Sentence examples for spite of appearances from inspiring English sources

Maybe one of these days a fallen footballer will tell the referee that in spite of appearances to the contrary he had not in fact been brought down.

As Poirot says in Murder on the Orient Express, "The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances".

Yet, in spite of appearances, Louis-Philippe was not prepared to accept the strictly symbolic role of a monarch who (in Thiers's phrase) "reigns but does not govern".

Ramsay and Barton decided that in spite of appearances, TiVo, which is what they decided to call their new company, was not a maker of black boxes but a service for people who owned black boxes.

The growing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea make war sound inevitable, but Evan Osnos says that, in spite of appearances, neither country has an appetite for war.

Camilla Long in the Sunday Times pointed out that "Purnell has not, in spite of appearances, spoken to anyone in the Johnson family, or any of his three reported lovers, Petronella Wyatt, Anna Fazackerley or Helen Macintyre.

In spite of appearance, Okasha's formalism has been found problematic in different respects.

In spite of their appearances, cottage gardens have a design and formality that help give them their grace and charm.

In spite of the appearance of premature aging, these patients fail to show an acceleration of other age changes, except for the early development of cardiovascular disease.

In spite of that appearance though, the body of the watch still juts up from the wrist, courtesy of the internals and heart-rate monitor.

The Song Confucianists, by delineating a set of moral principles that were said to originate in nature and be manifest in all things, sought to establish the essential unity of natural laws, physical existence, and human conduct across time and space in spite of the appearance of cultural difference and historical change.