Sentence examples for shrewd grasp from inspiring English sources

And Mr. Clinton has a shrewd grasp of how the media has changed in the age of talk-show confessions.

Her classless vowels and shrewd grasp of breakfast television arouse a rather old-fashioned admiration among the programme's six million viewers.

6. Tinie Tempah - Disc-overy This debut album confirms that Tinie Tempah has spirit and charm in abundance, not to mention a shrewd grasp of his situation, now he's turned himself into "a product with a price-tag".

Exhibiting a shrewd grasp of demographics — Asians still make up only about 5percentt of the American population — Mr. Lopez saved his hoariest, most offensive sexual jabs for a Filipino woman and an East Asian man.

But her parents, Richard and Jane (played by Ms. Bessette with a shrewd grasp of the character's helpless egocentricism), now divorcing after 20 years, have been clueless all along.

With Momofuku Noodle Bar and Momofuku Ssam Bar, both near Ko in the East Village, he has demonstrated a shrewd grasp of the culinary zeitgeist, bringing considerable skill and high standards to noodle soups, slider-size sandwiches, Asian burritos and chicken wings.

Most glaringly, it sets the stage for the argument that the prize of the intelligentsia, which has been disinterested in the flow of popular music, may have a shrewder grasp on cultural impact than the Grammys, which for its top honor, Album of the Year, have snubbed not only Lamar — this year and in the past — but every other black hip-hop artist other than Lauryn Hill and OutKast.

But the fairy tale was shrewd: he grasped what kind of Jew would be fascinating to an English audience, and what kind merely Jewish.

Talking to the elves, seeing the children smile, guiding the creative side of Christmas, these are the things that drive him, he says.Yet the owner of the trademark beard and belly-laugh is also a man shrewd enough to have grasped the money-making potential of Christmas when nobody saw it as a commercial enterprise at all, and many thought it doomed to merge with New Year.

The alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon has a smart tone, a shrewd technique and a catholic grasp of the jazz tradition.

From 15 September, American Airlines Theatre, New York, roundabouttheatre.org (212-719-1300) David Rabe'shrewdwd, fervid plays (Hurlyburly, Streamers) show people grasping for the vestiges of a normal life as tragedy, passion and blind chance threaten to wrest it away.