Sentence examples for spite of knowing from inspiring English sources

He'd been surprised by how hard he pitched forward, in spite of knowing he was going to trip — he'd nearly sprained his wrist.

To make a film," he went on, with determination, and in spite of knowing what he does about the difficulties, "you need only some photographs and a cassette".

He has admitted having unprotected sex with his accuser although he maintains it was consensual in spite of knowing she was HIV-positive.

Mr. Buttrey, who is also former president of the Royal Numismatic Society in England and former chairman of the department of classics at the University of Michigan, said that Stack's and Mr. Ford sold the goods "in spite of knowing there was considerable evidence they were false".

It's something most of us can relate to, at least passingly, in spite of knowing there's no end to app production in sight.

This is reinforced by the findings that even households with children and elderly members could not consume organic vegetables, in spite of knowing that consumption of such vegetables would be good for the health.

This limbo state of "knowing" without really knowing appeared preferable to actually knowing.

As it tweaks the attitudes and behaviors of the past, "Down With Love" is careful to uphold the right-thinking norms of the present, denying the audience the pleasures of subversion and satire and managing, in spite of its knowing good cheer, to be less sophisticated than what it imitates.

Francis seemed determined to show he was a pope of the people, even getting his own passport so that he could travel as a regular civilian, but in spite of the knowing PR coups, is unhappy with the media coverage he has received.

Watch Fassbender play the drunk tyrant, the dancing fool, the tortured rapist, the grinning punisher, the religious hypocrite, the jealous master, the fiendish whipper, the adulterer, in spite of his knowing wife (she is fully aware of the affair he carries with his slave, Patsy).

In spite of not knowing of the link between smoking and COPD, they were very aware that smoking causes lung cancer which is similar with another study [ 11].