Sentence examples for chronological shifts from inspiring English sources

The mostly brief chapters, dated by month and year, keep us oriented amid the rapid chronological shifts backward and forward.

The novel's frequent chronological shifts feel strained and jarring, but the narrative effectively dramatizes the tensions between family and career, perfectionism and compromise.

His digressions, chronological shifts – time washes back and forth like an unpredictable tide – and forensic observations of the everyday are an astonishing effort to capture the vast mystery of consciousness through the techniques of a novelist.

Faggen has chosen to reproduce all of the more than 40 notebooks essentially "as is," which is perhaps helpful for scholars but is taxing for regular readers, who will find Frost's chronological shifts confusing (to say nothing of such unenlightening entries as "Come see kill a vase" and "Marriage Japanese Dwarf tree").

While these chronological shifts are difficult to pull off in writing (initially, Faulkner had hoped that Benjy's thoughts and reminiscences could be published in different-color inks, but in the end he had to settle for italics), the stage is a freer space, at least when it comes to demonstrating the fluidity of time.

Faulkner had hoped to use different colours of ink to mark the sometimes-confusing chronological shifts, writing on its publication in 1929: "I wish publishing was advanced enough to use colored ink... I'll just have to save the idea until publishing grows up".

The chronological paradigm shift evaluating intraoperative agent administration to detect its effect on an early and sensitive marker of AKI such as NGAL provides a model for future randomized trials in this field.

Second, the Carolingians shifted chronological hopes for the apocalypse from 6000 am II (ad 800) to ad 1000, a date at once millennial (the end of the sixth age, dawn of the Sabbatical era) and Augustinian (the end of the millennium begun by the Incarnation).

The exhibition will be arranged in three chronological eras marked by shifting human conceptions of the natural world and increasing artistic awareness of environmental change.

The concept of Time Tunnel, which Mills has already executed a few times in France (where he bears the title Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture), evokes the classic 60s sci-fi program of the same name as a device for shifting between chronological eras in his DJ set — anywhere from the 1910s to a thousand years in the future.

Her film slides in and out of his career and personal life with a French sensibility that puts no great stock in exact chronological order or clearly announced shifts from one film to the next.