He was a great narrator and storyteller, a shrewd critic who created a vast body of work that shows a fine intelligence.

How a brilliant young singer, ready or not, is made a star through youth-hungry music media; by a shrewd critic and editorialist of The Wall Street Journal.

He was summed up by one commentator as "a good scholar, a shrewd critic, and a fair wit."

Indeed, Nabokov, always his own shrewdest critic, was not above marveling at the ingenious workings of his own memory.

Eliot was often a shrewd and merciless critic in essays published in magazines and journals.

Lunacharsky was known as an art connoisseur and a shrewd critic.

But he is also a shrewd critic of its deficiencies - its dangerously bad maps, mice-infested lodgings and strict rules that keep hikers from wandering from designated paths.

Byatt, a shrewd critic and essayist but at heart a novelist, though a novelist of ideas, leaves no doubt how she grades.

In the case of "Henceforward," he is also a shrewd social critic commenting on man's suicidal ability to invent his own nemesis.

A shrewd and acerbic critic of fiction on both sides of the Atlantic, she insists that esthetics, not morals, are what is at stake.