Word: shrewd
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...Malley is merely a shrewd operator who holds personal gain above loyalty to the people of Brooklyn and above the good name of baseball...
...trade agreement will amount to only 5% of West Germany's foreign trade. Mikoyan himself recalled that Germany once sent 40% of its exports to Russia, and some of his hearers were reminded that the shrewd little Armenian had been around before: it was he who negotiated a trade agreement with Nazi Germany shortly before the cynical Molotov-Ribbentrop 1939 treaty that was the prelude to World...
...masterful "Grand Inquisitor" or struggled with the devil himself near the close of the novel. The precariously saintly Alexey Karamazov is transformed into a sort of religious straight man, whose feeble pietisms and meaningful stares represent the religious instruction of the movie, and the idiot Smerdyakov becomes a shrewd, calculating, vengeful spirit who falls just a trifle short of being the film's dominant figure...
...went home on crutches from a German prison camp at war's end in time to run for Parliament. He felt a family obligation to run because a young, politically promising cousin had been killed in the war. His personal diffidence won him respect in the House; his shrewd advice on business affairs won him esteem in the City. At the Ministry of Agriculture he managed to achieve a success in that "graveyard of future Prime Ministers...
...archrivals it is barely a step from the wet cobblestones of the town that Joe dares not name to the even more bleak landscape of ambition. Ned is a cool, shrewd Organization Man, and Robert a hotheaded art-rebel type; as they grow up, Joe keeps score in their unending game of oneupmanship. One symbol of success that each plays off on the other is Myra Chetwynd, the dizzy-making model whom Robert and Ned take successively to the altar...