Sentence examples for otherwise despite from inspiring English sources

Otherwise, despite the gifted and empathetic medical professionals, there wasn't much progress.

The real-life background adds a resonance and poignancy the film would not have otherwise; despite some fine acting and moments of emotional power, "Things Behind the Sun" works better as autobiography than as autobiographical drama.

If he had received foreknowledge of an attack that morning, he would have acted upon it, and no Democratic leader has said otherwise (despite Dick Cheney's smears to the contrary).

Otherwise, despite having the world's seventh-largest economy, Italy may have little hope of outgrowing the staggering debt load that could threaten its financial future — and that of the euro monetary union.

Otherwise, despite a likable performance from Norm Lewis as Porgy, this production feels cloudy and mild, only rarely acquiring the majesty of the opera that inspired it (2 30).

Otherwise despite all the state aid, and all the rhetoric about national identity and patrimony from French politicians, HB-Henriot too, like the auto companies, will have to consider outsourcing French jobs to compete with cheap Asian imports.

Indeed, the author breaks her own narrative -- often into very short chapters, linked together with what she calls "little chips of grammar" as chapter headings, adverbs or prepositions, words like "thereof," "otherwise" and "despite," words like "unless," with its elegiac undertones and freight of hope, fragments gluing isolated events into coherence.

Otherwise -- despite the formidable if misapplied charisma of Alec Baldwin in the role of Lily's great love and nemesis, the megalomaniacal theater producer Oscar Jaffe -- this comedy of grand postures and bad manners feels stalled in the 1930's, gathering dust (1 45).

Otherwise -- despite the formidable if misapplied charisma of Mr. Baldwin in the role of Lily's great love and nemesis, the megalomaniacal theater producer Oscar Jaffe -- this comedy of grand postures and bad manners feels stalled in the 1930's, gathering dust.

Otherwise bloggers, despite living through in an interconnected globalised world, will blog in their own disconnected worlds with insular communities being mirrored online.

Despite otherwise being healthy, they are unable to commit new experiences to memory.