Though the scene did not initially generate the same enthusiasm as An American in Paris, it subsequently overtook the earlier film to occupy its current pre-eminent place among critics and filmgoers alike.

Though it remained popular with mass audiences, late 17th-century Restoration critics saw Hamlet as primitive and disapproved of its lack of unity and decorum.

Though the Soviet Union declared itself anti-imperialist, critics argue that it exhibited tendencies common to historic empires.

Though ill-received by mainstream American reviewers, Dead Man found much favor internationally and among critics, many of whom lauded it as a visionary masterpiece.

Though at points the film appeared disjointed, it was well received by critics.

Though it was a platinum seller, reception of Presence was mixed among critics and fans, with some critics suggesting that the band's excesses may have caught up with them.

Though the band only achieved limited commercial success, they were acclaimed both by music industry professionals and critics.

Though Surrealism was a direct influence on Magic Realism in its early stages, many Magic Realist writers and critics, such as Amaryll Chanady and S. P. Ganguly, while acknowledging the similarities, cite the many differences obscured by the direct comparison of Magic Realism and Surrealism such as an interest in psychology and the artefacts of European culture they claim is not present in Magic Realism.

Though some critics thought it a failure, the film made money, and was the second highest-grossing film Altman had directed to that point.

Though it didn't do well commercially ( many critics felt Burton, at 33, looked too old for the part ) and Burton's Hollywood box office aura seemed to be diminishing, Burton was proud of the effort and wrote to his mentor Philip Burton, " I promise you that there isn't a shred of self-pity in my performance.

Though the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always, and have not always been, theorists.

Though originally the play was classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, the play is now considered by some critics to be one of his problem plays, so named because they cannot be neatly classified as tragedy or comedy.

Though it had little commercial success in the US, it was well received in Europe, particularly by critics like future filmmaker François Truffaut.

Though critics and viewers interpret meaning and mood in these cityscapes, Hopper insisted “ I was more interested in the sunlight on the buildings and on the figures than any symbolism .” As if to prove the point, his late painting Sun in an Empty Room ( 1963 ) is a pure study of sunlight.

Though critics at the time dismissed Feydeau's works as light entertainment, he is now recognized as one of the great French playwrights of his era.

Though Mackendrick's direction of the actors and his staging of the scenes are at times extraordinary, in recent years critics have praised only the film's dialogue, " courtesy of Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets, a high-toned street vernacular that no real New Yorker has ever spoken but that every real New Yorker wishes he could ", A. O. Scott wrote

Though ignored by most critics on its release, the film was a modest box office hit at the time and has received a positive reappraisal.

Though there are no longer any supporters of the " Pan Giorgionismus " which a century ago claimed for Giorgione nearly every painting of the time that at all resembles his manner, there are still, as then, exclusive critics who reduce to half a dozen the list of extant pictures which they will admit to be actually by this master.

Though her arrival at CNN was heavily hyped by the network, her show was panned by critics.

Though it only covers part of the manga, critics felt the ending brought the story to a good stopping point while making it clear that there was much left for the Sohma and Tohru to deal with, including the curse and Tohru's future choice between Kyo and Yuki.

Though he was not an eyewitness of Push life, he provides some relevant insights into how student life became infected by Push doctrines of freedom and rebellion, to a point at which the social movement was superseded and its leading personalities were dispersed or replaced with a new breed of social critics.

Though on first release the film was lauded by critics, it was a commercial disaster with the home audiences and the critics, and prompted John Davis, the head of the Rank Organisation to announce that he was pulling out of British New Wave, " kitchen sink " drama, nor would his company make such a " squalid " film again.

Though religious factors were not prominent ( the event was ethnically motivated ), in its 1999 report Human Rights Watch faulted a number of religious authorities in Rwanda, including Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other Protestants for failing to condemn the genocide directly – though that accusation was belied over time.

Though Garfield can be very cynical, he does have a soft side for his teddy bear, Pooky, food and sleep, but one Christmas he says " they say I have to get up early, be nice to people, skip breakfast, not play with mice ... I wish it would never end.

