Word: shrewd
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...writers, Duchovny borrows heavily from the canon of literature, theater, and film, but he does so sloppily. This movie has the potential to achieve a Shakespearean tone: Tommy’s mom is something of a female King Lear; Pappass is the ubiquitous wise Fool; and Lady is the shrewd and mystical ethnic sorceress. Duchovny’s writing, however, unwittingly directs these characters away from their potential classical allusions and makes them instead into one-dimensional clich?...
...some extent the chairman's job is what its occupant chooses to make of it, and few doubt that the Kentucky-born Crowe, 60, will choose an activist role. Colleagues know him as an able commander who exercises shrewd political and military judgment. He brings to his new post unusually broad experience, having served as commander in chief of the Allied Forces in Southern Europe from 1980 to 1983 and as commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command since then. Says Robert Komer, a former Under Secretary of Defense: "Crowe is a broad-gauged guy, a truly independent thinker...
...narrative holds its quota of surprises, but draws its force from the shrewd characterizations, which grant Dickensian life to what at first seem stock figures. Barnard, a closet satirist, is at his best when reviling his creations rather than cherishing them, and there are villains a plenty to hiss at in this oddly affecting tale...
...free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted." For nearly six decades, Bellow kept that vow. Dangling Man, his first novel, published in 1944, when Bellow was only 29, heralded the arrival of a new voice. Defiant, brooding, charged with a shrewd irony about our human prospects, it was a novel of ideas, a Europeanized American book...
...even with such a heavy subject matter, Watson, known for his shrewd humor, tried to lighten the mood...