Sentence examples for upon shrewd from inspiring English sources
Louisiana's politicians are usually quicker than most to seize upon shrewd politics that generate terrible social policy, but in this case they could not afford to.
A shrewd put-upon operator Blackadder negotiates his way up an absurd hierarchy with privileged lunatics at the top and oppressed idiots at the bottom.
Sometime in late 1850, Melville had probably come upon Coleridge's shrewd remark about "Hamlet," that "one of Shakespeare's modes of creating character is to conceive any one intellectual or moral faculty in morbid excess, and then to place himself... thus mutilated or diseased, under given circumstances".
His Hamilton side played passing football, initiating swift, incisive counter attacks that were built upon well-organised and strategically shrewd tactics.
Or is it a shrewd attempt to confer upon the movies a legitimacy that may not be warranted by their artistic ambitions?
The oft remarked upon public school setting is a shrewd fabrication not just because it re-animates the high jinks free of parental interference that everyone associates with Enid Blyton.
Each and all of us, shrewd or stolid, traded upon the imbecilities of human nature and had contempt for it as a result.
In this shrewd and bristly performance piece, Eric Bogosian turns his gimlet eye upon himself and finds himself wanting, complicit in the cultural wasteland he abhors.
Leaving aside the complications of whether their marriage would be recognised upon their return to their homeland, this is the optimal solution, and they were shrewd to recognise it.
