Sentence examples for violent shifts from inspiring English sources

Though prone to violent shifts of mood that closely follow the situations, the score has a taut linear continuity.

But Kent's chief achievement is to heighten the violent shifts of tone in Sondheim's masterly music and lyrics and in Hugh Wheeler's book.

Analysis of lake sediments, glaciers, and deep ocean cores, together with the work of computer modellers, has revealed that the earth's climate, even without human influence, is unstable, given to sudden and violent shifts at unpredictable intervals.

And when he does so it is as if you can see what the critic and poet Simon Jarvis has called Sutherland's "violent shifts of register," and you begin to apprehend, visually, the knotty prosody of his work.

Even when the SNP surged ahead in 2007, it could only govern in a minority, so could not call a referendum on independence (see charts below).The disadvantage of first-past-the-post systems, however, is that by raising the threshold of parliamentary dominance, they contain the possibility of sudden, violent shifts in political power in the event of individual parties crossing that threshold.

The chase, often paired in discussion with a New York City counterpart from William Friedkin's "French Connection", featured McQueen doing some of his own driving: a camera placed in the car and peering out the windshield registers the violent shifts in the driver's perspective as the car bounds in chassis-challenging fashion over San Francisco's famous hills.

A violent shift of opinion against Napoleon appeared in Russia.

Mr. Turner, who was not on the scene on Sunday, was asked if he could have predicted the violent shift in fire direction that killed the firefighters.

After the score, McNabb pumped his fists furiously, knowing the game's momentum had just taken a violent shift in his team's direction.

The violent shift from naturalism begins with the sudden unexpected appearance of Uncle Bob Paul Readyy) who has come to relay an epic message of hatred from his wife to the assembled guests.

The West has no intention of calling a new international conference, like the 1995 Dayton meeting that ended the Bosnian war, or of blessing the violent shifting of borders, these diplomats say.