Despite being modest in number ( perhaps 7, 000 units total as of 1988 ), Lisp machines commercially pioneered many now-commonplace technologies – including effective garbage collection, laser printing, windowing systems, computer mice, high-resolution bit-mapped graphics, computer graphic rendering, and networking innovations like CHAOSNet.

Despite a strict formula developing within the genre, audience interest was maintained by developing new, increasingly " novel " ways for victims to be killed, as well as increasingly graphic and realistic special effects.

Despite the importance graphic designers place on his book Thoughts on Design, subsequent works such as From Lascaux to Brooklyn ( 1996 ), compounded accusations of Rand being " reactionary and hostile to new ideas about design.

Despite this, graphic designers and others got used to them, making it practically impossible to introduce a different list.

Despite this, photoshop is widely used as a verb, both colloquially and academically, to refer to retouching, compositing ( or splicing ), and color balancing carried out in the course of graphic design, commercial publishing, and image editing.

Despite being labeled a flop, the film found success on home video, gained a small cult status, and was followed by a successful graphic novel adaptation.

Despite the seemingly hentai overtones, the series has yet to feature sex, or extremely graphic nudity.

Despite the young main characters, cute monster designs, and initial appearances of a shōjo or Pokémon-esque series, the story quickly takes on a much darker and more disturbing tone, with later volumes involving some graphic depictions of gore and sexual violence.

Despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career.

Despite containing graphic descriptions of acts of extreme violence, the story is written as a black comedy, revolving around the visual gag of a real ghost looking like someone wearing a bedsheet over his or her head.

Despite being told to leave poetic language aside and concentrate on graphic, sexually explicit scenarios, Nin was able to give these stories a literary flourish and a layer of images and ideas beyond the pornographic.

Despite the games ' graphic nature, DotR was aimed at a younger audience and thus contained toned-down violence.

Despite these graphic depictions, the film was re-rated PG, although originally rated R.

Despite being censored, the film still had moments of very graphic ( for its time ) scenes of horror and violence.

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 condemning the ' Mahometans ' as infidels, he viewed the protagonist of the novel, Hayy, as a model for his ideal Christian philosopher and monotheistic scientist '.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

Despite these problems, the growing inflow of American silver from mid-16th century, the justified military reputation of the Spanish infantry and even the navy quickly recovering from its Armada disaster, made Spain the leading European power, a novel situation of which its citizens were only just becoming aware.

Despite that, in March Wright outlined a novel in which Fish was to be liberated from his racial conditioning and become a dominating character.

Despite the novel receiving unfavorable reviews and a subject deemed potentially unsuitable for film, The Bridges of Madison County was a commercial and critical success.

" 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 this, the novel ends on an upbeat note with Yossarian learning of Orr's miraculous escape to Sweden and Yossarian's pledge to follow him there.

Despite the novel approach of the family being ( mostly ) supernatural creatures, the show followed the typical family sitcom formula – the bumbling, well-meaning dad, the practical mom, the eccentric extra-nuclear live-in relative, and the precocious kid.

Despite the fact Wouk had already worked the material from the novel into a stage play, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which premiered on Broadway in January 1954 and ran for a year, Herman Wouk's attempt at writing the screenplay was considered " a disaster " by director Edward Dmytryk, and he was replaced by Stanley Roberts, who later quit when told to cut the film down to two hours.

Despite these criticisms, the novel still captured the imagination of many Americans.

* Despite its naval designation as a " river gunboat ", the San Pablo of the book and film has very little artillery on deck: a 3-inch / 23-caliber gun forward, a 1-pounder rapid fire gun astern and two Lewis machine guns ( six in the novel ).

Despite being the protagonist of the novel Aziz does have some vulgar notion about women's physicality.

Despite its name, the novel does not so much deal with the crime and its formal punishment, as with Raskolnikov's internal struggle ( the book shows that his punishment results more from his conscience than from the law ).

Despite the controversy, the novel became a runaway critical and financial success, eventually winning the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the William Dean Howells Medal in 1970.

Despite his new fame, Belvedere agrees to keep his job, as the novel is only the first volume of a trilogy.

Despite the establishment of several new literary genres such as the novel and narrative monogatari ( 物語 ) and essays, literacy was only common among the court and Buddhist clergy.

Despite these reforms, it was still possible for Charles Dickens, writing in 1852 in the preface to his novel Bleak House, to bemoan the inefficiencies of the Court of Chancery.

Despite the gore, the norms of the classic detective fiction novel are strictly followed.

Despite Weston's initial reservations, throughout the novel, Ecotopian citizens are characterized as clever, technologically resourceful, emotionally expressive and even occasionally violent, but also socially responsible, patriotic.

Despite an expected documentary entitled Closed Romantic Realism, 2008 saw the release of an EP for Crosby's science fiction novel Bang Band Sixxx.

Despite Lane's efforts to market Pioneer Girl through her publishing connections, the manuscript was resoundingly rejected, although one editor recommended crafting a novel for children out of the beginning.

Despite the coin's novel shape, there was initial confusion amongst some members of the public, with the coin being mistaken for both the old half crown and the new ten pence piece.

Despite this his character is not much in evidence in the novel, only his actions.

Despite calls for the parade and party to be banned, the 1985 parade went ahead with theme Fighting for Our Lives.

Despite their friendship, Scott took issue with Dr. Johnson on the rights of the American colonies and his Lives of the Poets.

Despite the success of these more commercial films, it was Armstrong ’ s lesser-known documentary Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst ( 2006 ) which earned her the most critical recognition during this time, and a nomination for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.