Sentences with phrase «abrupt shift»

The evidence of abrupt shifts that turned up in occasional studies may seem strong in retrospect, but at the time it was not particularly convincing.

They still progress logically but with abrupt shifts in place, time, and feeling, and the flow and tempo of the movie are off.

Global rainfall and flood records likewise show evidence for abrupt shifts and regimes that persist for decades.

Given this type of transmission, there were no fixed gears to cause abrupt shifts under acceleration.

We were most impressed by the Dynamic setting's suspension calibration, but some editors found the rather abrupt shift points somewhat unsettling.

Gone is the sometimes abrupt shifts under heavy throttle.

By contrast, during the preceding 100,000 years, climate underwent frequent, very large, and often extremely abrupt shifts.

Eventually things take an unexpected turn, although it's easy to go along with the film's abrupt shift in tone.

They will rightly resent abrupt shifts in, or abandonment of, the metaphors that have proved most meaningful in their spiritual pilgrimages.

Stock markets might adopt automatic trading shutoffs, for instance, which are triggered by overly abrupt shifts in price or trading volume.

Signs climate has entered abrupt shift.

Director - screenwriter Chris Zonnas knows how to use his actors well, but he's challenged by the film's own abrupt shifts in tone.

The six - speed automatic made a couple abrupt shifts during a day of driving, but gear changes were otherwise smooth and the transmission readily kicked down a few gears for more passing power.

We upsized to the 3.3 V6 / 5speed both for passing power and a smoother transmission (abrupt shifting seemed to be a complaint for 4 - speed).

A couple more gears would have lead to less abrupt shifts and possibly greater fuel economy, really putting the Mazda3 on par with the luxury competition.

The work I had in mind related conceptually to wabi sabi, the Japanese aesthetic of imperfection and impermanence, featuring abrupt shifts, cross-currents and a deliberate lack of formal cohesion that constructively agitates the viewer, challenging one to look harder if a painting seems poorly constructed or amateurish.

For example, when I try to fit natural variability models to HadCrut data, various abrupt shifts appear in the residual that look to me as artificial.

The most characteristic behaviour of the Grand Climate System is relatively stable states punctuated by abrupt shifts that owe more to internal dynamics of the system as a whole than external factors such as greenhouse gases.

Either the wheels entirely come off what had been a carefully wound psychological drama, or the enterprise merely morphs into a madcap sitcom, depending on ones tolerance for abrupt shifts in tone.

The sportier settings deliver fractionally faster changes, but the rather abrupt shifts aren't worth the tradeoff.

In theory we then have a mechanism — albeit a complex one — that better explains abrupt shifts in paleoclimatic and modern records than a paradigm of slow responses to changes in forcing.

Evoking the mystery and the suddenness of the characters» deaths by means of abrupt shifts in viewpoint and by the use of white space, Greene makes of death a strange departure for an unknown destination.

That was an abrupt shift in tone from Rupert Murdoch's comments Thursday to The Wall Street Journal — one of his own papers — saying that News Corp. management had handled the crisis «extremely well in every way possible» with just a few «minor mistakes.»

The governor's announcement is an abrupt shift on the issue.

The abrupt shift in US - Russia relations, the prospect of renewed sanctions on Iran, and a new US National Security Advisor who favors military action is certainly weighing on asset prices today.

In its drive to make the abrupt shift from a society predominantly focused on services, Make in India turns the spotlight on goods from 25 industries, from clothing to railways, paper to renewable energy, and pharmaceuticals to submarines.

This again highlights the abrupt shift in funding levels discussed at the outset of this article.

By introducing the kingdom of the Son of man here, Matthew at least avoids the abrupt shift in Mark and Luke from the coming of the Son of man to the kingdom of God.