Although the film would have comic moments, Chaplin described it as first and foremost a romantic film.

" Although he ostensibly planned to become a physician, he was " first and foremost an ornithologist.

Although she became known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.

Although he viewed himself as an entertainer first and foremost, his consummate artistry won him the admiration of such twentieth century dance legends as Gene Kelly, George Balanchine, the Nicholas Brothers, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Margot Fonteyn, Bob Fosse, Gregory Hines, Rudolf Nureyev, Michael Jackson and Bill Robinson.

Although acquainted with all the Italian schools and a friend of the foremost painters of his day, he was strong enough to withstand external influences and work out for himself the development of his own nature and his own principles of art.

Although he led the Polaroid Corporation as a chief executive, Land was a scientist first and foremost, and as such made sure that he performed " an experiment each day ".

Although for years already Kitano's largest audience had been the foreign arthouse crowd, HANA-BI cemented his status internationally as one of Japan's foremost modern filmmakers.

Although not a military marching band, attached to a regiment in the British Army, Christ's Hospital band is the foremost school-based Military Marching Band in the UK.

Although remaining a Roman Catholic he allied himself with the Protestant princes, and during the earlier part of the Thirty Years ' War he was one of their foremost champions.

Although Cowley ’ s plays and poetry did not enjoy wide popularity after the nineteenth century, critic Melinda Finberg rates Cowley as “ one of the foremost playwrights of the late eighteenth century ” whose “ skill in writing fluid, sparkling dialogue and creating sprightly, memorable comic characters compares favourably with her better-known contemporaries, Goldsmith and Sheridan .” Cowley ’ s plays were produced frequently during her lifetime.

Although Ludwig van Beethoven's cycle An die ferne Geliebte ( To the Distant Beloved ) had been published earlier, in 1816, Schubert's two cycles hold the foremost place in the history of the genre.

Although Centre was known as one of Kentucky's foremost colleges, Cooper's father wanted him to broaden his education and, after one year at Centre, Cooper transferred to Yale College, a nationally-renowned college in New Haven, Connecticut.

: EXAMPLE: Although in Hegel ’ s estimation a triumph of the explanatory power of metaphysics over the physics based on sense perception as it was then practised, he believed that Kant ’ s Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft ( 1786 ) retained many of the errors committed by the latter, foremost among these being that, since matter is given to the senses as already formed and constituted, it is taken to be such by the mind as well.

Although he commented regularly on topical news, Laws did not consider himself a journalist, saying he considered himself foremost to be an entertainer and salesman.

Although, before 1933 he did not belong to the leading group of German architects, he became Hitler's foremost architect whose neo-classical style became for a time the official architecture of the Third Reich.

Although enjoyment factored into Culverhouse's purchase of the Buccaneers, it was first and foremost a business decision which he expected to be profitable.

Although belonging to the Ramanuja ( Shrivaishnav ) Sampradaya, he was one of the foremost disciples to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Although he worked and trained with some of its foremost practitioners, he often is associated with the fringes of the modern movement in architecture.

Although he was well versed in various theological perspectives, Baconthorpe was first and foremost a Carmelite.

Although highly spectacular to watch, it is first and foremost a participatory sport.

Although ruled by the church, the academy provided students with educational standards close to universities of Western Europe ( including multilingual training ) and became the foremost educational center, both religious and secular.

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

Although he spoke with apprehension at his award speech about the danger which the authority of the prize would lend to an economist, the prize brought much greater public awareness of Hayek and has been described by his biographer as " the great rejuvenating event in his life ".

Although Jefferson wrote that Congress had " mangled " his draft version, the Declaration that was finally produced, according to his biographer John Ferling, was " the majestic document that inspired both contemporaries and posterity.

Although in public they remained mutually respectful and cordial, according to biographer Roland Huntford, Shackleton's attitude to Scott turned to " smouldering scorn and dislike "; salvage of wounded pride required " a return to the Antarctic and an attempt to outdo Scott ".

Although she refused to talk to friends throughout her life about her reasons for retiring, she told Swedish biographer Sven Broman four years before her death, " I was tired of Hollywood.

Although the Bouffes-Parisiens played to full houses, the theatre was constantly on the verge of running out of money, principally because of what his biographer Alexander Faris calls " Offenbach's incorrigible extravagance as a manager ".

As one biographer put it, " Although he did not lack friends, they were becoming weary of coming to his defense, so endless a process it had become .”

His biographer Gordon A. Craig observes that this work gave few indications of his promise as a gifted writer: " Although the theme of incest, which was to occupy Fontane on later occasions, is touched upon here, the mawkishness of the tale ... is equaled by the lameness of its plot and the inertness of the style in which it is told, and characters Clärchen and her brother are both so colorless that no one could have guessed that their creator had a future as a writer.

Although Ealdred, the Bishop of Worcester actually went to the Continent in search of Edward, Ian Walker, the biographer of King Harold Godwinson, feels that Stigand was behind the effort.

Although one biographer writes that " it is difficult to say how far the relationship went " evidence from her letters suggests that they may have become lovers in 1887 and may have engaged in some form of sado-masochism, a claim echoed by A. N. Wilson.

Although Mayer did not want her in the role, which he felt was too minor for a new star, Thalberg felt that " only she could play " the part, notes biographer Charles Higham.

Although it has long been supposed that nothing is recorded of Jane's appearance ( and there is no surviving portrait that can be identified as her ), her biographer Julia Fox ( Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford ) suggests that there is a very remote chance that a Holbein likeness represents an extant likeness of Jane ( pp. 317 – 319 ).

Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka.

Although often referred to as Edward Canby, a biographer has suggested that he was known as " Richard " during childhood and to some friends for most of his life.

Although he developed a reputation as an imaginative and critical writer, he is famous chiefly as a biographer.

Although his biographer son largely discounted Laing's account of his childhood, an obituary by an acquaintance of Laing asserted that about his parent – " the full truth he told only to a few close friends ".

Although later generations exaggerated Somers role as architect of the Bill of Rights, his biographer asserts that no one else can have a better claim to that title.

Although it has often been said that Ned spent the rest of his life spending most of his share of Hetty's fortune, according to Hetty's biographer Charles Slack, although Ned was a spendthrift, the $ 1 million yearly income he made on the approximately $ 100 million fortune he inherited was adequate to his most expensive needs.

Although Dalton was married and had a daughter who died in infancy in the early 1920s, his biographer Ben Pimlott suggested that he was a repressed homosexual.

Andrew Kaufman, a Harvard Law School professor and Cardozo biographer, notes that " Although one cannot be absolutely certain, it seems highly likely that Cardozo lived a celibate life.

Although he was often classed as a deist, his biographer William H. Trapnell regards him as an Anglican who held unorthodox theological views.

Although sometimes described as " liberal ", al-Afghani did not advocate constitutional government but simply envisioned “ the overthrow of individual rulers who were lax or subservient to foreigners, and their replacement by strong and patriotic men .” In a review of the theoretical articles of his Paris-base newspaper there was nothing " favoring political democracy or parliamentarianism ,” according to his biographer.

Although O ' Brien had never been close to Johnson ( and many writing including Johnson biographer Robert Caro report O ' Brien did not like or trust Johnson and / or had openly made fun of Johnson ), he remained at the White House and worked for the new President.

Although it prompted his biographer Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea to define him as " a proletarian ", Caragiale's account was disputed by several other researchers, who noted that the family had a good social standing.