Sentence examples for shrewd play from inspiring English sources

The fates of Hearts and Celtic, so divergent on a night when Barcelona were vanquished by some shrewd play and the kind of raucous atmosphere that shook the soul, are indicative of the game's underlying health.

Mr. Cheney saw his offer as an act of statesmanship, but Mr. Baker portrays it as a shrewd play to Mr. Bush's insecurity, manifested as an ever-present need to show that he was boss, including of the man viewed as the most powerful vice president in history.

But is rolling back the styling's aggression a similarly shrewd play?

Sharapova showed that her steely streetwise court craft and steely competitive edge had not been dulled by her absence as she saved a match point in the tie-break with a shrewd play at the net.

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No Money for Him JACK DREYFUS, who was lionized on Wall Street as the founder of the Dreyfus Fund and among bridge enthusiasts for his shrewd playing in tough-money hands, made clear in a deposition released yesterday that he did not intend to share his estate with a 40-year-old Florida man claiming to be his son.

He often seems too shrewd to play random nut.

As a dramatic strategy, the passage speaks more generally to the abiding tactics of a shrewd, smart play that takes an uncompromising view of Britain's so-called compensation culture and raises laughs where a more hectoring view of events would find only a lament.

Webb is not very shrewd about playing the outsider's game.

Mr. Pandit has been shrewd about playing down his interest in the job.

From 15 September, American Airlines Theatre, New York, roundabouttheatre.org (212-719-1300) David Rabe'shrewdwd, fervid plays (Hurlyburly, Streamers) show people grasping for the vestiges of a normal life as tragedy, passion and blind chance threaten to wrest it away.