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When he teaches, his tired, shrewd, dog-eyes stare out from his sagging and neglected flesh, and he rubs his chest inside his shirt, Napoleonically, as if to remind his students that literature is always a matter of the heart, and secondly a matter of campaigns and battles.
"I'd suspected for a long time that dogs are cleverer than human beings... dogs are extraordinarily shrewd, and notice everything, every step you take".
He was as sleek, well groomed and shiny as a Park Avenue matron's dog, but a good deal shrewder.
More recently, James Harding, editor of the Times of London, offered a shrewd investigation into the globalization of political consulting in "Alpha Dogs" (2008), a subject also taken up by Rachel Boynton in her riveting 2005 documentary, "Our Brand Is Crisis".
The key to dogginess, I saw, is that, though dogs are pure creatures of sensation, they are also capable of shrewd short-term plans.
Charlie was shrewd.
But Pleble was shrewd.
That's shrewd politics.
Shrewd, informed judgements.
It was a shrewd move.
But Mr Meles is shrewd.
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