After the story settles in, Ms. Shannon, who remains best known for her tenure on "Saturday Night Live," fits Mr. White's anti-intuitive purposes admirably, in large part because so much of the performance willfully goes against the grain, pushing at us with naked, frenzied need that can feel embarrassing and, at times, almost grotesque.
The graded layer exhibits a distinctive 'softening' in the stress strain curve, indicating a microscale quasi-plasticity which can be associated with grain debonding, grain sliding, diffuse microcracking, grain push-out, and grain bridging.
In 2005, Mr. Bloomberg managed to sway many Democrats who were impressed by his post-9/11 leadership in rebuilding New York, his against-the-grain push to ban smoking from restaurants and his insistence on raising property taxes and even income taxes on the wealthy.
"I've gone against the grain and pushed hard on these issues," he said, "and I've gotten something done".
And that sense of going against the grain and pushing boundaries has helped London menswear to become something that's almost indefinable, so broad is its reach.
The appetite of countries such as ours for this grain has pushed up prices to such an extent that poorer people in Peru and Bolivia, for whom it was once a nourishing staple food, can no longer afford to eat it.
The impact of the trendiness of quinoa, for example, is now well-known: The appetite of countries such as ours for this grain has pushed up prices to such an extent that poorer people in Peru and Bolivia can no longer afford to eat it.
Higher grain costs pushed meat products company Tyson Foods to post third-quarter earnings that were lower than expected while egg company Cal-Maine Foods said profits soared past analysts' estimates during the fourth quarter.
In Buddhism, there's a practice known as "working against the grain" -- pushing against our aversions in order to transcend the ego.
According to Brown, the growing demand for US ethanol derived from grains helped to push world grain prices to record highs between late 2006 and 2008.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture USDAA), despite an expected bumper crop, voracious consumption of grains is forecast to push coarse-grain stockpiles down by 18m tonnes this year to 104m tonnes, the lowest in three decades.
