"The distillation of a particular life, lived against the grain of time", its significance expands like the rings of a tree-trunk.
Growing against the grain of time, he feels time densely; the terror of transience and the tragedy of life's limits permeate this novel in a way that makes "Lolita" seem, relatively, a merry book, sporting an immigrant's amusement at America and connivance in its vulgar freedoms.
As Gerald Weissmann has argued, in his remarkable essay "Darwin's Audubon," Darwin, against the grain of his time, chose to take Audubon, the American rogue artist and amateur bird collector, seriously, and not just as a source of information but as a model of truth seeking.
I imagined teen-agers wandering in off the street, paying two dollars and hearing something that cut so gently against the grain of its time, while pointing toward other places where differences queerness, of one kind or another would be welcomed and, eventually, celebrated.
I imagined teen-agers wandering in off the street, paying two dollars and hearing something that cut so gently against the grain of its time, while pointing toward other places where differences — queerness, of one kind or another — would be welcomed and, eventually, celebrated.
We perform a series of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of a circular grain embedded in an otherwise single-crystal matrix and monitor both the grain size and the misorientation of the two grains as a function of time.
Since νsf can be written as νsf = r/t for r > ra, Eq. (4) becomes a relation between Dp and r at a time t, (5) This equation gives the mean radial position of ejecta grains as a function of time and size.
Even then it felt like writing against the grain of the times.
ELISABETH BADINTER, a doyenne of French intellectual thought, loves to cut against the grain of her times.
It was written against the grain of the times, and the bien pensants, however much they secretly relished its satirical wit, were reluctant to approve it publicly.
