"But working on that scale taught me a lot, too, and it shifted something in my understanding of abstraction.
"It's not a famous film, but it just shifted something for me – someone that looks like me, doing something positive".
A new environment, culturally at least, in a new city with a pronounced locavore culture, had shifted something, galvanizing this new course.
Last year, the Cold War-based Call of Duty: Black Ops shifted something in the region of 18m copies and became America's biggest-selling game ever.
In fact, Jarre has shifted something in the region of 80m albums across his career, more than, say, Duran Duran, which is quite an achievement for a French solo artist who doesn't sing.
Scenting a hit, South African record labels picked up distribution rights from Rodriguez's US label, Sussex Records, and shifted something in the region of half a million copies, despite some of its songs being banned on South African radio.
But then something shifted, something loosened, and she took a great stride away from her past and planted her flag right in the center of Englishness — because nothing, she thought, could be more seminal to English identity than the reign of Henry VIII and the coming of the English Bible.
For one thing, we're in the kind of central London hotel where you suspect it's ruinously expensive to ignore the no-smoking rule, but then again, you probably don't worry about that kind of thing when you've shifted something like 75m albums, a figure that doesn't even take into account the ones you sold as a member of Take That.
The company hasn't said how many it sold, but reading the tea leaves of its financials, we estimated that it shifted something in the region of 34,600 pairs in Q4 2016 and 63,800 pairs in the first quarter of 2017.
But Singer's book shifted something in him.
The experience shifted something in Evan.
