Sentence examples for shift in sensibilities from inspiring English sources

The rising outcry over the fate of City Cemetery suggests a marked shift in sensibilities about memorializing even the indigent and anonymous dead.

My wife and I have often speculated that the literacy crisis that Gov. George W. Bush of Texas mentions in his literacy proposals (front page, March 29) arises from a cultural shift in sensibilities.

Beauty's current flirtation with oils may be part of a broader shift in sensibility.

"Fashion doesn't work that way anymore," Ms. Buccini said, arguing that longer skirts represent nothing more than the shift in sensibility that often accompanies fashion fatigue.

New demand for gun control may reflect the same shift in sensibility that has already made us less likely to use guns for violent ends.

The social shift in sensibility that the movie illustrates is underscored by the reality that Jonah Hill has become a bigger star than Seth Rogen.

This shift in sensibility introduced "the cult of beauty," as the Victoria & Albert Museum calls it in its new exhibition "The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900" (on view until July 17).

It speaks volumes about pop culture's shift in sensibility over two decades that a rap album by Tupac Shakur should be No. 1 on Billboard's pop album chart, while Joan Baez, the queen of 60's folk music, is not even associated with a major American record company.

The three little variations follow lyrically from one to another, with no major shift in sensibility or culture: well-caramelized scallops atop a nicely seasoned potato-leek purée sit next to a scallop shell holding scallop crudo and fennel, which in turn, is neighbor to almond-crusted, sautéed scallops with peach salsa.

But women should know there has been a gradual shift in sensibility overall.

But as the bully media and their loudly partisan political and corporate enablers would have it, America should be something other, and the institutions the country has so long depended on for guidance have all been subsumed by the cynical shift in sensibility.