Sentences with phrase «still go against the grain»

A half century after he moved back to Omaha, he was still going against the grain and defying conventional wisdom.

This company has been in danger of being run by Vivendi for some time now, and in my opinion, it's not a matter of «if» it happens, but a matter of «when»... and yet, they're still going against the grain, churning out stuff their fans have been growing frustrated with for some time now.

Not exact matches

I should emphasize that there is nothing methodologically wrong with this assertion, although it does go against the grain for many New Testament scholars, who, as J. Z. Smith has observed, are still dominated by the essentially apologetic (and Protestant) myth of Christian autochthony.

That went against the established grain, and still does.

Still, you shouldn't give up; it is worth going against the grain.