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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)
  • Mrs. Barry was a woman of strong prejudices and dislikes, and her anger was of the cold, sullen sort which is always hardest to overcome.   (source)
    prejudices = pre-conceived negative judgments
  • 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
  • Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.   (source)
    prejudices = biases that prevents objective consideration
  • "Well, it turns out that my mother had her own set of deep-seated prejudices," Aech said.†   (source)
  • Even among Unwinds there's prejudice and pecking orders.†   (source)
  • "I thought we weren't supposed to be prejudiced," I said.†   (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)
  • Racial prejudice bubbled to the surface when she announced that a black baby was joining the family.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • In their broken state, they were judged and condemned by people whose commitment to fairness had been broken by cynicism, hopelessness, and prejudice.†   (source)
  • Your honor, forgive an eccentric old knight his foolish prejudice for the British court system.†   (source)
  • Hermione, meanwhile, maintained fiercely that Ron had no proof that Crookshanks had eaten Scabbers, that the ginger hairs might have been there since Christmas, and that Ron had been prejudiced against her cat ever since Crookshanks had landed on Ron's head in the Magical Menagerie.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Possibly Buzzy wasn't there because he was Catholic; Owen suggested this, but there were other Catholics in attendance—Owen was simply expressing his particular prejudice.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure the princess has her reasons," Dorian said warily, disgusted by his mother's unspoken prejudice.†   (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)
  • We want to understand what prejudice, intolerance, and hatred did to young Jewish children.†   (source)
  • It's prejudice not to let androids attend.†   (source)
  • Terminate with extreme prejudice.†   (source)
  • But there is a lot of prejudice against you too.†   (source)
  • Now I discovered that there was inequality and prejudice in this country that I had already come to love.†   (source)
  • DRACO: Back to being prejudiced against those with a Dark Mark, are we, Potter?†   (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)
  • The practices of intra-family relations lay the foundation for the public manifestation of color prejudice.†   (source)
  • People are still prejudiced here," said Flora.†   (source)
  • In one form or another this lies behind every struggle for power, every prejudice, every war, and every abuse of relationship.†   (source)
  • Her husband is prejudiced?†   (source)
  • Our persona was opinionated to the point of absurdity, prejudiced beyond rationality, and functionally insane.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Every time I feel prejudice I get a bad feeling.†   (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)
  • No offense, kid, but I have a strong desire to murder your uncle with extreme prejudice.†   (source)
  • The market for football players was rooted in subjective judgments and ancient prejudices.†   (source)
  • He'd never understood that prejudice in the nuclear navy.†   (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)
  • And each group, she learned, had its own prejudices toward others.†   (source)
  • But you can't—I mean—I didn't mean to—" the nurse stuttered, trying to apologize without sounding prejudiced.†   (source)
  • Could it be that people who don't fit the mold make it uncomfortable for others to hold on to their prejudices?†   (source)
  • He did not have the courage to defy his own prejudices, and he capitulated.†   (source)
  • I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here.†   (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)
  • "There are some ancient prejudices I overcome," he said.†   (source)
  • Would I promote ignorance, prejudice and superstition to protect my family from the world?†   (source)
  • Prejudice against GDs?†   (source)
  • "Rufus is just full of prejudice against everybody," said Leona, and smiled.†   (source)
  • We've always faced prejudice.†   (source)
  • She was locked into her prejudices, so any attempt to change her opinion of Ronnie would be pointless.†   (source)
  • I call that out-and-out prejudice.†   (source)
  • She knew it was a fatal prejudice for an Indian woman.†   (source)
  • There was no prejudice against them because they were accused of crime.†   (source)
  • I want you to believe me when I tell you that race prejudice simply doesn't enter into it.†   (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)
  • Not being cowboys, they had no prejudice against working on the ground.†   (source)
  • They're just prejudiced, that's all.†   (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)
  • Hey, y'all, I don't think we should prejudice Zoey against them.†   (source)
  • But his mind was overshadowed with prejudices against literary accomplishments.†   (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)
  • Blind prejudice!†   (source)
  • This is my prejudice.†   (source)
  • Prejudiced?†   (source)
  • Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian.†   (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)
  • Clothes like they wore inPride and Prejudice on A&E!†   (source)
  • Making the blind—or in Calloway's case, the prejudiced—see.†   (source)
  • "You are prejudiced," he said.†   (source)
  • Objective understanding—without blind prejudice and ignorant stereotypes.†   (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 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)
  • 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)
  • Blackavar, who knew his own worth, felt convinced that his mother's blood had prejudiced the Council against him.†   (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)
  • Some regional dialects have long enjoyed prestige; others suffer from generations of prejudice.†   (source)
  • Then again, similar prejudices were among the reasons peculiars had withdrawn from society.†   (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)
  • 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!†   (source)
  • It is beyond prejudice, monsieur.†   (source)
  • A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions.†   (source)
  • My father did not subscribe to local prejudice toward amaMfengu and befriended two amaMfengu brothers, George and Ben Mbekela.†   (source)
  • I did not take part in decision to recruit Stu; I felt prejudiced.†   (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)
