In spite of these newfound successes ABC continues to flounder in creating new reality television series.

In spite of the House Styles, those artists who could draw apart from these would gain some notoriety.

Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France.

In spite of this, photography actually inspired artists to pursue other means of artistic expression, and rather than compete with photography to emulate reality, artists focused " on the one thing they could inevitably do better than the photograph — by further developing into an art form its very subjectivity in the conception of the image, the very subjectivity that photography eliminated ".

In spite of his tendency towards high art, he was already known and appreciated as a humorist, and his early companionship with Charles Keene fostered and developed his talent for scholarly caricature.

But Mozart's contribution to opera seria was more mixed ; by his time it was dying away, and in spite of such fine works as Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito, he would not succeed in bringing the art form back to life again.

In the modern sequences the dialogue is more realistic, but Bernard consciously assumes some stylization of language: he not only tries out his forthcoming public lecture using heightened, flamboyant rhetoric, but also engages in a polemical piece of " performance art " to diminish Valentine's belief in the supremacy of scientific thought: not through spite, but merely as a " recreation ".

Once Hopper achieved his mature style, his art remained consistent and self-contained, in spite of the numerous art trends that came and went during his long career.

Nightingale worked hard to educate herself in the art and science of nursing, in spite of opposition from her family and the restrictive social code for affluent young English women.

Perhaps the sharpest judgement passed on Hauser was the one by Mrs. Biberbach, who commented on his " horrendous mendacity " and " art of dissimulation " and called him " full of vanity and spite ".

In spite of the many links and similarities between historical avant-gardes, alternative art practices ( visual poetry, copy art, artist ’ s books, etc.

In spite of his continual controversies with the Aristotelians, Patricius managed to make a comprehensive study of contemporary science, publishing in 15 books a treatise on the New Geometry ( 1587 ), as well as works on history, rhetoric and the art of war.

In spite of the success of these first ventures, Gleyre retired from public competition, and spent the rest of his life in quiet devotion to his artistic ideals, neither seeking the easy applause of the crowd, nor turning his art into a means of aggrandizement and wealth.

The thought as enounced in the first stanza is the supremacy of ideal art over Nature, because of its unchanging expression of perfect ; and this is true and beautiful ; but its amplification in the poem is unprogressive, monotonous, and scattered ... which gives an effect of poverty in spite of the beauty.

In spite of its unfinished state and some deficiencies in rhythm, Boiardo's Orlando is considered a magnificent work of art, echoing throughout the poet's ardent devotion to Love and Loyalty, shedding warmth and sunshine wherever the lapse of ages had rendered the legends colourless and cold.

In spite of the fact that the Panamanian public did not understand much of his art, in 1955 he was awarded a prize for a piece that included bits of glass.

However, in Downes v. Bidwell,, the Court held that the Congress could constitutionally enact a statute taxing goods sent from Puerto Rico to ports in the United States differently from other commerce, in spite of the constitutional requirement that " all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States ,"< ref > U. S. C. art.

I was in favor of " pure " art in spite of the fact that I put quotation marks around " pure " or " purity " whenever I used them, because I don't believe there's any such thing as pure art.

In the beginning he is portrayed as a failed art student and obviously has feelings for Micki that get stronger as the series progresses in spite of her firm, consistent rejection.

This was in spite of concerted opposition from the County Council, the colleges concerned, the local Member of Parliament, David Crouch, and a large number of figures in the art world at the time, who petitioned Parliament.

:" Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

In spite of the deep-rooted prejudices which prevailed in certain classes of French society, many of them occupied high positions in literature, art, science, jurisprudence, the army — indeed, in every walk of life.

Later on, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky seem to have been an inspiration in spite of his often outspoken ridiculing of modern art.

We are acutely aware that yours is a society which, in spite of several wars and many privations, has developed itself into one of the foremost nations of the world.

Never forget that you can still do your share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and frustrations and disappointments.

In spite of this, in 1975 Bliss granted an exclusive world license, for use with handicapped children, to the new Blissymbolics Communication Foundation directed by Shirley McNaughton ( later called Blissymbolics Communication International, BCI ).

Enzo cut the deal off out of spite and Henry Ford II, enraged, directed his racing division to find a company that could build a Ferrari-beater on the world endurance-racing circuit.

Some foreign analysts have pointed to widespread starvation, increased emigration through North Korea-China border, and new sources of information about the outside world for ordinary North Koreans as factors pointing to an imminent collapse of the regime, but North Korea has remained stable in spite of more than a decade of such predictions.

" In spite of the strained relations between them in the last years of Luther's life, Melanchthon exclaimed at Luther's death, " Dead is the horseman and chariot of Israel who ruled the Church in this last age of the world!

The church was the only institution capable of communicating with the outside world, so with this in mind the new Apostolic Administrator started writing letters and building up overseas contacts, in spite of the isolation arising from the opposition of the Indonesians and the disinterest of most of the world.

In spite of her strenuous efforts to avoid publicity, Garbo paradoxically became one of the twentieth-century's most publicized women in the world.

In 1980, he described New Zealand as a country living on borrowed money, unable in spite of the record efforts of its exporters to pay its own way in the world.

Venus finished 2009 ranked world number 6 in singles ( with a winning percentage of 70 percent ) and world number 3 in doubles with Serena, in spite of playing only 6 events together in 2009.

After ten years in the political wilderness, he returned to government ; yet, in spite of his knowledge and experience of the world, he was unable to assert himself fully as foreign secretary until the last weeks of Lloyd George's premiership.

In 1915 – 16 Wilhelm Schmidt, then the leader of the Vienna School of Ethnology, viewed totemism strictly according to the then-popular schemes of culture circles or kulturkreis ( today long abandoned ); because totemism was disseminated throughout the world, he thought of it as a single cultural complex in spite of local differences.

In spite of the boycott, Pemex developed into one of the largest oil companies in the world and helped Mexico become the fifth-largest oil exporter in the world.

Raven and Dreamer had a multi-year ongoing feud with a great deal of matches ; Dreamer got over as an underdog face showing resilience and tenacity in the spite of Raven coming out victorious every single time and also, he defeated Tommy Dreamer to retain the ECW World Heavyweight Championship in Tokyo Japan on August 13th 1996 while he was the world champion.

The film was released in 1985 and, in spite of earlier promises, didn't include mention of Karski's role in informing the world about the Holocaust.

The Dunkerque class battleships, designed specially to fight the German so-called pocket battleships, were, in spite of their relatively small size, very well-balanced designs and precursors of a new fast battleship generation in the world.

One of the chief obstacles that all mechanistic theories have faced is providing a mechanistic explanation of the human mind ; Descartes, for one, endorsed dualism in spite of endorsing a completely mechanistic conception of the material world because he argued that mechanism and the notion of a mind were logically incompatible.

In spite of this, Young Peter carries a cure for OCD to the world of Path.

From this time on, in spite of unimportant movements under Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, and Severus, the Jews, reduced in numbers, destitute, and crushed, lost their preponderance in the Jewish world.

In spite of the loss, the unification of the socialist parties had a new leader, and Chile was one of the few countries of the world in which a Marxist had clear possibilities to win the presidency of the Republic through democratic elections.

In spite of the much greater technological and economic resources of the modern world, famine still strikes many parts of the world, mostly in the developing nations.