Though, " traditional functions do not apply ," such as the, " brief forays into another key ," implied by secondary dominants, the, " traditional ," ' five-of ' ( V / x ) names are often used by musicians without formal training and are useful to, " distinguish them from the ... chords of the chromatic-minor system.

Though she found campaigning arduous saying: " I felt uneasy for the first time in my life when I was campaigning ...

Though he has to be into his 40s ( he's a Korean War veteran ), he is also totally in touch with the contemporary scene ... How, an author-illustrator alone.

Though an alternate view is that the term was coined by the Czech art historian Antonin Matějček in 1910, as the opposite of impressionism: " An Expressionist wishes, above all, to express himself ... ( an Expressionist rejects ) immediate perception and builds on more complex psychic structures ... Impressions and mental images that pass through mental peoples soul as through a filter which rids them of all substantial accretions to produce their clear essence are assimilated and condense into more general forms, into types, which he transcribes through simple short-hand formulae and symbols.

#" Though of simple metal-sided, frame construction, the diminutive Tenney Fire Hall ... is a visual landmark in the small town.

Though it was over-shadowed commercially by the band's following album Metallica ( 1991 ), ... And Justice for All confirmed Metallica's large-scale arena status.

Rockingham's mother wrote to his father: " Though I hope you won't tell it him, never any thing met with such general applause, in short he is the hero of these times, and his Majesty talks of this young Subject, in such terms, as must please you to hear ... in the Drawing Room no two people talk together, but he makes part of the discourse ".

Though he never talked about his religious background, several comments by those around him during his time at WJM suggest he might have been Jewish: Phyllis Lindstrom was the first to suggest that he would get along well with Rhoda since, in her strained words, they were " both ... earthy ," and in a later episode Sue Ann Nivens assured him he would not mind singing her " non-denominational " Christmas carols.

Though it may be counter-productive to make this point in today's age, this willful blindness to the truth is spectacularly evidenced ...

Though others have often used the term as a synonym for self-organization, Maturana himself stated he would " never use the notion of self-organization, because it cannot be the case ... it is impossible.

" Though Scott once had, he lashed out " No, I do not care whether you were a writer or not, if you were any good ... you are a third-rate writer and a third-rate ballet.

Though she lost by decision, she smiled and jumped up at the end of the bout ... apparently happy to have gone the full distance against Anani.

Fétis later applied this same system of ordres to rhythm, “ the least advanced part of music ... great things remain to be discovered .” Though he did not publish these theories in any of his treatises, they appear in several articles for the Revue musicale and in some lectures which had a profound impact on Liszt.

: Though 3 ... Bg4 is considered an inferior move today, this was standard theory at the time.

Livy wrote that " Though every other person in the council advised safe rather than showy measures, urging that he should wait for his colleague, in order that joining their armies, they might carry on the war with united courage and counsels ... Flaminius, in a fury ... gave out the signal for marching for battle.

Though the book it was based upon chronicled the experiences of Ness and his cohorts over a span of time ranging from 1929 to 1935, the overwhelming majority of the television episodes were broadcast in no chronological timeline, but were set in the early 1930s ( for example, one episode, " You Can't Pick the Number ", begins with Winchell's words, " October 1932 ... the depth of the Depression ").

Though this has been refuted by the Oxford dictionary and hailed as " nothing apart from local folklore ... after all, the phrase isn't ' a local Ashbourne '.

Though the website found its main story to be " simple and basic ", and gameplay to be largely luck-based, it ultimately declared that " whether you like or hate those darn Pokémon ... if Nintendo keeps making Pokémon videogames of this quality, those creatures aren't going away anytime soon.

: Though played mostly for laughs, the storyline contained a notable element of danger as well ... Crane was developing strength as an artist that added to his already strong figure work.

He stated, " Though their country was destroyed, the Jewish nation has existed to this day ... is one of the greatest movements of the present time.

who comes at the voice of the poor in distress, who gives breath to him who is wretched .. You are Amun, the Lord of the silent, who comes at the voice of the poor, when I call to you in my distress You come and rescue me ... Though the servant was disposed to do evil, the Lord is disposed to forgive.