And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.

And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.

And despite Knowlton's attempts to show that the house was locked up tighter than a drum, this was not true.

And so, despite warnings, Enki consumes the other seven fruit.

And yet, despite the imagination and brilliance of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, it is still quite easy to identify the saint depicted because the traditional attribute and appearance of Peter is still present.

And, despite being cognizant of the fact that they were speaking, they could neither stop themselves nor understand their own words.

And despite some changes, the magazine has kept much of its traditional appearance over the decades in typography, layout, covers and artwork.

And, despite continued denials by the band, it settled a five-year legal battle with Hudson, paying him $ 600, 000 after he proved he held the copyright to the song " Thug " which appeared on Eliminator.

And despite the advent of alternative forces, Durkheim argued that no replacement for the force of religion had yet been created ,.

And, despite rumors of ill-gotten wealth, Garfield could afford no horse and buggy to park in the White House stable, but accepted Hayes ' offer of his own quite used-up rig.

And we do, despite its lackadaisical pace and disappointing ending.

And in Tirpitz, who was still very influential in the Navy despite having retired in 1917 started to speak of Raeder as an ideal man to head the Navy.

And in 2010, despite bad weather conditions, the Taiwan gay parade " Out and Vote " attracted more than 30, 000 people, making it the largest such event in Asia.

And although time with its gradual decaying processes is as destructive to nature's works as to man's, even so this edifice survives undamaged, despite being subjected to the pressure of so many tree-roots and the strain of bearing the weight of such a huge forest.

And despite some initially enthusiastic users, FrameMaker never really took off in the academic market, because of the company's unwillingness to incorporate various functions ( such as support of endnotes or of long footnotes split across pages ), or to improve the equation editor.

And in October of the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, he was made the King of Boomerroyalty in which each weekend despite being infamous, the channel " Boomerang " showed 2-hour installments of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo and The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show all month.

And this, despite the fact that in the documents prepared for the rendezvous in Geneva, apart from a few minor improvements, a basic approach has been maintained equating Israel with a racist country rather than a democracy.

The follow-up singles fared no better despite some imaginative promotion, which included an offer for Otway to come to a buyer's house and perform the 1979 single, " Frightened And Scared ", if their copy was one of only three copies from which the vocal had been omitted.

And, despite the love of Peter I of Brazil for the music – he was also author of some musical pieces like the Brazilian Independence Anthem – the difficult financial situation didn't allow many luxuries.

And despite the difference, they are the same stories.

And despite his relatively advanced age, his win-loss percentage during the open era was around 80 % for singles, which places him seventh on the open era list behind Björn Borg, Rafael Nadal, Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe and Roger Federer but ahead of Pete Sampras.

In Southern's final programme, And It's Goodbye From Us, a song was featured, composed and performed by Richard Stilgoe, deriding the incoming TVS as Portakabin TV and mocking TVS for choosing Maidstone as a production base in the newly-enlarged dual region despite the fact that Southern itself had already purchased the site in Vinters Park, Maidstone, for a planned studio complex which Southern would have built had it retained its franchise.

And since her position depended on Kaikeyi's status at Court, Manthara lost no opportunity to feed the young Kaikeyi's insecurity and jealousy of Kaushalya, despite Dasaratha's obvious enchantment and love for all of his wives.

And like the banking bill, it passed through Congress almost instantly — despite heated protests by some congressional progressives.

And Sweeney Squadron put its first marks on the combat record.

And the valley stretched endlessly out ahead, scorched and baked and writhing in its heat, until it vanished into the throbbing wall of fiery orange brown haze.

And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.

And any sequence can not only change its positions in the work but can even be eliminated from it altogether.

And the cast shell of a locust, straw-colored and transparent, weighing nothing, fragile but entire, with eyes like bubbles and a gaping slit down its back.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

And one finds it again in Thomas Nelson Page ) to the effect that the Mayflower on its second voyage brought a cargo of Negro slaves.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

Ramillies And The Union With Scotland has fewer high spots than Blenheim and much less of its dramatic unity.

And this, of course, is exactly what Madison Avenue has been accused of doing albeit in a primitive way, with its `` hidden persuaders '' and what the space merchants accomplish with much greater sophistication and precision.

And knowing its humble place in the scale of things, why did he, at this time of life, seem almost ready to sell his soul for plumpness??

And in its engineers' frantic attempts to achieve maximum dynamic impact and earsplitting brilliance, the recording sounds as though it had been `` doctored for super-high fidelity ''.

A. E. Sharp, in Vowel-Length And Syllabicity In Kikuyu, examines one set of related orthographic questions and its phonologic background in detail.

And let it do its own lawmaking and not leave that to federal judges.

And the surface is driven back, in its very surfaceness, only by this contrast.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

And part of a fabulous collection of vermeil hollowware, bequeathed to the White House by the late Mrs. Margaret Thompson Biddle, has been taken out of its locked cases and put on display in the State dining room.

A Sonata For Violin And Piano, called `` Bella Bella '', by Robert Fleming, was given its first United States performance.

And although there was plenty of vigor in the performance, the ensemble was at its best when the playing was soft and lyrical, yet full of the suppressed tension that is one of the hallmarks of Beethoven.

Everybody returned after intermission for the miscellaneous sweepings of the Fantasy For Piano, Chorus, And Orchestra In C Minor, made up by its composer to fill out one of his programs.

And although the universe may forever defy understanding, it might even now be finding its match in the imagination of man.

And the coffee shop on Drexel Street, where the men spent their evenings and Sundays playing cards, had a rose hedge beneath its window.

And the forked tongue of gossip licked its sinister way from back porch to back porch.