The "transmission" shifts imperceptibly and right when it should.
With his first lie to his mother, the power balance shifts imperceptibly: he now knows something she doesn't know.
That's the right choice, because the songwriting here is routinely top-notch, the album gaining impact as it plays and the moods shift imperceptibly.
As scenes from Juliana's life are enacted before us — often narrated from her point of view — our perspective on her character begins to shift, imperceptibly at first, and ultimately radically.
Reacher doesn't, and with that act of defiance the power balance between the two of them shifts, imperceptibly, even though, by rights, it shouldn't — and we are off once again, in what will prove to be one of many ever-escalating, ever-more-exhilarating outbreaks of bloodshed.
The bad guy says, "Back up now". Reacher doesn't, and with that act of defiance the power balance between the two of them shifts, imperceptibly, even though, by rights, it shouldn't—and we are off once again, in what will prove to be one of many ever-escalating, ever-more-exhilarating outbreaks of bloodshed.
But the painter she most frequently speaks of is Mark Rothko, and there is, both in her flower colours and in the expanses of the backgrounds, dark or bright, a sense of light under the surface, which changes the surface as the shades shift imperceptibly in a Rothko.
It's five-speed automatic never lags, but shifts imperceptibly smoothly (although control freaks will regret the absence of a manual override, which Lexus ditched to meet the ultralow emissions status known as ULEV).
As Thomas Cromwell, the Machiavellian mastermind behind Henry VIII, Ben Miles surveys the comings and goings at court with a watchful reserve that shifts imperceptibly into murderous stealth.
