Sentences with phrase «proved shrewd»

Variety critic Marilyn Stasio wrote of the current iteration of «Cabaret,» «It seemed nuts but proved shrewd of Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall to retool their dazzling 1998 revival of the Kander and Ebb masterpiece, fit Cumming with a new trenchcoat for his triumphant return, and bring the decadent netherworld of 1920s Berlin back to Studio 54, the revival's ideal venue.»

He previously proved himself a shrewd and unsentimental player.

His expensive push to reorient the company to the cloud rather than the desktop has proved shrewd.

Conte has shown he is up there with the best managers in the world and could prove a shrewd appointment by PSG if they are to move up to the next level.

Time will tell if Quintero — signed to a three - year contract — will prove a shrewd addition by Director of Football Manny Lagos.

With Aquarius, which premiered in competition at Cannes, the former film critic continues to prove himself a shrewd observer of the world around him.

With its increasing move into the mainstream, and with the opening of the Urban Nation Graffiti Museum in Berlin in 2017, it could prove a shrewd investment to buy Contemporary Art from the Street Art scene.

Not exact matches

The more selfish Agnes is, the easier the deceit will prove for him (for it is only very inexperienced people who suppose that it is easy to deceive innocence; existence is very profound, and it is in fact the easiest thing for the shrewd to fool the shrewd)-- but all the more terrible will be the merman's sufferings.

Arsenal appear to only be on the look - out for a challenger to Olivier Giroud, and Jese could be an affordable striker, who at 23 years - old, could still prove to be a shrewd capture, especially when you consider the Spanish giants opted to keep Jese over Alvaro Morata last term.

With 20 goals already this season he may prove to be a shrewd piece of business for a mid-table club looking to add more firepower up front, and not only that, he is a seasoned Champions League veteran.

And while he may not be the player that Arsenal fans were hoping for, at 23 he is vastly experienced at both club and international level and could prove to be a shrewd signing for the future.

N'Zonzi may well prove to be a shrewd buy, although Wenger wouldn't usually sanction a # 36.5 Million fee for a player who turns 29 in only a few months.

Jack Adams, the Detroit general manager, is one of the shrewdest hockey men in the business, and when he made the Lindsay - Hall deal with the Black Hawks he was certain that it would prove an advantageous one for the Red Wings.

It proved to be a shrewd move by the Gunners boss as the 21 - year - old went on to become one of Europe's deadliest strikers.

Although in 2017/18 with his continued faith in Marcus Rashford, shrewd management of Anthony Martial and outstanding use of Jesse Lingard (young, in terms of top - flight experience)-- the Portuguese is proving them all wrong.

Overall, Liverpool have traded in young, hungry players with potential in exchange for losing (mostly) aging players on big money, and I'm confident that the majority of the incoming players will prove to be shrewd acquisitions.

There was a lot of shrewd negotiation by the Club in terms of today's prices and, hopefully, it will prove to be exceptionally good value for money.

It was staggering to think that seemingly shrewd businessmen would reward failure with a 5 year contract, perhaps despite their investment they have a 5 year plan to completely dismantle the academy and instead just buy proven players as some other clubs are doing?

The proposals were caricatured by the Conservative Party as «Venezuelan - style rent - controls» — but targeting «generation rent» and «hard working Britain» may yet prove to be a shrewd move.

Sport science has proven what many shrewd coaches already know, but without the research, what exactly is true would have been a never - ending argument.

Jill turns out to be a shrewd, resourceful amateur sleuth, and Kirke (Mistress America) proves again to be a low - key but clever actress; there's a funny scene of Jill imitating another, ditzier personal assistant to learn the whereabouts of a potential suspects.

Robbie Burns, AKA «The Naked Trader», has proven to be a very shrewd yet characterful entrepreneur, scooping tax - free gains of more than $ 2 million since the turn of the millennium.

A shrewd visitor suggested to me that the real aim of the 1993 Biennial was to finish off activist art by proving that overstatement is its only gambit.

This force of change proved to the shrewd clients that they did have power in the relationship, it also proved that the supply of legal knowledge was transportable and fungible — and did not need to come from an old trusted source.