Michael Mann's The Insider is an intellectual thriller in which Crowe, this time as real-life corporate whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, plays off Al Pacino's shrewd real-life journalist Lowell Bergman, as the pair team up against big business skullduggery, both within Crowe's former tobacco business and Pacino's media business.
DJay is very shrewd, but his life is at a dead end, and he knows it.
It is an addiction which she has inherited from her father, and Gomes shows us that, for all her confusion, the addiction has given her a lively, shrewd sense of life itself being a gamble.
His versatility is remarkable – historical novels, shrewd forays into contemporary life.
As buoyant and elegant as bubbles in a glass of champagne, Frank Capra's sublime 1934 comedy, written by long-time collaborator Robert Riskin, survives triumphantly because of its wit, charm, romantic idealism and its shrewd sketch of married life.
Instead, individuals accepted the promise that, through hard work, shrewd educational and other "life" choices, and a little luck, they – or their children – would reap the benefits of economic growth.
A love poet, a metaphysician and a formalist, Ponsot cultivates an eccentricity that allows her to make her moral points epigrammatically or on the sly; this is her fifth book of poems, the product of a long life and shrewd pruning.
The masculine realm of rational selfhood is a realm of moral decency principled respect for others and conscientious fidelity to duty and of prudent good sense adherence to shrewd, fulfilling, long-range life plans.
For another, Jay Landsman, an amiably podgy, pornography-loving sergeant on screen, shares his name with a shrewd and profane real-life detective who is introduced in the book's first sentence.
Jonathan Freedland, the Guardian's executive editor, opinion, said: "Gaby Hinsliff is as shrewd an observer of contemporary life as she is of British politics.
