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Despite occasional flashes of humor and lyricism, the tone is seldom cheerful and happy endings are rare: Kuroshima refrains from accomplishing in fiction what is much harder to attain in actuality.
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Despite the occasional recurrence of a border conflict over Lete Island in the Niger River, Benin and Niger, both former French subjects of French West Africa, relations are close.
Despite the simplicity of their grass diet, new developments along the Persian Gulf coastline, particularly artificial island development in Arab states, pollution particularly by oil spills caused during the " Persian Gulf war " and also due to occasional oil spills, and uncontrolled hunting has had a negative impact on the survival of the dugongs.
Despite the clear collapse of their power, and the decline of their kingdom around them, nobles continued to play kingmakers on a regular basis, with occasional intervention from Ptolemaic Egypt and other outside powers.
Despite the cheers and adulation of most of his fans, the occasional boos directed at him in Fenway Park led Williams to stop tipping his cap in acknowledgement after a home run.
" Despite " unlike coincidence and occasional melodrama " in the plotting, Williamson concluded that " the novel is a fine juvenile reflects hopes and fears we all have known.
Despite his occasional ( if serious ) political setbacks — usually at the hands of his great Machiavellian rival, Louis XI of France — Edward was a popular and very able king.
Despite occasional feelings of homesickness, Anne was generally content in England.
Despite these incidences of occasional violence between African and European forces however, many African states were able to ensure that any trade went on in their own terms, imposing custom duties on foreign ships, and in one case that occurred in 1525, the Kongolese king, Afonso I, seized a French vessel and its crew for illegally trading on his coast.
Despite modifications to the hypothesis and occasional forays into scientific conferences, the AAH has neither been accepted as a mainstream theory nor managed to venture a genuine challenge to orthodox theories of human evolution.
Despite the utter cruelty, there are occasional hints that Nelson does not harbor any real hatred towards Martin and only does so to maintain his ' tough guy ' reputation.
Despite occasional Indian attacks, Boone returned to the Clinch Valley and brought his family and other settlers to Boonesborough on September 8, 1775.
Despite its occasional use of patronizing stereotypes, Bondanella concludes that Beppo " is represented with great dignity and even comic twists, making Beppo a far more lovable figure than one might expect.
Despite years of effort and the occasional hoax ( i. e. cold fusion ), no man-made fusion reaction has produced more energy than it consumed and been a viable source of electricity.
Despite being largely unaffected by the troubles there were occasional events in Carrickfergus.
Despite the occasional conflicts between native-born and immigrant leaders, the Puritanical, serious temperament of the city had not changed in the half-century since Moline's founding.
Despite occasional droughts throughout central Indiana, Fortville has a steady and reliable supply of water because it is situated over a natural aquifer.
Despite occasional successes, the mission failed to produce a consistent and sustained supply of pig iron.
Despite the rather poetic homage paid to it in the 1968 song, MacArthur Park became known for violence after 1985 when drug-dealing, shoot-outs and the occasional rumored drowning became commonplace, with as many as 30 murders in 1990.
Despite occasional financial troubles ( he filed for bankruptcy in 1878 ), his political career prospered.
Despite occasional friendships with women, it appears that none of the pirates has ever had an official girlfriend, other than the captain who currently has a mermaid girlfriend.
Despite failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010.
Despite being a top secret government agent, he is absurdly clumsy, very naive and has occasional lapses of attention.
Despite widely variable intervals between meals or the occasional consumption of meals with a substantial carbohydrate load, human blood glucose levels tend to remain within the normal range.
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Despite the discomfort to the woman, hot flashes are not considered harmful by physicians.
Despite his personality, Bill occasionally shows flashes of concern and wisdom for his co-workers, whom he perceives as friends.
Despite his laziness, Fry has also exhibited remarkable bravery and self-sacrifice on occasion and has even displayed flashes of stagnant intelligence.
Despite the loss, Burger did show flashes of the brilliance that took him to the peak of world rugby in 2004 – 05.
Despite flashes of brilliance, Marinovich's professional career is widely considered to be a bust.
Despite a few flashes of his former brilliance, he retired.
Despite flashes of his expected pedigree, Glass ' first season at Easter Road was also blighted by injury.
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Despite the persistence of racial stereotypes, humor and epithets in much everyday language, racial discrimination is illegal in many countries.
Despite the zany humor of the show, Taxi often tackled such dramatic issues as drug addiction, single parenthood, blindness, obesity, animal abuse, bisexuality, teenage runaways, failed marriage, sexual harassment, pre-menstrual mood disorders, gambling addiction, and the loss of a loved one.
Despite this, his Warner cartoons have seen renewed praise in decades since for their surrealistic qualities, energetic and outrageous animation, and irreverent humor.
Despite all the hardships, many passages of the story are told with wry humor and charm.
Despite the crude humor, the show has educational value, as it features accurate narrations of various animals and indigenous cultures.
Despite his claims of emotionlessness, however, his dry humor frequently gives the appearance of expressing passive-aggressive disapproval of the other characters ' actions and resentment of the fact that they often overlook the fact that he is dead.
Despite being animated in the style of television Christmas specials, the film is adult oriented, featuring significant sexual and scatological humor, and focusing on such topics as alcoholism, bereavement, and depression.
Despite his overblown, unfunny humor, everyone on the show finds him hilarious.
Despite Huggins ' hopes for a hard-edged drama the tone of the series was much lighter and featured a strong element of self-deprecating humor.
Despite the brutality of Strapping Young Lad's music, their songs contain hints of tongue-in-cheek humor and self-parody.
Despite falling under the criteria of " edutainment ", the game was lauded by mainstream game critics for its humor, difficulty, and originality.
Despite the names given to the roles, the " straight man " need not be humorless, and it is not always the comic who provides the act's humor.
Despite extensive use of satirical humor in the film, and despite its spy thriller storyline, it does, with its anti-hero Muffin, have its uplifting moments.
Despite the somber content, he also displays a wry sense of humor that occasionally turns his writing into burlesque or satire.
Despite being a somewhat phlegmatic and slow person, Bundy has a sarcastic and cynical sense of humor ; he also has a definite love for his family.
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Despite the humor and rowdiness of E Clampus Vitus, the members do take their brotherhood seriously.
Despite Gee's good humor about the prank, the ensuing controversy led to the removal of The Slant's sophomore editor-in-chief David Barzelay from his post for inappropriately expropriating the Vanderbilt Hustler's news racks in violation of Vanderbilt Student Communications regulations.
Despite this, the movie seems to have a strong cult following, receiving a positive reaction from viewers because of its camp style and silly, over-the-top humor.
Despite his commitment to serious musicianship, some have claimed that Wolownik, who had an irreverent sense of humor, was a living embodiment of the skomorokhi of old Russia, street musicians who actively poked fun at both the Tsars and the Church.
Despite the emotional difficulty of this play which may have decreased its popularity, fans of the play believe that all the characters are so well explored, with measured doses of wry humor, that the best productions are compelling.
Despite closely following his Italian models, he succeeded in conveying a lively spoken language, often full of saucy humor.
" Despite Gellar's dislike, this episode is DeKnight's personal favorite because " it had humor at the beginning and then it had that great twist where nerds accidentally killed Katrina and then it got dark, dark, dark, dark.
Despite the episode being a " leftover from last season ", The Washington Post still applauded the episode's humor, saying, " Who cares?
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