Sentence examples for shrewd notion from inspiring English sources
He quotes John Kenneth Galbraith, who said that the plan was based "on the shrewd notion that people who are insecure, hungry and without hope are not ardent defenders of liberal institutions or discriminating in the political systems they embrace".
But he's a good storyteller too, with shrewd notions about what makes people tick.
Strauss is "a good storyteller... with shrewd notions about what makes people tick," Malcolm Jones said in these pages in 2002.
After eight years in the shadow of Eisenhower and eight more years out of office, Richard Nixon brought to the presidency in 1969 rich experience as an observer of foreign affairs and shrewd notions about how to prevent the American retreat from global commitments from turning into a rout.
SOME of New York's shrewdest investors are evidently unimpressed by the notion that America's housing market is in trouble.
By all accounts, Silver is a shrewd politician who shares Reilly's apocalyptic notions about MMA and the moral obligation of all state assemblymen to save us from our lowest instincts.
These same shrewd political instincts drove him to embrace the notion of negotiations with Washington, a proposition fundamentally at odds with the clerics' official ideology of anti-Americanism.
Arguing against the notion that women have no talent for the fine arts, Mill makes the shrewd point that in the one liberal art where women are encouraged as much as men, acting on the stage, everyone admits that they're just as good or better.
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This shrewd, ambitious novel opens with Shep Knacker, a disillusioned businessman, planning an escape to an island retirement ("He loved the notion of living in a place that his spellchecker didn't recognize").
