He seems wise, more than smart or shrewd—wise without being smart or shrewd.
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Clippy was a shrewd negotiator in Microsoft's LinkedIn acquisition. pic.twitter.
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In the short term, discretion may be a shrewd move.
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Like all shrewd propaganda, it contained an element of truth.
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Nick Cannon loves cars but he's also a shrewd businessman.
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This was a shrewd marketing strategy and a dirty trick.
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The new alliance is a shrewd move for both companies.
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Lil Nas X is nothing if not a shrewd businessman.
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The president is nothing if not a shrewd political operator.
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"I think it's a pretty shrewd move," Durbin said Monday.
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"Beware of Putin, he's ruthless and shrewd," the song continued.
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But Mr Kijowski has also played a shrewd political game.
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Trump's volleys were merely a shrewd diversion from serious matters.
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Alicia was an unusual network TV protagonist: enigmatic, shrewd, controlled.
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There is a shrewd calculation in that kind of strategy.
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Unlike Trump, Clinton is a very shrewd and talented debater.
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The typos, it turned out, were a shrewd marketing prank.
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I know that Tyler Perry is a very shrewd businessman.
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This was a shrewd political maneuver by Republican tax writers.
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It's a shrewd strategy, placing the initiative on his opponents.
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I respect him more; he is more shrewd and clever.
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"He is already a shrewd and mature politician," Putin said.
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"iGen" is Twenge's shrewd nickname for this first fully wired generation.
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Op-Ed Contributor DONALD J. TRUMP has made a shrewd bet.
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Mr Macron is also shrewd enough to learn from his mistakes.
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Taking some money off the table now is shrewd for Temasek.
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The Clinton campaign would be shrewd to make that phone call.
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A shrewd Romero quickly took to Twitter to call Bisping's bluff.
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Indefinite deterrence also means we can afford to resume shrewd diplomacy.
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This can be presented as tactically shrewd; there is no rush.
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He has always been considered a shrewd handler of his bullpen.
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The Kim family is also shrewd at the art of survival.
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Cuban made his fortune over a lifetime of shrewd business deals.
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Some shrewd observers expect Republicans to have little interest in compromise.
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It's also thrilling, bewildering, campy, shrewd, mortifying, scary, devastating and deep.
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But I'm not saying it's not a shrewd thing to do.
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Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
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But shrewd planning and a little showbiz bluffing did the trick.
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Mixing shrewd diplomacy with threat of sanctions, some have argued, is better.
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Love him or loathe him, he is a shrewd master of communication.
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To implement it he hired Miguel Zugaza, a shrewd manager, as director.
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Mr Cowen has earned a reputation as a shrewd and iconoclastic thinker.
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But what exactly is doggie wellness, if not a shrewd marketing stunt?
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Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria's shrewd former president, has been suggested as a mediator.
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A suave 65-year-old, Lavrov is known as a shrewd negotiator.
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This temporary compromise could be viewed as quite shrewd on Trump's part.
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Each terror is rich with a shrewd realism, despite its surreal effect.
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It requires us to be shrewd about how we spend our money.
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Mexico has long made shrewd use of tax breaks to spur development.
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The show has always been a stealthily shrewd satire of Millennial life.
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Americans need to come to terms with this shrewd but cynical move.
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My colleague was particularly shrewd on the topic of women and ambition.
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He is the power behind the throne — shrewd, steadfast, never-failingly supportive.
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Facebook has stayed on top over the years thanks to shrewd acquisitions.
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He was a shrewd businessman, fierce imperialist, skilled negotiator, and fearless explorer.
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For him, opposing his rivals' deal was a matter of shrewd business.
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But one thing was glaringly obvious: Ms. Haley is a shrewd politician.
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Babitz's work – read the memoirs first – is shrewd, knowing and sun-drenched.
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Is Imran deeply self-loathing or a shrewd judge of what sells?
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Then again, Pelosi and Schumer are shrewd politicians with decades of experience.
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These guys could be shrewd and witty when they wanted to be.
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The chief was shrewd and tough and his descent would be riveting.
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Mr. Feeney has also been a shrewd investor in technology start-ups.
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Instead, it was the culmination of shrewd North Korean preparation and aggressiveness.
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You could chalk it up to a shrewd business decision ... or politics.
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I think this time he was too shrewd for his own good.
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"It's a shrewd move on the part of the seller," he said.
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Trump's phone call with Taiwan's president before taking office looks increasingly shrewd.
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Politicians like David Cameron were undoubtedly shrewd to pay attention to Mumsnet.
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He's also "a shrewd businessman," Bon Jovi biographer Bryan Reesman tells Forbes.
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Boris is a shrewd politician, so he'd make it work in some way.
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Then, the way the hacker can communicate with the implant is rather shrewd.
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There is a financially shrewd Zen in not being tied to unmalleable objects.
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His shrewd dealmaking kept investors onboard and earned him accolades, even from competitors.
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"The narrative has been created in a pretty shrewd way," Professor Kilwein said.
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Perhaps it was fated to join forces with a shrewd business like Amazon.
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Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United have been less shrewd in the transfer market.
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Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner's chief executive, has proven to be a shrewd dealmaker.
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And like it or not, Trump is proving to be a shrewd politician.
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His choice of time and the market may prove a very shrewd move.
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Kim and his mentors made shrewd choices that helped to establish his authority.
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A shrewd man, Das realises he has a potential star on his hands.
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For the shrewd candidate, however, herein lies the beauty of the hand raise.
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For eleven years, Ortega had sustained his power through shrewd dealmaking and accommodation.
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But Day's shrewd eye and authorial tone also provide a gleeful, edgy wit.
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It was a sign that the Staffordshire porcelain makers were also shrewd marketers.
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A civil rights and antiwar activist, she was shrewd to petition Mr. Schulz.
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Phillips's shrewd move is to avoid the first-person singular of the memoir.
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This shrewd poem's particularness creates an intimacy that feels both personal and social.
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"He was a very shrewd businessman," Porter recalled in an interview with CNBC.
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The company's success owes less to its cinematic brilliance than to shrewd acquisitions.
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Another praised Mr. Trump's interest in buying Greenland as a shrewd strategic move.
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This is a shrewd screenplay — it uses tragedy to retroactively indict political systems.
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The Indians operate differently, but shrewd planning has given them a sound future.
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Kim Jong Un is a shrewd calculator and not the lunatic often portrayed.
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Austen's writing is memorable due to its shrewd word choice and signature wit.
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Douglas' tough-guy persona often overshadowed a shrewd business acumen and thoughtful intellect.
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Makkai is shrewd about the unpretty manner in which reality TV is made.
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But underneath that image was a quick mind with a shrewd political acumen.
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All of these men were, of course, capable of making shrewd political maneuvers.
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Over time Ms. Ballantine earned a reputation as a shrewd and insightful editor.
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Such a contender, though, would need to be shrewd as well as bold.
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That is what I am told is the politically shrewd thing to do.
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Under Boris Yeltsin, shrewd operators found riches as state-controlled entities were privatized.
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These past few months have proven that Jenner is a shrewd social media user.
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At this point, the singer had established himself as a brand, and shrewd businessman.
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He was the shrewd genius who orchestrated an active-shooter situation to bring Gov.
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The North Koreans have also proven themselves to be shrewd students of US politics.
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Though many find Trump's showmanship distasteful, it's often rooted in a shrewd political hunch.
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Of course, a shrewd investment eye isn't the end-all of the collectibles world.
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Stone has impeccable comedic timing, and clearly relishes playing this shrewd and ruthless woman.
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But she's also impulsive, and less politically shrewd than her rival to the south.
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But instead of appearing as a shrewd politician, those compromises made Erdogan appear weak.
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In isolation, this seems like a shrewd way to get the song radio play.
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Biden probably thinks his selection was a pretty shrewd decision on Barack Obama's part.
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After multiple attempts and some shrewd maneuvers, Angus' stick failed to make it through.
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It represented a shrewd move by Bowie, who raised $55 million from the bonds.
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I don't know if this was a result of shrewd planning or mere coincidence.
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Analysts thought the price was steep and attributed it to Hickory Farms' shrewd marketing.
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Like Franzen, Shriver is a shrewd social commentator with a fine ear for irony.
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But, at her core, the Welsh songstress is a powerhouse vocalist and shrewd songwriter.
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Freddy's motives, like Omar's, are closely held and his methods are calculated and shrewd.
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Others bobbed to the top of the 400 through hard work and shrewd investments.
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"He's presenting it as mercy, but it's actually a shrewd strategy," Ms. Doyle said.
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Though it is not without some strife, ever shrewd Becky persists — as overachievers do.
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To maintain growth, Apple has employed a shrewd strategy: Charge more for the devices.
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It's a pretty shrewd bit of corporate synergy that's driving Bing to new heights.
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It's another tool, albeit a tool with the backing of a shrewd corporate sponsor.
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Tensions arise within the group, which Eichmann is shrewd enough to try to exploit.
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Gorillaz gives Mr. Albarn a flexibility that has turned out to be quite shrewd.
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Which is why the French eyewear label Izipizi (that's "easy peasy") is so shrewd.
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And they could stand in for all the shrewd, magnetic, unhinged work she's done.
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He got there in part through a mix of shrewd decision-making and partnerships.
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Trump is the antithesis of the polished, shrewd modern politician who weighs words carefully.
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"They do shrewd things sometimes and then nullify their efforts with the sheerest nonsense."
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Some saw a method to the perceived madness — a potentially shrewd act of brinkmanship.
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It was a shrewd move, one that let played into Sega's edgy public image.
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Powerful, resourceful, shrewd… the feminine boss is inside all of us and shouldn't be ignored.
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It was perhaps a shrewd move to avoid shouldering responsibility for Ecuador's impending economic malaise.
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But President Mattarella appears to have been a lot more shrewd than many initially realized.
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Yet in his clinical dispatch of Mr Rajoy he showed daring and shrewd political instincts.
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Will this summer of shrewd business allow the chasing four to catch the top two?
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It appears to be a shrewd master plan, but Correa is not off the hook.
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However, his shrewd dealmaking kept investors on board and earned him accolades, even from competitors.
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That's what was surprising to those like me who have followed the exceedingly shrewd Nazarbayev.
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Integrating with iTranslate is a smart idea, and a shrewd marketing move on Bragi's part.
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And Spire is the name of one shrewd business with a constellation of small satellites.
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In his winding speech, he praised Trump as a loyal friend and shrewd deal-maker.
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It is a classic example of a young but already shrewd Trump hard at work.
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Mr Rove draws shrewd lessons from McKinley's win for Republicans fighting the next general election.
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Indeed, shrewd observers note that the Court filibuster has been effectively dead for many years.
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Compared to shrewd bureaucratic warriors like Mattis and McMaster, Trump and Bannon are rank dilettantes.
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Interviews reveal unwelcome advances, a shrewd reliance on ambition, and unsettling workplace conduct over decades.
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That is, through a combination of grit, talent, shrewd calculation — and knowing the right people.
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Despite the significant controversy generated by the remarks, Mr Farage said the comments were shrewd.
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"I think that was a very shrewd move on Kim Jong Un's part," Terry said.
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Billy: Oh, well, she doesn't have quite the shrewd political mind of a Naya Rivera.
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But analysts say the Chinese are shrewd enough at geopolitics to fend off U.S. demands.
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It is driven by a mix of royal largess, Islamic charity and shrewd public diplomacy.
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He's also a shrewd bandleader with a disciplined crew, typically including the saxophonist Justin Robinson.
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Street Fighter stands as an oddity of innovative design, shrewd licensing, and wild-eyed worldbuilding.
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Occasionally I worry that it's all too shrewd, too self-consciously absurd, to be real.
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Prosecutors described Manafort as a "shrewd" liar in the opening statements for his trial today.
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What shrewd business would risk alienating law enforcement officials and the patriots who love them?
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I have to hand it to her: When she's angry, she is keen and shrewd.
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At 20, Kenin has a shrewd tactical sense and an awareness of her opponents' weaknesses.
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Scale that across thousands of stores, and those headsets suddenly seem like a shrewd investment.
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Howard Johnson's, for example, appealed to families and pioneered franchising as a shrewd business plan.
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Ms. Anderson argued that, in the end, fielding more women is a shrewd electoral strategy.
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Some analysts said that floating Aramco's bonds was a shrewd move by the crown prince.
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A shrewd operator, Weiss navigated and manipulated government bureaucracy, floating seamlessly between agencies and departments.
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The negotiating teams of both Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Gantz were "very shrewd," he added.
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Carusone believes that Mercedes made a shrewd decision to get out ahead of the controversy.
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I have never encountered an administrator of a bureaucracy as shrewd and effective as Webb.
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Tharps makes Herodias sound like a shrewd, commandeering matriarch, a Lady Macbeth with fewer barbs.
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Minimalist piano chords march in tandem with skittering snare drums, rushing by with shrewd elegance.
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She's an egomaniac, shrewd, and manipulative — but also fascinating, complicated, and in her own way, loving.
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Mr Kim may be looking strong and shrewd now, but great peril may lie in store.
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As Eater's Monica Burton explained: Impossible also employed a shrewd campaign that emphasized high-end gloss.
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A shrewd viewer will pick up on the emblazoned Anonymouse logo on the bistro-adjacent wall.
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Mr Luce is a shrewd observer who has worked in Asia as well as the West.
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Ultimately, American Gods works because its source material is such a strong, shrewd narrative about identity.
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Bezos' shrewd business tactics were on full display in 2010, when the company was pursuing Quidsi.
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The Senate Majority Leader is shrewd enough to know when he is fighting a losing battle.
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Zuma is a shrewd operator who survived several no-confidence votes before being ousted as president.
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Cutting off your nose to spite your face has rarely ever been a shrewd business move.
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Regardless, releasing it exclusively on Tidal was more an ego play than a shrewd business move.
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The complexity of the asset makes it hard to price, which offers room for shrewd calculation.
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The apparent tone deafness from Mueller, who is by all accounts shrewd D.C. tactician, is surprising.
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On its merits, this plan is both shrewd and necessary and deserves a chance to work.
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But Bangiev is shrewd to expand to this neighborhood, dominated by pub grub and tepid takeout.
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But Berry -- who always kept a shrewd eye on the bottom line -- wasn't writing for himself.
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Mr. Natarelli said that shrewd relationships forged with small, highly specialized brands can feed those impulses.
