Sentence examples for become a shrewd from inspiring English sources

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

Warhols had become a shrewd investment, especially since 1995 when the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan had bought the artist's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans for £24m, and Balfour-Oatts had been following the market ever since.

That belief served my mother well: now in her 80s, she survived Auschwitz (but lost her parents there) and went on to travel the world, become a shrewd businesswoman, have a family and carry on after the deaths of two remarkable husbands.

Thus did a star racing driver become a shrewd businessman.

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

As Abbie and Robert go about telling their friends the news, the movie becomes a shrewd comic barometer of social attitudes in contemporary Hollywood.

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".

But I must concede that her decision to become a contributor to Fox News is a shrewd one.

Born and raised in Montreal, the only child of a well-to-do family, Dunn had become a stockbroker, and increased the family fortune through shrewd investments.

It's a shrewd point, though at the rate things went in 2004, it's hard to imagine how Mr. Bush could have become a winner in New York.

He became a studious and shrewd collector of a wide variety of artifacts, most of which ended up as furnishing and decoration in his family's home in Hampton Falls, N.H.