Sentences with phrase «little sense despite»

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Of particular importance in this regard, though little noted by historians or popular piety, are Nuechterlein's telling observations on the Lincoln who prosecuted the war through to its conclusion despite its frightful costs» whatever the popular and, in some sense, real perception of Lincoln as tenderhearted.

If, despite the inappropriateness indicated above, one wishes to maintain that the analogy is between «person» and «symphony,» and not between «person» and successive «groups of notes,» it makes little sense to say that I am more of a person in the half - hour preceding my death than I am now, whereas the series of complex notes which constitute the symphony are closer to being the symphony the nearer the end of the symphony is approached.

He knew that the meeting was little more than a communist propaganda ploy, but he also sensed that the threat of a nuclear holocaust was so grave he had to take a stand for disarmament, despite resistance from the Reagan administration and steel - tipped invectives from the Religious Right.

Despite Arya's youth, she's never made the rash decisions of a little girl; she has a highly developed sense of vengeance and the patience to play the long game (see: The Hound dying slowly of his wounds).

Republican lawmakers warned Trump on not to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, but showed little sense of urgency to advance long - stalled legislation to protect the special counsel despite a report that the president had tried to remove him last June.

However, sometimes films that feature such inconsistencies can still succeed as entertainment, despite making very little logical sense in terms of adhering to a set of tangible rules, whether real or concocted.

Despite the time lapses that divide the three films and the very different places that the Gen X characters end up from the Queens apartment they used to share, there's little other sense of the passage of time, especially of the new millennium.

However, it you are a little twisted in your sense of humor, you might find yourself laughing out loud despite the trite and often ridiculously sophomoric antics.

He shares a birthday with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Laura Linney and Michael Mann, which fills him with a sense of purpose, despite being little more than a bizarre coincidence.

Actually, I don't know the full answer here, but the little I do know about Post-16 is that despite facing deprivation, LCHI SEN and EAL challenges, just like all other education phases, that formula just isn't designed that way.

Despite knowing little about what direction the developers will take Tales» debut on the Switch, narrowing the likely options is a possibility due to the relatively low number of titles that would make sense for Bandai Namco and the series.

Despite my sense that social media authenticity and production should be a vibrant budding limb on the tree of law, surprisingly little appears to be happening in Canadian jurisprudence.