Sentence examples for strange shift from inspiring English sources

Then, in the 1990s, a strange shift began.

And herein lies the impetus for such a strange shift in alliances.

Suddenly, there's a strange shift: the pair start talking as if they really were a couple going through the throes of a difficult marriage.

A few episodes in, I realised that a strange shift had happened – I'd stopped glowering at the pupils and started caring about them, wishing them well.

The result was as much a surprise to Mr Griffin as anyone else and marks a strange shift in far right politics.

It was a lot of trouble and it was a strange shift — we think of organic, natural food as "healthy," but here I was giving her this processed stuff in the name of a healthier weight.

Sutherland eschews surface emotion, preferring to place dissimilar objects and thoughts in strange, shifting juxtapositions.

Paule wanted to respond to the strange, shifting landscape of the Journey of the Magi; to make a journey on stage with nothing but light, and music.

In the best instances, the transformation is signaled in strange shifts of surface or scale; sometimes it succumbs to trompe l'oeil or Surrealist gimmickry.

First: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber), a strange, shifting tale, superficially utterly unlike any other Ishiguro, set in post-Arthurian England, in which an aged couple travel to see their son in a distant village.

With church-like, choral harmonies and strange, shifting melodies, Robin Pecknold's songs dealt with family, friendship, loss, death and growing up, all couched in a language and music that wouldn't be out of place at a Renaissance fair.