The shrewdest counterrevolutionaries, moreover, happily exploit revolutionary achievements to their own ends.
Summoning one of his shrewdest ministers, Count d'Argenson, the king asked him whether he could diplomatically unsnarl the traffic jams.
One of her shrewdest moves was to divide the job of deputy secretary into two, with James Steinberg focusing on policy and Jack Lew on management.
As a matter of fact the holiest of men have been some of the shrewdest, for their friends at least, if not for themselves.
But the clear, the honest, the transparent - they seem to me the shrewdest silent men: those whose profundity is so deep that even the clearest water does not - betray it.
