Van Susteren says that the president needs "to be straight" instead of offering so many shifting explanations.
Low attributed that more to teams being able to key on him because he was skating so many shifts, rather than fatigue.
Paul Moloney, trade union and industrial relations manager, at the Society and College of Radiographers said that "drastic action" could be taken if their members were asked to work so many shifts that they were deemed to be damaging their ability to work safely.
There is so much going on, so many shifts of tempo and changes in tone – vaudeville one minute, orch loveliness the next – that it does sometimes feel as though you're listening to a prog/baroque album.
Selfish, but there are only so many shifts going and, as Lily Allen sang so memorably: "It's hard out here (for a bitch)." On the other hand, I'm also a voter, and I don't want politics showbizified.
But some former Barnesandnoble.com employees, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said it was trying and exhausting to work through so many shifts in the upper ranks.
Set on the eve of World War II, this story of Parisian aristocrats both misbehaving and tentatively reckoning with their own suffering holds so many shifts of tone, color and mood that watching it is like being dazzled by an intricately cut crystal: it reinvents itself not just with each viewing but within each viewing.
Sure, but on the whole we have experienced so many shifts – from text interfaces on phones to rudimentary graphical UIs to the modern iOS and Android OSes we're dealing with today – that UI is no longer static.
The problem here, as so often in Downton Abbey, is that our emotional investment is so thinly spread across so many characters, shifting viewpoints and mini-scenes with barely one line of dialogue.
"So many hierarchies shift," says Sachs, "History paintings were the most valuable, like Oath of the Horatii, a work by French artist Jacques-Louis David (1784), then below that were landscape paintings and portraits, and below that, the genre paintings of poor people.
