Sentence examples for in shrewd from inspiring English sources

Much of Zweig's skill resides in shrewd narrative pacing.

But the strength of his quintet lies in shrewd arrangements, rhythm and in the total group sound.

They were all mood swings — vindictive, sultry, furious, tearful, wry, hopeful — with emotions shifting from phrase to phrase, in her improvisatory singing and in shrewd band arrangements.

"In Living Color" had a killer instinct in playing up a subject -- race comedy from the African-American perspective -- and folding in shrewd and swift references that had been given short shrift on network television.

As Jamie Bartlett concluded in his book: "Outsiders, radicals and pariahs are often the first to find and use technology in shrewd ways, and the rest of us have much to learn from them".

Its strength lies in shrewd comic writing and unpredictable outbursts of non-verbal activity: two of its most revealing and dramatically daring moments are prolonged dances, one by a predatory man; the other by an elderly, apparently passive woman.

In shrewder quarters, there has also been a collateral conversation about the richer and remaining 1 percent.

We wrote to remind them all that just as the development of more complicated locks has resulted in shrewder lockpickers, & as sure as Mao Tse-Tung Or Sec.

The brutality sneaks in sideways, especially in the shrewd deployment of that creepy "we" into which the "I" seems to have been forcefully conscripted.

Nayef, now arguably the most powerful man in Saudi Arabia, is shrewd in how he presents himself.

Its interest lies in its description and factual information and in its shrewd assessment of contemporary figures and motives.