Very much in spite of myself, I started tearing up.
It's schizoid, but it routinely succeeds, very much in spite of itself.
The kids' behavior isn't principled; on the contrary, Bloom believes, it seems motivated by something very much like spite.
It's already original - and not so much in spite of, but because of, its unoriginal language.
Batchelor's book doesn't polish it up terribly much, in spite of the literary elbow grease involved in researching it.
In the end, I graduated in 2015 with a first, very much in spite of the extra obstacles I had experienced.
Well meaning people who don't really get what they're doing, don't really get what their customers are after, don't really get much, in spite of their often valiant and kind-hearted efforts.
Then there's the possibility, however small, that you'll spend too much in spite of yourself or run into a once-in-a-generation market event that will cause you to run out of money sooner than you expected.
"By the time I retired," he continues, "I had reached the unhappy conclusion that what I had achieved as ambassador had been as much in spite of Downing Street as because of it".
"Alarmingly, their submarine safety record has not improved much in spite of years of operational experience," said Joshua Handler, a former researcher for the environmental group Greenpeace who is now writing a dissertation at Princeton University on Russian nuclear hazards.
