That's not far from the notion that Apple differed from his contemporaries at the Times not so much in what he was like as in the fact that he let it show — or, in Crouse's shrewd phrase, that he stuck out "in a business populated largely by shy egomaniacs".
That's not far from the notion that Apple differed from his contemporaries at the Times not so much in what he was like as in the fact that he let it show or, in Crouse's shrewd phrase, that he stuck out "in a business populated largely by shy egomaniacs".
At the very least, "government as we know it" is a highly subjective phrase that could mean anything a shrewd debater like Ornstein wants it to mean.
In 2009, for instance, George Papandreou won the election with his populist phrase, "The money exists," suggesting that shrewd oversight and not painful cuts was needed to solve Greek financial problems.
BEFORE heading to mysterious foreign lands where the language and customs are unfamiliar, shrewd travelers pick up a book of useful phrases to ease communication with the natives, and to get advance warning of their bewildering ways.
The lyrics to the Scottish songs include locutions like "that pawky quean," a phrase I intend to use (pawky means "shrewd and cunning, often in a humorous manner").
Mr. Novak was a smart, shrewd small-town boy "looking for trouble," in his own phrase.
Almost every page is enlivened by a sharply minted phrase, an enchanting vignette, a joke or a shrewd inversion of the conventional wisdom.In this section Petals of blood A wasteful effort A man in full Get Shorty Divine inspiration Lovebirds and murder The book of kings ReprintsHere is Pat learned, Pat witty, angry, generous and prophetic by turns.
They were all mood swings — vindictive, sultry, furious, tearful, wry, hopeful — with emotions shifting from phrase to phrase, in her improvisatory singing and in shrewd band arrangements.
The book is also a wicked black comedy in both senses of the phrase -- it's both caustically funny and a shrewd take on racial politics.
There was her technique - huskytoned, steel-hard in phrasing, with immaculate timing, an unsentimental tenderness and a shrewd wit.
