Sentence examples for shrewd on from inspiring English sources

Vidal is shrewd on sexual matters.

Ms. George is shrewd on the economies of scale at work in global shipping.

She is shrewd on the subject of white American self-confidence, the ease and largesse of deep-seated privilege.

To Ida, it resonated just a wee bit of other memorials, built and unbuilt, which was probably shrewd on Roy's part.

He is shrewd on what he calls "the Jim Crow gaze," a dead look that marks "the refusal, evident in the aggressor's eyes, to see you as sympathetic, to see you as a worthy, equal subject".

And although he was certainly shrewd on a day-to-day basis, his core strength was strategic: he knew what he wanted in the long term, and he knew how to move toward it.

It's a shrewd come-on, in that it establishes his outrageous bona fides and makes a bold claim on your attention right off the bat.

Porto have established a niche in the market as shrewd movers-on of mostly South American talent and everyone seems happy with the profitability of the exercise.

Lawrence had brought Oppenheimer into a committee of scientists advising the government about building the bomb, and he offered such shrewd advice on one technical question after another that he became indispensable to the project.

Mr Bush, since Iraq, seems shrewder on this.

It was a shrewd twist on the TV genre one might call "friendcore": warm ensemble comedies like "Friends," "The Big Bang Theory," "How I Met Your Mother," and "New Girl," which center on lovable gangs of buddies and their adventures and romances.