The phrase "jarring shift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden and surprising change in context, tone, or situation.
Example: "The film started as a light-hearted comedy, but the jarring shift to a dark and serious theme caught the audience off guard."
Alternatives: "stark change" or "abrupt transition."
Iraq's recent soccer past has been a jarring shift between light and dark.
But going from a boomtown to a coasting-along city from New York to Boston, say, or Shanghai to Hong Kong—is a jarring shift, particularly for Atlanta, accustomed as it is to seeing itself as the driving engine of the South.Item 2: This comes from a story I've been reporting on the water wars in the southeast.
Adobe has weathered the jarring shift to the Internet, a nearly fatal blow to the Macintosh market and a fickle stock market.
But they are experiencing a jarring shift in their ecosystem.
It's a jarring shift, making the ways humankind has changed nature until now seem superficial.
But a jarring shift has been occurring in the fixed-income world since the Federal Reserve signaled that it might start reducing its monetary stimulus this year.
The only distraction is the soundtrack, which makes jarring shifts: you might start the meal with "Stairway to Heaven" and end it with Jack Johnson.
The libretto, despite jarring shifts from slangy Southern dialect to grandly philosophical observations, is basically sound until the final, salvation-denying rant and heavy-handed execution scene.
There was little build, with arrangements hopping clumsily from song to song, causing sometimes jarring shifts in tone (exacerbated by dead air between several numbers).
With its jerky hand-held camerawork, zero attention span, jarring shifts in narrative perspective and refusal to offer tidy explanations of who, what, where and when, "I'm Gonna Explode" keeps you continually off balance.
The result is a style distinctive for its way of introducing portentous digressions from world history into private autobiographical moments and indulging sometimes jarring shifts to the personal anecdote midway through a footnoted historical exposition.
