For years, the conventional wisdom among cookbook publishers was that Americans were uninterested in learning to prepare fancy foreign foods.
Its main innovation was that it dispensed with the conventional wisdom that touch meant a stylus and allowed the use of a grubby, greasy, uneducated finger instead as its main driving force.
Those few who defy the conventional wisdom are ignored.
I like it when conventional wisdom has some grounding in a scientific approach.
By all accounts, Mr. Jobs's perfectionism, autocratic managerial style and disregard for conventional wisdom are at the heart of Apple's remarkable streak of success.
History has been unkind to the old conventional wisdom.
His case would seem to confirm one piece of recent conventional wisdom in China: Beneath most corruption cases, there's an extramarital affair.
The prevailing needs in this industry and others like it belie the conventional wisdom about Web services and the role of tightly-coupled middleware in real-world XML developments.
This explains why happiness often eludes us when we blindly follow our imaginations or what conventional wisdom tells us about what makes us happy.
Perhaps this sounds crass, but there's truth to the conventional wisdom that having kids changes everything.
It's conventional wisdom that bipartisanship results in improved public policy.
The conventional wisdom is that tips both reward the efforts of good service and reduce uncomfortable feelings of inequality.
The conventional wisdom, however, is that, if you have a well-balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables, you'll get all the vitamins and minerals and nutrients you need for a healthy body.
This is not just because he too likes to hang around people who accentuate the positive. Mr Pittinsky's hope is to turn the conventional wisdom of "conflict studies" and "race relations" upside down.
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