Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word ever-shifting.

Examples

  • It is a line drawn in the ever-shifting political sand that if the person you've sworn loyalty to based on his ideologies suddenly departs from said ideologies you too should say your fare-the-wells.

    Parker Griffith's staff resigns 2010

  • Presented for the first time in New York, Les Noces, shows fragments of Herrera's own work in an ever-shifting dance of abstract black-and-white images set to Stravinksy's music.

    Susan Segal: Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding) Susan Segal 2011

  • Because negotiation with the Chinese is almost never a "grand bargain" of the type Kane proposes, but rather a subtle and ever-shifting adjustment of pieces on twenty different chessboards.

    David Millar: Why You Should Care About Taiwan David Millar 2011

  • "Fair chase" is a loose, ever-shifting set of guidelines employed by individual hunters who, for a variety of personal reasons, often make their hunts more difficult for themselves and thus potentially less lethal to their prey.

    Feinstein Right: Aerial Wolf Management is NOT Fair Chase 2009

  • Mr. Smith suggested jazz in subtler ways; his music, built on cells of melody and harmony that combine in ever-shifting fashion, created the feel of improvisation through notated parts while also sneaking the chamber musicians out of any strict sense of meter.

    Ten Years in Three Nights: A Decade's Triumph Larry Blumenfeld 2011

  • The lives of hundreds of thousands of men depended on the clumsy, ever-shifting lines that these generals drew with a blue or red grease pencil on huge acetate maps.

    An American Triple Threat Michael Burleigh 2011

  • "It's this length that's doing very well," she said, of the ever-shifting media landscape.

    Before Liberty Was a Lady Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • Amid the ever-shifting landscape of film-viewing technology, streaming has suddenly become a rushing river.

    A Russian Titan Embraces the Web Kristin M. Jones 2011

  • Carnegie President Vartan Gregorian, who headed the New York Public Library from 1981 to 1989, said the funding will help stabilize library budgets, which go through an annual cycle of cuts and restorations tethered to the ever-shifting city budget.

    Carnegie Corporation Gives to Public Libraries Pia Catton 2011

  • Now, Mr. Weiner has become a poster child for how not to handle a political crisis as his ever-shifting story of how a lewd photo happened to be sent from his Twitter account to a female college student keeps unraveling.

    How Not to Handle a Political Crisis John Fund 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.