All 7 Uses of
however
in
Underworld by DeLillo
- These times were hers, however brief and infrequent.
*however = regardless of how
- Whatever Nick's experience in correction and however deftly the jebbies worked him over later in their northern fastness, minting intellect and shiny soul, it was still a brother's right to heckle and jeer.†
- …tarots of elemental fate, or synchronous footage running in an X pattern, and whatever the mathematics of the wall there were a hundred images running at once, here comes the car, here comes the shot, and even though it wasn't part of the footage Klara was sure there was a Hertz sign on top of the Book Depository—she'd seen it in photographs, forgotten about it until now and thought it was another passing strangeness, however minor, a rent-a-car sign brooding over the motorcade.†
- We can't use conventional methods, however clever, on these people.
however = regardless of how
- He was Junior after all, now and always, willingly, necessarily, however tired and befooled, the life companion and loyal second man.†
*
- They're just ordinary alphabet-soup O's, however beautifully formed.
however = regardless of how
- …a rolled-up magazine, a man of some girth but quick on his feet, dipping and gliding, addressing the major mess at 86th Street, a man who shrugged off beeping horns and did a hundred semaphores, extravagant of gesture, in a topcoat with a velvet collar, his glossy baton flashing and people pausing to watch, and there was a great and fervent feeling that attended his performance, which was conscientious and deft however befrilled by theater, and it spread among the people in the street.†
Definitions:
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(however as in: However much she tried...) to whatever degree (regardless of how much; or whatever unspecified amount)
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(however as in: However, complications may...) though (or another expression that connects contrasting ideas)
(Based on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 exists, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrastand but.)