That means that the slightest shift somewhere across the member states could lead to some huge impact.
Rightly, artists don't want to feel that they react like stimulated rats to the slightest shift in our circumstances.
Produced alongside veteran producer Stewart Lerman, it's an album that continues Van Etten's ability to carve something alluring out of the slightest shift in sounds and textures.
But the delicacy of "The Vertical Ray of the Sun," which is its most memorable quality, might be disrupted by the slightest shift in emphasis.
Even the slightest shift in the Fed's language on how long interest rates will remain unchanged or on its assessment of the economy most likely would move the market.
Of course he has enormous natural gifts, including a vibrant, richly colored sound that can be, with the slightest shift, plaintive or heroic, ardent or anguished, impassioned or alluring.
Details accumulate sufficiently to explain character and plot, while throwing us so off-guard as to make questions of narrative moot... Wilson and Gyllenhaal are tasked with showing us how the slightest shift in emphasis can alter a line's meaning.
One might wish that Mr. Hung had woven his narrative more tightly, but "the delicacy of 'The Vertical Ray of the Sun,' which is its most memorable quality, might be disrupted by the slightest shift in emphasis" (A. O. Scott).
But in a town where the slightest shift in political tone and changes in the smallest detail can make news or break legislation, the secretaries-in-waiting seemed to have voices and thoughts of their own at their confirmation hearings.
Here she will lead a group consisting of the same musicians as on her new album, "The Slightest Shift" (Fresh Sound/New Talent): Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone, Eivind Opsvik on bass and Jeff Davis on drums.
With long, flowing red hair and an open face that registers the slightest shift of feeling, Ms. Johnson Cano, who comes from St . Louisand is in the Metropolitan Opera's young artists program, conjures a vision of the heartland, even the frontier.
