Sentence examples for shrewd tricks from inspiring English sources

The other officials and citizens with whom I discussed the case also made it disconcertingly clear that they regarded the trial of the Negroes and the testimony given at it, not as an honest attempt to get at the truth, but as a game where shrewd tricks were to be used to bring about a result already decided upon in the minds of every one of them.

Directed by Paul Lazar, with an eye for the perverse and a shrewd sense of pacing, "Elephant Room" gives its tricks space to breathe.

"John is a shrewd man.

Dr. Johnson's shrewd assessment of the author of the voluminous "Clarissa" might do the trick: "Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself.

Charlie was shrewd.

But Pleble was shrewd.

That's shrewd politics.

Shrewd, informed judgements.

It was a shrewd move.

But Mr Meles is shrewd.

She is shrewd and tenacious.