  • Let us break the chains of the prejudice called Logic.†   (source)
  • I have found such experiences with other religions the best means for freeing myself from prejudices.†   (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)
  • Terminate him "with extreme prejudice," as their kind phrased it.†   (source)
  • His opinions, prejudices, insecurities, vanities.†   (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)
  • Not usually that way down south, and in the towns the prejudice is surely there.†   (source)
  • Years later, they would shake their heads and call themselves prejudiced, but at the time they were profoundly disconcerted.†   (source)
  • Unless they had some concrete proof of how Angel got the bruise, the photo could unfairly prejudice a jury.†   (source)
  • Some states will comply and others won't, depending on the information, lack of information and prejudiced opinions of each state.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • But you certainly must try to get over this prejudice you have against snobs.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • You're prejudiced.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The economics of disaster placed a penalty upon prejudice.†   (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 ...DUDARD: I tell you it doesn't enter into it.†   (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
  • I feared early instilled prejudice: I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences.   (source)
    prejudice = biases that prevents objective consideration
  • Mr. Rowland Rochester was not quite just to Mr. Edward; and perhaps he prejudiced his father against him.   (source)
    prejudiced = created bias that prevents objective consideration
  • I had a feeling that she wished me away: that she did not understand me or my circumstances; that she was prejudiced against me.   (source)
    prejudiced = unfairly biased
  • A visitor from the North once told me that The Point was evil because its people were prejudiced against blacks.†   (source)
  • Jacob is way too prejudiced to see anything clearly.†   (source)
  • Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of prejudice.†   (source)
  • Chiron said the word assist as if it meant slap upside the head with extreme prejudice.†   (source)
  • "You mustn't think I'm prejudiced!" he said.†   (source)
  • I've worried about racial prejudice in my own family and friends.†   (source)
  • It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.†   (source)
  • You know what the word prejudice means, don't you?†   (source)
  • Bobby Lee Cook feared she might create a scene and prejudice the jury against Williams.†   (source)
  • And what did orchestras do when confronted with their prejudice?†   (source)
  • My problem before was more about my ....prejudice against werewolves than anything else.†   (source)
  • They brought in that sergeant to say he's a killer—that was just prejudice.†   (source)
  • I think it possible that it is you who are prejudiced, Cornelius.†   (source)
  • Three incidents of racial prejudice directed against us stand out in my memory.†   (source)
  • Or what was worse, not believe he was, out of pure scientific prejudice, when perhaps he really was.†   (source)
  • I BELIEVE THAT IT IS NOT THE PURPOSE OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION TO BROADEN AND EXPAND OUR PREJUDICES.†   (source)
  • She never gave vent to racial prejudice and wouldn't let us do it either.†   (source)
  • He's prejudiced, so don't let him give you any crap about safety.†   (source)
  • Don't you think you might be prejudiced in her favor because of Hagrid?†   (source)
  • "We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice," he had once said to her.†   (source)
  • I obeyed the command, realizing I now lived in another world of prejudice.†   (source)
  • It is at the root of a good deal of prejudice and discrimination.†   (source)
  • I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced.†   (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)
  • I haven't been aware of prejudice toward me at Hopkins, but you may be right.†   (source)
  • Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best.†   (source)
  • Only much later did Dr. Long tell me as he laughed about the prejudices of some patients.†   (source)
  • Mr. O'Hanlon's not prejudiced, Jean Louise.†   (source)
  • He says that you are not stupid, merely ignorant and prejudiced by your environment.†   (source)
  • I'm not prejudiced or anything like that.†   (source)
  • I did not know if the prejudice of the Romans had eased.†   (source)
  • The program was playing directly to our prejudices and our fears.†   (source)
  • For this, anti-Tutsi prejudice was essential.†   (source)
  • They are prejudiced against my kind there, I'm afraid.†   (source)
  • I raise it for you and you alone, and you will heed it without hesitance or prejudice.†   (source)
  • With other people's affairs Eva was equally prejudiced about men.†   (source)
  • I'd have to explain all that to her folks because they might be prejudiced.†   (source)
  • I looked at her through prejudiced eyes and she looked sickly and pale.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately Mr. Pritchard's father is prejudiced against him.†   (source)
  • But you certainly aren't going to allow this—prejudice —to stand in Miss Scott's way?†   (source)
  • I look at my children now and know that I must still prepare them to meet obstacles and prejudices.†   (source)
  • Some of the difficulties arose from racial prejudice; others from bad luck.†   (source)
  • In Rwanda, ordinary people killed mainly out of prejudice.†   (source)
  • Some people think I am my body and treat me with prejudice or pity.†   (source)
  • There has been no prejudice exercised whatsoever.†   (source)
  • They may inflame the passions of the unthinking and confirm the prejudice of the misthinking.†   (source)
  • Your Honor, Mr. Longfellow has expressed a clear prejudice to my client in full view of the court.†   (source)
  • But all the sheep were shorn and stampeded in the stockyards and slaughterhouses of prejudice.†   (source)
  • Just because I got blue eyes, bluer than theirs, they're prejudiced.†   (source)
  • Helen didn't want to sound prejudiced, but at the very least, his dialect was a consideration.†   (source)
  • Handicaps, stumbling blocks, prejudices—all of these are imperfect.†   (source)
  • I learned how the Southern white man had suffered, like the blacks, from unfair prejudices.†   (source)
  • Since he owns property, he will probably resist every attempt to prejudice or encumber it.†   (source)
  • That kind of prejudice is still alive today, if somewhat better humored.†   (source)
  • It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice.†   (source)
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