Like so much else in 20th-century America, Levittown began as a shrewd business move.
Terrorists in the kingdom have begun to strike at energy targets—a shrewd tactic.
Already shrewd marketers, the brothers-in-law began an energetic promotional campaign, declaring Banner "A Wonder: The talk of the Pacific Coast.
There's steel beneath the frills of this June from the beginning, and a shrewd ambition that eclipses her mother's.
Many questions were asked when Manchester United signed the untested 19-year-old forward Anthony Martial from Monaco for £36m, but after his exquisitely-taken double for the club against Southampton today, it is beginning to look a shrewd piece of business.
He had meanwhile begun making shrewd investments in such industrial concerns as the Keystone Bridge Company, the Superior Rail Mill and Blast Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, and the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works.
It begins as shrewd but stiff historical reconstruction (as Dr Johnson, Ian Redford has to do so much twitching that it's hard to see how he could ever have quilled his dictionary entries) and then breaks, switch-backingly, into bonking farce.
He's a little scary as he begins to make shrewd, accurate deductions about the past.
Even as my respect for this president as a shrewd politician has begun to rebound, my faith in him as a fervent crusader for the poor and disenfranchised has taken yet another nose dive.
B+ Cate Blanchett (Best Actress): Winning her second Oscar, Blanchett presented herself as a shrewd old-timer, beginning: "As random and as subjective as this award is, it means a great deal in a year of extraordinary — yet again — extraordinary performances by women".
