Of course one may have to adjust the notion of such mixed means in order for this to make sense for all.
Others that explain how to deal with "reverse culture shock"—this notion that spending a month or two in Southeast Asia changes you in such profound ways that it's hard to adjust to the dullness of life back home.
And if the summer fails to turn around, Hollywood executives eager to satisfy their risk-averse bosses at the global conglomerates that own most studios will have no choice but to adjust their notion of what constitutes a sure thing.
All this can be a little gloomy, but Haslett is an eloquent, precise miniaturist, and his characters' struggles with their own assumptions collectively provide a fascinating snapshot of life during the era of Prozac, when new ways of thinking about emotion have forced us to adjust our notion of identity and even, perhaps, of grace.
By thinking of the small screen of text as something akin to a newspaper column, I could adjust to the notion of reading this way.
They have also had to adjust to the notion that they may not be the favored team on any given day.
So timid and repressed is our heroine that in truth it is hard to adjust to the notion of her having wild illicit sex in a flat rented for the purpose.
Many survivors are not prepared for those realities and need to adjust to the notion that cancer is a chronic illness that they will need to manage over their lifetimes.
Perhaps when water becomes expensive enough, people will adjust their notions of what is necessary for waste disposal; incentives could speed this process along.
(That the overall level of satisfaction exceeded its pre-crisis mark by the end of the study period, even as people got more worried, may be because people adjust their notions of what constitutes a satisfactory life to account for rising stresses and strains).
As a result of these changes, we felt that it was critical to determine how leaders need to adjust their traditional notions of leadership if they are to continue to succeed in the future.
