Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Despite its beauty, size and numerous recreational opportunities, the lake is scarcely visited sheerly to its distance from Helsinki, and its daunting distance to other similarly-populated areas in the south of the country.

Despite their natural beauty, the secluded valleys along the Na Pali Coast in Hawaii are heavily modified by introduced invasive species such as She-oak.

Despite his cursing them as " slimy things " earlier in the poem (" Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / upon the slimy sea "), he suddenly sees their true beauty and blesses them (" a spring of love gush'd from my heart and I bless'd them unaware "); suddenly, as he manages to pray, the albatross falls from his neck and his guilt is partially expiated.

Despite its abundance of wilderness, recreational opportunities, hunting and fishing resources, and resplendent natural beauty, tourism is not a major sector of the local economy — largely due to the city's remote location.

Despite her great beauty, she was barren for an unknown reason.

Despite their beauty, they are not real ruins but an unfinished building, which was badly damaged by the 1910 earthquake and then interrupted.

Despite the murder of their friend, Holly and Leo cannot free themselves from the power of Ayesha's beauty.

Despite their beauty, all of Wilson's " Angels " were brilliant and were dedicated in their service for the congressman.

Despite initially unfavorable reviews, Days of Heaven has since become one of the most acclaimed films of all time, particularly noted for the beauty of the cinematography.

Despite her inhuman beauty, her eyes can strike terror into mortals.

Despite the lack of any conscious aesthetic in the Bauhaus-inspired style, which grounded architectural beauty in practical, industrial function, the swooping arcs and soaring chimneys had an uplifting effect on modern eyes, a sort of post-industrial chic.

Despite her natural beauty, she only emerges out of her shell after Zack and Mac's makeover, and her popularity in school soars almost immediately after the transformation.

Despite her deformity, the Armenian girl ’ s beauty and eyes attract Bagradian.

Despite the damage, the natural beauty of the area remains largely intact.

Despite the recent campus developments, Thacher still retains its casual ranch appearance with its unassuming style of architecture, choosing to defer to the Ojai Valley's natural beauty.

Despite this, the area has retained much of its natural beauty and isolation.

Despite this, the area has retained much of its natural beauty and isolation, and does not get the high number of visitors recorded by its northern neighbour, partly because the road is narrow and only recently sealed.

Despite the overwhelming scenic beauty of its landscape and colourful local minorities, mass tourism hasn't developed in this region, mainly due to its remote location, lack of a nearby airport, and until fairly recent, relative inaccessibility due to bad road conditions.

Despite its beauty it was a deeply unpopular project, as it served no practical purpose-central Senkadagala had no paddy fields that required irrigation, the traditional cause for the construction of such hydraulic monuments.

Despite Thomas ' and the twins ' best efforts to save the Protector, the gigantic silver being dies-though his last thought was in awe of Thomas and his beauty, which was perhaps even enough to save him if time had permitted.

Despite her beauty and high birth, she is still unmarried, partially because she found all of the matches her father made insulting.

Despite founder Armand Petijean ’ s assertion that Lancôme never advertise, today Lancôme is one of the top advertisers in the luxury beauty arena.

Despite the widespread perception of Lincolnshire as a physically rather dull and uniform county, it is often remarked that the Lincolnshire landscape is a place of surprising contrasts that possesses a subtle beauty and quiet charm that is all of its own.

Despite being told that it was against the rules, Ender sacrifices most of his fighters fleet to launch a Molecular Disruption Device at the planet, destroying the planet and the entire Formic fleet.

Despite these conflicts, it was the gradual cooling of the planet during the last ice age that spelled their doom.

Despite Londo Mollari's destruction of the Shadow fleet stationed on Centauri Prime, the Vorlons threatened to destroy the planet.

Despite the democratic tendencies of this parliamentary form of government, the Hegemony has at times taken actions viewed as tyrannous, using its small but elite military, known as FORCE, to invade the sea planet Maui Covenant, which had resisted integration into the Hegemony as a protectorate.

Despite this deformity, his ambition was recognized and he was selected by Cobra-La's ruler, Golobulus, to venture from their isolated Himalayan kingdom into the outside world, there he was instructed to establish an army for the razing of human civilization, allowing Cobra-La to retake the planet.

Despite the retraction, studies concluded that the possibility that there is an additional planet orbiting Gliese 436 remained plausible.

Despite his failure in destroying the planet-the first attempt caused the energy release that gave the Loonatics and others their powers ; the Loonatics stopped a second attempt with a space rock — he plans to attack the planet a third time.

Despite his conclusions about the planet, he has a deep affection for the Lithians themselves.

