Still, "My Khmer Heart" rolls over its own rough patches with its larger-than-life main character, a woman with shrewd regard for her own dramatic effect.
He had asked my sister's permission a month earlier, so while she and I were living it up at Coachella one week before the romantic getaway, he had the foresight to ask my happily married parents separately for their permission -- my dad on Friday night and my mom at Sunday brunch which tells you quite a lot about his shrewd observations regarding securing a yes from my parents.
Although he's only been in the race for a few weeks, he has started out strongly, and some shrewd handicappers regard him as a dark horse.
"The shrewd reader will regard the final betrothal of Emma and Mr Knightley as inevitable," Mullan writes.
Andrew Davies, who adapted the novel for television, was shrewd enough to regard his function as one of artistic midwifery — to get the thing out of the page and onto the screen in as undamaged a state as possible.
The shrewd reader will regard the final betrothal of Emma and Mr Knightley as inevitable, from the moment we know that he is the only person ever to find fault with her.
The wonder of Daniel Sullivan's gripping horror movie of a "Julius Caesar" at the Old Globe Theater here through Aug. 10 is that while the play remains as clear as glass to the average 13-year-old, and the production as alluring as a video game, it is also a pertinent, politically shrewd and subtly fearful prognostication regarding the world we now live in.
A liberal whom fellow lawmakers regarded as shrewd, pragmatic and conciliatory, Mr. Dixon was chairman of the Black Caucus from 1983 to 1985.
Arsenal Manager Arsène Wenger has made a number of shrewd additions to his squad, but, just as was the case last year, the club's summer has been dogged by speculation regarding the future of its star performers.
Although he is widely regarded as a shrewd collector with the taste of a connoisseur, Mr. Dayton has never had that sort of conflict of interest.
A seasoned Christian Democratic leader, Mr. Schäuble, 64, is regarded as a shrewd tactician and one of the political heavyweights in Mrs. Merkel's cabinet.
