The skies do not light up: Jacques, we realize, is a bit of a sourpuss, and Laura is rather bovine and undiscriminating, though shrewd enough when it comes to manipulating her grouchy employer.
Sources close to Ashkenazi say that he'd be more likely to enter politics "if it would cause Yesh Atid and Israel Resilience to run together". Various Yesh Atid officials have suggested that a merger with Gantz might yet be arranged, though shrewd observers of Lapid and his ambition find the prospect of him subordinating himself to another leader unlikely.
As Mr. Burrough documents, the Bass brothers of Fort Worth — Sid, Robert, Lee and Edward — held onto and increased their nest eggs through shrewd financial investments; though they have gone their separate ways, their collective worth is now more than $5 billion.
Behind the scenes, though, it required shrewd maneuvers and hardball politics that seemed incongruous with the candidate's high-minded image: sidelining the Rev. Al Sharpton, who could have ignited the passion of black voters for William.
Wieland is shrewd, though, about her subjects and has done serious work in German archives, producing documents — a reassuring letter from Riefenstahl to Albert Speer, in 1944, predicting a "great turning point in this war"; an unpublished memoir by Riefenstahl's inconveniently Jewish early lover-financier; several Dietrich letters — that give her book credibility, texture, and unending interest.
Though a shrewd business sense and a sharp eye for antiques allowed her to amass a fortune, she based her style not on material goods but on her own principles of taste: a vision of refined yet comfortable living that she insisted was attainable by all.
Yet, though a shrewd entrepreneur himself, Zappa might never have imagined the same principle would hold true in business decades later.
In one of her shrewder insights, though, Ms. Small points out that college nowadays is simply an extension, a celebration even, of pop culture in general.
His annotations are often shrewd, though his admiration reveals at times different concerns from those of some of his contemporaries and of later scholars.
Now Matthew and Marilla are gone, though Anne remains shrewd and plucky, ready to conquer all obstacles the way she conquered Matthew and Marilla's hearts.
Later in life, as general secretary, Greene went on record with the declaration that "strikes are a daft way of doing things," though as a shrewd and skilful negotiator, he was not averse to playing brinkmanship with the British Railways Board, as well as with prime ministers of all political hues.