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They just need a few shrewd moves and a lot of luck to go their way.
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He is a shrewd politician and a parliamentary tactician who much prefers operating behind the scenes.
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Sassy but respectful, smart but not showy, strong but ladylike, shrewd but always and forever sweet.
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Duggan paints Rand as cynical and shrewd in some ways, and hapless and naïve in others.
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After dropping out of college, Latouche arrived on the theater scene as a short, shrewd wunderkind.
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Our team of reporters traced how he went from icon to shrewd — some say "untethered" — tactician.
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This wasn't progressive; it was evidence of a shrewd embrace of old-studio-style product diversification.
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The Times's Binyamin Appelbaum, a shrewd Fed observer, has much more detail in a new assessment.
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But its best mode is as a shrewd, satirical consideration of how race pollutes the workplace.
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So like any shrewd businessperson, Mark Zuckerberg embarked on a concerted charm offensive to court Beijing.
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Now, in charge of the Department of Labor, Post proved a shrewd investigator and decisive reformer.
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Franz-Michael Mellbin, the European Union ambassador to Kabul, said Mr. Trump's vagueness was strategically shrewd.
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A shrewd negotiator, she secured a fee of $1,000 per performance, equal to about $30,000 today.
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This will require, however, a delicate and shrewd balance between playing it safe and taking risks.
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He has spoken of his many corporate bankruptcies with pride, suggesting they were shrewd business tactics.
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Mr. Ross suggested that Mr. Trump, a fellow deal maker, was simply being a shrewd negotiator.
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The shrewd use of digital media was integral to ISIS' lightning-fast expansion in 73 and 2014.
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Depp's lawyers have argued that what some have labeled as mindless spending have actually been shrewd investments.
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Mr Musk may be a clever entrepreneur and shrewd financier, but he is also a crony capitalist.
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It's one that feels dated and problematic, exactly the kind of thing a shrewd filmmaker might subvert.
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In addition, he argues that much of what TMG labeled hapless expenses were actually shrewd business investments.
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They're well-traveled (at times logging thousands of miles a week), shrewd in business, often unattached romantically.
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DONALD TRUMP ran as a CEO president, whose shrewd business skills would jump-start the American economy.
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Studs Terkel, a shrewd author, once declared Chicago is really the "most theatrically corrupt" city in America.
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And his shrewd and aggressive delegate operation may deliver him the nomination after a couple of ballots.
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But, points out McGrath, Nichols was shrewd enough to create an atmosphere allowing happy accidents to happen.
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Living at home, considered a shrewd money-saving strategy, actually incurs a range of additional other obligations.
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His observations were shrewd, but someone else will have to find ways of putting them into practice.
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It requires a shrewd awareness of lighting, consideration of angles, and a degree of lower back pain.
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Outwardly stolid and unimaginative, Mr Rajoy is a shrewd strategist who has repeatedly defied rivals and expectations.
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Provided that Mr Brown's hands remain free of injury, he is likely to prove a shrewd signing.
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He's openly anti-presidential, and yet he has been shrewd enough to use "presidential" against his rivals.
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This is a very shrewd move by Jeff Bezos; his company will earn interest on the loans.
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Some companies argue that the money they spend repurchasing stock is a shrewd use of their capital.
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Beyoncé, and HBO, were shrewd about keeping a lid on what this thing was going to be.
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A logical plan, built around promising talent, shrewd dealmaking, and long-term cap flexibility is a start.
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There's no doubt that Amazon designed a shrewd system to stave off exposure to product liability claims.
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Not long ago we debated whether he was crazy — now there's concern he might be too shrewd.
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But she's a very shrewd business woman, too, and she looks at the bottom line—she must.
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Then they watched this group, largely assembled through Denver's own shrewd drafting and trading, reach them all.
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Instead, Gadsby launches into a shrewd and impassioned dissection of misogyny, homophobia, art history and especially comedy.
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It might seem like I made a shrewd financial move, but in fact it was just luck.
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" Stern is described by some as a "shrewd businessman" and a commissioner who was a "commanding leader.
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Analysts said that Mr. Sobotka might have made a shrewd decision by distancing himself from Mr. Babis.
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Butler's philosophical inquiry argues that it is in fact a shrewd and even aggressive collective political tactic.
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Scaramucci, blocked from multiple attempts at other White House jobs, could wind up being a shrewd hire.
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For there to be hope, they need a combination of shrewd political moves, and tactical military maneuvers.
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The stars, with their unimpeachable talent, filmographies and feminist cred, are a shrewd way of blunting skepticism.
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She understands the world she lives in and is shrewd as she fends for herself and Hearn.
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In a 2010 "Nightline" interview, Adelson explained how his rough upbringing helped him become a shrewd businessman.
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Another is employers who, as shrewd businesspeople do, look to keep labor costs as low as possible.
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"Interviews reveal unwelcome advances, a shrewd reliance on ambition, and unsettling workplace conduct over decades." http://nyti.
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But the shrewd and sharp-elbowed bureaucratic infighter has worked every angle to drive his aims on Iran.
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The reason this works is partly Ms Le Pen's shrewd feel for simple language and anti-elite slogans.
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Some opponents of Donald Trump are convinced his combative speech style is actually a shrewd form of propaganda.
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Other analysts see Amazon's lobbying for a higher minimum wage as shrewd business practice disguised as progressive policy.
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A shrewd dealmaker, Liew is described by many as prickly and outright abrasive in his critique of entrepreneurs.
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However, there were Wall Street analysts with the foresight to make shrewd and profitable calls during the volatility.
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"I think it's a shrewd move by Travis to do this," Tung said, in an interview on CNBC.
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The flight of executives from Tesla Motors reminds one shrewd investor of the shakeups that preceded Valeant's plummet.
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In an instant, however, his furrowed brow relaxed into a shrewd smile at the corner of his mouth.
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Liberty, he said, is simply being shrewd about keeping costs down, while plowing revenue back into the university.
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J.J. Redick should provide more space while Amir Johnson can be a shrewd presence on the defensive end.
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McCarthy is a shrewd political operator who will not only navigate those political challenges but thrive in them.
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Again, nice markets for American producers, which a shrewd Iran could simply bar from any future business dealings.
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"He's a very shrewd guy, he's a tremendous salesman," Trump biographer Gwenda Blair told CNN's Brooke Baldwin Tuesday.
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Whether as a shrewd businessman or a prudent steward of the economy — or both — Mr. Linton cried foul.
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But the morally righteous path could also prove to be the politically shrewd one in the long run.
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He's not sleazy, dishonest, shrewd or calculating enough to be in the top ranking candidates for the presidency.
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He was gifted, shrewd and wealthy, a family man with four children, married to a woman he loved.
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The right has found a way to ignite their base through shrewd tactics often eschewed by the left.
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His genius lies in his shrewd instincts to not rely on others to micromanage and control his message.
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Mueller, who is a shrewd prosecutor and familiar with the ways of Washington, is working in relative isolation.
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He was smart and shrewd, with an ability to analyze and think through a problem, step by step.
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But Mr. Chowdhury considered Juul's pre-emptive move to limit visible flavors to mint, menthol and tobacco shrewd.
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There are shrewd portraits of not just Kerouac and Ginsberg but people like Robert Frank and Hettie Jones.
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Her hiring decisions as often as not were founded on a shrewd meld of instinct and personal affinity.
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But front offices want something else, and major league hitters are skilled and shrewd enough to provide it.
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"Both of these candidates are smart guys, they're politically shrewd and they have good political teams," Blankenship said.
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"Mike Ilitch was more than just a shrewd, successful businessman," Detroit's mayor, Mike Duggan, said in a statement.
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Crowe's performance as the shrewd, hardheaded, competitive, and often colorful businessman is the best part of the series.
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Walmart has developed a shrewd acquisition strategy to reach those wealthier customers and chip away at Amazon's advantage.
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She often refers to her staff as #TeamHaley in her Twitter posts, a shrewd bit of personal branding.
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Views' shrewd attempt to synthesize the quintessential Drake album begs the question: Is this as good as it gets?
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Your savvy and shrewd colleagues are the ones who have achieved a balance between their professional and personal lives.
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Even when the writing is plainer spoken, there's plenty of shrewd observation and formal variety to keep things lively.
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It's also a shrewd decision considering the Rebel is one of the most popular cameras for first-time photographers.
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It's a shrewd business move, which makes use of the trust people place in who's recommending them the product.
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The shrewd bit is English clubs' energetic marketing abroad, both in arranging pre-season tours and attracting foreign sponsors.
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But even then, the ever-shrewd Davis was working toward the same result, albeit in a more bludgeoning fashion.
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Ms Koike, a shrewd tactician, has repeatedly humiliated the LDP, of which she used to be a senior member.
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The successes of Silicon Valley CEOs are usually down to a combination of luck, grit and shrewd business acumen.
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"He always worked well with Sir Martin and has shown himself to be a shrewd, thoughtful operator," he said.
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But what was a shrewd maneuver on Sanders's part might have served him better than it did the party.
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Customers, too, are shrewd about picking discount schemes and benefit from selling the paper back to scrap paper dealers.
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Seven years later that prediction has been dropped and he is now seen as a shrewd and ruthless leader.
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Iowa strategists said Clinton's schedule has been particularly shrewd, while Sanders' reflects a candidate intent on broadening his appeal.
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Investors should take note as the timing of the tech giant's debt offerings in the past have been shrewd.
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Was this a weird, shrewd attempt by the Sanders campaign to drum up support ahead of the remaining primaries?
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They describe Mr. Duterte as a shrewd politician and technocratic mayor who supports services that help people in need.
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Mr. Perez's fellow Democrats seem to acknowledge what I know for sure: Americans are shrewd, hopeful, educated and busy.
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The movie also makes shrewd use of Aretha Franklin songs, whose music Dell pushes on the opera-loving Phillip.
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Trump often complained that Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, was not politically shrewd enough for the task.
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This chaotic situation pretty much destroys Mr. Trump's image as a crack manager and a shrewd judge of talent.
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To realize such gains will require a more easily-navigable regulatory system, scaled-up production infrastructure, and shrewd specialization.
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Harry, as she leads a band of runaway slaves north in Sigrid Gilmer's shrewd and mischievous action-adventure comedy.
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His leadership in the recovery made an impact, but it also demonstrates a shrewd understanding of the political calculus.
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In 1713, the word "cute" debuted in the dictionary as an abbreviated version of "acute," meaning sharp or shrewd.
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I've relished, too, Vanessa Hua's Deceit and Other Possibilities, a shrewd, often hilarious story collection about immigrants' challenging lives.
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If you want to interpret Trump as a shrewd operator, there is certainly some logic to his approach here.
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It's reassuring rather than haunting, which is a shrewd and successful commercial compromise, but a compromise all the same.
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Brazil's new president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, is an ardent admirer — and shrewd imitator — of his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.
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But both Hitler and Mussolini were shrewd demagogues who benefited from the blindness of political insiders who accommodated them.
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Shrewd leaders might sometimes deliberately say nonsensical things as a way to distinguish reliable devotees from fair-weather supporters.
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He is a good story-teller, a shrewd appraiser of character and a keen recorder of an indecisive generation.
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But the name change was actually a shrewd attempt to anger that which Prince most hated: his record label.
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Yang was a character rarely seen on primetime television: an Asian woman who was shrewd without being a shrew.
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This shrewd organizing occurred amid a flourishing grass-roots political campaign for full citizenship rights that began during Reconstruction.
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Why, for example, has the formerly shrewd and insightful Tyrion become a dunderhead since he joined up with Daenerys?
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An exceptionally shrewd politician, he lied with a clear goal: to keep his public image as a statesman intact.
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"Crazy Rich Asians," for all its shrewd social observations, is about group of people who are anything but representative.
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" — LISAG in the South "It is clear at this point that Trump is not a shrewd tactician and politician.
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That's bolstered by the shrewd experience and depth of players such as Joe Ingles, Aron Baynes and Damian Martin.
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Shapiro could see how shrewd "The Bachelor" was, but she hated that it objectified women and vaunted heterosexual romance.
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Shrewd tactician Tsai may not be a natural politician, but she didn't become Taiwan's first female president by accident.
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And Mr. Spielberg, a shrewd entertainer who can be waylaid by moralism, rarely lets virtue drag this movie down.
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The contract was a shrewd decision by the Padres, as was the acquisition of Hand in the first place.
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And a twist at the end, too moving and shrewd to reveal, may require a larger suspension of disbelief.
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Known for her uncompromising politics and shrewd leadership, Thatcher's conservative policies included economic deregulation and a controversial poll tax.
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The trained accountant and lawyer was lauded even by competitors for his shrewd dealmaking which kept investors on board.
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Soriano positioning himself as a Trump-friendly designer just as high fashion gave the Trumps the cold shoulder was shrewd.
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At 19, when she first blinked for the paparazzi, Diana was unsophisticated but nonetheless naturally shrewd—always listening, watching, learning.
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So it may be a shrewd political move on Putin's part to attack Ukraine and boost his image at home.
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Courtney B. Vance stars as defense attorney Johnnie Cochran, whose shrewd courtroom performance Simpson himself has credited with his freedom.
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Even with the bombastic Robert Baratheon as king, it's Cersei who proves to be a shrewd leader and master manipulator.
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A shrewd operator, he has installed loyalists in key positions within South Africa's police, prosecuting authority and state security apparatus.
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But inside the Trump Organization, she had a reputation as a shrewd and tough executive known to get her way.
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Considering how serial killer Ed talks about his own mother, Debbie's Mom is correct to use such a shrewd test.
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It was shrewd tactics on the part of Ms Tethong, Mr Elmer's lawyer, that won him the bank-secrecy acquittal.
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Led by Zhou Yahui, a shrewd investor himself, Kunlun has backed companies that broadened distribution channels for its gaming titles.
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In this shrewd examination of identity and belonging, Ms Di Pietrantonio ensures that her character's loss is her reader's gain.
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In addition, shrewd conservatives like David Stockman, who served as President Reagan's budget director, championed the "starve the beast" argument.
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Luckily, he has a shrewd and savvy grandmother who has made him as witch-proof as any boy can be.
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Ted Cruz remains a shrewd, oft-underrated politician, but he faces major structural weaknesses in his quest to overtake Trump.
