Sentence examples for shrewd direction from inspiring English sources
It declared that Apple's success owed much to her "shrewd direction", though it also noted that she was a very private individual and had refused to provide biographical details or a photograph of herself.
Streep, a brilliant comedienne, pushes the terror tactics into satire, but the comedy moves in a shrewd direction: Streep's every gesture says that fashion is a multibillion-dollar business in which civility (except when directed at the famous) has become a disposable luxury.
In a shrewd stage direction to his play, Osborne suggests that Holyoake's stammer "must be emphasised sufficiently to appear painful when it happens, but obviously it must be exploited sparingly, and its later dramatic effectiveness must depend upon the nicest discretion of the actor and director".
Indeed, the worry that one hears again and again is that "the pendulum has swung too far", and needs to be pushed back somewhat in the direction of a larger, or anyway shrewder, role for government.
If Mark Thompson's shrewd stage design doesn't quite follow Williams's symbolic directions, it is eloquent in its ability to capture the deeper implications of Serafina's hysteria.
It's a conception of government that is reluctant to impose mandates and bans but is kind of shrewd about enlisting what we know about human behavior in good directions".
The Apartment, the next year, won Oscars for best picture, best direction and screenplay, yet it's a plainer picture, even if it shows a shrewd, quite nasty awareness of the compromising in American life.
Shrewd, informed judgements.
