But each song, each unpredictable shift in his sound, image or even persona, might bring you one step closer.
Those with jobs that entail unpredictable shift work often can't stabilize their sleep and wake times.
This contract was exactly what we needed to help us stay focused and committed to the unpredictable shift in reality that we were inviting into our lives.
To be against "the knack of knowing how to live" (one of author Phillip Lopate's definitions), to be opposed to living with zestful pleasure, provides, to be sure, some sense of the sometimes curmudgeonly irony that is one of the stances assumed by the author, but it doesn't begin to account for the unpredictable shift of tone and mood that characterizes the best of the 19 pieces gathered here.
Still, he and Mr. Shea kept up an unpredictable churn, shifting at will among stomping swing, backbeat funk, volcanic noise and a rickety oompah lurch.
Beyond this, the place is all skylights and high slit windows – a bright but viewless series of rooms with severe angles and unpredictable shifts, blind corners around which are an empty kitchen or an empty meeting room with a single lightbulb drawn in chalk on a blackboard.
Wales has a maritime climate dominated by highly unpredictable shifts in Atlantic air masses, which, combined with the diverse range of elevations, often cause local conditions to vary considerably from day to day.
That Hot 97 (WQHT, 97.1 FM) has given him so much bandwidth says a great deal about hip-hop's rapid and unpredictable shifts in recent years, and the radio station's struggle to adjust its mission accordingly.
"Like some coworkers, I began to resent working long, unpredictable, shifts on low pay (we have a minimum wage here, unlike in the USA and I'm aware that Sanders is behind the $15 minimum campaign!)," Rudd says.
Like "Offertorium," Ms. Gubaidulina's first violin concerto, "In Tempus Praesens" unfolds in a continuous stream just over a half-hour long, permeated with somber silences and prone to unpredictable shifts from fragility to eruptive violence without warning.