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Bannon has the ideological passion, the financial resources, the media connections, and a shrewd sense of how American politics works.
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" The Global Times editorial seems to agree, and says that "Trump as a shrewd businessman will not be so naïve.
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"If China continues to be shrewd and and takes ASEAN on another ride, then ASEAN will be much worse off."
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GoPro instead spent 2015 releasing a few mid- and low-range cameras in 2015, which seemed shrewd but ultimately backfired.
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Substantively, Ossoff isn't out of step with the party mainstream, and Democrats don't seem particularly troubled by his shrewd strategy.
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In the next moment, she appears to be making shrewd political calculations that endear her to Republican voters as well.
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In appearance stolid and unimaginative, Mr Rajoy is unflappable and a shrewd strategist who has repeatedly defied rivals and expectations.
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Drawing on an account by Jo Ann Robinson, Tufekci tells of the Montgomery N.A.A.C.P.'s shrewd process of auditioning icons.
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Study after study has indicated that women in power are perceived as being shrewd, opportunistic, cold, and not likable enough.
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And the Republicans have not been as shrewd at maximizing whatever money Mr. Trump's large-dollar fund-raisers have contributed.
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He is suave and shrewd, sweet and menacing, alternately glowering at those around him or simply charming them into submission.
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Republican strategists see Mr. Trump's offensive mainly as an exercise in thin-skinned defensiveness, rather than a shrewd political strategy.
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The duke overcame a crush of debt from death duties and taxes to restore the Grosvenor Estate with shrewd investments.
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She's a shrewd dancer; she quickly did another step — very rhythmically — to fill in the space of the other 16.
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Investment firm Berkshire Hathaway is one of the world's most successful companies, thanks to the shrewd leadership of Warren Buffett.
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The political strategy that ultimately resulted in the passage of the 19th Amendment was a shrewd state-by-state campaign.
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Shrewd buyers who ignore the gruesome history of their prospective purchase may find its value goes bump in the night.
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It also represented a shrewd appeal to minority voters by framing Biden as a scourge of racial and ethnic division.
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New polling from CNN suggests that in Trump country at least, his instincts for what his voters want are shrewd.
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But in the worlds of pop culture and celebrity, there is no star as shrewd, calculated, and successful as Swift.
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But the company executed a shrewd strategy to give everyone — insurers, patients, doctors and pharmacies — the incentive to use Vimovo.
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That combination of shrewd songwriting and passion is what propels the final verse of "Beautiful Ghosts" into something truly great.
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They made shrewd trades for Bagwell and others, and drafted future stars like J. R. Richard, Lance Berkman and Biggio.
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He's shrewd enough to understand the potency of the past while also recognizing that a secure future needs subtle changes.
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She's become a major villain, but she's also shrewd, and has been very successful in acquiring and holding onto power.
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As ever, the writers side with the shrewd and dispassionate, punishing those characters foolish enough to exude a little warmth.
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But in "Renoir: An Intimate Biography," I argue that Renoir, although a shrewd wheeler-dealer, was not an anti-Semite.
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The shrewd, careful talker he presents, ethically ambiguous but credibly breathing, feels very much an extension of the epistolary Lincoln.
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Occasionally some shrewd person would pile more food on my plate after taking note of how little I'd served myself.
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In 2020, ingratiating oneself to a shrinking cadre of male gatekeepers is no longer the shrewd strategy it once was.
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He's shrewd to pull the plug on the discounted, thinly traded holding company while an epidemic threatens commercial property sales.
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Often viewed through Destiny's impressionable gaze, she's a larger-than-life figure, maternal and loving, but also ruthless and shrewd.
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Then, in the early 2000s, another politician's shrewd calculation changed the dynamics of ethnic politics, cementing multiculturalism across all parties.
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Their spiky banter is Díaz at his best, a shrewd exploration of male mores under often hilarious Ping-Pong dialogue.
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The author's observations of Scroll are shrewd and humorous, and she realistically describes the experience of being a working mom.
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If you're a media have-not, chances are organic growth, efficient operations and shrewd strategy won't get you very far.
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It also makes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent downplaying of the possibility of impeachment look like a shrewd political choice.
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President-elect Trump has shown a shrewd willingness to hire his former detractors in the #NeverTrump faction of his party.
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"Secretary Pompeo is a shrewd politician, and I understand he says that he respects people of all backgrounds," he said.
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The hope, though, was that shrewd management of China's transition to democracy would make it relatively painless — and even bloodless.
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In his telling, it's a story of redemption, of resilience, and proof of his exceptional negotiating skills and shrewd thinking.
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But with Recognition, a robot inadvertently creates subjective meaning with its pairings, and starts to seem like a shrewd commentator.
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Through necromancy and shrewd negotiation I suspect I could put together a card worthy of the dark lord Rebney himself.
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Have Chinese companies been overpaying for football clubs and hotel chains, or have they been making shrewd judgments about consumer trends?
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Dimon's investment proved to be shrewd, as J.P. Morgan stock has surged 330 percent since his first of the three buybacks.
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Trump is supposed to be a shrewd guy who knows how to make his way among the killers of the world.
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I look at people like you who are -- you have to be really smart and shrewd to work at the FBI.
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Smith comes from slam poetry, and their shrewd lines are evidence of this: They are sharp-edged and full of life.
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And Lyft, which has struggled to gain market share, suddenly got a new breath of life from a shrewd political move.
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Going after the VR market seems shrewd; it is the hottest thing in tech, and has been for a little while.
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But Rolet is seen as being shrewd in making sure his main customers, the big investment banks, are always listened to.
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His confidence in the power of women's stories, and insight into the female condition, remain both refreshingly shrewd and troublingly rare.
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The shrewd owners captured an alluring image of their cat's backside and swears there's more to it than meets the eye.
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"It's a very shrewd trade," commented Dennis Davitt, an options strategist at Harvest Volatility Management, in a Monday "Trading Nation " segment.
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But, if the Android strategy is so shrewd, Rajkumar says, why hasn't Alphabet repeated it to again capture the inside lane?
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There's shrewd messaging about toxic relationships, gender dynamics, and self-esteem, and a subversion of princess tropes that runs surprisingly deep.
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The show's first season took a familiar sitcom formula (four single friends, New York City), and gave it some shrewd updates.
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To Ida, it resonated just a wee bit of other memorials, built and unbuilt, which was probably shrewd on Roy's part.
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"I think it is a quintessential insider movie, one that plays in this shrewd way to groupthink," Merkin told the Post.
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Biggest remaining holes: Inside linebacker, wideout The Packers, normally very shrewd drafters, appear to have rolled snake eyes on Davante Adams.
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In addition to being tough, Trump has an opportunity to show that he's equally shrewd by declaring victory on steel imports.
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I was no fan of the Wilentz position in 2008; Obama knew a thing or two about running shrewd political campaigns.
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Shrewd big-money campaigns financed by the Koch brothers and others have upended the Democrats' one-time dominance of state legislatures.
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The presence of the mothers has also proved a shrewd political move, influencing black leaders and lawmakers to back Mrs. Clinton.
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However, before the period ended, Rantanen and then Landeskog, on a shrewd pass from MacKinnon, reduced Colorado's deficit to 4-3.
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The best reason to pick up "John Aubrey: My Own Life," however, is simply to experience his shrewd and charming company.
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Her singsong hooks are conduits to lyrics of shrewd self-awareness and insouciant honesty, and her distorted guitars have palpable strength.
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Putin is known as a shrewd negotiator who some officials worry could exploit such a session and extract concessions from Trump.
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Playboy has long been a shrewd business enterprise and has lasted as long as it has by making smart business decisions.
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Trump's new openness to work with Democrats signals the President's eagerness to live up to his reputation as a shrewd negotiator.
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Wright: We said right off the bat that the one shrewd move was that we had to break into the States.
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If you were to consider making the jump from iOS to Android, grabbing a Galaxy S27 would be a shrewd move.
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This supposed shift toward a "privacy-focused vision" looks more to me like shrewd competitive positioning, dressed up in privacy rhetoric.
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A shrewd salesman would go straight for the air from the West Stand toilets, and pass it off as just that.
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In anticipation of her ambassadorship, The New York Times called her "shrewd and combative" in a "Woman in the News" profile.
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Well, there are shrewd lessons to be learned from their agency's watch on Franklin Delano Roosevelt more than 85033 years ago.
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But Ms. Pelosi, a shrewd strategist who is always looking toward her next move (or several), offered Democrats a choice anyway.
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The installations on the show's other floors don't achieve quite the same unitary effect, though there are some shrewd pairings throughout.
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He doesn't want some shrewd, fired, leaking, taller-than-thou swamp creature to take him out when he can self-immolate.
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In short, the shrewd Koch-GOP strategy of achieving domination at the state level puts a partisan constitutional convention within view.
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But the Texans should be extremely confident based on some shrewd off-season acquisitions and the continued development of Deshaun Watson.
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Mr Collins, who was one of Congress's wealthiest members of Congress, may anyway be a shrewd investor, despite his ethical shortcomings.
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Rather than a shrewd, well-manicured hand to guide Trump's operation, Kushner is now more widely viewed as a legal liability.
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Strange as it may seem, Democrats would also be shrewd to study how conservatives have played the game over the years.
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Zuckerberg's eye for a deal has so far been fairly sharp; snapping up Instagram for $1 billion was a shrewd move.
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Shrewd cooks mixed U.S. Army surplus supplies, such as Spam and hot dogs, with traditional ingredients, like kimchi — spicy, pickled cabbage.
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I think Reese Witherspoon handled the material in Legally Blonde brilliantly—that combination she brought of optimism and delight and shrewd intelligence.
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GIGOT: Well, and I think that with Kagan, the calculation may be that she&aposs willing, in particular --- she&aposs very shrewd.
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Americans need to remain vigilant about this shrewd but cynical move and should not be fooled by Trump's effort to sound presidential.
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The announcement is shrewd, too — it incentivizes companies looking for some socially conscious shine to strike endorsement deals with him this year.
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It "is a canny and shrewd [assignment] on the Queen's part," Lacey, a consultant for the Netflix smash The Crown, told PEOPLE.
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But Democrats will win only if they see Trump for what he is: a shrewd opponent, more skillful than he lets on.
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A former member of Barack Obama's campaign team, Kaiser comes off as a shrewd anti-hero whose true beliefs are nearly unreadable.
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Howard Dean demonstrated how an anti-establishment candidate with a shrewd social media strategy could convince many average Americans to donate online.
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Changing agricultural practices is vital and farmers, at least in the rich world, are becoming more shrewd in their use of water.
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Martinez, the subject of so much of McWhorter's attention, appears to have returned the favor, making a shrewd study of his examiner.
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The Boston Globe lauded Ms. Diamond's "shrewd eye for portraiture" when the play had its 2014 premiere at the Huntington Theater Company.
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But the decision isn't altruistic: Supporting Wikipedia is also a shrewd business decision that will likely benefit Google for years to come.
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Boyer was at very least shrewd, if not complicit during the Nazi reign, and made work celebrating German culture throughout the 1930s.
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Looking in uncommon places can be a shrewd move as companies struggle to find good hires from the usual sources, like universities.
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Groups jockeying for influence include old friends from the entertainment world, shrewd advisers linked to powerful outside backers, and Western-oriented reformers.
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It's partly because capturing methane leaks could be shrewd business; the gas that is captured can be returned to the production process.
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Some of Anwar's supporters were aghast that he was making up with his nemesis, but others said it was a shrewd move.
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With one shot, Giuliana confirmed she's equally as shrewd and intelligent as Cookie, and she's not afraid to get her hands dirty.
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They have proved that anyone can top the table, given the right mix of shrewd investment, adaptable tactics and genuine team spirit.
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Maybe that's part of his whole schtick, a way to hoodwink press and players alike, but even so, it's a shrewd one.
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As for the Costume Institute, collaborating with Apple is a shrewd move, and art that engages with technology is worthy of celebration.
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Despite a lifetime devoted to the limelight, in her quiet moments Gabor was known to be quick-witted, shrewd and nobody's fool.
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Still, an element of shrewd foresight in the treaties that Native Americans signed over the years made eradicating their cultures more difficult.
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The shrewd Bill Cunningham who said of fashion, "It's just clothes," understood better than anyone that fashion is far more than that.
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Bellow is the only abiding literary presence able to reduce Amis, amid much shrewd and illuminating study of him, to fanboy gush.
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Think about how shrewd it was to label Fox News "Fair & Balanced," and how that misappropriation undermined trust in the mainstream media.
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They gave shrewd one-year contracts to first baseman Mike Napoli, outfielder Rajai Davis and infielder Juan Uribe, and all have contributed.
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Born in South Africa, Mugabe's second wife has developed a reputation as a shrewd, if sometimes extravagant, politician in her own right.
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Whether disdaining democratically-enacted laws, such as our voting or immigration laws, is a shrewd or foolhardy campaign strategy, we shall see.
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"He had a shrewd understanding of men and power and knew how to get what he wanted from a situation," Spicer said.
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But Pelosi, a shrewd political operator who has been a master of her caucus, began picking off her detractors one by one.
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"We view this move as very shrewd and positive for Facebook over time," wrote SunTrust analyst Youssef Squali after Zuckerberg's op-ed.
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The story later appeared in "Knight's Gambit," a mystery collection by Faulkner featuring a mild-mannered yet shrewd country lawyer from Mississippi.
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Hindman dedicates several sections to the Composer, but all we really learn about him is that he is both shrewd and stupid.
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On the contrary, what is so moving and effective about Roberts's work here is her shrewd subversion of her long-established persona.
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Competitors were sometimes thrown off by the unflappable geniality, since he was a shrewd competitor, adept at luring clients and pleasing them.
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They'll tell you the big "Cat," as he is nicknamed, is a shrewd businessman, a tough negotiator and a candid-speaking riot.
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The story later appeared in "Knight's Gambit," a mystery collection from Faulkner featuring a mild-mannered yet shrewd country lawyer from Mississippi.
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I was there, too, as a part of my effort to watch each game of the series with a shrewd basketball mind.
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Rather than kicking out the arrivistes, shrewd politicians won elections by promising to bring services like water, electricity and mail to constituents.
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Moore speculates that she despised his "unmanliness," a shrewd surmise given her Lady Macbeth-like disdain for the slightest "wobbliness" in masculinity.
