"Blatantly," as well as "literally," which punctuates a later section of the novel, act as markers on a shifting timeline.
The sheriff said on Friday that he was "absolutely offended" by allegations of incompetence within the department, and said that the shifting timeline was a result of the vast scope of the investigation and not an attempt to mislead anyone about the circumstances of the attack.
The cast is stellar and the shifting timeline isn't nearly as confusing as it could be.
Asked about the shifting timeline from 30 days to indefinite as he departed the White House Sunday, Trump told reporters: "I never said we're doing it that quickly".
The shifting timeline, which ranged at times from January to October, was almost certainly the result of changing plans within the nascent Clinton campaign, as well as the conflicting interests of various Clinton confidants and sources.
Cook, Lombardo added, "asked me if he could go back and work today". The bulk of the questions at Friday's news conference still seemed to center around the shifting timeline and the issue of what happened in the moments after Campos was shot.
Hill's storytelling is its own delight, a fun house of shifting timelines and multiple perspectives that mirror (and distort) the dodgy nature of Wolf's past and the ambiguity of his future.
A mysterious childhood secret is standard fare in suspense novels, but Lippman keeps this device fresh with a complex narrative structure of shifting timelines and multiple points of view.
The plot, with its shifting timelines and themes of religious zealotry and racism, also has a wonderfully twisted conclusion; it's potent, compelling and fun.
We had to shift timelines and priorities to focus solely on scale improvements we planned for February 2011 had to happen yesterday.
Projects have indeed been delayed in 2018 but shrewd developers and excellent engineering have ensured that shifting timelines and redesigns rather than swathes of cancellations are the order of the day.
