Sentences with phrase «suddenly switch gears»

I've never understood why scientists who handle such complicated and detailed projects at the bench suddenly switch gears and make decisions about a job based entirely on emotion.
Linares was delivering remarks when he suddenly switched gears.
How else to explain why Hein suddenly switched gears late Monday afternoon and agreed to allow tourist trains to continue to run from Kingston Plaza to Hurley Mountain Road?
After the movie limps along for an hour and a half, Besson suddenly switches gears and does what he does best.

Not exact matches

Like many of the children, she's alert to times when other children are too fragile to sustain the give - and - take of repartee; and when, as often happens at the after - school, one of the younger children suddenly begins to cry, or seems to be right at the precipice of tears, she switches gears almost immediately.
Suddenly, the film switches gears and becomes the making of the movie of which we'd just gotten a taste.
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