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"He was shrewd in his analysis that I would have been much more willing to stand up and speak out," she said.
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A shrewd playmaker and gritty defender, Lowry doesn't often make the cut in "Best point guards" debates, but he's never far off.
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The result is a series that is shrewd, emotional, and impolite, with a style that veers toward pretentiousness but never crosses over.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who have proven through inspirational speeches and shrewd social media tactics how to edge Trump out of his airtime.
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Even in coordinator Brian Daboll's shrewd designs, he often leaves open receivers untargeted, and he flees at the first hint of pressure.
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Brady is entering a favorable situation, surrounded by shrewd coaches, loads of offensive skill, a stout defense (and no state income tax).
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Brady is entering a favorable situation, surrounded by shrewd coaches, loads of offensive skill, a stout defense (and no state income tax).
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Though the ideas underpinning "Glass Guignol" are shrewd, the biographical context wrenching, the staging seemingly audacious, the play itself is often inert.
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Shrewd, crazy funny and sometimes shattering, it's a comedy about constitutional law and inherited trauma that makes the political very, very personal.
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"The message that Huawei is on your side in hockey is very shrewd," Mr. Mulroney said, referring to the "Hockey Night" sponsorship.
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Both men were young and ambitious, and both were shrewd navigators of the internecine schemes and coups plaguing South Vietnam's ruling military.
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"He has a shrewd understanding of men and power and knows how to get what he wants from a situation," Spicer said.
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"We have an incredibly tough, shrewd, determined and principled person to lead those (Brexit) negotiations for Britain," Hunt told Sky News television.
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Leave it to an aesthete this shrewd to identify each genre's good parts and isolate them in palatable replicas for her fanbase.
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"It was a shrewd masterstroke of image control," wrote Josh King in his new book "Off Script," about the optics of presidential campaigns.
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The third veteran is Juan José "El Azul" Esparragoza, an even lower profile leader renowned as a shrewd negotiator and capable underworld peacemaker.
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The company weathered the storm, reportedly because of shrewd management and a lucky last-minute infusion of capital right before the bubble burst.
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The criminal history of Mrs Appleyard—a departure from the text but a shrewd one—is well evoked by a cool Natalie Dormer.
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A shrewd prime minister would use this as leverage in the tricky discussions she must now have with her own party over money.
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It's a shrewd way for companies to remind customers that they've been at this game for a very long time; they've got this.
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Free of geopolitical jargon, her deceptively simple prose is sprinkled with shrewd observations about the emotions that underpin bad or wicked political decisions.
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Abbi Jacobson's shrewd observations on life as a twenty-something in NYC have been making us laugh on Broad City for four seasons.
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For his latest game, Typeshift, a collaboration with Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Gage has created a contraption that would make a shrewd CMO envious.
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It's a shrewd and entirely unsubtle shell game: Gingrich preserves the "good" parts of Trump's tough guy image, while removing the racist ones.
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In a country where a certain severity is often tolerated from people in positions of authority, Ogunjiofor was a shrewd and kindly figure.
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Smart, thoughtful and a shrewd fashioner of his own image as a food and cultural authority, he keeps his rebellion within firm limits.
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When he was suspended for Game 4 against the Capitals, another shrewd, economical in-season trade pickup, Trevor Daley, picked up the slack.
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If, as John Ruskin wrote, "to compose is to arrange unequal things," the poet Shane McCrae is a shrewd composer of American stories.
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Security experts described the challenge of securing large buildings as a constant push, one that involved sufficient staffing in addition to shrewd design.
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A shrewd lawyer would study the old and new statements for inconsistencies, Mr. Shargel added, and use them to attack the government's case.
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Top Rouhani ally Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a shrewd political fixer and veteran pro-reform figure, urged hardliners not to stand in the way.
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For HBO, it's a shrewd and calculated one, picking up a project produced by and starring one of its "Game of Thrones" stalwarts.
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But he was also a career educator who had demonstrated strong results in increasing graduation rates and was hailed as a shrewd choice.
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It's a shrewd introduction, one that establishes Fred's ethical principles and willingness to take risks; it also gives him an early, crucial triumph.
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Florida was a shrewd choice: Republicans know that the largest swing state is key to securing the White House for another four years.
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Ivanka Trump isn't sure what role she wants to play in the White House: shrewd political adviser, or political novice and first daughter.
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Merry's measured, insightful biography seeks to set the record straight, arguing that McKinley was shrewd and patient, and wily beneath the bland exterior.
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Mr. Deane was a shrewd investor who had been a partner at the Lazard Freres investment bank before forming a real estate company.
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Almost immediately Mr. Marchionne proved himself to be a shrewd negotiator, forcing General Motors to pay Fiat $2 billion to exit their partnership.
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Cohen is a shrewd writer; her take on Shelley's life is slightly tongue-in-cheek, though the first-person narrative is never mocking.
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With China desperate to make its own chips in volume, and quickly (there's more on that theme below), the move could prove shrewd.
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Sacker is a shrewd political operator to be sure, but she expressed nothing but contempt for Jeffcoat and his agenda throughout the season.
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But as a shrewd data-driven political leader, Bloomberg must have had a difficult time seeing a path to winning the Democratic nomination.
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The gruesome collage of Harlem fashioned by Himes was devoid of love and racial justice, which mirrored his shrewd cynicism about racial progress.
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These shrewd juxtapositions save the collection from feeling jumbled or disorienting, as do the book's elegant design and its succinct yet informative captions.
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Miles Malleson's 1933 play, receiving its world premiere courtesy of the Mint Theater, is a refined, rueful and often shrewd comedy about polyamory.
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Last year, they survived a major league-record 30 different players landing on the injured list thanks to shrewd moves and deep pockets.
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The hysterical pusher of conspiracy theories we see on his show "InfoWars," or a shrewd performer putting on a lucrative and convincing act?
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If this is just classic North Korean brinkmanship, Trump may be shrewd not to give in to another cycle of attention-demanding threats.
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As author/narrator, Browning/Barbara is delightfully shrewd, if a little daft — an intellectual with scrupulous ethics and a love of organic wool.
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Roman, who pretends to be a clownish vulgarian, is actually quite shrewd, but so emotionally stunted that he can only express intimacy onanistically.
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Jerry West: Kobe always had the Mamba Mentality Bryant came to the Lakers through a shrewd move by then General Manager Jerry West.
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During's essay is very shrewd, and anyone who has considered secularization in a religious context will recognize truths in the parallels it draws.
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Most memorably, he was great fun to be with on the hustings — scholarly and folksy, shrewd and witty in the hollows he loved.
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As Sunflower Bean, Faber, Nick Kivlen, and Julia Cumming propose a contemporary take on lo-fi psychedelia, wearing shrewd influences on stylish sleeves.
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The current situation in Afghanistan has become quite murky, and shrewd political calculations can help stabilize the security situation to a large extent.
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The shrewd Iranian diplomat-turned-academic-turned-politician knew very well that the resignation was meaningless, short of Rouhani and Ayatollah Khamenei's acceptance.
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A shrewd tactician, she spent 15 years as a trade negotiator before leading Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, which handles issues with mainland China.
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An accumulation of several steps, including shrewd applications of dark and light paints to create dimension and shadows, is part of Ericson's process.
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"The framers were very shrewd about political power, they were always trying to constrain actors who were acting in their self-interest," he said.
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But the image Blackbeard portrayed to his victims was in defiance of the man himself, who was described as shrewd, calculating, and surprisingly merciful.
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Although some shrewd companies that are well placed to cope with political risks will do well, the economy as a whole will be stifled.
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Trump's Commerce Secretary is a shrewd investment banker by trade and his Director of the National Economic Council used to preside over Goldman Sachs.
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That, in turn, is a function not just of Australia's enviable record in terms of growth, but also of a history of shrewd policymaking.
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Ms. Aksener's Good Party could be disqualified from contesting the election because of a shrewd move by Mr. Erdogan in choosing the election date.
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A shrewd manager pours him a glass of rum to calm him as he takes his headphones off in disgust over the lyrical content.
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If there were a shrewd puppet master pulling the strings, they might make Trump temper his language or take away his phone for awhile.
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Wannabe venture capitalists who think they have the shrewd business acumen to predict startup success now have a chance to test those skills online.
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Loki is no all-powerful Tom Hiddleston, but merely the smartest and most danger-prone of the gods: alternately shrewd, afraid and extremely condescending.
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Thanks to his obsession with YouTube, Lenney was shrewd about how he wrote titles for his videos and what tags he put on them.
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At Google, he worked closely with the early Android team and earned a reputation as shrewd and effective, like Android's then-chief Andy Rubin.
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There was plenty of praise for England manager Gareth Southgate, however, with many fans saying the substitutions he made were shrewd and game-changing.
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G Corey Crawford made 36 saves in Chicago's 3-2 victory in Nashville on Thursday and made a shrewd veteran move in the process.
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Wagner said Digital Ally's strategy here is fairly common and shrewd, especially in the context of where the body camera market sits right now.
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This has made him shrewd, conscientious and ultimately accountable to the people who depend on him to go out and win in the marketplace.
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Whether this was a shrewd or unwise tactic is up for debate—a lot of debate—and the coming weeks will deliver a verdict.
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Mr. Trump has shown himself to be a masterly communicator, and his instincts, especially in identifying the issues that will animate voters, are shrewd.
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Josephine perched on her shoulder for the duration of my visit, occasionally striking Angry Bird poses and voicing some shrewd concern at my queries.
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A shrewd satire that doubles as an affectionate homage, "Sherman's Showcase" is equal parts cerebral and silly, a floor wax and a dessert topping.
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Three years ago, he directed and starred in his first feature, "The Dirties," a shrewd commentary on the warped relationship between image and reality.
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Bizzi & Partners appear to be making a shrewd appeal to residents frustrated with the growing problems associated with getting around in the big city.
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He is one of those people—more often found in the upper reaches of show business—who are sincerely shrewd, or, better, shrewdly sincere.
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Reviled by many critics as a backbench blowhard, Bolsonaro displayed shrewd political instincts by tapping into public anger over rampant corruption and rising crime.
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Part of that empire was predicated on Baker's shrewd approach to real estate and belief in its value, even if the retail business wobbles.
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Once they became a couple, she restored Reagan's self-confidence and, as was the case throughout their married life, gave him shrewd tactical advice.
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Luck goes hand in hand with the consistently shrewd decisions Chicago's front office will need to make, no matter what they choose to do.
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He also showed that he's not nearly as shrewd as he likes to think he is by stumbling into an elaborate trap: Alicia Machado.
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Buffalo provided a shrewd example of the recruiting that mid-majors have undertaken to compete with opponents in the so-called Power 5 conferences.
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"Blatant hypocrisy," Hulse declares in this entertaining and shrewd book, is a "defining characteristic" of the United States Senate, certainly in the 21st century.
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Bale, thickening and graying before our eyes, burrows into the personality of a shrewd operator endowed with whatever the opposite of charisma might be.
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Is he really the shrewd negotiator he says he is, with us missing the method behind his madness, or is he just plain impulsive?
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The Kleingarten is a German cliché: narrow but perfectly ordered, shrewd but likable, above all an idyll amid the swirling roughness of the world.
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While he was extremely shrewd in judging and dealing with his internal opponents, he made one catastrophic mistake after the other in foreign policy.
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Zagitova became the second-youngest women's skater to win Olympic gold with a program of shrewd design, remarkable stamina, precise jumping and youthful certainty.
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Their strategy has been, in a word, shrewd: Retreat from Mosul only after making life unlivable by making infrastructure all but impossible to fix.
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The fact that China obtained an immediate victory — a cancelled tariff increase — while relinquishing nothing hard immediately conforms to its consistently shrewd negotiating strategy.
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As a diagnostician, at least, Ms. Hoffman — a memoirist, novelist and former editor at The New York Times, now in her 70s — is shrewd.
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With a joke velocity approaching that of "30 Rock," the show, brassy and shrewd, stands out for its rare directness about race and class.
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" Clinton herself called him "passionate, loyal, and shrewd" in her 2014 memoir "Hard Choices," adding, "I can always trust him to speak his mind.
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Yet Iran compensates for its lack of military might -- compared to the US -- with shrewd tactics and affiliated militant groups to retaliate for them.
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Jones benefited greatly from Shurmur's scheming, including rub routes against man coverage and shrewd designs against Cover-4, which the Bucs leaned on late.
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The question is whether his attempt to have both will be remembered as shrewd politics or as an act of moral compromise — or both.
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The author is shrewd and funny, but this novel pushes past tragicomedy into darker areas, including the appeal of ISIS for some young men.
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When Trump is talking about his tax policy, he sounds like this second Trump, and he comes across, frankly, as a fairly shrewd politician.
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And off the stage, she's just as vivacious as on, with a way, somehow both shrewd and charming, of punctuating certain words with italics.
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Regarding the aborted strike, two former Israeli generals even praised Mr. Trump for a change of heart that they said could prove strategically shrewd.
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The clothing itself is simple and sharp, with shrewd seasonal acknowledgements to trends among affluent millennials, like wide-legged cropped pants and retro loafers.
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That's not to deny that McConnell is a shrewd legislative tactician — he's an experienced politician and legislative leader, and he's good at his job.
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That's part of why I think Google's decision to build a browser that could be much more than a browser was so shrewd and prescient.
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It proved a shrewd business move for the ACB hierarchy as England's sizeable Polish community came out in their droves to support their naturalised hero.
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"But the one thing you can't assail is what my wife was shrewd enough to point out ... "I was able to give jobs to people.
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But given that Hillary Clinton narrowly won his district in 2016, tacking to the center on legal immigration could be a safe, politically shrewd move.
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A: Our resilience and growth is not due to speculation or shrewd investment, but rather to our insistence on building and preserving a safe community.
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The Embark deal could be a shrewd bet if the company's vision produces quality titles, let alone if it can shift the bar for gaming.
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A shrewd minority are using the stockmarket as a sort of inflation-linked bank, buying shares to deposit cash and selling them to withdraw it.
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When Mr Samper's term ended, a broad coalition of countries proposed José Octavio Bordón, a shrewd centrist politician and diplomat from Argentina, as his replacement.
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Mr Fico, a shrewd but cynical operator who ran the country largely uninterrupted after 2006, oversaw a rotten system that shattered trust and weakened institutions.
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This country is really being taken advantage of by an aggressive and I think really shrewd power, and we are ignoring it at our peril.
