This is how it worked with "Don't Ask Don't Tell," this is how it worked with health care reform, this is how it works when the uniqueness of your "centrist" position allows you to do what you love doing: cut vital deals and craft shrewd policy steal an inordinate amount of the media spotlight for yourself.
Mr. Tsui has developed his notions of China through other historical series, including the "Swordsman" films (set in a more distant, magical past), the "Chinese Ghost Story" series (in which heroic monks confront demons with distinctly imperialist agendas) and many one-shots, including the shrewd, sober, meticulously crafted period adventure that might be his finest film, "The Blade" (1995).
Moral: Because anger isn't a lovely display for nice girls, they are left to craft a shrewder expression of their wrath in the gotcha game of cheating.
"Finishing the Hat" is filled with ruminations on the craft of lyric writing, shrewd essays on other lyricists, and anecdotes galore.
As the type and epitome of the shrewd but visionary sage, Franklin helped craft the Franco-American alliance that made British defeat in the war all but certain.
Very cunning, very shrewd.
Since Connelly controls, to a great extent, the access to the President, he himself has immense indirect power, which he wields with craft caution, loyalty, with a shrewd understanding of the wishes of the Boss.
The American critic Roger Ebert is the world's most famous professional film reviewer: loved for his sane and shrewd judgments, and his passionate devotion to his craft.
About 1300, musical composition as a mere craft was ranked by Johannes de Grocheo, a shrewd observer of the Parisian musical scene, with shoemaking and tanning.
The magazine added that the game had a "wonderfully ambiguous" story, crafted by replacing dialogue with "artful framing and shrewd gestures, and booting out cutscenes in favour of prickly jump-cuts".
