Sentence examples for shift phrase from inspiring English sources

Shakira used her quick-changing voice, which could shift, phrase by phrase, among breathy innocence, sultry belting and quavering, sharpened taunts.

But those were moments when the band felt least hybridized and most like one thing, which would be a high-level New York group of the '90s and oughts, layering tempos and shifting phrases around one another.

('Tipping point' seems to have become this generation's 'paradigm shift', a phrase popularised by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions The success of the book, which began as an article in the New Yorker, the magazine for which he works as a staff writer, propelled Gladwell into the realm of super-consultancy.

They were all mood swings — vindictive, sultry, furious, tearful, wry, hopeful — with emotions shifting from phrase to phrase, in her improvisatory singing and in shrewd band arrangements.

Bush administration officials, in a shift, defended phrasing in the State of the Union speech that referred to possible efforts by Iraq to buy uranium from Africa.

The swaying of the ship is captured in heaving music, and the inexorable playing of the main theme, as it shifts higher phrase by phrase, made each harmonic turn seem a shock.

In the Presto first movement, the sudden shifts from phrases that rushed by in subdued intensity to outbursts of full orchestral vigor were deftly rendered.

Tall, with a face framed by blond curls, she gives Mr. Parsons's choreography a voluptuous, slightly teasing edge, shifting her phrasing in tiny increments to give a movement a sharp bite here and a languid pause there.

A new song, "Heavenly... (Good Feeling)," criticized war in hackneyed terms that could turn the most hard-core dove into a hawk: "Why is it anyone has to die?/ Did they ever ask you why?" There were a few exceptions, notably "Kiss From a Rose," perhaps his best known song, an epic ballad full of sweeping melodies, unexpected shifts in phrases and fearlessly overblown lyrics.

To the contrary, you were never entirely sure what Mr. Fischer would do with a tempo shift or a phrase inflection.

First, no gamer wants to hear the phrase "shift any significant volume".