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Jodie DeJonge, the former editor of the Cambodia Daily, points out that using a tax bill to silence the (loss-making) newspaper was particularly shrewd.
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Based on past experience, their dependence on antagonistic countries and militias to defeat a shrewd enemy could bring any offensive to a months-long halt.
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And much like Catelyn, her shrewd yet loyal attitude toward them just might make her one of the best assets to House Stark going forward.
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He was shrewd enough to know that the real money was in "mining the miners", which is essentially still what the Trump business does today.
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It would be the right thing to do anyway -- and come September, a shrewd McConnell may actually decide that Garland is the best option available.
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But on Valentine's Day, Elon Musk's shrewd payload from SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket will disappear into deep space — and you can watch it happen live.
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In an especially shrewd move, this lineup put on a series of backwards-glancing Big Four concerts with their thrash contemporaries Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer.
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Iran should be shrewd enough to retaliate by simply declaring it will continue in the pact but freeze the United States out of all benefits.
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The tweets were nothing more than a calculated move by a shrewd professional politician with aspirations to higher office and a lingering resentment against Trump.
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How on earth is the special counsel going to paint him as a shrewd operative who was actually in the know and behind Russia collusion?
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Some US officials have expressed concern about Putin and Trump meeting without note-takers or witnesses present, due to Putin's reputation as a shrewd negotiator.
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Democrats privately disagree over whether that go-it-alone strategy will prove shrewd or shortsighted for Republicans, particularly in front-line Senate races next year.
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Mr Will still beats all his rivals in his ability to combine high thinking with a shrewd capacity to understand day-to-day American politics.
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Inside the gym, Bailey watched fierce competition among teams at the Drew League — street basketball at its best, conducted with a shrewd and hardened vibe.
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A senior Treasury official said that Mr. Mnuchin viewed Ms. Pelosi as a "shrewd professional" and someone with whom he had a good personal rapport.
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Ever the shrewd political animal, Mr. McConnell is well aware that a majority of Americans favor overhauling a system they see as broken and unfair.
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" Smith prints two shrewd pieces about Jordan Peele, one before and one after his success as the director of the indie horror movie "Get Out.
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And as one analyst sees it, despite having a reputation for being a shrewd businessman, Mr. Gou is not known for delivering value to shareholders.
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Detroit needs better play from its backup point guard, and more depth overall, but those are areas that can be addressed with shrewd personnel moves.
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"The economic savings, feeling good about yourself having found a good deal, being a shrewd consumer," she said, all add up to one key factor.
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But Trump has a habit of toggling between the role of distant first daughter and shrewd policy adviser, depending on when it's convenient for her.
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Presenting her suite titled "Recognition," she read an account of Queen Nzinga, a shrewd Southern African monarch who governed in the early years of colonialism.
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Halfway through "Oh My Sweet Land," the writer-director Amir Nizar Zuabi's wrenching and shrewd solo show, you will begin to worry about the onions.
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Eisenberg is especially shrewd about the way in which emotions are dictated from above and public events spread like a stain through our private lives.
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Although she continued to act and produce, most notably in 1998's Beloved, Oprah's primary public role was of celebrity whisperer and shrewd business executive.
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Ms. Lind is well matched by Alison Wright's shrewd Emilia, Desdemona's handmaiden and Iago's wife, who has a will as sharp as her acerbic tongue.
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Sure, McConnell has had his share of losses but he has shown Trump that he has shrewd political instincts and just might pull this off.
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Even at his worst — I mean as a filmmaker, not a political thinker — he consistently proves to be an able craftsman and a shrewd showman.
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Yes, she has navigated her life and career magnificently to date, with shrewd decisions that have made her a beloved billionaire and huge commercial success.
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Harry Hopkins, a shrewd adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, functioned as almost a one-man State Department—eclipsing the actual secretary of state, Cordell Hull.
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Last year, the HBO series "Gentleman Jack" dramatized the life of Anne Lister, a 19th-century Englishwoman who courted women and was shrewd in business.
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We took a deep dive into Mr. McConnell's tactics in Wednesday's newsletter — the majority leader is a shrewd political operator who rarely squanders an advantage.
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For a variety of reasons surrounding shrewd moves by President Trump, the chances for significant tax cuts in the next ten weeks have risen sharply.
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She pushed against limits in ways that revealed what and where the limits were, and she turned the friction to shrewd and stirring account. ♦
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The proof was believed to lie in Ms. Roy's shrewd ploy to hide her Christian self by not using her full name: Suzanna Arundhati Roy.
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The "Rule of 72" is "a practical eye opener that forces you to ask shrewd questions before making important money decisions," Mathews and Siebold write.
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But, widely seen as a Machiavellian and shrewd operator, he has mostly escaped punishment beyond being suspended from the bloc's biggest centre-right parliamentary group.
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Cops who served with him describe Lee as a shrewd and incorruptible crime fighter who was trusted with sensitive investigations before and after the handover.
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President Donald Trump's threats to impose global duties might be a shrewd political move ahead of November's mid-term elections, analysts at Barclays said Wednesday.
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Cops who served with him describe Lee as a shrewd and incorruptible crime fighter who was trusted with sensitive investigations before and after the handover.
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And one young scout in San Diego has received nationwide plaudits for her shrewd entrepreneurial sense, setting up shop last week outside a marijuana dispensary.
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Was it human compassion that made him apologize first instead of criticizing the Shrub, or is McCain maybe just shrewd enough to know that Mrs.
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But more fundamentally, her reputation as a shrewd and effective leader dates back to the huge fight over privatizing Social Security in the mid-aughts.
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Ivanka Trump has a habit of toggling between the role of distant first daughter and shrewd policy adviser, depending on when it's convenient for her.
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President-elect Donald Trump's use of Twitter as a bully pulpit and way of connecting immediately with his supporters has been a shrewd and effective practice.
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The shrewd party strategist and Zuma foe was the first trade unionist appointed to the board of directors of a company listed on Johannesburg's stock exchange.
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The problem is that Cersei is a shrewd tactical leader, and has sent Euron to ambush Daenerys and the Unsullied ships as they arrive on Dragonstone.
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It's filled with long dialogue scenes, exploring the Fullers' tragic past and the relationship between the shrewd Seth Gecko (Clooney) and his deranged brother Richie (Tarantino).
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Wilhardt, whose love for animal welfare is matched by a shrewd business sense, says Luvable has even positioned itself for promotional partnerships and sponsorships with brands.
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It serves as a reminder that even the best intelligence can be useless when not backed by shrewd leadership and well-trained men on the ground.
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He became known for his shrewd eye for acquisitions, deploying about $25 billion in capital as he steadily expanded Danaher into health-care and environmental businesses.
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The success reinforced Kardashian's role as a shrewd businesswoman, paving the way for other celebrity-app ventures from the likes of Katy Perry and Britney Spears.
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But earlier, as the first woman state senate majority leader in the country, she had proven herself a shrewd operator in the backrooms of legislative politics.
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Daphne Milne is portrayed as a shrewd socialite, who, after realizing she can't push her husband into the spotlight she craves, takes over molding her son.
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Shrewd artists have long known that the economic benefits of unkempt hair and erratic statements far outweigh those achieved with an extra year of painting lessons.
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Fidel's shrewd younger brother, Raúl, has been in charge since 85033, and now holds all the levers of power, from the military to the tourist hotels.
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David Lephart, whose father is one of the nine brothers, avoided the decline entirely through shrewd job-hopping and retraining—but he's still a Trump supporter.
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Of all the MCs, he immediately strikes you as one with genuine potential, combining a barbed flow with shrewd lyrics, and a commanding presence on camera.
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In bringing in the top line center his team never had, Poile proved to be as shrewd a GM as there is in the league today.
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On the campaign trail, he sold himself as his Celebrity Apprentice character: a tough but shrewd boss who could quickly apprise the skills of his employees.
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Friends and teammates testify to his generosity, his charisma and his shrewd ability to foster and profit from his image as an all-around good sport.
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He was generous to too many people and not always shrewd about his dealmaking, which began to change after his marriage to Lonnie Williams in 23.
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They are cynical by nature, skeptical of "truths," and, because of this, shrewd and acute interpreters of what passes for reality in our vividly postlapsarian world.
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"Even that shrewd acquisition of BAMTech, to give Disney what could be the best seamless sports experience from television to the internet, hasn't mattered, " Cramer said.
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Her shrewd eyes and inconspicuous beauty allow her to play "ordinary" women—or women who tell themselves they're ordinary while suppressing an inner wildness or desperation.
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First Lady Grace Mugabe Born in South Africa, Mugabe's second wife has developed a reputation as a shrewd, if sometimes extravagant, politician in her own right.
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Other aides and observers agreed that it would be foolish to bet against Pelosi, a shrewd political operator who has been a master of her caucus.
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It's certainly a shrewd promotional maneuver, especially since Parton-branded movies -- beginning with "Coat of Many Colors" -- have already proved to be a success on NBC.
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Benjamin Netanyahu, who won a fifth term last week, has proved himself shrewd, cynical, and willing to do and to say anything to survive in office.
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When the Steelers match correctly, shrewd designs will still create mismatches (like rookie safety Terrell Edmunds on Josh Gordon, or Watt on James White or Gronkowski).
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Along the way, the Red Sox continued to make shrewd amateur acquisitions, only one a top-10 draft pick — Benintendi, who was chosen seventh in 2015.
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"Lost," created by J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber, features dizzying shifts between time periods, constantly changing alliances, shrewd Easter eggs and agonizing cliffhangers.
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Shrewd scouting and negotiating helped the Yankees pluck Domingo German, who is now guiding their rotation, from the Miami Marlins' minor league system five years ago.
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While Mr. Geffen became known as a shrewd if ruthless mogul-in-training, Mr. Roberts took part in the rock ′n' roll lifestyle of his clients.
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Mr. Friedman is marvelous in evoking a rational man being steadily consumed by a cancerous guilt, while Ms. Dunagan's shrewd performance fully justifies his jagged ambivalence.
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Or inserting Barnes, a prodigious defender who has won three consecutive under-22014 world championships, into the lineup could be a shrewd psychological and tactical ploy.
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But if there is anything this final season has confirmed, it is that "House of Cards" has always been perfectly set up for Claire's shrewd supremacy.
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In a play that was half pique and half shrewd financial management, she ordered an enormous short on the Ice Juice stock and made a killing.
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And the deal has allowed Sirius XM — controlled by the shrewd media mogul John Malone — to become the leading candidate to one day buy Pandora outright.
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The man who sold himself as a shrewd deal maker seems to believe instead in green lights and blank checks, causing great damage to American interests.
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Now, its sales and profile are rising fast, thanks to its manufacturers' shrewd use of political connections, and despite scant science to prove the drug's efficacy.
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Berlusconi, played with shrewd calculation, gleeful abandon and plasticized hair by Toni Servillo, dominates everyone in the movie with his energetic pursuit of power and pleasure.
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Mr. Cautrès said the new president's shrewd choices of people, from both the left and right, to fill the ranks of his government had also helped.
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"The Traitor," anchored by Pierfrancesco Favino's shrewd, subtle and volcanic lead performance, is less an exploration of the man's motives than a chronicle of his actions.
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There were two culprits: an honest (if careless) misunderstanding about technology on the part of the press; and yet another shrewd misinformation campaign orchestrated by WikiLeaks.
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In fact, all this altruistic-sounding research is probably a shrewd business decision since the company can't legally market medical capabilities without research and FDA clearance.
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Mr. Schwarzenegger in turn hailed Governor Brown as a visionary leader and shrewd negotiator who had cobbled together bipartisan support crucial to passing the landmark deal.
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But some shrewd people noted that there is no statute of limitations on judicial ethics investigations and filed a complaint against not Donald Trump but Maryanne.
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This Trump rally, as silly and too soon as it may seem to many, sure looks like it's more like the shrewd "silent majority" variety right now.
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Still, Arceneaux is as joyful as he is shrewd; his writing is affecting, whether describing the pain of his mother's disapproval or the power of Beyoncé's music.
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Over drinks, while my date launched into an impassioned speech about Cormac McCarthy, I made some shrewd calculations: McCarthy hadn't come out with a book recently, right?
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Insecure and Atlanta, two shrewd shows about Black people, get this: The N-word is thrown around as casually as it is at dinner with my friends.
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It "is a canny and shrewd [assignment] on the Queen's part," Lacey, a consultant for the Netflix smash The Crown, says in this week's issue of PEOPLE.
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Still, the deal was seen by many as a shrewd expansion by the Chinese company into the country with the world's largest supply of the white metal.
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The departure of Sessions and the assent of Barr may add up to a shrewd mastery of the Washington power game on the part of the President.
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On Wednesday, the company reported a strong quarter, after making various shrewd acquisitions to help it grow, including its recent $160 million purchase of High West Distillery.
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In a shrewd Washington Post article this summer, Jeff Stein asked what America could afford if it scaled back its military to that 2 percent target level.
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While history hasn't looked back so kindly on everything that came up through the Gigolo client list, one double act still look like an incredibly shrewd investment.
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It's a shrewd moment in the documentary as it demonstrates to its viewers how much more resonant and vivid Lee's words are at evoking the emotional impact.
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From Spanish party Vox's shrewd use of Instagram to Alternative for Germany's viral tweeting, ultranationalist and populist parties are winning the online arms race across the continent.
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Kofi Annan, a shrewd and charming Ghanaian who held the post in 1997-2006, is seen as next best, despite patchy success in the world's trouble spots.
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A roll of a dice and a shrewd business mind will pave your way to success... Just watch out in case Shinra bring your empire crashing down!
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But by the time she died, in 2005, her fierce drive, dressmaking talent and shrewd investments had earned her a nest egg of more than $20133 million.
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What he did was so galling and shrewd that I can't even think of a proper character comparison in a series constructed almost entirely of political sociopaths.
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The Astros made shrewd draft choices and trades, including a controversial one for closer Roberto Osuna in 2018, while he was serving a suspension for domestic violence.
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"Such tactics exemplified how Russian teams ranged nimbly across social media platforms in a shrewd online influence operation aimed squarely at American voters," The Washington Post concludes.
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It's the shrewd recognition of a dark aspect of white American psychology: That many experience being told not to use certain words as a kind of violence.
