From late 1947, U.S. priorities shifted perceptibly from liberal social change to internal political stability and economic recovery.

He stooped and set his shoulder under its deep overhang, and hoisted experimentally, and the thing perceptibly shifted.

He kicked at the wall's base and one of the larger stones shifted perceptibly.

By the nineties, though, the city's politics and culture were shifting perceptibly.

The struggle's center of gravity is shifting perceptibly away from the Federal level, where it has become highly polarized, toward the state and local levels where private land-use decisions are made.

The focus seemed to shift perceptibly from Fernando Ferrer, who despite his current troubles had long been considered the candidate to beat, to Anthony D. Weiner.

Music's relationship with space would shift perceptibly: humankind's touching of the void a still fertile, if increasingly ambiguous metaphor for songwriters to conjure with.

Four years ago Mr. Aweau took over the chair vacated by Mr. Kaneali'i, who had retired from music, and the sound of the group shifted perceptibly.

The inky area marking the shaft shifted perceptibly, thickening like day-old black coffee as the vague outline of a great bulk materialized.

A few moments later the bus shifted perceptibly as he stepped aboard on the far side.