Mr. Jones and his team of shrewd ears are responsible for the music heard daily in each of the some 11,100 Starbucks coffee shops in the United States and Canada, and for the CDs the stores sell.
The buzz: "Comparisons to Scissor Sisters and Princess Superstar are inevitable, but GaGa's got a shrewder pop ear".
"Reed has a shrewd eye, a mean ear, a nasty tongue," Robert Scholes said in the Book Review.
Yet her writing revealed an entirely different person: the tough-minded woman with a shrewd eye and perfect ear whose always memorable, often violent stories helped change how non-southerners saw the American South.It helped that Miss Welty was not exactly a southerner herself.
The events of the play were presented sharply, starkly, but somehow you could sense the voice of the author - shrewd, inquiring, with an ear for the cruel comedy in our everyday battles for status.
One or two shrewd punters with their ears well tuned to the Newmarket grapevine had been predicting just such a performance from Dubai Destination, who beat Rock of Gibraltar in his two-year-old year.
Streisand is a contralto with a couple of octaves at her command, and she wows her listeners with her shrewd dynamics (in-your-ear soft here, elbowing-loud there), her bravura climbs, her rolling vibrato, and the singular Streisand-from-Brooklyn Streisand-from-Brooklyn Streisand-from-Brooklynely recognasalle in its way as Louis Armstrong's.
A shrewd reader with a keen ear for an original voice and a sure sense of the distinction between new writing and merely fashionable writing, Mr. Hills upheld standards he unashamedly thought of as literary.
Without input from shrewd investors who keep their ears to the ground, a company risks rapid obsolescence.
Brilliant ideas can spring from the most unlikely places, so you should always keep your ears open for some shrewd advice.
