All 7 Uses
nonetheless
in
Exit West
(Edited)
- Nadia's mother and sister were quiet women and her father a man who tried to be quiet, thinking this a virtue, but who nonetheless came to a boil easily and often where Nadia was concerned.
p. 22.1 *nonetheless = Even though what was just said is true, the surprising statement that follows is also true.
- But most people began to gaze at their own doors a little differently nonetheless.
p. 72.9nonetheless = in spite of what was said previously (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- …would be trapped here forever, or until hunger forced them back through one of the doors that led to undesirable places, the doors that were left unguarded, what people in the camps referred to as mousetraps, but which, in resignation, some people were nonetheless trying, especially those who had exhausted their resources, venturing through them to the same place from which they had come, or to another unknown place when they thought anything would be better than where they had been.
p. 115.4nonetheless = Even though what was just said is true, the surprising statement that follows is also true.
- Saeed and Nadia did not move, but their house began to change nonetheless.
p. 147.1nonetheless = in spite of that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- Nadia, who watched and smiled and usually said little in these gatherings, thought the couple a bit like the queen and king of a domain populated otherwise solely by women, a transient domain that would last only a few short seasons, and she wondered if perhaps they thought the same and had decided, nonetheless, to savor it.
p. 183.2nonetheless = Even though what was just said is true, the surprising statement that follows is also true.
- But there was nonetheless a spirit of at least intermittent optimism that refused entirely to die in Marin, perhaps because Marin was less violent than most of the places its residents had fled, or because of the view, its position on the edge of a continent, overlooking the world's widest ocean, or because of the mix of its people, or its proximity to that realm of giddy technology that stretched down the bay like a bent thumb, ever poised to meet the curved finger of Marin in a…
p. 194.9nonetheless = in spite of what was said previously (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- But Nadia was nonetheless reminded of her apartment in the city of her birth, which she had loved, reminded of what it was like to live there alone, and while the first night she slept not at all, and the second only fitfully, as the days passed she slept better and better, and this room came to feel to her like home.
p. 217.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(nonetheless) in spite of that (Used to connect contrasting ideas. Other synonyms could include words and phrases such as nevertheless, all the same, still, and however.)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)