shifting scene

When my comrade returns to his room, does he sleep, careless for the moment of the shifting scene which we have conjured up?

I ran forward through a shifting scene of shrinking rock walls and crawling, contracting ground.

Nor were there wanting objects in the crowd itself to give new point and purpose to the shifting scene.

Harris and Reed settled back in their canoe and yielded to the fascination of the slowly shifting scene.

In this same motley shifting scene, How various have thy fortunes been.