All 50 Uses of
nevertheless
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- "Well, nevertheless," the Judge said.†
Chpt Prol. *nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- "Well, nevertheless," the Judge said, "we've had some times, we've done some tricks.†
Chpt Prol.
- He'd made a mistake in marrying her, one he might never have made if he'd been a few years older when they met, but his mistake, nevertheless.†
Chpt 1
- Nevertheless, this is living!†
Chpt 1
- Nevertheless, it grated on him.†
Chpt 1
- Nevertheless, sometimes the desire comes over me and—Christ!†
Chpt 1
- Nevertheless, he had a terrible sense of things in motion, secret powers at work in the ancient plaster walls, devouring and building, and forces growing and restive in the trees, the very earth itself succinct with spirit.†
Chpt 1
- Nevertheless, where the Law is concerned—†
Chpt 2
- Nevertheless, as I was saying, where the Law is concerned, there can be no fiddle-faddle about Absolute Truth.†
Chpt 2
- It was true that the questions were of no importance, no interest, even; nevertheless, he felt there were things that weren't getting said, loopholes left open, problems of contradiction and confusion.†
Chpt 2
- Nevertheless, don't be fooled by visions of pigeons or monstrous turtles or crimson snakes.†
Chpt 2
- He knew, without needing words for it, that there was a limit to teasing, a certain point, not quite predictable but nevertheless definite and final, beyond which teasing would not go.†
Chpt 2
- Nevertheless the car had lifted, in slow motion, all at once, and the Thruway sign had passed slowly to their left, and then they were gliding toward the sharply outlined wet weeds of the embankment, every water drop a precise little crystal, and the steering wheel in his left hand turned free, clutching air.†
Chpt 2
- Nevertheless, lying wide awake in the middle of the night, listening because he had no choice, he wished the whole pack of them dead.†
Chpt 2
- ...' " He had worries, nevertheless.†
Chpt 2
- Nevertheless, the man was a comfort, his very existence satisfying in a world that incessantly demanded fine distinctions between things not worth a man's thinking about: a world of jokes to be puzzled out and laughed at in the right places (how many times, in how many grim rooms had Millie thrown back her head and white throat, and laughed while Hodge sat chuckling fierce and baffled, heavy as iron in his chair!)†
Chpt 3
- Nevertheless, Hodge was powerfully moved, jolted as if by electric shock of love: the head ten inches from his own was suddenly gigantic, and looking into the hairy ear Hodge seemed to see past all galaxies into the void where, behold, there was light.†
Chpt 3
- Why it was that Hodge wanted to see him, watch him from a distance, was not clear to him; nevertheless, he felt the desire rising like a madness.†
Chpt 3
- He had never lived there, and his reasons for wanting to have lived there or to live there now, claim Stony Hill for his barony, were repulsive to her; nevertheless his grief and indignation were as real as if their cause were real.†
Chpt 4
- Nevertheless, she was flattered and excited.†
Chpt 4
- Nobody wants his child run over; nevertheless, nothing is more infuriating for a man with serious business in the world than hearing behind him, as he hurries his car through congested traffic toward his office (late through no fault of his own) the yawl, like the yawl of a big angry cat, of a siren.†
Chpt 5
- The policeman resists this inevitable tendency of his thought, if only because human beings are by nature social creatures, even policemen; nevertheless, the subtle pressure toward cynicism is everlastingly there.†
Chpt 5
- Alas, he has neither the peace and isolation of the Gnostic, sweating in the prison of his flesh but dreaming nevertheless grand dreams, nor the fitful joy to be had from the earthly communion of, loosely, saints.†
Chpt 5
- He was the first to scoff at talk of flying saucers, or prowling ghosts, or healing by faith: nevertheless, he read whatever happened into his hands on such subjects, and he frequently glanced at his horoscope in the Daily News, scoffed to the others at what he read, and, if any of it seemed to come true, took what he no doubt imagined was merely casual note of the fact.†
Chpt 5
