Significados de shrewd sense en inglés

His own shrewd sense confirmed the wisdom of her words.

His spectacled eyes peered everywhere, and his shrewd sense judged instantly of a thing's value.

She was just an extraordinarily alert woman, mentally and physically, with a shrewd sense of values.

He has besides his passions shrewd sense; and his passions may be rightly directed by benevolent attraction.

There was power in his individuality, and, besides shrewd sense, he possessed a considerable gift for mechanics.

Tylor says primitive man has "rude, shrewd sense." The Igorot has more-hehas practical wisdom.

He saw it clearly with his shrewd sense; and though his worn-out body revolted, his resolution did not flinch.

His shrewd sense and knowledge of those with whom he had to deal came at once to his aid.

He complimented Anderson's shrewd sense.

Lowell's own mind, like Franklin's, like Lincoln's, had a shrewd sense of what concerns the common interests of all.

Most men who do my job have the shrewd sense to free themselves from the attentions of their curious family.

He had a good deal of the obstinacy characteristic of many stupid men, but this decision was based on shrewd sense.

There must have been, despite her shrewd sense, an obtuse streak in Tilly, else she would never have written that letter.

Now, instead of showing Arthur what her substratum of shrewd sense enabled her to see, she ministered soothingly unto his vanity.

Besides this method of making money, so strictly social, Saville had also applied his keen intellect and shrewd sense to other speculations.

It was not always grammatical, but as well adapted for conveying wit and humor and shrewd sense as the Scotch of Burns.