, if you like-†   (source)
  • Terminate him "with extreme prejudice," as their kind phrased it.†   (source)
  • Blind prejudice!†   (source)
  • My father was already uneasy in his mind at what he had heard of them, nor was the fact that Angus was the importer of them a commendation; consequently, it may have been with some prejudice that he went to inspect them.†   (source)
  • Let me single out just two: Daniel O'Connell, who fought against injustice to extend a franchise restricted by religious prejudice; Charles Stewart Parnell, whose statue stands today in the House of Commons and whose political skills and commitment to social justice made such an impact in that House.†   (source)
  • The truth—and Bobby Kennedy knows this—is that in large parts of the South, black Americans have little protection from prejudice and violence.†   (source)
  • I'm guessing that if there's one thing that might pique an angel's prejudice, it's someone who looks like he should be surrounded by hellfire.†   (source)
  • Let us break the chains of the prejudice called Logic.†   (source)
  • Some regional dialects have long enjoyed prestige; others suffer from generations of prejudice.†   (source)
  • They are prejudiced against my kind there, I'm afraid.†   (source)
  • But you certainly must try to get over this prejudice you have against snobs.†   (source)
  • His opinions, prejudices, insecurities, vanities.†   (source)
  • As for Libya's agricultural potential-something that is severely prejudiced by the fact that nothing grows there-when the day comes that an Italian of the South will leave his dry and rocky soil for sand, then perhaps it will be wise to war against the Sultan.†   (source)
  • Clothes like they wore inPride and Prejudice on A&E!†   (source)
  • Some states will comply and others won't, depending on the information, lack of information and prejudiced opinions of each state.†   (source)
  • Unless they had some concrete proof of how Angel got the bruise, the photo could unfairly prejudice a jury.†   (source)
  • Not usually that way down south, and in the towns the prejudice is surely there.†   (source)
  • I did not take part in decision to recruit Stu; I felt prejudiced.†   (source)
  • Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.†   (source)
  • Wathaet wasn't prejudiced by any stretch of the imagination but about the only snotty stuck-up long-nosed Koorko he got along with was Drast, so it was somewhat comforting.†   (source)
  • I was much relieved to see he was no longer interested in me, for it would have been a tragedy if my accidental intrusion had unduly disturbed these wolves, thereby prejudicing what promised to be a unique opportunity to study the beasts I had come so far to find.†   (source)
  • Years later, they would shake their heads and call themselves prejudiced, but at the time they were profoundly disconcerted.†   (source)
  • Right now, I was jealous of Cooper because he didn't have to make our decisions or struggle with social prejudices or worry about camping with these overgrown boys.†   (source)
  • ROS (standing up): You're a mass of prejudice.†   (source)
  • The economics of disaster placed a penalty upon prejudice.†   (source)
  • Men of good will on both sides had tried to build a bridge, but in vain-fears and prejudices were too deeply ingrained to permit any cooperation.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, such is the enduring power of prejudice and preconception that I idly foresaw an abode—as I say—of dim, even funereal oppressiveness.†   (source)
  • I of course found myself prejudiced in spite of his deficiencies, being his owner, but the dog had one advantage over most dogs.†   (source)
  • You're prejudiced.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND The use of this title prejudices the case of my client: it calls up a picture of the prosecution, astride a white horse, ablaze in the uniform of a militia colonel, with all the forces of right and righteousness marshaled behind him.†   (source)
  • I had said to Mahesh, lightly, simplifying matters for the benefit of a prejudiced man: "Ferdinand's an African."†   (source)
  • He told me it came as no surprise to him: he had certain inquiries in hand and I should take no action for fear of prejudicing them.†   (source)
  • In the first stage it's the triumph of reason, of the spirit of criticism, the fight against prejudice and so on.†   (source)
  • The course of history has shown that racial prejudice ….†   (source)
  • Kali said this was so because they were better read, more learned, than we were: but ever since the troubles at the tannery in which her sons had become involved, and for other reasons, she had been prejudiced against any kind of learning.†   (source)
  • And they knew even in their youth the pain of prejudice.†   (source)
  • It would be more comfortable to continue to move and vote in platoons, joining whomever of our colleagues are equally enslaved by some current fashion, raging prejudice or popularmovement.†   (source)
  • I know, we came up here to get away from things--politics, the atom bomb, war, pressure groups, prejudice, laws--I know.†   (source)
  • It was true that people did not have much taste for rabbit-flesh (this is a South African prejudice ), but tastes could be acquired, and if they sold the rabbits at five shillings each, he reckoned they could make a comfortable fifty or sixty pounds a month.†   (source)
  • He has a prejudice against the English middle class.   (source)
    prejudice = unreasonable and unfair beliefs or feelings
  • Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of prejudice."†   (source)
  • "You mustn't think I'm prejudiced!" he said.†   (source)
  • I'm not prejudiced or anything like that.†   (source)
  • "I haven't been aware of prejudice toward me at Hopkins, but you may be right.†   (source)
  • "We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice," he had once said to her.†   (source)
  • They brought in that sergeant to say he's a killer—that was just prejudice.†   (source)
  • Don't you think you might be prejudiced in her favor because of Hagrid?†   (source)
  • It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.†   (source)
  • Bobby Lee Cook feared she might create a scene and prejudice the jury against Williams.†   (source)
  • Racial prejudice bubbled to the surface when she announced that a black baby was joining the family.†   (source)
  • Just because I got blue eyes, bluer than theirs, they're prejudiced.†   (source)
  • My problem before was more about my …. prejudice against werewolves than anything else.†   (source)
  • I'd have to explain all that to her folks because they might be prejudiced.†   (source)
  • I obeyed the command, realizing I now lived in another world of prejudice.†   (source)
  • You know what the word prejudice means, don't you?†   (source)
  • Or what was worse, not believe he was, out of pure scientific prejudice, when perhaps he really was.†   (source)
  • I think it possible that it is you who are prejudiced, Cornelius.†   (source)
  • He's prejudiced, so don't let him give you any crap about safety.†   (source)
  • Three incidents of racial prejudice directed against us stand out in my memory.†   (source)
  • He was adamant about his stance, allowing no prejudice because of color or ethnic background.†   (source)
  • Some of them are prejudiced, and that's why whenever a foster child gets in trouble ….†   (source)
  • She never gave vent to racial prejudice and wouldn't let us do it either.†   (source)
  • Only much later did Dr. Long tell me as he laughed about the prejudices of some patients.†   (source)
  • Jacob is way too prejudiced to see anything clearly.†   (source)
  • For this, anti-Tutsi prejudice was essential.†   (source)
  • With other people's affairs Eva was equally prejudiced about men.†   (source)
  • I did not know if the prejudice of the Romans had eased.†   (source)
  • I raise it for you and you alone, and you will heed it without hesitance or prejudice.†   (source)
  • No offense, kid, but I have a strong desire to murder your uncle with extreme prejudice.†   (source)
  • Objective understanding—without blind prejudice and ignorant stereotypes.†   (source)
  • Helen didn't want to sound prejudiced, but at the very least, his dialect was a consideration.†   (source)
  • Some people think I am my body and treat me with prejudice or pity.†   (source)
  • But you certainly aren't going to allow this—prejudice —to stand in Miss Scott's way?"†   (source)
  • There has been no prejudice exercised whatsoever.†   (source)
  • Some of the difficulties arose from racial prejudice; others from bad luck.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately Mr. Pritchard's father is prejudiced against him."†   (source)
  • Since he owns property, he will probably resist every attempt to prejudice or encumber it.†   (source)
  • But all the sheep were shorn and stampeded in the stockyards and slaughterhouses of prejudice.†   (source)
  • Your Honor, Mr. Longfellow has expressed a clear prejudice to my client in full view of the court.†   (source)
  • I looked at her through prejudiced eyes and she looked sickly and pale.†   (source)
  • Handicaps, stumbling blocks, prejudices--all of these are imperfect.†   (source)
  • In Rwanda, ordinary people killed mainly out of prejudice.†   (source)
  • And what did orchestras do when confronted with their prejudice?†   (source)
  • That kind of prejudice is still alive today, if somewhat better humored.†   (source)
  • I learned how the Southern white man had suffered, like the blacks, from unfair prejudices.†   (source)
  • It is at the root of a good deal of prejudice and discrimination.†   (source)
  • It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice.†   (source)
  • I look at my children now and know that I must still prepare them to meet obstacles and prejudices.†   (source)
  • They may inflame the passions of the unthinking and confirm the prejudice of the misthinking.†   (source)
  • However, the law is sometimes prejudiced and don't sees things right.†   (source)
  • Normally, rivalries and prejudices might prevent the States from agreeing to an issue.†   (source)
  • I wanted to demystify the ANC for them, to peel away their prejudices.†   (source)
  • I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced.†   (source)
  • But he let his prejudices make the decision regarding rights.†   (source)
  • No special interests, temporary passions or prejudices, or partial motives should sway his vote.†   (source)
  • They gain position by arousing people's prejudices and end as tyrants.†   (source)
  • The obscurity usually exists in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner, not in the subject.†   (source)
  • In smaller societies, prejudices frequently contaminate public agencies and assemblies.†   (source)
  • The Woodworths have always tried not to be too prejudiced.†   (source)
  • He says that you are not stupid, merely ignorant and prejudiced by your environment.†   (source)
  • So I brought to bear the sturdy common sense of ignorance and prejudice.†   (source)
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