Sentence examples for shrewd look from inspiring English sources

Thin and pale, with a shrewd look, the type who was good at egging people on.

The first book, which in the 80s made Townsend the decade's bestselling novelist, took a shrewd look at Margaret Thatcher's Britain.

The Children, Lucy Kirkwood's ingenious new play, takes a shrewd look at the guilt that generation might feel about the world they are leaving behind them.

The charmingly ahistorical soap-operatic plot gives rise to a shrewd look at the mighty with their motives bared; the opulent décor and elaborate costumes contrast with the incisive and worldly-wise intimacy of what is, ultimately, a populist comedy.

Here, Reynolds shines when he compares apples to apples, as in his shrewd look at the different ways reformers in China and the Soviet Union met their 1980's crises: where Gorbachev shrugged, Deng shot.

After clearing his throat with some perfunctory remarks about oil supplies and United States-Japan relations, he suddenly stopped midsentence, gave me a shrewd look and said: "Look, we Japanese aren't stupid.

It's no coincidence that Chelsea – the one English Champions League side with a tactically shrewd manager – look likely to be the only one left in a few weeks' time.

The Cabin in the Woods is a shrewd, ingenious look at the programmatic elements of the genre, a satire that is also a lenient celebration, and it could wind up being a set text in any MA course in horror.

There comes a time in every man's life when he needs to stand up and be counted; when he needs to take a shrewd, critical look at himself and come out.

Banks had a brief role as a girl ready for anything in "The 40 Year Old Virgin," and, as Laura Welch in Oliver Stone's "W.," she takes a shrewd, appraising look at Josh Brolin's George Bush — it's the film's best scene.

He takes a shrewd critical look at American culture, popular and elite, in a study for "Little Giant Still Life" (1950): here the single word "Champion," lifted from a matchbox cover, delivers a left-right punch at big-business hype and the heroic pretensions of Abstract Expressionism.