A prolific filmmaker -- 13 features in 11 years -- Mr. Winterbottom seems able to shift styles at will, from the B-movie excess of his 1995 thriller "Butterfly Kiss" to the BBC sobriety of his 1996 Thomas Hardy adaptation, "Jude" (1996).
I shift styles by picture and by subject matter, and by subject matter I mean not only the genre the picture's in, but what the picture's about emotionally.
The basic forms of accommodation are convergence or divergence, where speakers shift style to become either more or less like that of their addressees.
But Wendt also shifted styles.
Morningstar says its new method will play down the long-ago performance of a fund if it shifts styles.
In the Alps, it's still present in the shifting styles of church towers, village fountains, sheepcotes, hay barns.
Nikolai Kapustin's "Concert Étude No. 8" (1984) keeps shifting styles, but for sheer charisma it couldn't match William Bolcom's extravagantly entertaining rag "The Serpent's Kiss" (1969).
Mr. Lippa's score, dexterously orchestrated by Michael Gibson, has a jittery, wandering quality, conscientiously shifting styles and tempos as if in search of a lost chord.
Extremely productive, he worked effortlessly, shifting styles and scales and working dense and spare, raw and refined, with irrepressible assurance and often quite a bit of humor.
Didi Gutman on keyboards, Jesse Murphy on bass and Aaron Johnston on drums, abetted by samples and loops, keep shifting styles and genres, between and often within songs.
But the good news is how you can see it play out in the shifting styles, techniques and levels of skill on display at this show.
