Sentence examples for shrewd combination from inspiring English sources

Schamus ran the place with a shrewd combination of good taste and minimal snobbery.

31 "REMBRANDT CREATES REMBRANDT: ART AND AMBITION IN LEIDEN 1629-1631" Rembrandt was a shrewd combination of soulfulness and showmanship.

In short, a character impossible to play, yet Ms. Diaz puts it over through a shrewd combination of complicity and sincerity.

These omnipresent cycles represent, instead, an anachronistic grouping — one made only in hindsight and informed by a shrewd combination of the Romantic ethos of classical music and the box-set mentality of the record industry.

And he provided TED with both a powerful business model and a pipeline of polished output.TED uses a shrewd combination of paid-for and free products, the purpose of the latter being to generate buzz.

This enables the Texans to execute many of their shrewd route combinations out of base personnel.

It is a brilliantly acute sketch, typically poised between exact observation and the desire to tell a story: Combination of shrewd business woman, genuine artist, lonely middle-aged woman anxious to please, and mad-woman.

Lancashire stumbled to 61-5 and a combination of shrewd field placements and rotation of bowlers from the captain Stephen Fleming ensured Lancashire meandered along unthreateningly despite Dominic Cork's fighting 40.

"Delaying departure until later in the evening is often a shrewd move as the combination of work exit and holiday exodus traffic tends to ease after the rush hour".

It's not so much that they're the offspring of celebrities, and thus big hounds; it's that they're the sons — two of the three, anyway — of that particular American combination of shrewd, rags-to-riches dads and modelicious moms.

This transformation made possible by a combination of shrewd entrepreneurship, access to water, an extensive transportation network, and permissive state laws—has created the city now often known simply as "Vegas," a place of vast casinos, elaborate hotels, and spectacular entertainment venues that attracts masses of visitors from throughout the world.