The phrase "a sort of shifting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a vague or general change or movement in a particular context.
Example: "There was a sort of shifting in the atmosphere as the crowd began to grow restless."
Alternatives: "a kind of change" or "a type of movement".
So I made it in all sincerity in those terms, but now people make it sound like a sort of shifting circus.' Anyway, if you agree with Wallinger that the statue should stay, write a note to that effect in the visitors' book in Canada House or write to Sir John Mortimer c/o the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2-4 CockStreettreet, London SWlY FDH or e-mail www.sculpture.org.uk/fourthplinth.uk/fourthplinth
This parallel drawn between a medical reflection and the theory of the art shows, in this hesitation about whether to allow or to mask the signs of impending death, a sort of shift from the symbolic to the real.
Few looks have been as versatile - or as egalitarian - adapting through the decades to all sorts of shifting conditions and sociopolitical landscapes.
"It could well be a sort of cultural shift.
"But then a sort of seismic shift happened and he really became Brad-like.
The two kneeling figures are now faced with a phalanx of five drawn guns pointed more or less in their direction; the scene works as a sort of Montana Shift of mayhem.
Mr. Pryce (a former artistic director of Everyman) plays the evasive, disheveled tramp who enters the West London apartment of two brothers and triggers a sort of ever-shifting existential turf war.
It feels like there has been a sort of feminist shift in theatre, not least with Sarah Frankcom's Exchange and Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Shakespeare productions at the Donmar There's a new guard isn't there?
"Because there's been a sort of fundamental shift away from 'What do we do next?" to 'O.K., we can't do anything next because there's a problem and we have to fix it first'; we're still sorting that out," one official said.
And as a clearer timeline of the shutdown emerges, the conversation has sort of shifted, from one of harm, to one of who knows?—maybe even some benefit.
"Now that the market has sort of shifted in the other direction, it's a challenge because they're so expensive compared to where it used to be".
