Sentence examples for over shrewd from inspiring English sources
These films projected an essential optimism as their underdog heroes triumphed over shrewd but selfish individuals in a world often beset by darkness and despair.
Darius volunteers to clinch the story and wins Kenneth over with a shrewd mixture of sarcasm and kooky audacity.
Huffington Post Women: The best part of Arianna Huffington taking over AOL? Her shrewd application of HuffPo vaudeville to the women's space.
The brim of Antonin Proust's hat throws a shadow over one shrewd eye, glittering in the dark.
This would be a restoration of former glory: coloured gems were recognised as valuable centuries before anyone cared for diamonds, points out Ian Harebottle, chief executive of Gemfields, but in the 20th century diamonds took over, thanks largely to shrewd marketing.
In short, a character impossible to play, yet Ms. Diaz puts it over through a shrewd combination of complicity and sincerity.
South Africa's susceptibility in close finishes resurfaced and a shrewd penultimate over from Kulasekara over cost only four runs.
Over the years, his shrewd selection has proved to be the kiss of life to many a career.
And he will find an organisation in pretty rude health, thanks to Watson's shrewd management over the past seven years.
"It won't take more than a year," breezes Mr Ross, a bankruptcy specialist whose shrewd investments over the years range from American steel firms to Japanese banks.America's telecoms industry is not to every investor's taste.
A millionaire building contractor and shrewd dealer over the years in some of the world's rarest and most enviable racing cars, Frederick Bernard Wheatcroft – nicknamed Tom by his family from his habit of continually patting his tummy – concealed a razor-sharp business mind behind an affable exterior.
