Sentences with phrase «swift changes of subject»

His use of language and swift changes of subject still delight; his intelligence and knowledge of so many topics bowls me over.

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It seems that when teams of doorstep canvassers are sent out to chat with thousands of residents about same - sex marriage, swift and durable change occurs in the opinions on that issue held by subjects who chatted with a gay canvasser whose script told him to say that he'd really like to get married but the law won't allow it.

The analyst must seek to guard himself against this danger as best he can: in part, by dealing with those situations preferably which are not subject to sudden change; in part, by favoring securities in which the popular interest is keen enough to promise a fairly swift response to value elements which he is the first to recognize; in part, by tempering his activities to the general financial situation — laying more emphasis on the discovery of undervalued securities when business and market conditions are on a fairly even keel, and proceeding with greater caution in times of abnormal stress and uncertainty.»