Sentence examples for shrewd to think from inspiring English sources
Fuentes is far too shrewd to think that an electoral horse race, no matter how hotly contested, is enough to make a novel — unless, that is, he can eroticize his story's politics and somehow persuade us to see every move in this complex presidential game as a tactic of courtship, a bit of foreplay, a whispered intimacy.
He was too shrewd to believe that it must exist.
It's dispiriting to think that these shrewd young tourists might represent the last gasp of hip.
But Kumar Sangakkara is too shrewd a captain to allow his team to think that way.
The majority of supporters seemed to think Whelan had made another shrewd move, as long as he was prepared to put up with the flak.
Although Georgina was too stupid and spoiled to think for herself, her parents were shrewd opportunists.
It also relieves us from having to think too hard about something that mattered a great deal to the shrewd Rossini: compensating artists fairly for their work.
There is a wry, shrewd humanity to his historical interests that throws up constant parallels with 2015, but he never hectors his readers on what to think.
Anyone who thinks Hussein is too shrewd to stumble into war today should think again.
And it was a particularly shrewd stroke, we think, to sneak anti-Soviet commercials into the intervals of the program.
Hopkins's obvious intelligence makes Alfie's last grasp at sexual happiness pitiable and touching — even a man this shrewd, we think, is capable of falling for a woman a third his age.