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The essays in this collection that discuss the work of Bellow, Kafka, Trilling, Malamud, are all shrewd and engrossing and eminently capable of seducing the reader's agreement.
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He founded SAC in 1992, naming it with his initials, and built a reputation as a shrewd investment manager, making about $1 billion a year in compensation.
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Compared with the cost of developing an all-new model, a shrewd relationship with a small brand can efficiently shift or reinforce consumer perceptions for a carmaker.
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"A shrewd politician could take the findings of 'Hidden Tribes' and create a winning constituency by appealing to the Exhausted Majority," writes Packer, the New Yorker correspondent.
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She's not in control of herself all the time and she's very smart and she's very shrewd, but her boundaries and psychology are all over the place.
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I was not one of the all-stars, but I helped them, yeah, in publishing but also in film and in TV. They actually were very shrewd.
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Liberals have defended Clinton's machinations as those of a shrewd political operator, rationally fearful of a Republican witch-hunt, simply stretching the bounds of open records law.
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Mr. Carpignano has a shrewd sense not only of the character's psychology, but also of the audience's expectations, and our tendency to confuse realism with magical thinking.
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He is, of course, Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose public utterances of late have people debating whether he is a shrewd manipulator of public opinion or just — befuddled.
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The Vegas Golden Knights were shrewd at the deadline, the Philadelphia Flyers shook up the Metropolitan Division and Alex Ovechkin crept closer to Wayne Gretzky's scoring record.
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So, prepare to hear a lot more about social distancing in the coming weeks, and if these shrewd business folks get their wish ... long into the future.
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In a deft, shrewd act of painterly transvestism — or transsexualism — Karen Heagle merges her own portrait with that of the renegade Viennese artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918).
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She is a shrewd observer of a certain kind of middle-class woman, no longer young and not quite beautiful, whom society finds it easy to overlook.
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With his improved mental game and shrewd use of tactics, the seventh-seeded Dimitrov has matured into a player capable of winning the United States Open title.
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At 93, he had been in the office for a decade, building a reputation as a shrewd, instinctive agent with a gift for getting people to talk.
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With Mr. Muskie's backing, Mr. Billings engineered his legislative coups as a shrewd, credible and dauntless negotiator, culling the characteristics he had admired most in his parents.
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Though still a girl, and very much under the sway of her father, Ashima is shrewd about her career and oddly self-sufficient where business is concerned.
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It's a shrewd political strategy amid a well-funded primary challenge from Garland Tucker, a conservative businessman who paints Tillis as an enemy of the Trump agenda.
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"While going big on climate is the price of entry in their presidential race, it's yet to be proven as a shrewd general election strategy," Collinson says.
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"They are being shrewd, talking of amending the first article without stating directly what they want, knowing this will affect other articles about the monarchy," Apirat said.
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Habits of mind that seem weird or goofy or just plain dumb from an "intellectualist" point of view prove shrewd when seen from a social "interactionist" perspective.
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Urgh — we want to be jaded about these shrewd business tactics, but we're too busy putting $9.99 on our credit cards for the Bey and Jay experience.
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He seems more like an office administrator than the shrewd legal crusader he's supposed to be, despite a rather elaborate back story that won't be spoiled here.
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The conspiracy theory has more than enough supporters: Is it a coincidence or a shrewd historical calculation that el Comandante made his exit exactly 60 years later?
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Vonn, whose maiden name was Kildow, married Thomas Vonn, a former United States ski team member known for his shrewd use of ski equipment technologies, in 215.
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Mr. Bannon, a tenacious and shrewd operator, may yet cling to his Breitbart chairmanship, and Mr. Trump is known to re-embrace associates even after public defenestrations.
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That's not to take anything away from Kyrsten Sinema, the victor, a shrewd and frequently underestimated politician who ran a well-executed campaign against a formidable opponent.
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Then, after Trump first announced his Space Force idea in March, a shrewd business person jumped on the chance to own the rights to the name ... for beer.
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Roosevelt, an acclaimed Muscular Christian and shrewd, rising politician, coined "The Strenuous Life" narrative in a speech, and argued there was no better man-molding activity than football.
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Mr. Saakashvili, a shrewd politician with a populist streak, has set about organizing rallies around Ukraine to build a grass-roots anti-oligarch movement called Cleaning Up Ukraine.
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There is little wonder that Nancy Pelosi, who cares about climate change but also retains shrewd political instincts, has been so public in her doubting of the proposal.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin complimented North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a "shrewd and mature politician" who has "won this round" against the United States, per Reuters.
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Trump's shrewd politics The intense anger and frustration among Americans about the economy and about Washington have created an electorate that finds Trump's style of politics incredibly appealing.
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Its recent advances have seriously alarmed the United States, generating threats of military action – and only a titanic and remarkably shrewd effort by Seoul has kept diplomacy alive.
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But his conduct during the debate was shrewd as a way of re-energizing the Republican grassroots, making it much more difficult for Republican politicians to disavow him.
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But Bevin proves that Trump is hardly alone; the same populist discontent and shrewd manipulation that fueled Trump's rise has propelled other unconventional politicians into office as well.
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Now, shrewd fund managers—and young potential consumers in the West—might ask whether the same cameras are used to repress Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang.
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But in "The Western Canon", he endorsed a suggestion from a "shrewd reviewer" of his earlier work identifying J as Bathsheba, who was David's wife and Solomon's mother.
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As a shrewd political operator who understands the electoral map, the halls of Congress and the media, he would bring a unique blend of leadership to the post.
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A shrewd politician who was described favorably by a colleague as a "bloody difficult woman," Ms. May, 59, takes power at a tumultuous moment in her country's history.
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Both essays form shrewd commentary, and are helpful in that they show how feminist critique of one song or artist can inform wider debates about intersectionality and activism.
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If people are successful enough to become investors, they're shrewd enough to smell BS. The CEO does not need to be the highest-paid person at your startup.
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And remember this: There is a dominant faction inside the White House that believes fervently this is shrewd, long-term, disruptive politics that will forever change the country.
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Chapter titles like "Brave New World" and "Playing God" set the tone, as does a shrewd score and some well-used animation that illustrates the basics of DNA.
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And then there was Robert Christgau, the self-proclaimed dean of rock critics, who had perfected the capsule review through his Consumer Guides, which gave records shrewd grades.
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Mnuchin "views the speaker as a shrewd professional with whom he continues to have a constructive and cordial working relationship and a good personal rapport," the official said.
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"It's a combination of shrewd legislative maneuvering and political necessity," said Ken Spain, a former official with the National Republican Congressional Committee who now lobbies on tax issues.
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It's a really shrewd thing and a really kind of lovely piece of technology that I actually enjoy using a little bit more than I thought I would.
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Up close, speaking in Spanish, the language in which he still dreams and in which we held all our conversations, he often regarded me with a shrewd gaze.
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As a corporate raider in the 280s, Mr. Pickens — along with men like Carl C. Icahn and Michael Milken — helped develop a shrewd new playbook for making money.
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Shrewd employers offered their employees health benefits instead of wage increases, and in 1943, the IRS decided that these contributions would be tax deductible, which encouraged the practice.
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Genre movies are something of a rarity in the main slate, but Ms. Denis's daring, dialectical sensibility, her shrewd fusion of the visceral and the cerebral, transcend genre.
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The special was, presumably, written in that intervening year, and in retrospect, it's difficult not to read the "injury and mayhem" joke in particular as a shrewd calculation.
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And she is just as shrewd an observer of the people (fatuous romantic idols, doddering priests, love-struck bed-sitters) that these women, vigilant and perceptive, themselves observe.
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Such an existential crisis is both a (relatively) plausible hinge into religious revolution and a shrewd insight into the anxieties lurking below the surface of the Reagan era.
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Theater Miles Malleson's 1933 play, closing on Saturday after receiving its world premiere courtesy of the Mint Theater, is a refined, rueful and often shrewd comedy about polyamory.
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Their hostages were not released until Mr. Carter's final day in office, thanks to months of slow, patient, shrewd negotiations by his deputy secretary of state, Warren Christopher.
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Nguyen's debut is at once a suspenseful page-turner, a shrewd critique of startup culture, and a poignant examination of the interplay between humanity and high tech. —A.
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Worse, it is possible that Mr. Netanyahu is shrewd enough to carry out his promise of annexation and then manage to weather all the criticism and the consequences.
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A shrewd self-preservationist, Hoover ducked the order; he could see that the legal system was starting to crack down on government wiretaps and "black bag jobs" — i.e.
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Top technology analyst Daniel Ives said a number of trends pose potential upside opportunities for shrewd investors, including shifts toward cloud workspaces and the advent of advanced cybersecurity.
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Yet Mr. Pence's dad-in-the-Norman Rockwell-painting demeanor masks a shrewd political intelligence, and he is often willing to play whatever role is required of him.
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He was ambitious, a shrewd manipulator of the media, and he knew how to attract the support of wealthy patrons to spread his eugenics ideas to powerful politicians.
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He had a reputation as a shrewd, combative businessman, a brilliant scientist and a consummate workaholic who, at 75, still logged long hours in the office most days.
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For the Spring Gala, on Thursday, Peck introduces a new piece, as does the shrewd and much-in-demand contemporary choreographer Pam Tanowitz — her first for City Ballet.
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Cowan explains how Roosevelt's shrewd support of primaries gave him an opening against Taft while co-opting the message of more radical reformers like the Wisconsin governor Robert LaFollette.
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The USPS-Amazon relationship may be seen as "dumb" by the 45th president, but to many it's a piece of shrewd business on the part of the Postal Service.
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Netflix has been especially shrewd about capitalizing on the built-in equity in familiar projects, and this belated follow-up to "The Office" certainly falls squarely in that space.
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Background: Although known for her caution, Merkel has been a shrewd disrupter of the German party system and has moved the CDU to the middle of the political spectrum.
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The win comes after the show's star Elisabeth Moss took home the Golden Globe for her role as Offred, a quiet but shrewd rebel against a horrifically patriarchal society.
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Both Boorman and Soderbergh test the limits of that freedom, using one shrewd gunman's obsessive quest for vengeance as the jumping-off point for a more abstract character study.
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In You Know You Want This, Roupenian explores more of what made "Cat Person" so captivating — shrewd and unselfconscious writing about all manner of sexual proclivities and power dynamics.
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Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, the failed blood-testing group, convinced shrewd investors and powerful men like Henry Kissinger with her messianic vision of supplying affordable health care.
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Elisabeth Moss took home the Golden Globe on Sunday night for her role as Offred, a quiet but shrewd rebel against a horrifically patriarchal society, in The Handmaid's Tale.
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By implementing some shrewd budgeting tactics, saving strategies and old-fashioned discipline, they've paid more than $200,212 so far and are well on their way to achieving their goal.
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That's the shrewd political logic behind President-elect Donald Trump's deliberately overly-publicized deal to keep about 1,000 jobs at air conditioner maker Carrier here in the United States.
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Theresa May's decision to call a snap election vote, once seen as a shrewd move to consolidate her power and steady the country a year after Brexit, has backfired.
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Elisabeth Moss took home her first Emmy on Sunday night for her role as Offred, a quiet but shrewd rebel against a horrifically patriarchal society in The Handmaid's Tale.
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It demonstrated how a sweet girl like Sansa might learn to wield her words as weapons, or a shrewd lady like Margaery might exert soft power through feminine charm.
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A shrewd businessman -- he later became a notable real estate developer and investor, with producing credits on several Neil Simon stage hits -- he worked on Wall Street as well.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Sell in May and go away," arguably the most well-worn axiom on Wall Street, has proven to be shrewd advice during previous midterm election years.
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As Joshua Green noted in an exceptionally shrewd profile of Bannon that ran in Bloomberg Businessweek in October of 2015, Breitbart represented only one arrow in Bannon's political quiver.
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He's not shrewd enough to go for that more boring delivery, and he's not witty or engaging enough to win the crowd over with funny or erudite material either.
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And while I don't think this makes him a dangerous sociopath, I do think it qualifies him as a shrewd opportunist for whom power can be a dangerous weapon.
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Nixon was just so shrewd, so strategic: it's simply inconceivable he would get caught with his pants down implicating himself on the record, like Trump now does almost daily.
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The article says the plan "is politically shrewd" and its "potential is huge," and the first quote comes from a "longtime educator" who's helping to write the executive order.
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From the rhetoric, an observer unfamiliar with current American politics would think that Kennedy must be a shrewd congressional leader capable of corralling supermajorities to push through legislative programs.
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But Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's shrewd and popular first minister, will want to wait until polls show a settled majority of Scottish voters in favor of leaving the British state.
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Experts told Business Insider that the platform was more valuable for gaining influence among media elites and those with organic reach, calling Dorsey's decision a shrewd public-relations play.
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" He said Mr. Rinehart "was really shrewd as to how he assessed a situation, and would always tell the client straight and not necessarily what they wanted to hear.
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Mr. Rioult's approach is an emotional one, and it often overpowers his ability to make shrewd decisions in his dances, which have a lumbering quality, no matter the subject.
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Shrewd calculations focused on short-term political survival and misguided notions of what constitutes "strength" appear to outweigh any consideration of how political actions domestically might be perceived abroad.
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Shrewd and aggressive, Mr. Manafort, Charlie Black and Roger J. Stone helped elect politicians, then scored contracts to lobby those same politicians on behalf of businesses and foreign interests.
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But what I saw in Axel Foley, Eddie Murphy's character in "Beverly Hills Cop," was a black man who was funny, charismatic, shrewd and in many ways a hero.
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Hard seltzer sales are skyrocketing Whether a Four Loko seltzer should exist is one thing, but it's probably a shrewd business decision: Spiked seltzers are having a major moment.
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What started out in her introduction as a shrewd assessment of our fractured political situation turns into a muddled argument about what Americans, mainly liberals, need to do next.
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Maggie Smith's turn as the strict, shrewd housekeeper is iconic, but it's the shots of Mary's secret garden awakening and coming into flower that are most evocative and thrilling.
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John Marttila, a political consultant whose shrewd, often audacious and methodically executed campaign strategies helped ignite the careers of major liberal, black and antiwar Democratic candidates, died on Nov.
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It was an odyssey driven by raw ambition, the conservative instincts of a shrewd military man, a rebelliousness evident since childhood and a temper that sometimes bordered on explosiveness.
