Sentence examples for despite actually from inspiring English sources

Despite actually being enormously popular, British metal has always traded on "outsider" status.

Best of Friends has become a modern anthem of comradeship, despite actually being about a serial friend-zoner.

As the A.V. Club blog once wrote: "Despite actually predating the creation of the famous Lego minifigure by a few years, Playmobil has always been, in America, at least, an also-ran in the 'weird European toys' market".

Christopher Plummer – The Insider (1999); Syriana (2005) Being a Brit and primarily a stage actor didn't stop Olivier racking up Oscar nods but Plummer's, well, plummy tones and theatrical bent might've counted against him, despite actually being, like his pal Sutherland, a Canuck.

While running pro-Ukip spin in the name of journalism, Kassam is also long-time director of 'Student Rights,' which describes itself as an "independent" anti-extremism "campus monitoring group," despite actually being a HJS-funded project sharing the same office.

The empirical ROCs were curved, not linear, meaning that different empirical response biases would yield different estimated diagnosticity despite actually representing the same underlying discrimination accuracy (d′).

"He died totally broke in complete obscurity and poverty, despite having actually accomplished the feat he set out to do".

In May 1953, Di Stéfano arrived in Spain and began training with Barcelona, despite not actually having signed for them.

But I liked Grant back then and I still like him now, despite never actually having met him.

The plan appears to be coming apart despite Paulson actually begging on one knee for the deal to be passed.

Announced by its nagging synth hook, Pyramids is greeted like a hit, despite not actually being a chart hit (No 129 in the UK).