The old brewer, however, was not only a man indulgent of his progeny's mercurial whims but a shrewd and devious entrepreneur who knew a tax dodge when he saw one.

He is described in the exhibition as an "unabashedly aggressive" and shrewd entrepreneur who is "perhaps the most important single figure in the history of race movies"; he made about 10 percent of them.

The Nightsiders (a race of shrewd and ruthless entrepreneurs)

But Daguerre was also a shrewd entrepreneur, a gifted international showman and a married man who left Paris for the countryside in 1840.

The juxtaposing of brooding artist with shrewd entrepreneur could be overly obvious, but Mr. Kent doesn't dabble in easy conclusions.

Colleagues and former employees described him as a shrewd entrepreneur.

And publishers being in this case the shrewd entrepreneurs they are (often wrongly) thought to be, no such book appeared.

He was a shrewd and canny entrepreneur with a good eye for design.

The wealthy Olivier brothers Aimé and René were students in Paris at this time, and these shrewd young entrepreneurs adopted the new machine.

After his liaison with Wang Lizhen, he is promoted to be private secretary of Wang's godfather Pang Haogong, and becomes a shrewd entrepreneur.