And what is true of the soundtrack applies to the movie a whole, which is a shrewd blend of conventional pop-culture pandering and exalted cinematic artistry.
They aspire to art, and at times they strain for the resonance of metaphor, which is why their shrewd act, even when it succeeds, seems a little earthbound.
But let's not pretend that their gambit is wholly publicly minded, either — or that the White House, which is playing a shrewd but dangerous game, doesn't know why folks like Tillerson are lining up behind it.
The player has already made a significant impression at Anfield since joining from Ajax for £22.8million in January, a purchase which is looking increasingly shrewd considering Suarez's form from last summer's World Cup onwards.
It wasn't Capello's finest moment, and certainly out of keeping with his normally shrewd, which is to say low-key, approach to public relations.
But not so for your average Congressional leader, which is probably why the shrewd Mr. Boehner appeared so eager to cut a deal until his caucus rebelled over the weekend.
To Ida, it resonated just a wee bit of other memorials, built and unbuilt, which was probably shrewd on Roy's part.
In the former, George Saunders voiced Shere Khan, which was a shrewd choice: Saunders played the similarly swishy Addison Dewitt, a venomous theater critic, 17 years earlier in All About Eve.
Wells is a shrewd salesman, which is why his talk about changing should not be judged for a few months.
Not false, but hopelessly inadequate".Yet these demolition jobs just clear the stage for the main performance, which is Mr Judt's own shrewd and revealing thoughts on the subject in question.
