Example sentences of "against all [art] evidence " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Public Service Ideal does not assume , against all the evidence , that a free market will necessarily produce political access , variety , and debate ; it insists upon mechanisms which aim directly at these goals rather than relying upon their being achieved as the accidental by-products of mechanisms whose primary function is to achieve quite different goals such as commercial profitability or proprietorial self-indulgence . |
| 2 | At the same time he had to sound confident about the ultimate triumph of socialism , against all the evidence that it has failed . |
| 3 | All too often , what follows from it is rationalisation ; the justification of what we feel against all the evidence of our intelligence . |
| 4 | This is against all the evidence , but it is a compelling image , and one that clearly derives from this present age in our history , which now has the Shakespeare it deserves : an old , sex-obsessed vagrant in the Forest of Dean , refusing to pay his Poll Tax . |
| 5 | He came to me and put his arms round me and said , " I 'm terribly glad , " and from the simple way he said it I knew that against all the evidence he had believed me , perhaps because he wanted to . |
| 6 | Tom 's quick testing of her tendon reflexes revealed their characteristic briskness , and both the medical professionals realised that the condition was progressing , when they had been hoping against all the evidence that it would not . |
| 7 | How , against all the evidence , all the overwhelming knowledge she had about Guy Sterne , could she have let events overtake her like that ? |