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 the modern split, numerous sources stress an integration of esoteric and exoteric approaches to alchemy.

Despite numerous searches, the city has never been found.

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 numerous publications on this epistle, scholarly discussion has failed to yield a definitive consensus on most issues.

Despite the numerous oppositions, Haeckel has influenced many disciplines in science in his drive to integrate such disciplines of taxonomy and embryology into the Darwinian framework and to investigate phylogenetic reconstruction through his Biogenetic Law.

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 numerous errors taken over from Eusebius, and some of his own, Jerome produced a valuable work, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as Prosper, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tunnuna to continue his annals.

Despite this, Oxfordians list numerous incidents in Oxford's life that they say parallel those in many of the Shakespeare plays.

Despite the fact that numerous fossils have been found in the contemporary parts of the formation in Canada, no pterosaur specimens have ever been found there.

Despite numerous requests by Abdullah bin Jassim — for strong military support, for weapons, and even for a loan — the British were reluctant to become involved in inland affairs and kept him at arm's length.

Despite this, numerous important individual poems appeared in the years 1923 – 1926 ( including Gong and Mausoleum ), as well as the abundant lyrical work in French.

Despite numerous battles, neither the Umayyads nor the Asturians had sufficient forces to secure control over these northern territories.

Despite Mary believing she was pregnant numerous times during her five-year reign, she never reproduced.

Despite this setback ( whose victims later created numerous doubts and psychological strife in Mazzini ), he organized another uprising for the following year.

Despite these prohibitions, numerous elements of the pre-Christian culture of the Anglo-Saxon people survived the Christianisation process.

Despite its rareness, DID is portrayed with remarkable frequency in popular culture, producing or appearing in numerous books, films and television shows.

Despite numerous successful campaigns and raids by the Roman army over the Rhine in the years after the battle, the Romans were to make no more concerted attempts to conquer and permanently hold Germania beyond the river.

Despite inroads made by numerous prominent sinologists, independent scholarly research of the Cultural Revolution is discouraged by the Chinese government.

Despite numerous objections, this is the most widely accepted theory for the transport of water through a plant's vascular system based on the classical research of Dixon-Joly ( 1894 ), Askenasy ( 1895 ), and Dixon ( 1914, 1924 ).

Despite Andropov's hard-line stance in Hungary and the numerous banishments and intrigues for which he was responsible during his long tenure as head of the KGB, he has become widely regarded by many commentators as a reformer, especially in comparison with the stagnation and corruption during the later years of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev.

Despite being almost completely demolished after the end of World War II, it now builds warships both for the Deutsche Marine and for export ( see MEKO ), as well as oil drilling equipment and ships for numerous commercial customers.

Despite, however, their advantage in numbers, the Chinese did not attempt a direct assault on the Legation Quarter although in the words of one of the besieged, " it would have been easy by a strong, swift movement on the part of the numerous Chinese troops to have annihilated the whole body of foreigners ... in an hour.

" Despite his numerous affairs, eventual divorce, and remarriage, the Emperor's last words on his death bed at St. Helena were: " France, the Army, the Head of the Army, Joséphine.

Despite this difference, grammatical similarities between Sakkwatanci and Ghanaian Hausa determine that the dialect, and the origin of the Ghanaian Hausa people themselves, are derived from the Northwestern Hausa area surrounding Sokoto.

Despite their similarities, jackals do not all stem from the same branch on the canid family tree.

Despite their similarities as polemicists, novelists, adapters, and playwrights, Sartre's literary work has been counterposed, often pejoratively, to that of Camus in the popular imagination.

Despite some similarities in their phenomenology and induction methods, EEG studies do not suggest an equivalence between OBEs and lucid dreams.

Despite some similarities between these two causes, the creation science movement represented a shift from overtly religious to covertly religious objections to evolutionary theory — raising what it claimed to be scientific evidence in support of a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Despite these similarities, SJG had a unique feel all their own and became popular with their releases.

Despite some similarities in the decentralized system there are a number of important differences from medieval Europe.

Despite the similarities between ZW and XY, the sex chromosomes do not line up correctly and evolved separately.

Despite superficial similarities of horror-movie characters incongruent with their communities and a generally gothic look, this and Addams Family were actually different in the style of series and characterization.

Despite similarities, most Tolkien ' authorities ' are wary of drawing analogies between his fictional works and the historical narratives they so strongly resemble.

Despite similarities in theme and name, Nyarlathotep does not feature at all in Lovecraft's story " The Crawling Chaos ", ( 1920 / 21 ) an apocalyptic narrative written in collaboration with Winifred V. Jackson ( aka Elizabeth Berkeley ).

Despite some similarities between these two causes, the creation science movement represented a shift from religious to scientific objections to Darwin's theory.

Despite similarities between his dream figures and earlier descriptions of Humbaba, Enkidu interprets these dreams as good omens, and denies that the frightening images represent the forest guardian.

Despite its similarities to American theatrical Blackface, Ganguro fashion has no racial connotations, and the style is not meant to imitate black people.

Despite his combat skills not being the match of Grayson's ( although there are some similarities, in that they are far superior to Todd's when he was Robin ), his detective skills more than make up for this.

" Nintendojo and Gamasutra also criticized the similarities to Dragon Quest, with Gamasutra declaring EarthBound an " unabashed Dragon Quest clone ..." Despite the criticism, Gamasutra regarded the title " as one of the greatest RPGs on the SNES.

Despite the similarities in the names, " Southern Death Cult " was distinct from " Death Cult "/" The Cult ".

Despite having a vague series of similarities, post-processualism consists of " very diverse strands of thought coalesced into a loose cluster of traditions ".

Despite the numerous similarities and affinities between the two doctrines, geopolitics was always held suspect by the National Socialist ideologists.

Despite marked structural similarities between growth hormone from different species, only human and Old World monkey growth hormones have significant effects on the human growth hormone receptor.

Despite their similarities to manatees and elephants, desmostylians were entirely unlike any living creatures.

Despite the similarities between the two faiths there are some major theological differences.

Despite their visual similarities, the Australian Raven and Crow have very different and unique calls.

Despite their differences in terminology and application, there are a number of similarities between liens in the USA and elsewhere in the common-law world.