Sentence examples for shrewd critic from inspiring English sources

He is a serious challenger and a shrewd critic of his out-of-touch party.

Although he's a shrewd critic of Austen's work, Deresiewicz is less at ease when entering the genre of memoir.

Byatt, a shrewd critic and essayist but at heart a novelist, though a novelist of ideas, leaves no doubt how she grades.

The shrewd critic of dehumanized housing and faulty design is still evident, and has applied some of her sharp observations and her municipal political experience to the analysis of urban activities as a whole.

As that shrewd critic David Thomson predicted some years ago in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: "I'll be surprised if the later Ms Swinton ever abandons her loyalty to experimental projects done for the love of the thing".

Year after year, from the delicate early stories and novels of life in small town Pennsylvania, through his countless adventures in other fictive arenas, Updike never ceased to produce books that found a wide readership and critical acclaim - although many shrewd critics, such as James Wood, offered cogent dissenting voices.

His approach proved shrewd: critics complained loudly enough about the naked sex show they'd been shut out of that soon "My People" was the hottest show in town.

As Lodge, a shrewd literary critic, observes, "There are eccentric orbits in literary history".

Alistair Cooke, a very shrewd film critic, once wrote of 'stage acting as a form of sculpture and film acting as a performance with the face only - the best film actors do best with the eyes only'.

Mr. Suozzi's admirers called his move to enlist a Glen Cove councilman to run for the State Legislature bold, courageous and shrewd, while critics called it brash, vindictive and dangerous.

He remained a tough, shrewd, hugely intelligent critic whose authority just grew and grew.