Spark's co-religionist and former patron Graham Greene pinpointed the same quality in different words: 'There is a splinter of ice in the heart of a writer.' In person, she is charming, with shrewd, smiling eyes and careful, dark-red lipstick that matches her hair.
As Kroll, Austin Pendleton is shrewd, concealing a devious nature behind a welcoming smile.
In any other business, this would be called shrewd forward planning, and if it makes people smile, and smell good, so much the better.
Drawing on the work of Fred I. Greenstein and others, Wicker gives us a sense that Eisenhower was a shrewd image manipulator who knew Americans wanted a smiling, relaxed leader.
"Who would want to go to Groningen?" asks Mr Galili with an ironic smile.Yet in many respects it was a shrewd move.
What's Never Said is a shrewd, convivial and percipient read that will make you shirk, smile and laugh out loud.
It was a shrewd move acquiring Johnson, the guy who likely contributed as many smiles as dollars to the deal.
A reporter or news anchor scrunches up his nose and peers at Christine C. Quinn, the long-serving City Council speaker and one shrewd pol, and inquires: Ms. Quinn, who has perfected a glazed-eye lobotomized smile when addressing this question, slowly, sweetly, carefully confesses that, yes, yes, she has been known to raise her voice.
And I admit to smiling at the irony that Mr. Adams, who has benefited greatly from his shrewd choice of timely and controversial subject matter in his works, should now have that very subject matter bite back.
