Sentence examples for Shrewd intelligence from inspiring English sources

Beneath Rabe's alabaster beauty is a shrewd intelligence marked by disillusionment, and a vulnerability that allows her characters to get swept off their feet despite themselves.

But experts in Cairo describe Dr. Zawahiri as having delivered to the organization the complementary and equally essential skills of a shrewd intelligence and years of expertise.

Sal is a significant character in her own right, her resourcefulness and shrewd intelligence the necessary complement to her husband's physical strength.

Over the years, though, Stephen, who died in 1995 at age 86, has sometimes been disparaged as an intellectual lightweight, though Auden early on perceived the iron will beneath the obliging nature, as well as his friend's shrewd intelligence and social ambition.

"His calm, courteous and avuncular demeanour masked a sharp intelligence, shrewd diplomatic skills, a great sense of humour and huge knowledge of and affection for books and book people".

Her unthreatening exterior belied a sharp intelligence and a shrewd wit.Wasserstein never planned for a career in the theatre.

Undoubtedly influenced by Charlie Parker's melodic ingenuity, Knepper's phrasing could be fleet and complex, but he left more space in his music than a typical bebopper, was a master at varying the same melodic motif with rhythmic and volume changes and subtly altered notes, and gave the impression of a shrewd, dynamic intelligence firmly propelling every sound.

From his earliest days as student government president at the Bronx High School of Science to his ascension to international trouble-shooter for Sanford I. Weill, the chairman and chief executive of Citigroup, Mr. Levy is remembered by friends and colleagues as a consummate politician with a shrewd strategic intelligence, honed by his experience as a courtroom litigator.

This will require first-rate intelligence, shrewd diplomacy and a con tinued extensive military commitment.

This will require first-rate intelligence, shrewd diplomacy and a continued extensive military commitment.

But Carey Mulligan is excellent: her face has a pinched girlish prettiness combined with a shrewd, slightly schoolmistressy intelligence – the sort of face which can appear very young and really quite old at the same time.