- Nevertheless, he too had waited uneasily, had commented over and over that the weather was wrong for the time of year (in some way he could not pinpoint), and, when finally the old man's hunch had proved right, Miller had felt, you would have sworn, a peculiar relief.†
Chpt 5
- He accepted the work without comment, nevertheless, just as he accepted his daughter's whoring around, if it was that.†
Chpt 5
- Nevertheless, it was not necessarily true that he was insane.†
Chpt 5
- Good to have company nevertheless.†
Chpt 5
- All your reasons for righteousness will come down on your head like broken beams, and nevertheless you'll go on, because that's the law, son.†
Chpt 5
- Nevertheless, at last he came out.†
Chpt 7
- Nevertheless, the sun was burning.†
Chpt 7
- CLUMLY: Nevertheless, we have two murders ...SUNLIGHT: By panic, yes.†
Chpt 7
- Nevertheless, Fred Clumly blinked, wide awake now, sick with futility.†
Chpt 7
- He himself, as attorney for a small corporation—Flemming Construction, of North Tonawanda—had automatically been made an official of the company, a position in fact no more meaningful than, say, Head Custodian, but an "official," nevertheless.†
Chpt 8
- Nevertheless he said jovially, "You and Sister been having lots of fun?"†
Chpt 8
- Nevertheless, he was thinking about Kleppmann.†
Chpt 8
- Nevertheless, Will had gotten out his almost forgotten Army .38 and now carried it with him wherever he went, tucked into his briefcase.†
Chpt 8
- Nevertheless, he kissed her, Maddie and Danny standing there watching with solemn faces.†
Chpt 8
- If he consciously tried to think back to the murder of the guard, his mind would shy away stubbornly, like a horse avoiding a bridge; nevertheless, the memory repeatedly came back, around unsuspected corners, and though his thought recoiled the way you would draw back your hand from a snake you'd mistaken for a vine, he could not escape reliving that moment—the dead guard's hand reaching out to him—over and over.†
Chpt 10
- Nevertheless, he was a changed man, for whether or not he was able to think about it, he had seen the caves of Hell.†
Chpt 10
- True, he could see the back yards of all the people on this side of the block, or if not the yards then the trees and garage roofs; and true, he could hear the traffic of the city, the roar of an occasional jet overhead, the televisions a little ways off; but this was, nevertheless, his yard, and even though he could be seen by anyone who bothered to look from a nearby yard or some upstairs window, he felt private here: he felt he was himself.†
Chpt 10
- It came to him suddenly, with perfect clarity, as though someone right there in the hallway with him had whispered it into his good ear, that even if he himself was partly responsible, it was nevertheless a terrible thing they were doing to him.†
Chpt 10
- Nevertheless, he felt like a man reborn.†
Chpt 11
- The farm around the milkhouse lay as quiet as a picture in a magazine, but because of the music it seemed nevertheless alive and sentient, like motionless stone imperceptibly trembling with a dance of atoms, or like a sleeping head full of dreams.†
Chpt 11
- Nevertheless, for students of human character there are no more valuable books on earth than the books of ancient Mesopotamia and India and Egypt.†
Chpt 11
- Nevertheless, you will say to me, we should do what we can, and your theory, Mr. Sunlight, does offer certain hopes.†
Chpt 11
- Nevertheless, she suspected he'd gotten these seats because he was cheap.†
Chpt 12
- Nevertheless—and not ironically but inevitably, she understood now—she had fallen in love with him.†
Chpt 12
- Kennedy knew that each solution might raise twenty new problems, the writer said; nevertheless, he sought no grand vision, no return to some state of the nation long gone, impossible to recapture.†
Chpt 13
- Nevertheless, she came sideways from the stove toward the table and extended her hand, twisted and veined like old cypress root, to the back of the chair at the end.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
despite that (what was just said)
(Used to connect contrasting ideas. Other synonyms could include words and phrases such as nonetheless, all the same, still, and however.)
(Used to connect contrasting ideas. Other synonyms could include words and phrases such as nonetheless, all the same, still, and however.)