Despite being the main antagonist, he rarely takes matters into his own paws and fight Krypto on his own, normally using machines or other villains to face him, but has ( on one occasion ) upgraded himself into ' Mega Mechanikat ' and lured him to a Kryptonite-covered planet so he could take care of Krypto on his own, this was his ultimate defeat as was his final appearance of the series.

Despite that, there is some protein life on the planet although no sentient one.

In a 2007 Foreign Policy magazine article, Harvard Business School Professor Pankaj Ghemawat argued that 90 % of the world's phone calls, Web traffic, and investments are local, suggesting that Friedman has grossly exaggerated the significance of the trends he describes: " Despite talk of a new, wired world where information, ideas, money, and people can move around the planet faster than ever before, just a fraction of what we consider globalization actually exists.

Despite the harsh conditions on the surface, the atmospheric pressure and temperature at about 50 km to 65 km above the surface of the planet is nearly the same as that of the Earth, making its upper atmosphere the most Earth-like area in the Solar System, even more so than the surface of Mars.

Despite the break-up, Frances still had feelings for Wally ( some of them negative ), and when the Justice League fought the Teen Titans, Magenta came to help, even using her abilities to jump-start a machine that was vital in saving Earth from massive chunks of debris from a falling planet.

Despite the Archer and the AI's best efforts, the Xenomes manage to destroy most of the counter-space anchors that keep the moon from falling to the planet below.

Despite the opposition of far-left parties, Sorsa supported the European Economic Community ( EEC ) free trade agreement in the 1970s, which would have made the ties between Finland and EEC countries closer.

Despite being built by Ford, the CEC module is not related to the Ford EEC systems internally.

Despite their avowed claim to appeal to the entire state, in 2009 the Diamondbacks moved their Triple-A Pacific Coast League farm team, the Tucson Sidewinders, to Reno, where they are now known as the Aces.

Despite the strong start, the team played poorly in May and June and entered the All Star break at 47 – 48, still leading the NL West.

Despite the acquisitions, the team failed to improve and finished with a record of 82 – 80, in second place behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Despite its label as an England side, the team which toured South Africa in 1891 contained several Scots.

Despite a strong lineup anchored by the potent Lajoie and Shoeless Joe Jackson, poor pitching kept the team below third place for most of the next decade.

Despite this turnover in the ownership, a powerhouse team composed of Feller, Doby, Minnie Miñoso, Luke Easter, Bobby Avila, Al Rosen, Early Wynn, Bob Lemon, and Mike Garcia continued to contend through the early 1950s.

Despite the potential for a financially strong owner, Stouffer had some non-baseball related financial setbacks and, consequently, the team was cash-poor.

Despite the major changes made to the team in the offseason, the team wound up with its first winning season since 1997.

Despite the negative connotations associated with the term " Cabal ," the name has stuck with this particular team of " good-guy geeks.

Despite no wins, the RCR team finished the season 5th in the final standings.

Despite the championship, the team did not draw enough fans to stay solvent at the major league level, as Detroit was at the time one of the smallest cities in the National League and its rapid industry-fueled growth was still several years in the future.

Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers.

Despite this setback, Baresi refused to give up his dream and tried out for the Milan youth team, where he was accepted.

* Ivan Rodriguez ( 2003 ) — Despite only playing one season with the Marlins, he put up some the of the best offensive and defensive statistics by a Marlins catcher and was a key cog in the 2003 World Championship team.

Despite Australian rules football's huge popularity in the state of Tasmania, the state does not have a team in the Australian Football League.

Despite general agreement that the rainbow uniforms identified with the team had become tired ( and looked too much like a minor league team according to the new owners ), the new uniforms and caps were never especially popular with fans.

Despite the promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.

Despite a serious injury which ruled Shearer out for half the season, Dalglish achieved fourth position with the team in the first year of the new Premier League.

Despite the name implying a design evolving from the K5, it is in fact a totally different design that was created by the NexGen team, including chief processor architect Greg Favor, and adapted after the AMD purchase.

Despite major signings, including Joe Jordan, Gordon McQueen, Gary Bailey, and Ray Wilkins, the team failed to achieve any significant results ; they finished in the top two in 1979 – 80 and lost to Arsenal in the 1979 FA Cup Final.

Despite an AL-worst 63-99 record, the team drew over three million fans for the second consecutive year.

Despite his efforts, he has not been on a title winning first-class domestic team in either the Premier Trophy or the County Championship.

Despite yet another losing season, the Mets made history in 2011 when Jason Isringhausen converted his 300th save with the team, the third player in franchise history to reach the milestone while with the organization behind John Franco and Billy Wagner.