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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.
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Despite this, Chapulin did try his best to help, and all his adventures ended well ( though sometimes by sheer good luck or outside help.
Despite his irresponsibility and highly destructive urges, Hammer always ends up getting his man ( or woman ), often through sheer luck, brute force, the initiative of his partner, or some times a flash of brilliance.
Despite being initially appalled by the attitudes of the British, by the heat and dust, by the disease and poverty and by the sheer numbers of people, he, as many others, fell deeply in love with India.
Despite some confusion in orders behind the Russian lines, which resulted in some units abandoning their posts, numerous Russian troops held on tenaciously, and the Japanese finally managed to overrun the Russian positions mostly through sheer superiority in numbers.
Despite their best efforts, the Sand Ninja are slowly overwhelmed by the sheer strength of their mysterious opponents.
Despite the sheer lack of success, the head did have some positive words, stating: " It's all a learning process for us.
Despite the sheer age of the game and the fact that it is both technically and graphically inferior to modern racing simulators, F1GP still has a small community and on-going developments relating to the game.
Despite the illegal collection of up to a hundred individuals of this taxon in San Diego County each year, the sheer abundance of this snake in that area ( Hubbs, 2004 estimates 15, 000 individuals within the favored collecting area alone ) and the small number of optimum days for such collection ( approximately 10-15 per year ) has allowed for a continued population to exist and thrive.
Despite his harsh declarations Babur however was even more concerned about advance of the sheer 100, 000 mainly Hindu Rajputs, whom Babur had began to commonly refer to as the " Infidels ".
Despite and beauty
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 their natural beauty, the secluded valleys along the Na Pali Coast in Hawaii are heavily modified by introduced invasive species such as She-oak.
Despite his cursing them as " slimy things " earlier in the poem (" Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / upon the slimy sea "), he suddenly sees their true beauty and blesses them (" a spring of love gush'd from my heart and I bless'd them unaware "); suddenly, as he manages to pray, the albatross falls from his neck and his guilt is partially expiated.
Despite its abundance of wilderness, recreational opportunities, hunting and fishing resources, and resplendent natural beauty, tourism is not a major sector of the local economy — largely due to the city's remote location.
) Despite the beauty of the planet, the EEC team were puzzled by a repeated random pattern of circles of bare dirt, which they observed across the whole globe.
Despite her great beauty, she was barren for an unknown reason.
Despite their beauty, they are not real ruins but an unfinished building, which was badly damaged by the 1910 earthquake and then interrupted.
Despite the murder of their friend, Holly and Leo cannot free themselves from the power of Ayesha's beauty.
Despite their beauty, all of Wilson's " Angels " were brilliant and were dedicated in their service for the congressman.
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Despite her inhuman beauty, her eyes can strike terror into mortals.
Despite the lack of any conscious aesthetic in the Bauhaus-inspired style, which grounded architectural beauty in practical, industrial function, the swooping arcs and soaring chimneys had an uplifting effect on modern eyes, a sort of post-industrial chic.
Despite her natural beauty, she only emerges out of her shell after Zack and Mac's makeover, and her popularity in school soars almost immediately after the transformation.
Despite her deformity, the Armenian girl ’ s beauty and eyes attract Bagradian.
Despite the damage, the natural beauty of the area remains largely intact.
Despite the recent campus developments, Thacher still retains its casual ranch appearance with its unassuming style of architecture, choosing to defer to the Ojai Valley's natural beauty.
Despite this, the area has retained much of its natural beauty and isolation.
Despite this, the area has retained much of its natural beauty and isolation, and does not get the high number of visitors recorded by its northern neighbour, partly because the road is narrow and only recently sealed.
Despite the overwhelming scenic beauty of its landscape and colourful local minorities, mass tourism hasn't developed in this region, mainly due to its remote location, lack of a nearby airport, and until fairly recent, relative inaccessibility due to bad road conditions.
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Despite her beauty and high birth, she is still unmarried, partially because she found all of the matches her father made insulting.
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Despite and spectacle
Despite the worked nature of the spectacle, shooters have been around since the beginning.
Despite and numerous
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 numerous similarities in phrasing and factual errors, the court found the evidence inadequate and dismissed the case.
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.
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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.
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