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Перевод: shrewdness

[существительное]
проницательность ; тонкость ; догадливость

Тезаурус:

1. He was scholarly, shrewd and literate; but few people entirely trusted the ends to which that scholarship and shrewdness were applied.
2. Neither Naisbitt's shrewdness, however, nor his ear-to-the ground monitoring techniques, can overcome some of the fundamental limitations of his approach.
3. The purchase of its own building and provision of rentable space are just two symptoms of Fitch's long-term shrewdness, which could see the company thriving as other design consultancies, such as one-time rivals Michael Peters, fall by the wayside.
4. All Scotland's impressive technique and tactical shrewdness went for nought in the 26th minute, though, when they lost a depressingly poor goal.
5. A striking feature of the campaign is the firm grasp voters seem to have of the main issues, and the shrewdness and acumen they show in arguing not only for one side or the other but for all sides at once.
6. Despite the vast edifice that they built up on extremely shaky premises the phrenologists were socially-committed men, with an interest in holistic medicine and a shrewdness that served them well when they ran their fingers over somebody's skull in pursuit of character.
7. To mitigate this shrewdness, Lorna lowered her eyes and chased a fragment of meat around her plate with her fork.
8. Considerable credit must, however, also be given to the shrewdness of Heseltine's tactics.
9. Donaldson described him as having "a slight figure, with a strong constitution (only once was he seen to wear an overcoat) frank and plain spoken, occasionally even to roughness no flatterer somewhat impulsive and gifted with great shrewdness and common sense he was a man of the highest integrity and independence, and so far from leading his clients into needless of extravagant outlay, he would demur at any expense beyond his employer's means
10. He admired so many qualities in Fisher: the shrewdness about people, the grasp of practical problems, the ability to work very long hours, the patience under abuse from the press, the humility which went with a cocksureness that was not arrogance.
11. Football now has Bob Wilson of Arsenal and Emlyn Hughes of Liverpool and on independent television there is Ian StJohn and Jimmy Greaves ("The Saint and Greavsie"), who have taken the art of televised sport a step further by reproducing in the studio all the mixture of jokes and outlandish memories, bets, hunches, tactical shrewdness, and affectionate "piss-taking" that make up a friendly hour in the pub.
12. That the members of the quintet will be "bound" to each other in secret guilt by the cement of blood, having been tricked into thinking Shatov is a danger and must be removed, is another and a promising rationalization which reveals a local shrewdness like Iago's.
13. His team, World Cup finalists and dotted with household idols, were taken to the cleaners by a bunch of Australian students and farmers in the first Test, and the second Test at Lille promises to be not only a trial of Fouroux's incumbency as coach but also his tactical shrewdness in selection.