Despite his undergoing the Kolinahr, there is a fair amount of evidence to suggest that he never entirely gained emotional control, and he feels bitterness over his Vulcan heritage.

The music scholar Byron Adams writes, " Despite the apparent heartiness and equilibrium of the composer's public persona, the emotional wounds inflicted by the war were deep and lasting.

Despite the numerous advantages which naturalistic data has over acted data, it is difficult to obtain, and usually has low emotional intensity.

Despite Carr's reluctance, the Vancouver Art Gallery, a major curator of Carr's work, records Carr in this period as abandoning the documentary impulse and starting to concentrate instead on capturing the emotional and mythological content embedded in the totemic carvings, which she did by jettisoning her painterly and practiced Post-Impressionist style in favour of creating highly stylized and abstracted geometric forms.

Despite physical and emotional pain, they recovered use of their legs and within a few months they returned to Gorgan where they faithfully served for fourteen years amid much hardship and persecution.

Despite German lyrics, it is said that their emotional style of music is their " real language ".

Despite this, the album inspired a number of imitators, and the lo-fi sound and emotional honesty of Phair's lyrics were frequently cited by critics as outstanding qualities.

Despite differing opinions about the onset of self-concept development, researchers agree on the importance of one ’ s self-concept, influencing people ’ s behaviours and cognitive and emotional outcomes including ( but not limited to ) academic achievement, levels of happiness, anxiety, social integration, self-esteem, and life-satisfaction.

Roger Ebert commented, " Despite jumping through the deliberately disorienting hoops of its story, Eternal Sunshine has an emotional center, and that's what makes it work.

Despite his high IQ and insight into other characters, he lacks emotional intelligence and is socially awkward and self-righteous.

Despite being a biopic of Elizabeth's life and reign, the series presented its main character with particular interest in several themes, most notably the emotional impact of her mother's execution and her love for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

Despite modern treatment and rehabilitation for emotional mental health disorders, “ even economically advantaged societies have competing priorities and budgetary constraints ”.

Despite all of the rings barring his own turning to dust, a measure of each ring's power resides in Kyle which he is able to channel in a combined burst of multicolored lights, Sayd noting that Kyle is the only being she knows capable of bringing together the powers of all of the branches of the emotional spectrum.

Despite an ever-changing and evolving set of modern classifications, members of the same sex often formed intimate associations ( many of which were erotic as well as emotional ) on their own terms, most notably in the " romantic friendships " documented in the letters and papers of 18th-and 19th-century men and women ( see Rictor Norton, ed., My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries, Gay Sunshine Press, 1998 ).

Mojo rated it four stars and said: " Despite the elegant grey-sky thinking, deep beneath the emotional permafrost, Piramida isn't as cold as it seems.

Despite Wagner's denial, as the music resembles classic black metal and the emotional background and influence being an essence of black metal, Nargaroth is often seen as a black metal band.

Despite these caveats, local gay artists have, since the 1980s, been pushing at the boundaries to enable the general public to develop an appreciation for their emotional expression crafted through art.

Despite the emotional satisfaction afforded the Nazis by carrying out their antisemitism with direct violence, Kristallnacht was considered by Hitler to have been a political disaster both within Germany and internationally.

Despite her deep emotional attachment to the region where she grew up, she was one of the first public figures to endorse the finality of the border between Germany and Poland, which had been established after the Second World War.

He cited one dissenting critic Charlie Gillett, who wrote in Let It Rock: " The trouble with Hard Nose the Highway is that although the music is quite often interesting, it doesn't have a convincing emotional basis ... Despite the lack of inspiration and of melodic focus, the record is attractive to listen to.

Despite these criticisms, many criteria have been suggested to determine literary merit including: standing the test of time, realistic characters, emotional complexity, originality, and concern with truth.

Despite the commanding officer strongly pressing to let him deal with it, Bozz says he wants Wilson " out of the army " because he recognizes Wilson has taken an emotional beating ever since his inability to command became obvious.

Despite this approach, which some might liken to a verbal assault, Ellison is a self-professed, deeply social and political writer who means for his stories to engender serious thought as well as visceral emotional reactions.

Despite extensive attempts to obtain highly pure reagents, serious difficulty was experienced in obtaining reproducible rates of reaction.

Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is.

Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.

Despite wide critical acclaim for its acts and a dedicated fanbase, Jeepster nevertheless found itself financially troubled by 2002, largely due to increasing recording and marketing costs, and difficulty cultivating the images of their acts in the eye of the general public.

Despite their inexperience as well as an increasing difficulty of the games, Ender devises new tactics and his squad soon excels and leads the competition.

Despite being the predicted winner of this year's Long Walk, having been described as " moose-like " and able to walk long distances with little difficulty, Scramm succumbs to pneumonia.

Despite the difficulty involved in constructing the road, the workers had access to a piano, gramophone, games, newspapers and magazines at the camps.

Despite having warned of the difficulty of provisioning Britain for a long war, he was blamed for the shortage of shells in the spring of 1915 – one of the events leading to the formation of a coalition government – and stripped of his control over munitions and strategy.

Despite the positive changes in the country, Bokassa had difficulty obtaining international recognition for his new government.

Despite the greater difficulty, nasotracheal intubation route is preferable to orotracheal intubation in children undergoing intensive care and requiring prolonged intubation because this route allows a more secure fixation of the tube.

Despite the fact that Britain had been caused severe difficulty by the U-Boat campaign in the First World War, the Admiralty completely ignored the threat of the submarine until the late 1930s.

Despite this newest theory of reading, Barthes remained concerned with the difficulty of achieving truly neutral writing, which required an avoidance of any labels that might carry an implied meaning or identity towards a given object.

Despite the high quality and lower difficulty of the questions, only sixteen teams attended ACF Nationals in 2001, and the future of the format seemed tenuous.

Despite the difficulty, a prompt diagnosis of DLB is important because of the risks of sensitivity to neuroleptic drugs and because appropriate treatment of symptoms can improve life for both the person with DLB and their caregivers.

Despite his popularity, Wain suffered financial difficulty throughout his life.

Despite the theoretical advantages of the reflector design, the difficulty of construction and the poor performance of the speculum metal mirrors being used at the time meant it took over 100 years for them to become popular.

Despite past attempts to repair these scars, they had difficulty in covering up those slashes ( as they found out that the painting was painted with tempera infused with diluted wax ).

Despite his rank, Travis had to recruit the men who were to serve under his command, but he had difficulty in finding willing colonists to enlist as regulars, because the majority wished to remain in their local militia units.

Despite continuing difficulty with arthritis in his wrists, Heilmann hit. 333 for the Reds in 1930 with 68 extra base hits, 19 home runs, and 91 RBIs.

Despite the difficulty of finding an opponent for Lingle, former State Senator Randy Iwase decided to run for Governor.

Despite these differences, communication between Auslan users from different regions poses little difficulty for most Deaf Australians, who often become aware of different regional vocabulary as they grow older, through travel and Deaf community networks, and because Deaf people are so well practised in bridging barriers to communication.

Despite securing his patent, Howe had considerable difficulty finding investors in the United States to finance production of his invention, so his elder brother Amasa Bemis Howe traveled to England in October 1846 to seek financing.

Despite vast land holdings that were worth a fortune, changing money values on mortgages held on the tracts of land sold and a depressed land market caused Phelps to get into financial difficulty.

Despite his difficulty in establishing his reputation, he attracts Madame Nadezhda von Meck as his patron.

Despite the work done by Walter and Michaux, current researchers have had difficulty interpreting their circumscriptions of species boundaries.