The phrase 'a palpable shift' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a noticeable change or difference in a particular situation. For example, you could say "There was a palpable shift in the atmosphere after the announcement."
Since mid-November, however, there has been a palpable shift away from this dull techno-talk.
"Black Flowers," Ms. Skarpetowska's new Chopin piece, provides a palpable shift in mood.
Eight years later, there was a palpable shift when Clinton launched her second campaign for the presidency.
During the week leading up to the opening in particular, there is a palpable shift in the city's energy.
As the door to his dressing room is opened, there's a palpable shift in atmosphere outside, where half a dozen trusted deputies are stationed.
They also reflected a palpable shift in the administration's approach to a relationship that has been rife with tension since soon after Mr. Obama took office.
Having been the first dance act to be nominated for both Record of the Year and Album of the Year at the Grammys, some will say that 2014 was the year that EDM "arrived" at major music awards, but it was actually last years Grammys that saw a recent, palpable shift: when EDM harbinger Skrillex dominated.
But like the rush to mea a few culpas elsewhere, the strategy is a response to a subtle but palpable shift in the public mood.
Imperfections abound, but just as "Drag Race" ― which launches its milestone 10th season on Thursday ― has done, "To Wong Foo" triggered a small yet palpable shift in the pop culture landscape by providing a reluctant audience with what it needed at the time: a campy, glamorous lens through which to process its own transphobia.
But a rapid and palpable shift is taking place in the external context.
She is "very representative of something that's happened in American music with composers of her generation," Mr. Spano said, "a palpable aesthetic shift from the generation before them that I find very powerful".
