Word: biased
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...history of American civilization, The American Democracy is, despite its strong bias, a highly instructive book; as a crusade against "the curse of Midas" it is not likely to convince any but the converted that the cure is not worse than the curse...
John had gone ahead with the job, on the principle that "the portrait painter should allow no moral bias to affect his attitude to the sitter. The exploration of character should be left, with confidence, to the eye alone. Heaven knows what it may discover!" In Fuller, John's glaring eye discovered a well-fed man of conscience-dignified, amiable, and perhaps not particularly intelligent...
...calls The Time Machine, and with choruses of the men's tediously cloacal comments. By some alchemy, his book moves and lives despite the similarity of the biographies (quarreling parents, first sexual experience, unhappy marriage, pretty good job, the draft), its too great length, and the narrow political bias of the views set forth...
...Story or any of the other Lawson films which the defense had stacked in cans outside the courtroom door. And he indignantly brushed aside a defense contention that he was guilty of misconduct in asking the purpose of the Thomas Committee's inquiry, which the defense contended would "bias" the jury against Lawson...
...ideas can and sometimes do "persuade" the brute facts of life and experience to be harmonized, muted and ennobled. There is a faint but sure drive in things towards excellence which deserves to be encouraged, nursed, supported. We are civilized to the degree that we refuse to allow this bias forward excellence to be blocked by force or quieted by a dogmatic supposition that the richness of the ideal has already been exhausted...