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" Despite the success of Picture Bride, however, Hatta was unable to find studio financing for her subsequent feature film projects, which included a screen adaptation of Cynthia Kadohata's acclaimed novel The Floating World ( 1989 ), about the transient life of a young Japanese-American girl and her family following their release from the World War II internment camps.
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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.
Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.
Despite their difficulties in New Zealand the tour proved a raging success on-field for the British and Irish.
Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.
Despite mission replanning necessitated by Challenger < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s abort to orbit trajectory, the Spacelab mission was declared a success.
Despite Kitna's success, Palmer was promoted to starting quarterback the following season.
Despite initial success, Shapur lifted his siege after his army missed an opportunity to exploit a collapsed wall.
Despite its limited success as a consumer offering, CDPD was adopted in a number of enterprise and government networks.
Despite success in reuniting large sections of the wider Christadelphian community and periodic efforts at reuniting smaller offshoots, there are still a number of groups who remain separate from other bodies of Christadelphians.
Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.
Despite success within the NFL, they could not survive in Portsmouth, then the NFL's smallest city.
Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers.
Despite this particular mission, in winning the Albigensians over by persuasion Dominic met limited success, " for though in his ten years of preaching a large number of converts were made, it has to be said that the results were not such as had been hoped for.
Despite its success, Enniskillen was not chosen as a World Cup Stop for 2008.
Despite early singles success in the United Kingdom, the band were initially more successful in the United States, billed as " The English guys with the big fiddles ".
Despite the recognition and success they enjoyed in the States, they were still largely ignored in the United Kingdom until their sixth album, the platinum selling A New World Record, hit the top ten there in 1976.
Despite some initial success, bolstered by heavy advertising, the brand did not prove popular and was eventually withdrawn from sale.
Despite the success of the expedition, the quelling of sporadic rebellions would take another eight years until 1905, when the island was completely pacified by the French under Joseph Gallieni.
Despite its modest critical and commercial success in Italy, and its warm reception by French critics, it failed to interest North American distributors.
Despite the delay in shipping the album to certain stores, In Pieces was another instant No. 1 success, selling a total of about 10 million copies worldwide.
Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.
Despite this tragedy the railway was a resounding success.
Despite the bad financial situation, Athens staged the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, which proved a great success.
Despite the early predictions for success, the Astros had a mediocre 44 – 44 record at the All-Star break.
" Despite his success in an " A movie ," Bogart received a tepid twenty-six week contract at $ 550 per week and was typecast as a gangster in a series of " B movie " crime dramas.
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Despite this, The Godfather Part III went on to gather 7 Academy Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture.
Despite another nomination for Best Picture and winning two Oscars for frequent collaborator Russell Boyd's cinematography, and for sound effects editing, the film's box office success was moderate ($ 93 million at the North American Box Office ).
Despite this, the film was highly acclaimed and was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Despite the attempt to tone down the content, the Motion Picture Association of America deemed the film too violent to rate PG-13, so Gibson released it as unrated.
Despite performing poorly at the box office, the film was nominated for several awards, including Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture ( Drama ) and Oscars for best Best Art Direction ( Richard Sylbert, George Gaines ) and Film Editing.
Despite the film's success, the film received mostly negative reviews from critics and won two Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay while Tom Cruise was nominated as Worst Actor and Roger Donaldson as Worst Director.
Despite and Bride
" Despite its nationalistic associations this work has, according to Newmarch, carried Smetana's name further afield than anything he wrote, with the exception of The Bartered Bride Overture.
Despite being a key witness in the inquiries, Bride kept a low profile after the sinking.
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Despite the commercially successful run of Babb's debut film, Dust to Dust — a reworked version of the 1938 film Child Bride — his production company Cox and Underwood disbanded, forcing him to form his own unit, Hygienic Productions.
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Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;
Despite their dedication to their jobs, however, the citizens of Mega Tokyo tend to dislike and distrust members of the A. D. Police, seeing them as corrupt and ineffectual.
Despite everything, however, there are some who support both dates and even some who support dates other than the two major possibilities presented.
Despite this however, the fatality rate per head of population is moderately high, comparable to the United States.
Despite her continuing production and accolades, however, Beaux was working against the current of tastes and trends in art.
Despite incorporating non-Christadelphian hymns however, Christadelphian hymnody preserves the essential teachings of the community.
Despite the support of executive Si Siman, however, he soon was fired for not sounding " country enough.
Despite his immense obesity and impending mortality, however, Louis the Fat remained clear-minded.
Despite the controversy however, EastEnders pulled in rating highs of 9 – 10 million throughout the duration of the storyline.
Despite these stereotypes, however, there are actually quite strict rules governing tackling.
Despite this, however, the country continued to receive aid and investment from capitalist countries such as the U. S ..
Despite the advent of print however, hand-written grimoires remained highly valued, as they were believed to contain inherent magical powers within them, and they continued to be produced.
Despite this almost exclusive focus, however, Greek fire is best understood as a complete weapon system of many components, all of which were needed to operate together to render it effective.
Despite his influence, however, Parsons has yet to be inducted.
Despite those hopes, however, usable land has always been severely limited.
Despite this, however, Italy's alleged 1987 GDP growth of a phenomenal 18 %, it was shortly re-overtaken by both France and the United Kingdom during the 1990s, when Italy's economic growth was particularly stagnant, with an average of 1. 23 % compared to an EU average of 2. 28 %.
Despite this fancifulness, however, Ivanhoe does make some prescient historical points.
Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the Lee-Kirby titles, however, Kirby felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC.
Despite these strains, however, Nigerians had assisted in the halting process of achieving stability in Chad, and both nations reaffirmed their intention to maintain close ties.
Despite Paramount's losses, DeMille would, however, give the studio some relief and create his most successful film at Paramount, a 1956 remake of his 1923 film The Ten Commandments.
Despite the economy's general expansion after 1983, however, inflation threatened its modest gains, as did serious fiscal and balance-of-payments deficits and the growing debt.
Despite the historical meekness of the presidency, however, it has been at the centre of some high-profile controversies.
Despite ongoing and potential disputes, however, it was unlikely in 1989 that Romania's borders would be redrawn in the foreseeable future.
Despite the immense economic growth, however, the standard of living for city laborers and farmers was still low.
Despite their height, however, the mountain system does not create a major barrier between the northern and the southern portions of the Meseta Central because several passes permit road and railroad transportation to the northwest and the northeast.
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