Definitions

1. Shrewd are the physiognomies and portraits of Antonio Ciseri in the times that Florence was the Capital of Italy (Salons 7-8).

Story

1. The original Paul Bunyan had been shrewd and sometimes ignoble; one story told how he cheated his men out of their pay. (Web site)

Nature

1. Chanakya was an astute brahmin and shrewd observer of nature.

Planned

1. Harold Peary had made Gildersleeve into a multi-faceted character.He was shrewd,but in ways that rarely worked out like he planned.
2. The shrewd Chanakya had trained Chandragupta under his expert guidance and together they planned the conquest of the Nanda Empire.

Politics

1. Gandhi was shrewd to use his saintdom for politics.
2. This is an epitome of Shivaji's vision and his shrewd understanding of politics.

Forty Years

1. Jack Hylton was hardly an imposing figure at five-foot-three, but he was tough, shrewd and a giant in the British entertainment scene for forty years. (Web site)

Empress Dowager

1. Similar photographs had been sent to all the ministers and rulers represented at Peking, and I said to myself: "The Empress Dowager is shrewd.

First Series

1. His Biglow Papers, First Series (1847-48) creates Hosea Biglow, a shrewd but uneducated village poet who argues for reform in dialect poetry.

Cao Pi

1. Of all his brothers, Cao Pi was the most shrewd. (Web site)

Research Director

1. They are very shrewd, but they are only used to dealing in the Chinese market," said Joe D'Elia, research director for client computing at iSuppli.

Politician

1. The former Prime Minister was a shrewd and able politician who staked his own future and that of France on an Axis victory. (Web site)

Orator

1. Snorre was shrewd as a politician and magistrate, and eminent as an orator and skald, but his passions were mean, and many of his ways were crooked. (Web site)

Octavian

1. Octavian was a shrewd, brilliant and astute politician. (Web site)

Parting

1. So he made the shrewd move of parting with an old friend to partner with Dale Earnhardt Inc.

Harry

1. Snape, too, was looking at Harry in an unexpected way: It was a shrewd and calculating look, and Harry didn't like it. (Web site)
2. The location of the second Horcrux was revealed to Harry through shrewd observation of Bellatrix Lestrange.

Intelligent

1. He was handsome, intelligent, decisive, and a shrewd politician, but he was not perhaps as charismatic as Julius Caesar.

Throne

1. He married in 525 Theodora, a shrewd and capable courtesan who acted as the power behind the throne whilst she lived.

Kautilya

1. Hand in hand with this ambitious conqueror was a shrewd and calculating Brahman named Kautilya.
2. As a shrewd politician, Kautilya should not have missed out the invasion of Alexander had it been of a greater importance. (Web site)

Man

1. Odysseus was by nature a very shrewd and cautious man, and he feared that Calypso was contriving some mischief against him, in revenge for his coldness.
2. The man behind the Nazi Abwehr spy network, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, was a shrewd, brilliant spymaster who not only managed to keep control of the Abwehr. (Web site)
3. Abu Bakr was a man of shrewd judgment. (Web site)

Cunning

1. The Phoenicians were characterized by their chief competitors as intelligent, shrewd, cunning, proud, arrogant, mysterious, and intensely religious. (Web site)
2. A mercurial character, shrewd, cunning, charming, and passionate, Nureyev demonstrated a commitment and a savage power equaled by no other dancer in his day. (Web site)

Unscrupulous

1. Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor was cold-blooded, shrewd and utterly unscrupulous.

Empress Dowager Cixi

1. By the time of the Xianfeng Emperor's death, Empress Dowager Cixi had become a shrewd strategist.

Shrewd

1. Empress Dowager Cixi, though shrewd, had great presence, charm, and graceful movements resulting in "an unusually attractive personality".
2. Calicut (Kozhikode) was then the most important trade center of the Malabar region and the Zamorins who ruled this mighty land were powerful and shrewd. (Web site)
3. He was intelligent and shrewd and it is this shrewdness which mainly made Pandavas win the war. (Web site)

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