Sentence examples for shrewd ruse from inspiring English sources

President Assad has been accused of playing a diplomatic poker game, and as the mission nears stalemate, suspicions are growing that the deal was a shrewd ruse designed to buy time and avert military intervention.

In the end, it's all of course an elaborate ruse orchestrated by the shrewd Dr. Malatesta to reunite Ernesto and Norina.

No fool, Walker uses Billie's voice to ghost for Sylk's on a recording, but a shrewd young disc jockey and producer, Dice (Max Beesley), quickly spots the ruse.

Another shrewd thinker is Kevin Kerney, a deputy chief with the state police who sees through this cruel ruse and identifies the killer's real target as his final victim, a retired judge whose wife and son also died violently.

"The Unfathomable Ruse"?

Why this elaborate ruse?

Fraud, cheat, deception, ruse -.

Charlie was shrewd.

But that was a ruse.

The ruse worked.

This ruse worked.