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JEREMY DENK This shrewd and mischievous pianist brings to Carnegie Hall a program dominated by variations and transcriptions, including works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Bizet and John Adams. Feb.
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A shrewd negotiator who plays hardball politics at a level unusual even by Washington standards, McConnell is a self-proclaimed "Grim Reaper" who prides himself on blocking Democratic initiatives.
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On Taiwan, an issue which Beijing has been using for decades to drum up angry nationalist sentiment, the chance of a more shrewd, pragmatic approach is even less likely.
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It's a shrewd, modernizing change that frees Wendy from the straitjacket of gender, allowing her simply to be a child rather than a surrogate mom or potential romantic foil.
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Men like Peter Lynch, the revered manager of Fidelity's Magellan fund, often became minor celebrities, popularizing the view that shrewd stock picking was the key to a comfortable retirement.
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In that sense, this could have been just another shrewd show by a designer whose cleverness includes his skill at distracting fans from the formal concerns underpinning his work.
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WASHINGTON — China&aposs Belt and Road Initiative of lending money to countries wanting to improve their infrastructure has been a shrewd tactic of influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
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This rapprochement is a shrewd political move — a signal by UMNO that it is trying to preserve Malay-Muslim unity by strengthening the place of Islam in Malaysian politics.
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That first third, "How We Read," takes up fully two-thirds of the book, leaving only the last hundred pages or so for Mr. Seidenberg's shrewd diagnoses and prescriptions.
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On the group's 2014 album, Mr. Rainey turns in gliding cymbal work as the trumpeter Ralph Alessi and the saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock engage in constant, divisive and shrewd interplay.
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Everyone involved in the drug trade, from the shrewd, savvy and violent cartels down to the street users, will do what they can to keep their preferred products flowing.
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SoftBank, which began life as a software distributor, became one of Japan's biggest phone service companies through shrewd negotiations that gave the company early exclusive rights to the iPhone.
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And it begins with BuzzFeed and its shrewd leader Jonah Peretti, the industry's stalwart in figuring out how to profit off the ways modern technology taps into America's id.
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He's demonstrated a shrewd skill for preservation, both of himself and of the group, a talent that went unappreciated among the militia and motivated his defection to the Saviors.
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Don't let the bushy coats fool you: The stars of this documentary, arctic wolves, are shrewd and dangerous hunters who prey on musk oxen, animals much bigger than them.
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"Snollygoster," an unprincipled but shrewd person, has also returned to the dictionary after being dropped in 2003 because it had "fallen nearly completely from use," according to the dictionary's website.
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Packed with hilarious Lonely Island original songs, literally dozens of cameos, and shrewd comedic observations about the nature of pop music and stardom, Popstar is a comedy worthy of adoration.
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"Shrewd buyers and real professionals always look at the house on a price per square foot [basis]," Corcoran says, which can give them a leg up in final price negotiations.
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" It can be summed up with one sentence: "[P]eople ... say Kushner can be a shrewd self promoter, knowing how to take credit — and shirk blame — whenever it suits him.
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Silicon Valley titans coasted to the top of the economy with little government oversight on the backs of incredibly convenient products, a killer backstory, shrewd lobbying, and our personal data.
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A shrewd businessman, Jorge swiftly rose through top jobs at multinational companies like Bristol-Myers Squibb and Colgate and eventually opened up his own lumber business, according to his daughter.
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As a burgeoning politician, indulging in writing is not as not as shrewd as say, taking up golf as a hobby in order to better network with the higher-ups.
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The company expects the plan will prove shrewd once Alberta lifts curtailment orders and Canada finds ways to satisfy growing U.S. heavy crude demand after sanctions against rival supplier Venezuela.
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It seems like gluten-free dog foods are more of a shrewd marketing tool for wellness fans rather than for the small number of pets cursed with bad GI function.
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But while the meteoric rise of stocks representing beefless burgers and Fido's squeaker toys has made a number of insiders and shrewd investors rich, some are a bit more concerned.
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The opinion piece said Trump was a "shrewd businessman" and would not be naive, but, if he was serious with the policy, it would affect a number of U.S. industries.
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" If such a tax was imposed, China would take a "tit-for-tat" approach, the op-ed piece said, but "Trump as a shrewd businessman will not be so naïve.
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Qyburn hands Bronn a giant crossbow, which shrewd fans will recognize as the same one with which Tyrion shot and killed his father in a climactic episode of season four.
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So 'cute' at first meant "acute, clever, keen-witted, sharp, shrewd" according to the 238 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which doesn't suggest the term could describe visual appearance.
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He was remarkably gifted, capable of delivering speeches that were simultaneously deeply felt, cutting, and uncommonly shrewd—he had a literary gift as well as a gift for the moment.
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The shipment Monday could not have been economically advantageous, given that Russian gas supplies are right next door, but Lithuania calculated that the political dividends made it a shrewd deal.
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Analysts said that the former chairman of ARM, regarded as Britain's most successful technology company, could prove a shrewd choice as Anglo American focuses on technological fixes to improve margins.
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In a politically shrewd decision, its first major initiative is to figure out a way to use AI to help organize the military's search and rescue response to natural disasters.
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As long as there is no good evidence, the more plausible scenario is a shrewd cover story to protect Turkish sources & methods—a cover story that would predictably go viral.
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Castle had obviously acquired a shrewd knowledge of perspectival space, but he approached each drawing anew, not only focusing on different portions of the scene, but also employing varying techniques.
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It's a shrewd maneuver by a documentarian seemingly loath to corrupt a feel-good Cinderella story with a taint of filthy lucre, yet it makes "Presenting Princess Shaw" frustratingly vague.
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Hosted by comedian Chris Hardwick and set in a large glossy arena centering on the colossal 40-foot wall, the gameplay involves quick thinking, shrewd strategy and a little luck.
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Mr Dylan's motivations may not have been entirely sales-driven, but he did what any shrewd businessman would do: assess the performance of his most successful rivals, and innovate accordingly.
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Both savage - one gang hitman videoed blowing up victims he had strapped with dynamite - and shrewd, the CJNG is flanked by a white collar financial arm known as "Los Cuinis".
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It's a great way to give back to the community and offer guidance to your peers, especially when it comes to topics such as discrimination and being a shrewd negotiator.
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Over the years, Google employees have described Cernekee fairly consistently: as a shrewd far-right provocateur who made his presence felt across Google's social network, trolling both liberals and conservatives.
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Buffett also has a sizable holding in Goldman Sachs, a stake that dates back to another shrewd investment made by the investing legend in the wake of the financial crisis.
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Sasiprapa's strength lies in its family dynasty: Chanai built the foundation, Thakoon is a shrewd businessman growing the gym, and his son Arm is proving to be a quick study.
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First, Trump learned the hard way that there is a big difference between a president with a shrewd negotiating posture and one who thinks he can just push people around.
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The recipient of a MacArthur fellowship in 2000, Ms. Perillo writes shrewd, well-organized free verse that marches straight down the page while its meanings peel off in multiple directions.
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The word "dystopia," meaning "an unhappy country," was coined in the seventeen-forties, as the historian Gregory Claeys points out in a shrewd new study, "Dystopia: A Natural History" (Oxford).
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It's one of the record's most reflective moments, and SZA's addition feels like a shrewd one: her sweet tone imparts exactly the sort of serene energy intended for the track.
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On Day 1, prosecutors painted Manafort as a "shrewd" liar, while Manafort's lawyers sought to lay the blame on Rick Gates — his longtime business partner and star witness against him.
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That is particularly shrewd as "he has murdered his relative at an international airport, and millions of North Koreans do live in impoverishment, or in prison camps," Baptist told CNBC.
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"Whatever one can say about Donald Trump, he's shrewd about the TV business," James Poniewozik, a critic for The Times, wrote in his review of Mr. Trump's 2015 hosting gig.
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The move is a shrewd one for Ocasio-Cortez, as it demonstrates she's not softening her political tactics or looking to appease the Democratic establishment by playing the inside game.
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It's a shrewd move on Microsoft's part, but one whose real dividends won't pay off until Microsoft makes good on its promise to deliver more interesting games for the platform.
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"I am a master legislator, I am a shrewd politician and I have a following in the country that, apart from a presidential candidate, nobody else can claim," she said.
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Thursday's debate was just the latest evidence of a shrewd game most of the remaining Democratic field is likely playing to boost or simply shore up their political cash lifelines.
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Then, in Trump's chaotic first year, the United States seemed to be forced back by Hamilton's shrewd East Asian disciples into its historical role as the mother country of protectionism.
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Google made a shrewd calculation, which was that they align themselves politically with the left, because they understood that the most criticism of the company could come from the left.
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When the shrewd Italian gallerist Stefania Bortolami relocated from Chelsea to Walker Street last spring, she ratified the emergence of this dowdy north TriBeCa street as an art world thoroughfare.
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The possibility that Elizabeth could have been a shrewd and ruthless political player in her own right — a Machiavellian prince rather than a cursed fairy tale princess — is ruled out.
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The defeat is magnified because Mr. Cuomo, a shrewd observer of national political trends with an eye toward a potential White House bid, recently softened his support for charter schools.
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A rotator-cuff strain to Jesus Luzardo, their top pitching prospect, hurts their depth, but if the A's have a chance, they will find a way to make shrewd additions.
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This shrewd and scientifically inclined artist, born in Poland and based in Berlin, has delivered the best edition in five years of the Met's hit-or-miss rooftop sculpture commission.
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He spread his influence across the U.S. and around the world through a combination of religious conviction, commanding stage presence and shrewd use of radio, television and advanced communication technologies.
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A shrewd negotiator who has run the International Monetary Fund but has little monetary policy experience, Lagarde was selected in July by EU leaders to replace Mario Draghi from Nov.
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Yet M.B.Z. remains a rare figure in the Middle East: a shrewd, secular-leaning leader with a blueprint of sorts for the region's future and the resources to implement it.
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As directed by Mr. Littler and Ms. Winter, Act I — which has already racked up 28,000 downloads and topped the charts at Pocket Cast — is disarmingly conversational and musically shrewd.
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Ultimately, City of Girls provides a sort of summertime escapism that doesn't sacrifice sharpness or wit, a rare example of a "beach read" with shrewd edge and something to say.
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For Mr. Duterte, the deal caps a two-week period in which he has shown himself to be a "shrewd political animal," as Mr. Kausikan, the Singaporean ambassador, put it.
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"Merely raising the specter of highway funds withdrawn is brute political force but California is shrewd and is not going to buckle in the face of their bluff," he said.
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I worry about a new playbook, but the Russians are shrewd, about a playbook we haven't seen yet, for which we haven't prepared, and which people are not inured to.
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The widespread currency this notion has in Washington liberal circles is a testament to the level of respect Democrats have come to amass for McConnell as a shrewd political strategist.
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It dives into Issa's hesitations about her long-term relationship and job just as hard as it does Molly's frustrating dating life, with Matsoukas's shrewd eye keeping it all cohesive.
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"Any shrewd observer inside the court or outside the court needs to fully realize that the dynamics around this are going to change perhaps very radically in November," he remarked.
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But unlike plenty of so-called adaptations of books or comics for television, Preacher makes several shrewd choices that establish it as more than just a recreation of a comic.
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"Nightmare" described a lynching, and "A Wink at Justice" told the story of a shrewd judge who makes a Solomonic decision in the case of eight black men arrested for gambling.
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Thus far, Majarich has shown a shrewd and tasteful eye for which films he selects, opting for a pool of zeitgeist directors, Oscar winners, and art-house films with cult followings.
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Though she had demonstrated shrewd business acumen by retaining the copyright of her later novels, Austen's family began recasting her as a modest lady who wrote for pleasure, not for profit.
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The Trump presented there is shown as, simultaneously, a shrewd judge of character and business sense, while also a man who's not afraid to go with his gut when need be.
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With the aid of his loyal secretary and his private eye, the famed attorney invariably wrecked the prosecution's case with shrewd cross-examination, sometimes eliciting courtroom confessions by the real culprit.
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On a high, I make a few shrewd deals with Lidia to swap an electrics company and one of my cheaper properties for the second-most expensive landmark: Viale dei Giardini.
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But epigenetics research has real potential to change the beauty industry for once, not just bandy around buzzwords that sound science-y but come from the brain of a shrewd executive.
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Some called Sandberg "a shrewd businesswoman" who would not be intimidated into leaving, while others suggested that Sandberg is bearing the brunt of the criticism that should be directed toward Zuckerberg.
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Jeffrey Rosen, president of the National Constitution Centre, a non-partisan museum in Philadelphia, cites this shrewd compromise as an exemplar for a "term when the court was holding its fire".
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Although polling suggested a majority of Austrians still favored a ban, the far-right party made a shrewd political calculation, Thomas Szekeres, the president of the Austrian Medical Association, told Vox.
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The death of the Iranian general removed a shrewd guiding hand on the pro-Tehran Shi'ite militias who revered him, setting off a menacing new instability in Iraq's fragile political arena.
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CNN reports that current and former intelligence officials say that Kislyak is not just a shrewd diplomat, but also a high-level spy — and an effective recruiter of spies as well.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's decision to visit France on its national day next month at the invitation of new President Emmanuel Macron represents a shrewd political calculation by both leaders.
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He suggested that perhaps President Donald Trump would similar to the businessman Donald Trump -- a shrewd dealmaker, whom the Islamic Republic with its oil wealth could possibly even strike deals with.
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The critique now, ironically, is rooted in the same style-over-substance pathologies that led so many journalists to overrate Ryan for so long — an inclination Ryan was shrewd to exploit.
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In business and then in politics, he has shown he is willing to be aggressive in a manner similar to his father's, but he hasn't shown himself to be as shrewd.
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Here is the other thing about Swinney, though: that folksy exterior disguises a shrewd recruiter with an MBA who has spent nearly a decade at Clemson implementing a very specific plan.
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There was nothing subtle about the strategy, which attempted to convert nostalgia from the 1980s into box office receipts in the new millennium, nor was Hasbro particularly shrewd in its deployment.
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For Afghanistan, an experienced representative In addition to Abizaid, another shrewd appointment by the Trump administration was tapping veteran diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad two months ago to be Special Representative to Afghanistan.
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But as directed by Eleanor Rhode, and acted by a vigorous cast of seven, it is also a shrewd and poignant study of how rote work defines those who perform it.
