This anxiety's personal, about jobs and money and health, but also general: that we can't go on like this, running only to stand still, making things faster and faster, consuming more and more food (with consequent pressures on prices); that somehow a world of more than seven billion people is going to have to "downshift" to make it, revise its criteria of what constitutes well-being.
Nowadays, you can downshift all you like without double clutching, although the shift isn't going to be all that smooth and the RPM will rev up.
I think the trick is to start off going to a few reasonably nice places and then maybe downshift into the moderate zone to give her a sense of what everyday life might be like together.
(It is possible to downshift - you just need to learn to co-ordinate gear changing and throttle operation).
An auto shift transmission is nice for driving in mountains because it is so easy to downshift for engine braking.
Ask for a quick burst of acceleration when you're cruising along, however, and the 6-speed automatic transmission is sometimes slow to downshift.
Remember, it is always best to downshift into the next smallest gear (e.g. if you are in 5th gear, downshift to 4th).
But he said his team, and his candidate, were ready to downshift into the less glamorous work of campaign building.
But since every single SHIELD character is primed to communicate in quips and pop-culture references, it can be hard to downshift into non-snarky melodrama.
