Sentence examples for shrewd person from inspiring English sources

"History is the sum total of all the things they aren't telling us," he wrote in Libra, his fictionalised account of the Kennedy assassination, although he is personally more in tune with the sentiment: "A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million".

"He is such a shrewd person, it's difficult to understand him," said the businessman, Jamil Yusaf.

A disloyal person is made out to be a shrewd person of integrity... ...... Loyalty is, in essence, a premodern virtue.

A disloyal person is made out to be a shrewd person of integrity... .. Loyalty is, in essence, a premodern virtue.

He's an extremely shrewd person, and he's also very rich.

FASHION is not about clothes, as Carine Roitfeld, the editor of French Vogue and one of the shrewdest persons in the business, once told me.

Not to puncture anyone's fantasy, but a lady is a shrewd young person with no interest in sex at all, who sells his body for pin money to low bidders while appraising the season's ambient johns for an ideally deluded, rich tourist.

The Shrewd and Learned Person approved the three million but Negatively Endorsed the box tops, congratulated himself on having Nixed rampant Damned Foolishness once again.

Juliette Binoche, whose beauty, now that she is in her forties, has become less ethereal and more ripely sensual, makes her character a shrewd and argumentative person whose feelings are easily hurt.

Korda wrote about a recognizably shrewd and relentless person who always got what she wanted, a gorgon who was also, for him, a kind of heroine — Jackie Susann the media revolutionary, whose aggressive showmanship sold millions of books.

On screen, he has a shrewd intensity but in person he's expansive and jovial.