Throughout, Warner employs a fly-on-the wall technique in which shifts in alliances, social nuances and explanatory backstories are revealed through brilliantly pitched dialogue and monologue.
The new Pakistan is a country in which shifting demographics and a rising, politically aware urban electorate can increasingly determine the outcome of its choices.
No other great artist before modern times, in which shifting contingency affects every enterprise, seems less certain of whom he is addressing, and why.
The system has been locked in by police contracts since 1993 in Suffolk and 1995 in Nassau, replacing systems in which shifts were shorter, more frequent and rotated around the clock.
Without adequate oversight and discipline, an environment was created in which shifting guidelines for control over an estimated 45,000 detainees, and evolving rules for interrogations, could be interpreted freely and even disregarded.
History repeated itself when she won the same award for Merchant Ivory's "Howards End" (1992), from a Forster book in which shifting Edwardian social classes cross paths with sometimes cruel results.
Mr. McMillen's sharp-edged, cluster-driven pianism was also a driving force in "Almost-Truths and Open Deceptions" (2007), a fresh, vigorous chamber work for strings, percussion and piano in which shifting (and sometimes pounding) rhythms and intricate interplay create the feeling of a rock-influenced dance suite.
For Lang, rubato means slowing down whenever a right-hand roulade graces the end of a bar; for Primakov, well supported by the Odense Symphony Orchestra and the conductor Paul Mann, it is a device in which shifts of tempo, tone color, and articulation are blended into a subtly modulating flow.
