Sentence examples for shrewd beyond from inspiring English sources

Although some of the younger delegates found Franklin a sentimental old fool prone to feeble-minded irrelevance, he was shrewd beyond their understanding.

Stephen appears to share his commitment while proving himself a shrewd operator beyond his years.

Beyond shrewd organisation and growing purpose on the ball, Gordon Strachan's gift to the Scotland set-up has been a sense of optimism.

Shrewd investors therefore look beyond the simple difference between a company's actual earnings and the consensus forecast, and focus also on the context.

The FN is capitalising on a shrewd strategy of appealing beyond the disfranchised middle class and workers' families hit by the economic crisis to a wider constituency of people who feel the republican model of laïcité, France's brand of secularism, has come under threat from the growth of Islamic radicalism.

This supposition — the prospect of a shrewd old king looking far beyond the end of his own reign — is made plausible by Penn's gripping account of the Tudor monarch's final hours.

Reading Daniyal Mueenuddin's mesmerizing first collection, "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders," is like watching a game of blackjack, the shrewd players calculating their way beyond their dealt cards in an attempt to beat the dealer.

Beyond that, loose ethics controls, shrewd stock picks, profitable land deals, favorable tax laws, inheritances and even marriages to wealthy spouses are all cited as possible explanations for the rising fortunes on Capitol Hill.

Beyond education, Mr. Gingrich has a shrewd politician's sense of how the colonial system worked.

A hero of the protofeminist movement for her single-mindedness, Earhart was also commercially shrewd and aware that her fame had uses beyond her own gratification.

Wan is shrewd enough to recognize that the appeal of his characters goes beyond their specific ideology.