“shrewd”
“Everything about me is pretty and a lot of it is shrewd. So I had a pretty shrewd idea what was going on.”
“Then appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued great hypocrisy.”
“Let me not be sentimental, let the distance in time give me humor and irony and a shrewd, if loving, eye.”
“Rosemary, in his heart your brother is a lover. The shrewd businessman, the adventurer, the dandy are but costumes the lover wears. ”
“A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.”