Boxed in from left and right, with Labour only narrowly ahead in polls of voting intention, both main parties are falling back on tried-and-tested campaign messages rather than riskier, more expansive ones, in spite of warnings from shrewd folk in their ranks (see Bagehot).This retro campaigning makes the general-election result a little more predictable.
"Wealthy people tend to be wealthy because they're shrewd business folks," he said.
As shrewd business folk, they may simply be trying to protect their product.
Credit these folks with a shrewd slogan.
Whether depicting Mr. Castro as a magnetic orator, a military leader or just folks, Korda paid shrewd attention to camera angle, facial expression, composition and backdrop.
Wheeler's simmering chemistry of 20th-century classical music harmonies, jazz and folk themes, and shrewd stimulation of the improvising freedoms he's unafraid to love, have made his work a treasure-trove for today's jazz students, and he has a close association with London's Royal Academy of Music.
But let's not pretend that their gambit is wholly publicly minded, either — or that the White House, which is playing a shrewd but dangerous game, doesn't know why folks like Tillerson are lining up behind it.
But let's not pretend that their gambit is wholly publicly minded, either or that the White House, which is playing a shrewd but dangerous game, doesn't know why folks like Tillerson are lining up behind it.
But when he, like the folk world en masse, embraced the young Dylan as the reborn spirit of Woody Guthrie, he unwittingly took a viper to his bosom, in the person of Dylan's manager Albert Grossman, "the snake in the folk scene garden", whose business acumen and shrewd manoeuvring helped build the singer's reputation (even Dylan's old crony Bob Neuwirth concedes that Grossman "invented" Dylan).
As palatably sure-footed as anything in his multimillion-selling catalog, the album — which he produced with Don Was, a veteran rock 'n' roll ego whisperer — nonetheless reflects a shrewd adjustment, swapping out his usual airtight gleam for a touch of confessional Laurel Canyon folk-rock.
