Sentence examples for shrewd student from inspiring English sources

Shrewd student of the system that she was, and still is, she imagined that the college admissions committee saw itself as the shaper of "a classic underdog story with a Hollywood ending," in which she was the plucky heroine.

And though her own experience is part of what keeps her doing this work, what makes her good at it is that she's a shrewd student of human nature — including human fallibility, a wide range of which is on display when you're dealing simultaneously with poverty, adolescence, and an infant.

And though her own experience is part of what keeps her doing this work, what makes her good at it is that she's a shrewd student of human nature including human fallibility, a wide range of which is on display when you're dealing simultaneously with poverty, adolescence, and an infant.

Being a shrewd student of history, Mr. Clinton doubtlessly got the idea from Federalist Hamilton's initially successful effort to tar anti-Federalists Jefferson and Madison's effort to squelch a big federal government from overwhelming American liberty.

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

Fifty years ago, in the first flush of Red panic, George Kennan, the author of the containment policy and one of the shrewdest students of the cold war, wrote a letter warning that the fear of Communism could turn us "intolerant, secretive, suspicious, cruel, and terrified of internal dissension because we have lost our own belief in ourselves and in the power of our ideals".

He wrote a pretty shrewd analysis of student leftism in that same year called "What's Bugging the Students?" from the standpoint of his own, by then middle-age generation.

Feyer confirmed that Duckenfield was shrewd to have his students disguise their letters' point of origin.

Yet, he was "a very skilful observer and shrewd clinically, he could interest students in the most mundane topics and always managed to find some point overlooked by others so that he was highly regarded as a consultant" [ 1].

A year later, a new group of students said it was a shrewd gamble.

Professor X is shrewd about the reasons it's hard to teach underprepared students how to write.