Sentence examples for despite lapses from inspiring English sources

Democracy survived the Great Depression in part because the president remained, despite temptations, despite lapses, a thoroughgoing democrat.

Despite lapses in pace, tone, and casting, the movie is a showcase both for Mastroianni and for Visconti's simultaneously baroque and limpid style.

Despite lapses and longueurs, it proved an authentically strange, disorienting experience: the director and his cast were grappling with the toughest philosophical questions of the piece, even if, inevitably, they had no answers.

Straub's novel, despite lapses into triteness, mostly succeeds at her focused objective of close-reading two pivotal weeks of a family's life.

The label for varenicline that encourages patients to continue treatment and continue attempting to achieve abstinence despite lapses [ 17] may be a good model to support delayed quitting.

NRT-treated smokers who continued treatment despite lapsing also showed a pattern of increasing abstinence over time [ 8].

Despite the grave pretensions of its name, despite the lapses of discipline in the kitchen, it is at base an unpretentious likable neighborhood restaurant.

Despite occasional lapses in taste (notably, the headline "ACHTUNG!