Sentence examples for shrewd intelligence from inspiring English sources

Beneath Rabe's alabaster beauty is a shrewd intelligence marked by disillusionment, and a vulnerability that allows her characters to get swept off their feet despite themselves.

"His calm, courteous and avuncular demeanour masked a sharp intelligence, shrewd diplomatic skills, a great sense of humour and huge knowledge of and affection for books and book people".

Her unthreatening exterior belied a sharp intelligence and a shrewd wit.Wasserstein never planned for a career in the theatre.

From his earliest days as student government president at the Bronx High School of Science to his ascension to international trouble-shooter for Sanford I. Weill, the chairman and chief executive of Citigroup, Mr. Levy is remembered by friends and colleagues as a consummate politician with a shrewd strategic intelligence, honed by his experience as a courtroom litigator.

This will require first-rate intelligence, shrewd diplomacy and a continued extensive military commitment.

But Carey Mulligan is excellent: her face has a pinched girlish prettiness combined with a shrewd, slightly schoolmistressy intelligence – the sort of face which can appear very young and really quite old at the same time.

The next, she is all lucidity and intelligence, a shrewd operator commandeering her anger long enough to convince herself of Agamemnon's hubris (his "self-righteous fucking bollocks").

More a detective story than a spy story, it introduced the shrewd but self-effacing intelligence agent George Smiley, who became le Carré's best-known character and was featured in several later works.

Her face has a pinched girlish prettiness combined with a shrewd, slightly school-mistressy intelligence – the sort of face that can appear very young and quite old at the same time.

It is a very low level of intelligence that is crafty and shrewd, and can easily outsmart an intelligent person.

The features are briskly drawn into the remaining plane – the goatee and moustache, the shrewd twinkle in the eyes, the fierce intelligence.