"shifting timelines" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to situations where the timeframe for something changes or is adjusted. For example, "I was planning to complete the project by the end of next month, but due to shifting timelines, I now need to get it done by the end of this month instead."
The plot, with its shifting timelines and themes of religious zealotry and racism, also has a wonderfully twisted conclusion; it's potent, compelling and fun.
Hill's storytelling is its own delight, a fun house of shifting timelines and multiple perspectives that mirror (and distort) the dodgy nature of Wolf's past and the ambiguity of his future.
A mysterious childhood secret is standard fare in suspense novels, but Lippman keeps this device fresh with a complex narrative structure of shifting timelines and multiple points of view.
The cast is stellar and the shifting timeline isn't nearly as confusing as it could be.
"Blatantly," as well as "literally," which punctuates a later section of the novel, act as markers on a shifting timeline.
Asked about the shifting timeline from 30 days to indefinite as he departed the White House Sunday, Trump told reporters: "I never said we're doing it that quickly".
The shifting timeline, which ranged at times from January to October, was almost certainly the result of changing plans within the nascent Clinton campaign, as well as the conflicting interests of various Clinton confidants and sources.
We had to shift timelines and priorities to focus solely on scale improvements we planned for February 2011 had to happen yesterday.
But ask riders about the daily routine and you'll get a different answer every time – each one subtly shifting the timeline to emphasise the section that offered them the most compelling reasons to quit.
Before you get up in arms about this kind of algorithmic content shifting your timeline around too much remember that retweets, one of the earliest additional functions of Twitter, already offer a mechanism for presenting older content as 'fresh' in your feed.
As fans of "Trek" we were talking about shifting the timeline and recasting.
