Sentence examples for purely, despite from inspiring English sources

Add to that the Ivy League respectability in the person of Dollar Bill Bradley such as our parents wished on us, and the championship Knicks of the day formed a microcosm of a mindset and a worldview that even the Amazin' Mets didn't embody quite as purely (despite their Brooklyn hero, Gil Hodges, and its Jewish one, Art Shamsky).

But the Alicia we watched was never purely aspirational, despite many admirable qualities.

Gotham has an informality of service, though, that is purely American, despite the starched white tablecloths.

Note in Equation 1 that when the transgression parameter τ = 0.5 we have that σ P 2 (y ) = σ ε 2. In this limiting case the total phenotypic variance in the parental generation is purely environmental, despite drastic functional divergence between the parents.

But the fact that the bets leading to book are triggered by the circumstances, suggests that it is not just Beauty's beliefs on which the strategy depends, and hence the loss does not reflect a purely internal defect, despite the fact that the bookie can implement the strategy without having access during the experiment to knowledge that Beauty lacks.

Samarasinghe et al. [ 53] described that about one fifth of the primary health care nurses (PHCNs) in Sweden confined their service to purely somatic diseases, despite the fact that family problems or mental illnesses had not been properly disentangled.

Temasek says its investments are purely for financial purposes despite its ownership by the government.

In Shanghai, we meet the foreign colonizing "Shanghailanders" who, despite their purely capitalist intentions, created a global metropolis that became "the crucible for a distinct Chinese modernity".

That's why we continue to drink, smoke, practice privation (overeating), use sunbeds and undergo unnecessary purely cosmetic surgical procedures, despite knowing with absolute certainty that all of these things are detrimental to our health.

This answer may not satisfy or be useful to or be informative for the speaker who poses (46), but it counts as an answer despite these purely pragmatic failings, according to Braun's theory.

Despite its purely commercial motives, he claims that Coachella used to have an "aura" that is now gone.