Sentence examples for became shrewd from inspiring English sources

The Miller juvenilia gave an intriguing preview of subject matter and theatrical tactics that he would use in the plays of his maturity, and there are equally fascinating flashes in Agnes Colander of the dramatist that Granville Barker became: shrewd about human motive, acute to the difference between what people say and what they mean, and keen to test the limits of censorship.

But recently he's become shrewd, strong, graceful, authoritative.

As the reggae legend achieves sainthood in the music world, his prodigy have become shrewd entrepreneurs in Miami.

McConnell didn't suddenly become shrewd when he became Senate majority leader.

With such divergences in salary and employment rates and tuition fees likely to rise, experts predict students will become shrewder about their choice of degree and university.

He became a shrewd but generous reviewer, and a stickler for deadlines, which made him an editor's dream.

Whitelaw, who became a shrewd commentator on Beckett as well as his foremost interpreter, once said that, whereas in Not I she had felt like an athlete and a musical instrument, in Footfalls "I felt like a moving, musical, Edvard Munch painting".

Van Gundy became more calculating, more shrewd.

"Some borrowers have become very shrewd," he said.

Public health officials say that may indicate how practitioners have become increasingly shrewd.

Donovan has become a shrewd politician in his time, capable of serving revenge cold.