He likes strong contrasts of dynamics and tempo, telling shifts of texture and mood.
Not surprisingly, books written years apart often display telling shifts in voice and inflection.
It is also about tiny details, about being on the scene to approve small yet telling shifts — from the lights to the acting — and to experience the full production and make last-minute suggestions.
And in a telling shift of political tactics, Boris A. Berezovsky, a financier and media magnate elected as deputy from a poverty-stricken region of the North Caucasus, told reporters today that he too was ready for a dialogue with the Communists, a party he used to accuse of having ruined the country.
For instance, you can tell Shift to spend your bitcoins first, and to use your Dwolla account as a backup once your Coinbase hot wallet is empty.
"Volcano" fuses modernist and romantic sensibilities: the story is told from shifting points of view, and Firmin's daylong odyssey is borrowed from "Ulysses"; at the same time, Lowry's prose is fervent, laid down in unstable, looping sentences.
Each subject stared at a dot on the screen and was told to shift focus to another dot that appeared 20 degrees to the right.
Both sides told it, shifting the blame.
And, suddenly, despite South Dakota and Puerto Rico, we are being told to shift our allegiance to another leader with vision.
Not just ours, but so many others were ready to be told to shift the tide towards a robust heath care bill, which could have included the public option.
