Sentences with phrase «bit against the grain»

To be STRONG «Anytime» means you have to train a bit against the grain.

Though I admittedly love a good rose or gingham print, novelty prints somehow manage to feel like they go a bit against the grain.

Not exact matches

Flip once, grilling on the other side for 6 to 8 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 135 F degrees with instant - read meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of steak Transfer plates to platter and let rest for 5 to 10 minutes before slicing against the grain, and then cutting again into bite - sized pieces.

Flank steak is cut into bite - sized chunks against the grain, then it's lightly dusted with potato starch (in our case well use cornstarch), flash - fried in oil, and doused with an amazing sweet soy garlic sauce.

Slice the flank steak against the grain into 1 / 4 - inch thick bite - size slices.

Allow meat to rest for 2 - 3 minutes, then slice against the grain into bite sized strips or cubes, and serve in warmed tacos with cilantro and onions and fresh salsa.

Prepare the beef Slice the flank steak against the grain into 1/4 ″ thick bite - size slices.

barton not a very good footballer but a bit smarter than most of them and goes against the grain which i respect... but he is right on this wenger had the chance to bring in cb and cdm but buggered (sic) off to the vatican instead... repenting his numerous football sins of the last 10 years is one thing this was just dereliction of duty

Usually Villeneuve's opinions are a little bit controversial and go against the grain of popular thinking, but this one just seems outrageous.

We live in a society of busy - ness, with so mich expected of parents and so much to get on and do and so much pressure, that a EC is an inconvenience of having to go against the perceived norm, having to pay much more intimate attention to our babies, having to deal with bodily functions, having to wake ourselves up a bit to what our culture has conditioned us to and having to go against the grain — all of which take effort and all of which take time and / or energy away from other mummy efforts that bring more obvious and societally rewarded benefits.

Huntsman is cutting against the grain with his online strategy, using an unconventional web presence that places a heavy emphasis on Internet videos that look a bit like they came from the outtake reel of a documentary film.

But for the rest of us mortals, who want a little adventure without risking a restraining order, we can get that same excitement from going against the grain just a bit.

Cut the chicken against the grain and on the diagonal (30 to 40 - degree angle) into thin, bite - size pieces.

When I set up Journey Jottings 10 years ago a few people said — «Aren't you going against the grain a bit producing a range of paper products?

Your hand rises with desire to brush against the rough leathery skin curious to touch the grain that caresses like sandpaper but the bladed teeth still protruding and hungry with bite even in their death keep you at spectator's distance.

Postcards From The Edge, Metro Pictures, New York, US New York / New Drawing 1946 - 2007, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, ES Monuments With A Horizon Line II, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, DE Desenhos [Drawings]: A-Z, Museu da Cidade, Pavilhão Preto, Lisbon, PT The Porn Identity, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT A Bit of Matter And A Little Bit More, screening Performatik 09, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek and Performatik, Brussels, BE Regift, The Swiss Institute, New York, US Cut & Paste, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK Down To Earth (Ceramics), Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, BE Double 40 Jahre Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, MMK, Frankfurt, DE The First Stop on the Super Highway, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi - do, KR Feedbackstage, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE Sharjah Biennial 9: Provisions For The Future (curated by Isabel Carlos), Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah, UAE Two in One Contemporary Art from Witte De With & De Appel, Christie's, Amsterdam, NL 40th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, USA Écritures Silencieuses, curated by Herve Mikaeloff, L'Éspace Louis Vuitton, Paris, FR Carnival Within - An Exhibition Made in America, curated by Sabine Russ, Gregory Volk, Uferhallen, BE Espèces d'Espaces, Yvon Lambert, New York, US Take The Money And Run, Brouwergracht 196, Appel, Amsterdam, NL Double Participation, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt / Main, DE Beginnings, Middles, And Ends (cur.Gianni Jetzer), Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna, AT Dematerialised: Jack Wendler Gallery 1971 to 1974, curated by Teresa Gleadowe, Chelsea Space, London, UK Time As Matter, MACBA, Barcelona, ES 15 Years of Collecting Against the Grain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE Artist Rooms Tate St Ives Summer Season, Tate St.Ives, UK Au Pied De La Lettre, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Chamarande, FR Art - Athina, Galerie Hubert Winter, Faliro Pavillion, Athens, GRSerralves 2009 The Collection: An Exhibition in Three Parts and Permanent Works in the Park, Serralves 2009 - The Collection: Passage through the First Part of the Exhibition, Serralves Museum, Porto, PT Serralves 2009 - The Collection: Videos and Films in the City, 74 Rua Cândido dos Reis, Porto, PT As Long As It Lasts, curated by Tom Eccles, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Close Encounter, Blokhuispoort, Leeuwarden, NL When Ideas Become Forms 30 Years of Gallery, La Galleria, Venice, IT; Galerie Dr.Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz, IT The Poetics of Space, curated by Anja Isabel Schneider, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, FR Zidovi na Ulici / Walls in the Street, multiple locations around Belgrade, RS Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949 - 78, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, US Time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE This World & Nearer Ones, curated by Mark Beasley, Governors Island, New York, US Recontres International Paris / Berlin / Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE Turning Some Pages, screening A House is not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Nazelles, Négrons, FR Printed Matter, Learn to Read Art (Aprender a Leer Arte), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, ES Collection History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, MOCA, Los Angeles, California, US In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960 - 1976, curated by Christophe Cherix, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Memory Labyrinth.

The cover is almost perfectly smooth, but has just the slightest bit of tactile feel when you go against the «grain» of the metal.

Be open to what works for the other and do it some even though it may go against your grain a bit.