Sentence examples for shrewd device from inspiring English sources

One shrewd device in that arrangement — a metric bait and switch, involving three bars of 7/8 followed by a bar of 6/8 (with a strongly implied 4/4) — started to feel contrived after a dozen or so recurrences.

Tout came to view Edward as a self-interested, conservative leader, using the parliamentary system as "the shrewd device of an autocrat, anxious to use the mass of the people as a check upon his hereditary foes among the greater baronage".

It's a shrewd storytelling device, because it allows her to highlight two issues often overlooked: first, that the exodus was a continuous phenomenon spanning six decades of American life; second, that it consisted of not one, but rather three geographical streams, the patterns determined by the train routes available to those bold enough to leave.

After two efforts that were scrapped as amateur, he came through with "Steamboat Willie", which had the luck to make shrewd use of the new device of sound.

This year is the first year that Apple has separated the services from the devices in its financial reporting – a shrewd move by Cook that illustrates that the company can still make more money from people who aren't upgrading their devices.

His coach was shrewd enough to leave his captain to his own devices.

Charlie was shrewd.

But Pleble was shrewd.

That's shrewd politics.

Shrewd, informed judgements.

It was a shrewd move.