The trend may represent a slap at tradition, or perhaps a shrewd sense that a popular name can win a theory more attention and financing.

In matters of love, she is a comparison shopper with a shrewd sense of her own market value.

Beneath the ageing and dissipated exterior there was still a good deal of shrewd common sense.

In Japanese society, power is tempered by continual compromise and a shrewd sense of how far to push.

He possesses a keen brain and an abundance of shrewd sense.

He had a lot of shrewd Scottish common sense, you know.

The formation of his firm in 1946, like Handy's two years before, showed a shrewd sense of timing.

But he has a very shrewd sense of who is with him, what those people want and how their support can be bought.

He also twists the California confessional with absurd humor and a shrewd sense of character.

Age may have also added a shrewder sense of when to turn on a ball.