Despite Francis ' different religion, he felt that they were good people, much like Europeans, and could be converted.

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 his partial recovery, Weber felt that he was unable to resume regular teaching at that time and continued on as a private scholar, helped by an inheritance in 1907.

Despite Qatar's coming under British " protection ," Abdullah bin Jassim was far from secure: recalcitrant tribes refused to pay tribute ; disgruntled family members intrigued against him ; and he felt vulnerable to the designs of Bahrain, not to mention the Wahhabis.

Despite these expansions, some still felt copyright was not a strong enough regime.

Despite the oath ( s ) of reconciliation, David felt insecure, and so made an alliance with the Philistines, becoming their vassal.

Despite intervention, market pressures caused the yen to continue climbing in value, peaking temporarily at an average of ¥ 271 per US $ 1 in 1973 before the impact of the 1973 oil crisis was felt.

Despite neither side obtaining a clear victory, Otto II felt his honor was sufficiently restored and opened peace negotiations with the French King.

Despite the plaudits, the film was considered a step back cinematically with the feel of filmed theater, however Kazan did at first use a more open setting but then felt compelled to revert to the stage atmosphere to remain true to the script.

Despite smoking in some of his films, Eastwood is a lifelong non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and as a Vegan practices healthy eating and daily Transcendental Meditation. While promoting his film, Hereafter, Eastwood spoke about his views on religion and meditation by saying " I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them.

Despite the story's lack of an easily marketable concept, Cannava selected American Beauty because he felt it was the one Ball had the most passion for.

Despite the increased light from this device, Bacon and French felt the statue required even more light.

Despite being released from the play after five weeks, Milland felt that he had gained valuable acting experience.

Despite the melodramatic script, director King Vidor eagerly took on the film since it emphasized the traditional family values and strong belief in hope — qualities he felt were essential to a good motion picture.

Despite these issues, he also felt that the book had much to commend it, having a narrative structure that while " unstructured ", was " gripping and enthralling ", holding the reader's attention and keeping them " guessing what is going to happen next.

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 the secession of the Southern states and the formation of the Confederate States of America, Breckinridge remained in the Senate until he felt threatened by the military government of his state and fled Washington to the Confederacy on October 2, 1861.

Despite this complete success, Brock felt he needed to go further.

Despite his fame, Rothko felt a growing personal seclusion, and a sense of being misunderstood as an artist.

Despite his fame, the hunger artist felt dissatisfied and misunderstood.

Despite the group's success, however, Brown felt the group was never rightfully paid the money they felt they had earned from their success, later saying " the most I saw from all the tours and all of the records we sold was $ 500 and a VCR.

Despite Liege ’ s many contribution to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the people of Liege felt discriminated against by the Dutch because of their language ( French ) and their religion ( Catholicism ), were different from that of the Netherlands.

Despite his collegiate success, some NFL teams still felt that Smith was too small and slow for the pro game.

" Despite generally positive reviews, several critics, even those who were complimentary, felt that the ending was weak and did not live up to the rest of the film.

Despite the fact that Barks had done little traveling his adventure stories often had the duck clan globe trotting to the most remote or spectacular of places.

Despite very limited capabilities ( 98 bytes of instruction memory and about 19 stack and addressable registers ), people managed to write all kinds of programs for them, including adventure games and libraries of calculus-related functions for engineers.

Despite French and Moroccan military aid, Polisario raids against the Zouerate railway and mines threatened to bring about economic collapse, and there were deep misgivings in the military about the Saharan adventure.

Despite the massive amount of world and storyline development, none of the Living Greyhawk storylines or changes to the setting were considered official, since the regional adventure modules were produced by volunteers, and only received a cursory vetting by the campaign administrators of RPGA, and no review by WotC personnel.

Despite admitting that the Virtual Console version was essentially " nothing more than a no-frills, emulated version of a 13-year-old SNES game " that was no longer cutting-edge, he was still pleased with it and reiterated his belief that Super Metroid is " one of the best 2D action adventure games ever produced ".

Despite being a historical drama film, the film borrows freely from a range of other genres, including mystery, romance, erotica, politics, horror, adventure, martial arts, monster, thriller, and fantasy.

Gamespy stated: " Despite its unevenness, Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is a quality adventure that represents the best attempt yet made at miniaturizing the brilliance of Symphony of the Night.

Despite the damaged state of the carpet, the children desire to go on one more adventure before their mother returns.

Despite the focus on melodramatic space adventure, the fiction in Planet Stories improved over the next few years, largely due to the work of Brackett and Bradbury.

Despite the numerous reports that Eon Productions was leaning towards naming Scott as the new Bond in the 007 adventure Casino Royale, the role eventually went to Daniel Craig.

In later years, Time Out London stated, " Only Bette Davis and Gale Sondergaard have any fire in this otherwise plodding Warner Bros costume drama ," while Channel 4 noted, " Despite the frills, there is very little substance in this overcooked adventure.

" Despite the popularity of this popular meaning of Romance, other works are still, occasionally, referred to as romances because of their uses of other elements descended from the medieval romance, or from the Romantic movement: larger-than-life heroes and heroines, drama and adventure, marvels that may become fantastic, themes of honor and loyalty, or fairy-tale-like stories and story settings.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 15 % " Rotten " approval rating, slightly higher than the first movie, based on the reviews of 65 film critics, with the consensus being, " Despite being somewhat more exciting than the previous film, this kiddy flick still lacks any real adventure or excitement.

Despite all the adventure, travelogue, drama and poetry, the real subject of the series was the human condition, with Tod and Buz often cast as a kind of roving Greek chorus, observers and mentors to broken-down prizefighters and rodeo clowns, sadists and iron-willed matrons, surfers and heiresses, runaway kids and people from all walks of life, forced by circumstances to confront their demons.

Despite this, real success in Hollywood eluded him until 1950, when he co-starred with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger in the highly successful jungle adventure film King Solomon's Mines, shot on location in Africa.

Despite an involved plot and an occasional overabundance of palaver, not all of which is bright, this yarn about a cash-hungry dame who doesn't let men or conscience stand in her way, is an adult and generally suspenseful adventure.

Despite the focus on survival, the show " will also focus on exploration and adventure – and, by extension, the occasional alien encounter as well ".

Despite their " realism " Sorel's works remain highly baroque, with dream sequences and inserted narration ( for example, when Francion tells of his years at school ) typical of the adventure novel.

Despite the shortness of the adventure it requires a fairly advanced party because of the presence of Rosentos the Vampire.

Despite that list, Carnell tended to prefer adventure and Hard SF to New Wave experimentation.