Sentence examples for despite weighty from inspiring English sources

Competently crafted and well acted, but trivial despite weighty subject matter, these plays, like that Scotch, go down smooth, with almost no aftertaste.

His performance this week at the BayArena in Leverkusen, where he was arguably United's most influential player despite weighty contributions from Wayne Rooney, Antonio Valencia, Shinji Kagawa and Chris Smalling, married vision and experience in a masterclass of footballing productivity.

Reddy is so gifted that the poems, despite their weighty origins, soar.

Falardeau, despite handling weighty questions, moves the film along with an unfussy grace and a bright sense of location.

Makine's narrator remains winningly frank, despite the weighty subjects he is addressing, and Makine's descriptive prose, as ever, feels like an indulgence.

"Big Miracle," which cost Universal Pictures about $40 million to make and stars Drew Barrymore racing to save whales from Arctic ice, struggled despite a weighty TV advertising campaign; it generated about $8.5 million in sales for fourth place.

But despite some weighty star power, the telecast lacked serious heft.

In fact, despite the weighty, negative impacts of discrimination in healthcare settings, surprisingly little is known about the different kinds of discrimination that marginalized individuals encounter, besides those due to race.

But if its failure, despite having such weighty backers (including GE and HSBC), persuades governments of the folly of picking winners, it will not have died in vain.

Despite a pretence of weighty introspection, the film is an easy watch because we're learning its lessons for the thousandth time over, on the way to a conclusion that's already been repeatedly validated.

Despite dealing with such weighty topics, Burns wears her learning lightly.