What is "shifts"

Usage examples of "shifts".

But although satires may have norms, norms are not essential to satire, which may make judgments by internal shifts of perception that do not appeal to external values or by identifying the satiric object as ridiculous rather than immoral.

But as she turns to Christianity itself, she shifts her position once again.

Such duplicity shifts dominance in satire from the basic triad to literary self-consciousness.

Gulliver travels from Lagado to Glubbdubdrib, he shifts from science to history, and the government of nations shifts from false reason to superstitious magic.

Nationalism shifts from a generally definable state of affairs to a process of identifying changing relationships.

Thus the dominant mode of satire shifts to fiction, which can imagine those values whose absence seems to rob satirists of their calling.

Ellen Oliensis avoids a sharp distinction between Horace and his persona, but sees him as presenting a face that shifts from poem to poem and even line to line.

These shifts emphasize the contrasts between sexuality and purity, treachery and loyalty, past and present, and painting and poetry.

Both depict shifting scenes and struggle significantly to deal with those shifts in an orderly poem.

Horace, and scholars such as Fraenkel and Rudd who seek to account for the structures of the first three diatribes must explain the disjunction between shifts in apparent subject and shifts in tone.

The poem thus shifts between a fictional narrator and the historical Byron, neither of whom is stable.

Secondly, the satiric voice in both poets shifts in tone, topic, and values from section to section and line to line, avoiding universal statements as a matter of principle, and condemning whoever, Stoic or Tory, uses universals as a source of unworthy power.

The ambivalence of propagandists about a system of political parties supported the possibility that such shifts might occur.

The exploration of points of attack that might split interest-groups within the opposing party is one function served by shifts of topic both in periodicals and in the exchange of pamphlets.

I suspect that for Kraus religious and political affiliations, and such labels as revolutionary and reactionary, were external tokens and institutional manifestations of spiritual and moral commitments, and that shifts in his religious and political identification were efforts on his part to express those commitments in particular historical exigencies.