Sentence examples for shrewd reply from inspiring English sources

It was a shrewd reply — the cool placement of safety over diplomacy — that nevertheless avoided Bush's sharp turn toward war.

(Answer: C. Shrewd, Rudy. Shrewd!).

Surely shrewd students of human nature will predict the tenor of his reply, but probably you haven't anticipated its elegance.

This represents both shrewd corporate strategy and political astuteness: it means that they can give the same reply to the Chinese or Russian governments as they do to the American or British authorities.

When Bobby tells his father the day after the 1960 election that it was the closest margin in history, Joe Kennedy dryly replies, "You think I was going to pay for a landslide?" Mr. Wilkinson plays the shrewd, willful power broker so well and so appealingly, he dominates the series and almost makes the Borgia pope seem humdrum.

The firm replies that its investment bankers approved the deal, and that it thinks the offer price was fair.Mr Li is a shrewd judge of prices.

Charlie was shrewd.

But Pleble was shrewd.

That's shrewd politics.

Shrewd, informed judgements.

It was a shrewd move.