Despite critical acclaim, none of these titles have achieved mainstream success due to their unconventional nature.

Despite his advocacy of free market economics, many of Eastman's positions remained unconventional for a political " conservative.

Despite Thomson's acquittal, many states passed " Black Laws ," restricting the practice of unconventional medicine.

Despite being very learned, Mi Heng was unconventional and unconstrained.

Despite the King's unconventional methods of raising money, the absence of Parliamentary taxation limited the tax burden during the Personal Rule.

Despite its mixed reception, a number of video game publications recognized Killer7s unconventional gameplay and innovative style.

Despite some criticism towards its loose, unconventional structure and songwriting, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics.

Despite the unconventional style, the book is still considered a hallmark of campaign journalism and helped to launch Thompson's role as a popular political observer.

Despite its good reviews, Bugsy faced criticism over its portrayal of Siegel.

Despite the small part, Neal won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal.

Despite his trademark portrayal of happy, well-adjusted characters, Young's bitterness towards Hollywood casting practices never diminished, and he suffered from depression and alcoholism, culminating in a suicide attempt in January 1991.

Despite this film's relatively poor reception at the cinemas, his portrayal of a blind session violinist earned him a Filmfare Award.

Despite his portrayal, he also has moments in which he delivers memorable speeches, such as in Act 3, Scene 2:

Despite its unreliability about historical events, the Chronicle is famous for its lively portrayal of life in the feudal community.

Despite their criticism, IGN ranked Barret fourth " Top 10 " best sidekick characters in video games, stating that he " took the videogame world by storm " when introduced and noting that his portrayal was also appealing, adding that his past made him a visibly loyal character.

Despite her convincing portrayal of Lucille ( in 2005, Walter received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the role ), the actress has maintained that " I'm nothing like Lucille.

Despite the increasingly negative portrayal of Jews, for all of its glorification of violence Ukrainian nationalist literature generally showed little interest in Nazi-like antisemitism during the 1930s.

Despite his persecution at the hand of Mao however, Qi criticised Li's portrayal of the Chinese leader, claiming that " aside from his account of the support-the-left activities ( zhi zuo ) in which he personally participated, most of the Cultural Revolution part of his memoirs consists of stuff gleaned from newspapers, journals and other people's writings.

Despite the obviously humouristic purpose of the maps, it does have a remarkably well-researched and accurate portrayal of real and complex economic and market battles emerging since the Internet made globally distributed free and open source software development strategies economically feasible.

Despite being one of the most successful actors of Tamil cinema during his time, Gemini Ganesan was criticized for being " fossilised in one type of portrayal ", as most of his films were typically " boy meets girl " romantic films.

Despite the iconic portrayal of the character by Gary Cooper ( see below ), " Cooper was not producer Stanley Kramer's first choice to play Marshal Will Kane.

Despite his ' need to know ', Sherrington states that " as a teacher he had himself a wide and devoted following " and this certainly appears to have been an accurate portrayal.

Despite historical consumer preference for refined flour and the traditionally higher per-unit cost of whole grain, whole-wheat flour products are ascendant largely due to changing consumer attitudes.

Despite Wu Qi's massive unpopularity with the Chu government ( except the king ), his reforms made Chu very powerful until the late 4th century BC, when Zhao and Qin were ascendant.

Despite its opposition to the expansionist policy of the most chauvinistic aspects of the Israeli bourgeoisie and its support for the struggle of the Palestinian people and to gain this right to an independent state, OAKKE, unlike all the other organizations and parties in Greece with reference to the left, defends the right of Israel to defend itself against attacks received from forces such as Hamas and Hezbollah, and believes these two organizations are Islamo-Nazi and hidden arms of the neo-Nazi axis.

Despite his tough talk concerning traitors, Johnson in many cases authorized early release of prisoners and commutation of sentences to facilitate Reconstruction.

Despite entering the LM forty minutes ahead of schedule, Young and Duke completed preparations only ten minutes early due to numerous delays in the process.

Despite the shared name of " Adoptionism " the Spanish Adoptionist Christology appears to have differed sharply from the Adoptionism of early Christianity.

Despite their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.

Despite the xenophobia and intellectual introspection characteristic of the increasingly popular new school of neo-Confucianism, China under the early Ming Dynasty was not isolated.

Despite extensive internationally financed programs to upgrade the harbors at Moroni and Mutsamudu, by the early 1990s only Mutsamudu was operational as a deepwater facility.

Despite the disdain of the Imperial family, it seems that from very early on the general public respected Claudius.

Despite its failure to control the rodents, the cane toad was introduced to Puerto Rico in the early 20th century in the hope that it would counter a beetle infestation ravaging the sugarcane plantations.

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 fact that the Cubs had won 89 games, this fallout was decidedly unlovable, as the Cubs traded superstar Sammy Sosa after he had left the season's final game early and then lied about it publicly.

Despite some early cooperative military successes against Japan, by the time that the Japanese surrendered in 1945 neither the CPC nor the KMT trusted each other or were actively cooperating.

Despite their altercation, Underwood and Bowie remained good friends, and Underwood went on to create the artwork for Bowie's early albums.

Despite the official names " National Comics " and " National Periodical Publications ", the line used the logo " Superman-DC " throughout ( the DC logo could be seen on their covers and ads as early as 1940 ), and the company became known colloquially as DC Comics for years before the official adoption of that name in 1977.

Despite the evolution of Ethernet technology, all generations of Ethernet ( excluding early experimental versions ) use the same frame formats ( and hence the same interface for higher layers ), and can be readily interconnected through bridging.

Despite early singles success in the United Kingdom, the band were initially more successful in the United States, billed as " The English guys with the big fiddles ".

Despite sharing a last name, he is not related to the early 20th century astronomer Frank Watson Dyson, but as a small boy Freeman Dyson was aware of Frank Watson Dyson.

Despite multiple parliamentary questions from as early as 2005, where it was stated that there was no proof that this was happening, Minister Ahern announced a ban on all handguns in November 2008.

Despite these handicaps, at war's end the club recruited many players who represented the club during its most successful era in the early 1950s.

Despite declarations by the Callejas government in 1989 of its intent to increasingly address social issues, including land tenure and other needs of small farmers, the early 1990s were jolted by increased conflicts between peasants and the Honduran security forces.

Despite the efforts of the growers, coffee prices plunged on the international market from a high of more than US $ 2. 25 per kilogram in the mid-1970s to less than US $ 0. 45 per kilogram in the early 1990s.

Despite the early predictions for success, the Astros had a mediocre 44 – 44 record at the All-Star break.

Despite the discomfort of jumping from the boat into swamps, rivers and marshes the film apparently rekindled in Bogart his early love of boats and on his return to California from the Congo he bought a classic mahogany Hacker-Craft runabout which he kept until his death.