Like much of the show, the scene is written with shrewd attention to the details that make satire work.
Whether depicting Mr. Castro as a magnetic orator, a military leader or just folks, Korda paid shrewd attention to camera angle, facial expression, composition and backdrop.
A shrewd attention to the speeches of the "illegitimate" daughter who is brought up as a maid in her father's house illuminates the horror of her history and makes a tragic heroine of what might be thought a minor part.
The church on which Visser trains her curious, shrewd, and affectionate attention is Sant'Agnese Fuori le Mura, which stands outside the walls of Rome.
The Nintendo Entertainment System, a console first released in Japan in 1983 as "Famicom," unseated early leaders in the video game industry, selling more than 60 million units thanks to shrewd marketing, close attention to product quality and a crop of games based on unlikely yet endearing characters that soon became household names.
Is she a shrewd brand builder claiming our collective attention with madcap sartorial antics?
But he was an amiable fellow with a big laugh that led one's attention away from his shrewd, close-set eyes.
Indeed, Mr López Obrador is beginning to resemble Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Zapatista guerrilla movement, in his shrewd manipulation of the media to draw attention to himself while actually delivering very little.Meanwhile, Mr Calderón is quietly preparing the transition.
Realizing that their moves to truncate the bloc of eligible voters would not go un-noticed, shrewd supporters of John McCain and Sarah Palin have repeatedly called attention to the case of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
He soon charmed the outside world with shrewd publicity stunts that were aimed at drawing attention to the particular danger climate change poses to the Maldives 1,200 tiny islands, barely above sea-level.
No matter how far-fetched his inventions, you want to believe in him; his attentions are so personal and so shrewd that they're reassuring.
