Sentence examples for a shrewd character from inspiring English sources

He's such a shrewd character that you can't overlook them, and he's made some good signings in Paul Johnson, Glenn Morrison and Terry Newton, although their key man will again be Danny Brough.

Even a shrewd character like Richard Nixon, with minions to do his plotting, had trouble keeping his pledge of visiting all 50 states during the 1960 presidential race, and historians still speculate that the time wasted in accomplishing this rash feat helped cost him the election.

The result delighted her; Sargent, a shrewder character, was apprehensive about how the portrait would be viewed by the conventional crowds for whom a day out at the Salon was a social fixture in the Paris calendar.

Their director of rugby Steve Lewis is a very shrewd character, he's a very good businessman, he's very good within the recruitment of finding the players that are missing out in the Premiership and are willing just to have an opportunity on minimum contracts.

ʿAbd al-Malik was a shrewd judge of character.

Although he sometimes is deceived by tall tales, Huck is a shrewd judge of character.

He is a good story-teller, a shrewd appraiser of character and a keen recorder of an indecisive generation.

He made up for this deficiency by the careful study of documents, by an extraordinarily retentive memory, and by being a shrewd judge of character.

In his conjectures, Kennan is guided both by a shrewd sense of character and by an impressive knowledge of the folkways of his New England ancestors.

By George Cecil Cowing The New Yorker, June 8 , 1929P. 88 When I stood on the weighing-machine and went through the ritual of depositing the penny I was issued a card that conveyed a shrewd piece of character reading.

The future cardinal, a shrewd judge of character, predicted that the bright and winsome page would prove to be a "marvellous man". His interest sent the boy to the University of Oxford, where More seems to have spent two years, mastering Latin and undergoing a thorough drilling in formal logic.