Despite his self-described " naturally joyous " nature, life for Lowell at Elmwood was further complicated by his father becoming deaf in his old age, and the deteriorating mental state of his sister Rebecca, who sometimes went a week without speaking.

Despite an all-star cast ( including Neve Campbell and Matthew Modine ) and the pedigree of Miller's script, Spacey's decision to lure Altman to the stage proved disastrous: after a fraught rehearsal period, the play opened to a critical panning, and closed after only a few weeks.

Despite tangles with the law and a disastrous tour of music halls in the United Kingdom, Keaton was a rising star in the theater.

Despite being caught unprepared by the attack, Sherman rallied his division and conducted an orderly, fighting retreat that helped avert a disastrous Union rout.

Despite this, Bonanno was all but unknown to the general public until the disastrous Apalachin Conference of 1957.

Despite a rather disastrous production in Bergamo shortly after its initial run at La Fenice, the opera soon entered the repertory of Italian theatres.

Despite its high aims, the republic proved disastrous both militarily and politically.

Despite this, wherries were using the navigation until 1912, when a disastrous flood damaged the locks.

Despite the enormous losses of the disastrous 1940 – 1942 period, known to the Germans as the " First " and " Second Happy Time ", the Air Ministry refused to invest in trade defence.

Despite disastrous bomber losses, these prompted Luftwaffe research into considerably more powerful anti-bomber weaponry in order to reduce the cost in lost fighter aircraft and aircrew.

Despite the fantasy elements, the game emphasizes that any action has " real world " consequences, and abilities beyond what is considered " normal " by mainstream society will draw unwanted attention and potentially disastrous results.

Despite the album's poor performance, financially it was not disastrous because the album was very cheap to record.

Despite the benefits of the Project, many CVP operations have resulted in disastrous environmental and historical consequences.

Despite corrective measures to improve the door-locking mechanism, a similar failure aboard another DC-10 will cause the disastrous crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981.

Despite a disastrous start and losing four of his first five games to Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Sergey Karjakin, he recovered to score 5 / 7 in the second half of the day and finished with a score of 7½ / 14, 2½ points behind coleaders Carlsen and Levon Aronian, whom he defeated in their individual games.

Despite this disastrous defeat, a cult of ' Sebastianism ', with the young monarch as Portugal's " Once and Future King " who would one day, like King Arthur, return to save his nation, has ebbed and flowed in Portuguese life ever since, and was particularly strong late in the 19th century as a Romantic revivalism, some saying that to be one of the causes of the decadence and lack of attitude in late Portuguese History.

Despite military and legal setbacks, López began planning another expedition, one which met with the similar problems, but with more disastrous consequences.

Despite this setback the British still remained unquestioned masters of the lands they possessed, as the disastrous Kandyan counter-campaign later in the year proved.

Despite a career of high earnings, press reports said that his financial situation was, while not disastrous, insufficient to fund his ongoing care.

Despite receiving some criticism from his peers, he continued to front the BBC's coverage of the Masters and The Open, where he put his language skills to good use by giving an impromptu interview in Spanish with Argentinian Andrés Romero.

Despite being the highest-rated woman for twenty years, Polgár has never competed for the women's world championship and in a 2011 interview was asked about this possibility.

Despite publishing a very good review for their 1995 album Afraid Of Sunlight and including it in their 50 Best Albums of 1995, Q refused to interview the band or write a feature on them.

Despite the general agreement among film critics regarding these political connotations of the film, lead actor Kevin McCarthy said in an interview included on the 1998 DVD release that he felt no political allegory was intended.

Despite containing some of the bands favored live tracks, including " Blown Away ," " The Bland Within ," " District " and " America ," some fans felt alienated by the album's progressive nature and in a recent interview, frontman Lou Koller claimed that the album's cover art probably contributed to its poor reception.

Despite this diss-track, when asked in an interview on Hot 97 with Funkmaster Flex of his take on the subject, Kanye responded by saying " Man, you don't understand how much I love Dipset.

