The knockout dented Pacquiao's fearsome reputation, but it didn't shrink his fan base, and perhaps it also made him a more attractive opponent to Mayweather, whose calculating style entails a shrewd ability to assess risk and reward.
The album's shrewd mixture of styles is a celebration of survival, however, whether it's maudlin balladry ('It Takes One'), flashy Tennessee rock ('Bitter End') or plaintive tradition ('Change Your Heart').
He is a shrewd analyst of tennis style, but prefers to leave the actual coaching of his wife to Frank Brennan, who runs a tennis clinic in Upper Saddle River, N. J., and with whom the Kings stay between summer tournaments.
It is this modernity, together with the wit, realism, and timelessness of her prose style; her shrewd, amused sympathy; and the satisfaction to be found in stories so skillfully told, in novels so beautifully constructed, that helps to explain her continuing appeal for readers of all kinds.
A shrewd judge of passing styles and a hardworking promoter of his own work, McKuen produced 30 collections of poems and around 200 recordings of easy-listening music that sold in the millions.
Being principal of a drama school meant that his inimitable style - ruminative, shrewd and, where necessary, devastating - was widely parodied, not least at his 80th birthday party at Drury Lane, where John Sessions brought the house down with an impression of Cruttwell auditioning Al Pacino.
But shrewd emulation of an American style doesn't fully account for El Rego's appeal as a frontman or bandleader.
His artfully awkward acting style was a shrewd distillation of that personality, and it defies easy imitation.
Poor Richard's, enlivened by Franklin's shrewd wit and straightforward prose style, remained a best-seller in the American colonies until sold by him in 1758.
Ms. Basinger has a bouncy, bright style and a shrewd eye for identifying precisely the qualities that made this or that actor click with audiences, and, in machine terms, guaranteed durability.
