Sentence examples for even shrewd from inspiring English sources

Larry "Doc" Sportello, the central figure, is a competent, even shrewd detective, but in appearance and behaviour he's a stereotypical 60s dope fiend.

Or was she scattered like a fox, tossing up dust and loose ends in a consistent, even shrewd, effort to assume blame as an accessory instead of as a murderer?

It seemed a sensible, even shrewd, strategy, especially after the completion last year of the project's first phase — in which the architects, Diller Scofidio & Renfro, carved up the interior of the old 1960s-era andce Tully Hall and sliced off parts of its facade to produce a striking hybrid of Modern and contemporary.

Bowie also became the first rock star to turn a confession of bisexuality into a shrewd career move (and also the first, some years later, to suspect that times had changed enough for recanting to be an even shrewder one).

"Secondly, if he plans to run for governor it makes it an even shrewder move because his numbers, as high as they are, will go up even further based on this uncontested media".

In his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," he writes that he did not talk much about his mother's whiteness because he feared that "by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites" -- a shrewd assessment of white people for a 12-year-old, and an even shrewder assessment of himself.

Maybe even a shrewd one.

Within days, however, events moved faster than even the shrewd Mr Bondi can have predicted.

In Brad­lee's life as relayed by Himmelman, even the shrewd and remote editor gets consumed by his own celebrity — followed by adrenaline withdrawal — in Water­gate's wake.

Even a shrewd observer such as Martin Jacques makes the absurd case in his authoritative recent book, When China rules the world, that China's rise is "peaceful".

Cause Of Causes' upward mobility as he has matured physically has surprised even his shrewd trainer, and plans are becoming increasingly ambitious, with a step up from handicap company at the Festival a possibility.