Ms. Ehrenreich suggests that by accepting the Reform Party endorsement, Ralph has somehow shifted his platform or record of the last 40 years.
Then when it rose a second time to repeat it, his head wasn't under it any more; it had shifted or swerved somehow, without her actually seeing it do so.
It seemed something had altered in the air around him, or the ground had somehow shifted under his feet.
The battle tide had shifted on him somehow, and no matter how he tried to work it out to put things right, it seemed to Eduard Devereaux that he was losing ground.
For the places of the world had marvellously shifted and run into one another somehow.
Now we had somehow shifted our loyalties to respective car salesmen.
Lessa was shuddering, her eyes frantically taking in the reassuring sight of the Weyr Bowl, hoping she had not somehow shifted backward in time yet again.
He had no way of knowing if the poles might perhaps have shifted somehow during the cataclysm, the holocaust.
The emphasis had somehow shifted.
Then look for signs that he thinks he's somehow shifted to a parallel universe.