Sentence examples for a shift of mood from inspiring English sources

It is never easy to explain for sure what determines a shift of mood.

Hugh Pearman, the architecture critic of London's Sunday Times, reports that unofficially "there is a shift of mood.

Something is happening in artists' studios: a shift of emphasis, from surface to depth, and a shift of mood, from mania to melancholy, shrugging off the allures of the money-hypnotized market and the spectacle-bedizened biennials circuit.

It will take more than a collection of "musings" to change America's relationship with a country that has been the cornerstone of its policy in the region for the past 60 years, and which controls about a quarter of the world's oil reserves.Nevertheless, the report reflects a shift of mood in Washington which is not related solely to Saudi Arabia's perceived failings in the war on terror.

"Nine Stories," published two years later, made Mr. Salinger a darling of the critics as well, for the way it dismantled the traditional architecture of the short story and replaced it with one in which a story could turn on a tiny shift of mood or tone.

His vision was to have a sudden shift of mood from the processional approach to the theatres to a performance space that glittered with festive promise.

The sighing second theme can often sound like a complete shift of mood from the turbulent opening.

A sudden shift of mood.

Henry senses an approaching shift of mood.

But common sense tells us that you don't go from a slow-growing economy to a booming one in a few weeks, which makes me a little cautious about this shift of mood.

And so on, until there is another, abrupt shift of mood.