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It was a shrewd calculation, entirely of a piece with the blend of politics, business, and crime that Firtash used to amass a fortune after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Ryan's great strength, as explained by Alec MacGillis in a 2012 profile in The New Republic, was not as a master of policy, but a shrewd exploiter of changing political winds.
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He belongs to a now-established class of shrewd millennials and Gen Z-ers who leverage their social currency on Instagram and YouTube into brand partnerships and one-off promotional deals.
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If his plans to sell the engineered mosquitoes succeed, Mr. Kirk will fortify his near cultlike status among some investors and colleagues who marvel at his shrewd (and somewhat lucky) investments.
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Communitarian rhetoric is a shrewd way to pre-empt the rising tide of anti-Facebook sentiment by crafting a wholesome corporate mission that almost anyone can agree with at some level.
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After working for Bill Clinton during Clinton's long-shot presidential campaign in the early '90s, Democratic political strategist James Carville gained a reputation for being a shrewd and salty political strategist.
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A shrewd steward of his image, he would draw on his personal story of being the son of a tea seller, a devout Hindu and a prime minister who lives simply.
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He had a reputation as a brilliant scientist, renowned workaholic and shrewd and combative businessman who filed hundreds of lawsuits aimed at opening the market to his generic versions of drugs.
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Like the later two men, Geisel was an American master who married shrewd commercial instincts and a weakness for something close to formula with a genuinely overflowing and companionate visual style.
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Mr. Graham spread his influence across the country and around the world through a combination of religious conviction, commanding stage presence and shrewd use of radio, television and advanced communication technologies.
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The Spurs can likewise take solace in the knowledge that, as long as they still employ the shrewd Buford, Popovich can count on a roster to entice him to keep going.
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This shrewd and scientifically inclined artist, born in Poland and based in Berlin, has delivered the best edition in five years of the Met's hit-or-(often-) miss rooftop sculpture commission.
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That's because the secretary is a surprisingly shrewd political operator for a man who spent decades in the nominally apolitical US military and never held a high-profile government job before.
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For the Clinton campaign, it probably makes more sense to focus on the idea of Trump as an incompetent rich kid losing daddy's money than on his shrewd and complicated swindle.
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Blumhouse -- whose hits include "Get Out" and "Happy Death Day" -- has been extraordinarily shrewd about mining and stretching the parameters of horror, as well as leveraging familiar concepts in different ways.
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Later, activists began to petition for black ownership of franchises located in black neighborhoods, a demand that McDonald's was initially slow to meet but eventually pursued out of shrewd self-interest.
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Surely no small benefit of that realignment would be to divide organized labor, a key Democratic constituency, and the White House has been shrewd about capitalizing on workers' pro-Trump sentiment.
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For now, though, "The Menendez Murders" earns a favorable verdict -- a shrewd choice to inaugurate the latest wrinkle in a well-oiled TV franchise that's as durable as crime and punishment.
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Addressing the audience via telephone, Land called the resignation "a very shrewd move," suggested that Palin remained "an existential threat" to liberal feminism, and compared her favorably to Justice Clarence Thomas.
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Michael Bloomberg entered the presidential race in November with all the blinkered confidence of a billionaire who has heard time and again of his own business prowess and shrewd political instincts.
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A successful secretary of state must be steeped in history and geopolitics and have shrewd negotiating skills and a clear sense of America's capabilities, principles and the limits of Washington's power.
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Nike's decision to make its bold deal with Colin Kaepernick was partly a shrewd business move, but sources involved in the negotiation tell TMZ Sports a big part was also cultural.
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Spencer Tracy, in his second feature, stars as "Bugs" Raymond, a shrewd, cocky roughneck who rises from working-stiff truck driver to the ruling racket boss of an unnamed Midwestern metropolis.
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Could the offer equally be part of a shrewd effort to separate the United States from South Korea and other American allies, many of them already quite skeptical about Trump's bluster?
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This shrewd and scientifically inclined artist, born in Poland and based in Berlin, has delivered the best edition in five years of the Met's hit-or-(often-)miss rooftop sculpture commission.
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Their male superiors — shrewd, but nowhere near as forward-thinking as their younger, female subordinates — dismiss their pushback or even just basic questioning by almost literally patting them on the head.
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Mr Trump and close aides concede that it was once shrewd public policy to help war-ravaged nations, from Europe to Japan, rebuild and prosper as allies, markets and bulwarks against communism.
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But perhaps a shrewd member of the Portland brass realized that the value would outstrip the cost — that in exchange for the free services, the athletes might do things they ordinarily wouldn't.
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The new French president also misjudged the shrewd skills of Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, niece of Marine Le Pen, leader of the populist National Front (FN) whom he had defeated in 2017.
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Trump was in Phoenix to begin with because he feeds off crowds; he's shown a shrewd sensitivity to figure out what they're angry about, and make them more angry, in the past.
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It was a shrewd move on the part of Hillary Clinton's campaign, which clearly believes that confronting viewers with the human cost of gun violence is a powerful argument in her favor.
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The abandonment of 1.5 seems like a shrewd decision: Rather than going bigger and risking alienating devotees, Resident Evil 2 took what was working about the original game, and did it better.
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Biden's shrewd strategic decision to train his fire on Donald Trump from the start, essentially bypassing the primary and jumping to the main event, instantly seemed to solidify his front-runner status.
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Nikitin's network keeps expanding, analysts told VICE News, thanks in no small part to his shrewd use of social media and the appeal of his branded streetwear line, known as White Rex.
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But what you&aposre saying is these other countries are pretty shrewd and they are targeting districts and states that could potentially -- where the cost will be high for the Republican Party.
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"I admired him as a shrewd politician who had a calming effect on the nation and the country," Saeed, a 47-year-old local journalist who was among the mourners, told CNN.
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The view from the inside But according to those who have worked in the top ranks of the newspapers, like Scottish Sun editor Alan Muir, having different editions is just shrewd business.
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What Trump probably thinks sounds like a shrewd strategy to prevent hacking actually sounds like a chilling and deeply disturbing campaign that could trample our rights and leave America in the dark.
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The shrewd use of the fourth wall is only one reason why "Fleabag" is such a joy to watch: as well as making acute observations, the show is hilarious and superbly acted.
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Not to mention, if Weinstein has been shrewd enough to publicly deny all of the allegations against him, it doesn't seem likely at this point that he's prepared to take treatment seriously.
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Federal prosecutors reportedly described him as shrewd, choosing to blame his wife for what he'd done: "The severity of this kind of crime cannot be overstated," said Assistant U.S. Attorney James Clancy.
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Donald Trump's comeback in the 1990s was not due to tax maneuvering but from shrewd business acumen, said Trump supporter Howard Lorber, chairman of New York City real estate powerhouse Douglas Elliman.
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Instead, it was the fact that hers was the only nomination for a shrewd and surprising why-dunit, one that subverted crime dramas by giving you the killer at the season's outset.
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A California man made a shrewd business move after Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton "such a nasty woman" during the third debate, and it's igniting a war ... in the t-shirt industry.
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The Bush family worked to reassemble the rubble from Jeb Bush's doomed presidential campaign, and music streaming service Rhapsody, in a shrewd attempt at cultural relevance, rebranded with the husk of Napster.
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But as a shrewd business tactician, he understood the Republican Party's customers better than its leaders did and sensed that his brand of populist, pugilistic, anti-establishment politics would meet their needs.
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In that regard, this three-tiered telling of "The Staircase" -- which builds, step by methodical step, on what transpired before -- is an extremely shrewd demonstration of getting maximum bang for its bucks.
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Through shrewd political calculation and rhetoric, from Richard Nixon's "Southern strategy" to the latest charges of voter fraud in majority-African-American districts, doing so has paid off at the ballot box.
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Kempowski's handling of this episode displays all his deep talents as a novelist—his impartial hospitality to many different perspectives, his shrewd comprehension of his characters' solipsism, the impurity of their heroism.
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It is his shrewd understanding of this precept that has helped vault Mr. Nakamura's label, Visvim, from the status of Tokyo indie to a business with a reported $100 million in sales.
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A shrewd businesswoman, Fannie uses the Golden Cherry Motel, across the street, as a dorm for the Born Losers, the "dirty, stinky and mean" biker gang that provides protection for her club.
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Team: Brooklyn NetsOne thing to know: The Nets acquired Prince, a young, developing, 3-and-D player in a trade to clear cap space in what now looks like a shrewd move.
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But Green was shrewd: she lent the city more than a million dollars during the Panic of 1907, and by the time of her death in 1916, she was worth $100 million.
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He is equal parts regular guy, shrewd analyst and baseball lifer — characteristics that make him a bit of a dinosaur in today's game, but also a leader many of his players adore.
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Netanyahu is savvier than Trump, but they share a shrewd assessment of how to control and manipulate the politics of spectacle, as well as a fierce determination to stay out of jail.
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It's been nearly 60 years since a shrewd flying squirrel and a bumbling moose first appeared on television to foil the sinister plots of the stereotypical Cold War villains Boris and Natasha.
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Judging by his track record as the mayor of Mexico City, it seems likely that as president he would maintain a shrewd, responsible fiscal policy, to fight corruption and expand social policies.
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In the classified cables, Mr. Murphy was shown to be a shrewd operator within the German political system, having sources — one was called "the mole" by German news media — throughout the government.
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Critics call him an ideologue and a warmonger who retaliates against dissenting views, while allies say he is an intellectual and a shrewd operator committed to ensuring the supremacy of U.S. power.
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Ms. McCaskill is a famously shrewd politician adept at surviving as a Democrat in one of the most purple states in the country, which she has represented in the Senate since 2006.
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And of course, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a decent and damned attractive senior officer with the Sussex Police, is too shrewd to write off Lorna's death as a classic domestic abuse case.
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MERCHANTS BEHAVING BADLY Shrewd gallerists always intrigued me, like C. T. Loo, a Chinese dealer who worked with teams in the countryside to excavate temple sculptures for voracious American collectors and museums.
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Talk to him for a few minutes in his office here, though, and you hear a shrewd businessman who blithely weaves in discussion about market shares, stock keeping units and distribution channels.
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"The truth of the matter is that he's done a lot in his home state philanthropically, he's a pretty smart guy, he thinks about policy and he's a shrewd businessman," Law said.
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DuVernay made a shrewd move by enlisting Oprah Winfrey as one of her co-stars, which blesses the project with the billionaire's coveted seal of approval as well as her marketing clout.
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McConnell is known for his exceptionally shrewd use of Senate rules to help him accomplish political objectives, and his last-minute changes to the trial rules seem to have been no exception.
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"By surprising on the dovish side with duration and at the same time tapering the purchase rate, the ECB has made a shrewd move in our view," HSBC economist Simon Wells said.
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With the Dallas Stars enjoying their best start in the franchise's 224-year history, general manager Jim Nill was rewarded for his shrewd moves with a five-year contract extension on Friday.
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"Bust Out" really gets into the finer points of how Tony and his crew see themselves: as shrewd operators, delivering righteous punishment and life lessons to folks who've crossed the wrong line.
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Richardson leaves us not only with a deep appreciation of Picasso's Promethean ambition and prodigious fecundity," she wrote, "but also with a shrewd understanding of his tumultuous, subversive and often disturbing art.
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Giovanni Orsina, professor of politics at Rome's LUISS University, said Salvini was a shrewd politician whose recent policy shifts were just the latest stages of a long-term strategy going back years.
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Some shrewd people noticed, however, that there is no statute of limitations on judicial ethics investigations and filed a complaint against Trump's sister Maryanne, who until recently was a federal appeals court judge.
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Dershowitz writes a lot of books — indeed, The Case Against Impeaching Trump is his second book of 2018, following February's release of The Case Against BDS — and he is a shrewd self-promoter.
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That I reflexively assumed I could purchase new weapons and abilities, rather than earn them in-game, speaks to just how far mobile games have drifted toward the shrewd free-to-play model.
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The show is "Jackass" meets "The Hills" meets "Black Mirror," and the tow-haired trickster who hails from Ohio is more shrewd than any grown-up should be comfortable giving him credit for.
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She filled up every room, which is why Macdonald's shrewd use of empty space (shots of Houston's abandoned New Jersey home, interspersed with video of her cooking, laughing, living) is so gut-wrenching.
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But Meadow's CEO is also a shrewd businessman who won it TechCrunch's 2015 Crunchies award for best bootstrapped startup, led it through Y Combinator and raised its $2.1 million seed round last year.
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A shrewd product placement on a popular soap opera in China has propelled a Western breakfast cereal to frenzied popularity in the country, sending prices up almost ten times in the gray market.
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A shrewd move from Ricoh — dome lenses don't look good on these types of cameras, as witnessed by the huge cottage industry of creating flat lenses for underwater housings for other action cameras.
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A shrewd choice to feature mixed-race British supermodel-in-the-making Adwoa Aboah on his first issue marked a pivotal point in the magazine's history, heralding the start of a #NewVogue era.
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The acquisition – valued at 4 billion pounds, or about $5.8 billion – came at a high cost for Mr. Hands, damaging his reputation as a shrewd investor and erasing much of his personal fortune.
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The use of soda tax funds to finance local libraries, parks and recreation centers could be a shrewd political choice in a city where district representatives want to show results in their community.
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New in-depth reports on Facebook portray CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a tough negotiator and shrewd wielder of corporate power — miles from the geeky whiz kid image that kicked off his public life.
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The shrewd boast of the R.N.P. is that it will reach over the heads of a tattered establishment and appeal to those who, in the mind of the Party, represent the authentic France.
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"I was supporting Mr. Trump because he is a very successful businessman, he is very shrewd and I thought the United States now needs a successful businessman rather than a politician," Habtoor said.
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As sympathetic as the Chess brothers were to black musicians, and as shrewd as they'd been in marketing their work, they had been reluctant to have Guy unleash the wildness in his playing.
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Crown Prince Faisal bin Abdulaziz, a shrewd strategist, worked with other princes, got a religious decree from the clergy, and forced King Saud to abdicate after besieging his palace with the National Guard.
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When the Germans occupied Poland, Raizel was conscripted to work, but Sala, shrewd and resourceful, felt her older sister was too bookish to weather the camp and volunteered to take her place. Mrs.
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And perhaps that is why, for a cable network that is still trying to figure out how it fits into the topsy-turvy world of a Trump presidency, Carlson is a shrewd choice.
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