Despite his "honest accounting mistake" protestations, his halo irredeemably slipped.
But his Republican opponent, Edward P. Romaine, the county clerk, objects that he is being tarred despite an honest record.
This is how a personality cult has built up around him, despite his honest and accurate admission: "I'm not a personality".
He spoke elliptically about the working-class emotions, motivations and outcomes of his character Monty Brogan, who despite an honest Irish-American upbringing finds himself peddling heroin in a playground.
Drummond himself is unflappable, unambiguously heroic, nonchalantly lighting cigarettes faster than he can smoke them (I could have sworn that at one point he had a pipe in his hand at the same time), making cheeky quips - many of them genuinely amusing - to the villains and getting the girl, despite the honest, ugly features which gave him his nickname.
The move to Chivas USA was billed as a chance for him to lead an attack, but nobody was in any doubt that this was a step backwards for the one-time wunderkind as the Red Bulls traded for Heath Pearce — and despite some honest if frustrating endeavor at a struggling team, the sense was that Agudelo was maybe going to be another one that got away.
Despite the honest admission, the tone of his letter is upbeat.
A Tax Court judge ruled in April that despite their "honest effort" to comply with complicated provisions governing passive losses, the Hannas couldn't deduct their rental losses for 2000 and owed $26,693 more in tax.
Despite the honest reluctance and limitations to assigning a value to an act of generosity, it is important that we continue to invest in the tools that help us understand the significance and scale of volunteering.
Despite some honest and poignant emotions and a compelling lead turn by Cybill Shepherd, "Being Rose" unfolds in an awkwardly constructed, herky-jerky manner that shortchanges its many characters and themes.