* Despite declaring " death to Israel " in his public appearances, Nasrallah said in an interview to The New Yorker, " At the end of the road no one can go to war on behalf of the Palestinians, even if that one is not in agreement with what the Palestinians agreed on.

Despite the fact that Smith is a practicing Catholic, as Kevin Smith confirmed in an interview on the film's DVD, several religious groups, especially the Catholic League, said the film was anti-Catholic and blasphemous, and organized protests, including one that took place at the November 12 premiere of the film at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Despite this justification there is a very famous political 1976 interview recorded by the Portuguese state-run television channel — RTP, in which Barroso, as a politically minded student during the post-Carnation Revolution turmoil known as PREC, criticises the bourgeois education system which " throws students against workers and workers against students.

Despite the above, in an article in The Wall Street Journal for February 25, 2012 ( page D3 ), based on an interview conducted on his 64th birthday, Baryshnikov refers several times to his " wife ".

Despite Fred's soul supposedly shattering in the process of Illyria taking over her body, Joss Whedon originally intended for either Fred and Illyria to be split in two had Angel gotten a sixth season, as revealed by Amy Acker in an interview: " As I ’ m playing this new character now, it was just some stuff that he was going to do with her and bringing Fred back and getting to work with both characters ", or for Illyria to take on more and more of Fred's memories.

Despite a career in rock music, Cameron stated in a 1989 radio interview that growing up he " wasn't a big rock fan ..." and that his musical tastes during his youth were " more into jazz.

Despite the early yearnings for fame, Butler would tell London's Daily Telegraph in a 2009 interview, when aged 39:

Despite the popularity, the monks of St Sixtus have continued to decline almost all interview and visit requests, and have not enjoyed all of the attention they have received.

Despite the lack of records, Goldstein denied in an interview that the episode was staged.

Despite having signed a four year contract with the club in 2006, Drogba reportedly pointed out several favoured clubs in the interview, identifying Barcelona, Real Madrid, Milan or Internazionale as possible future destinations, he later admitted he regretted this and was 100 % committed to Chelsea.

Despite being widely seen as a frontrunner in the leadership contest, UK Labour leader Ed Miliband was unable to recall Ken Macintosh's name during a TV interview with BBC Scotland, during the September 2011 Labour Party Conference.

Despite their venerable history, some of the interviews succeeded almost in spite of themselves: Graham Greene ’ s interview almost ended before it began when one of the interviewers turned up hungover and threw up in his hat on Greene ’ s doorstep ; Nabokov's was cut short when Jeopardy!

Despite these explorations of the character's personality, O ' Connor said in an interview that revealing the face of the Chief is not as important as revealing the events going on around the character.

Despite being told by TNA's Director of Talent Relations, Terry Taylor, that they were cutting personnel on a general basis, he revealed in a subsequent interview being fully aware that Mantell and him were released due to their friendship with Jarrett from the onset, expressing frustration due to his uninvolvement in the situation.

Despite including the Cast Interviews from Thumbtanic and the Gabba the Butt interview and Character Bios from Thumb Wars, the film lacks the commentary available on the single-film releases.

Despite her long history of fundraising, in a 2009 interview with Chicago Life Magazine, she reported not always enjoying the process, stating " Even since I first started with the Shaw celebration in 1956, I ’ ve never really liked asking people for money.

Despite speculation on Gamal Mubarak succeeding his father as president, Ali Eldin Hilal, the head of media for the NDP, said in an interview with the American Arab channel al-Hurra, " The candidate 2011 of the National Democratic Party will be President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak ...

Despite captain John Lloyd admitting that the final tie was 50 / 50 in a televised interview by Sue Barker, his comments and further comments by LTA Chief Executive Roger Draper regarding a lack of a number two player suggests that this could be the last time Bogdanovic will represent his country in a Davis Cup tie.