Sentence examples for actually shrewd from inspiring English sources

Several former prosecutors said that Mr. Kelley's more muted approach was actually shrewd politics.

What sounds like a romantic venture was actually a shrewd calculation.

Its value was obvious at the Venice film festival last year, but it has grown in my mind since: what seemed like a plodding pace is actually a shrewd approximation of the steady drumbeat that effective reporting creates.

It's actually a shrewd move, ensuring that some of the worst men in the world will never come to Spain.

Lieutenant Colonel T. E. Lawrence later lampooned this as a "triumphal entry" but it was actually a shrewd political stroke, freeing Chauvel's forces to advance another 300 km to Aleppo, which was captured on 25 October.

Second, it's worth noting that Mr. Dawson is just plain wrong about the Democrats, who have never actually been shrewder about anything than their Republican rivals.

(His "aw shucks" blankness may actually hide a shrewd operator).

This is actually a rather shrewd choice, actually an improvement on Schlesinger, bringing out that scene's mystery and eroticism.

The phrase comes from business and refers to a decision by a shop owner to cut prices so drastically that he appears crazy to the consumer even though he knows he has actually made a shrewd business decision.

While the rest of the world disassociated him from any meaningful personal role in the decision-making process and insisted on seeing him as an impotent figurehead lacking notable intellectual endowments, he was actually smarter and shrewder than most people gave him credit for, and more energetic too".

Actually, it was a shrewd investment on the part of FIP, their first in Korea; a bet on one of the country's most exciting up-and-coming directors that seriously paid off.