Sentence examples for a shrewd bit from inspiring English sources

The reader who sticks with "How Music Works" will occasionally be rewarded with a shrewd bit of insight or gossip.

It's a shrewd bit of casting even if it feels more for the benefit of the audience than of Juliet (a miscast Hailee Steinfeld, who was 15).

Now, it seems that in a shrewd bit of tactical politicking, Ed Miliband will support a rebel amendment restricting the concession to one, rather than four years.

The resuscitated Hammer Films latest is a shrewd bit of retrofitting that – like its US equivalent, The Conjuring – reverses the paranormal activity bandwagon back to the early 1970s.

This is a shrewd bit of coaching — more artifice, not less — and it's no wonder that Mystery has a reputation for getting results, turning schlubs into ladies' men.

The opening playlet, "The Problem," is a shrewd bit of camp about the sex life of a mathematics professor (Keith Reddin) and his wife (Susan Greenhill).

Pulling the two plotlines together is a bit of a reach; but all in all, this is a shrewd piece of writing, well researched and smartly told.

Scrolling through Ms. Hamilton's memoir, you'll find this shrewd bit of advice: "Be careful what you get good at doin' 'cause you'll be doin' it the rest of your life".

It seemed a shrewd bet.

It was a shrewd bet.

Despite its shrewd bits, this slim book also has longueurs and repetitions, and Ballard's prose had lost, by the end, a bit of its elastic snap.