As Segre shifts the scale of objects beyond reality, the viewer's relation to them becomes childlike.
Monkeys replace humans, birds of paradise morph into background silhouettes of birds, human figures fall from space, and airplanes replace insects (recalling Dutch Still Lifes) to shift the scale and suggest that space is bigger than we think.
For Republicans with an eye on 2016, though, peeling off enough African American votes to shift the scales is a critical goal.
Right on cue, up pops David Cameron's ambitious housing minister, Grant Shapps, who may be making an elementary mistake by his high-profile tactics ahead of the government reshuffle, to say the law is "shifting the scales back in favour of the homeowner", a line from his draft party conference speech, I expect.
Demographic changes that have made the Latino vote more important have helped shift the scales.
The Kelvin (K) scale, an absolute temperature scale (obtained by shifting the Celsius scale by −273.15° so that absolute zero coincides with 0 K), is recognized as the international standard for scientific temperature measurement.
LONDON — Markets breathed a sigh of relief on Monday after Emmanuel Macron secured the French presidency in the second round of elections, but investor enthusiasm quickly waned as the focus shifted to the scale of the challenge facing him.
Barely had the ink dried on the coalition agreement than the public mood was already shifting, as the scale of what the business secretary, Vince Cable, now calls the "Maoist revolution" planned for public services started to become clearer.
But Mr. Tavernier stages the movie like a dance marathon, intelligently shifting the pace and scale of the drama.
Where relevant, the minimum and maximum limits were specified on the shifted log scale to be equivalent to those on the raw scale.
