All 9 Uses
nevertheless
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The Namesake
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- Though Gogol's ears have been stuffed with cotton, he screams nevertheless in the arms of his grieving mother as they climb farther still, as he flies for the first time in his life across the world.†
Chpt 2nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- At times his name, an entity shapeless and weightless, manages nevertheless to distress him physically, like the scratchy tag of a shirt he has been forced permanently to wear.†
Chpt 4 *
- Though he was only an infant at the time, he feels nevertheless betrayed by his inability to know then that one day, years later, he would return to the house under such different circumstances, and that he would be so happy.†
Chpt 5
- Still, he knows that each component of a building, however small, is nevertheless essential, and he finds it gratifying that after all his years of schooling, all his crits and unbuilt projects, his efforts are to have some practical end.†
Chpt 6
- She revisits their affection and concern, conveyed weekly, faithfully, across continents — all the bits of news that had had nothing to do with her life in Cambridge but which had sustained her in those days nevertheless.†
Chpt 7
- Nevertheless she feels a wave of sympathy for him, at the thought of him driving to the hospital alone.†
Chpt 7
- She speaks matter-of-factly, but nevertheless she averts her gaze.†
Chpt 8
- The sight causes her to shudder nevertheless.†
Chpt 10
- And though she still does not feel fully at home within these walls on Pemberton Road she knows that this is home nevertheless—the world for which she is responsible, which she has created, which is everywhere around her, needing to be packed up, given away, thrown out bit by bit.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(nevertheless) despite thatBased on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 was just stated, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrast and but.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)