Peter Steinfels (Beliefs column, May 12) captures a psychological truth in observing that despite their different positions, supporters and opponents of, say, the death penalty or abortion share an intriguing similarity.
Frank tries to give Knox existential heft, observing that despite his escape he was still a captive "in the sense that we are all captives" to "the storms and wreckages that threaten, confine and ultimately defeat or drown us all".
André 3000 and producer Mr. DJ learned about beat creation through observing the members of Organized Noize at work, with Mr. DJ observing that despite André 3000's normally frugal lifestyle, his enthusiasm for production led him to splurge on costly recording equipment.
There is no Plan B.In July, the authors of a report sponsored by the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, a respected think-tank, observed that, "despite considerable political flux and popular dissatisfaction, Iran is not on the verge of another revolution.
It is interesting to observe that KP transplantation, despite longer dialysis duration, had the most dramatic improvement in brain structure/function.
(Years ago, the critic John Sutherland wryly observed that, despite her judgment, it was she and not Morgan who chose suicide).
Later, when I observe that despite everything, Barlow must have known he'd survive, there's the briefest of pauses, then he shakes his head slightly.
Yet others have observed that despite this furious concentration on the new, there are movies that love music, the elements of art (portraiture, landscape, still life), story, character, society, life and theatre.
Event chair Gwyn Topham, the Guardian and Observer's transport correspondent, opened the breakfast and observed that despite the gloomy economic climate, SMEs across the UK seem to be relatively upbeat.
After the early skirmishes here Murray surveyed the battlefield and observed that, despite the departures of Stanislas Wawrinka and Kei Nishkori, it would still take "great tennis" to win the tournament.
At the height of the cold war, in his brilliant and sardonic survey of American political thought, "The Liberal Tradition in America," Louis Hartz observed that despite its deepened worldwide involvement, the United States was becoming more isolated intellectually.
