Olgivanna -- in her country the nickname was a respectful form of address -- was not only attractive but shrewd, durable, sensible, and smart.

: sold out by cheap and venal politicians, by benevolent authoritarians, by " loyal " party men, by shrewd and greedy capitalists, by wise guys and smart guys that know all the answers.

Antonio provides very shrewd answers leading Lollio to remark that Antonio is very smart for a fool.

Thereafter he entered his father's business, a shrewd and smart man who achieved some local renown as a Chinese medical doctor, traded successfully in oils, opium, liquor, and grain and operated a money changing business.

In July 2011, The Atlantic magazine called the BeltLine, a series of housing, trail, and transit projects along a 22-mile ( 35-km ) long disused rail corridor surrounding the core of Atlanta, the United States ' " most ambitious smart growth project ".

Handymen have been portrayed in books and films, generally positively, as do-gooder helpful types, but not particularly smart or ambitious.

" In another example given in the book, Gladwell noticed that people ascribe Bill Gates ’ s success to being " really smart " or " really ambitious.

" He noted that he knew a lot of people who are really smart and really ambitious, but not worth 60 billion dollars.

In March 1994 father-and-son team Bob and Chris Herbert, together with financer Chic Murphy, working under the business name of Heart Management, placed an advertisement in The Stage, which asked the question: " Are you street smart, extrovert, ambitious, and able to sing and dance?

Benton is more ambitious and focused on surgery whereas Carter is more compassionate and willing to spend time with patients, a trait that " drove crazy " as he put it to Cleo, although he considered Carter to be a talented and smart doctor.

Howard, she laments, was smart enough to be able to conquer the world, but lacked the ambition to do so ; Zebediah, her second husband, was the other way around ( ambitious, but stupid ); Obadiah, on the other hand, is both smart and ambitious, but unfortunately his loyalty to her can no longer be relied on.

* Tiffany Malloy ( Nikki Cox ): The " favorite " child of Jack, Tiffany is the middle child, who is seemingly perfect: smart, ambitious, popular, attractive, and still a virgin.

She was a smart, ambitious and hardworking lesbian lawyer who married her best friend in a ' marriage of convenience ' that presented her with the best of both worlds – a socially respectable position, and a husband who accepted her sexual orientation.

" The Big Show was not just more grand than most radio shows --- it was also more witty, smoothly produced, smart, and ambitious, with an interesting juxtaposition of guests, but it wasn't significantly different ," wrote radio historian Gerald Nachman in Raised on Radio.

The wife is likely to be young, sophisticated, smart as a whip -- often a girl who has sacrificed a promising career for marriage.

HIGHWAY: Graduated drivers license laws for young drivers, age-21 drinking laws, smart airbag technology, rear high-mounted brake lights, commercial drivers licenses, improved school bus construction standards.

Its founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka derived the name from sonus, the Latin word for sound, and also from the English slang word " sonny ", since they considered themselves to be " sonny boys ", a loan word into Japanese which in the early 1950s connoted smart and presentable young men.

Hina is mostly described as a very attractive, smart, beautiful, determined young woman pursued by men and other creatures.

alt = The painting shows a young looking Prince Rupert standing upright, wearing smart court clothes and a large waistcoat.

Jang was naturally a creative and smart thinker as a young person.

Some of the results are a little surprising: a smart young man dressed in a business suit holds a sign which reads " I'm desperate ", while a police officer has written the single word " Help !".

Many of the young mainland Chinese journalists being trained at US and other universities and professional programs in the West have been characterized by their trainers as " smart ," " aware ," and devoted to the profession.

The title character Ally is a young, attractive, impulsive, Harvard-educated lawyer described by a New York Times journalist as " stylish, sexy, smart, opinionated, and an emotional wreck.

... he process composing the piece was interactive because I was at IRCAM and had the privilege of working with a very smart young composer, Thierry Lancino, who was my musical assistant, and also consulting with people like David Wessel and Stephen McAdams and so on.

While at the Brush Forest Academy ( dropping off samples of the dead plants for analysis ), Master Li tells the tale of Hong Wong, the young genius who was too smart for his own good.

As a teenager, Louella was a smart and intelligent young woman.

Although many have since made allegations about the shady role security apparatus played in this forced transfer of power ( Slavko Perović among many others ), it is undeniable that the trio also capitalized on the " young, handsome, and smart " image ( mladi, lijepi i pametni ), which resonated with certain people after state-run media developed it through various astroturfing methods.

" The girl received a roar of applause, when she was revealed as the same smart young man in dinner clothes who had been introducing each of the evening's acts.

Though young, Linus is unusually smart, and he acts as the strip's philosopher and theologian, often quoting the Gospels.

She is a smart, strong and beautiful young woman and Bond finds her a dependable ally and a good friend.

Simply put, this is an audience of smart shoppers consisting largely of families with a stay at home parent and young professionals.

Kong Rong immediately retorted, " I suppose you were really smart when you were young.

He then successfully applied to an advertisement for a " smart, active young man who can box " at a down town gym, Knipe's Institute.

A sly and smart young boy, his " aunties " raised him until he was around 16.

* Buena Girl-A smart young female wrestler who always plays by the rules.

Thompson's crew led by Fritz Voigt were young, smart and hard working.

* Donald D ' Arby ( Rick Roberts ), a young, smart and shy investment banker.

Anne Shirley-Now a student at Redmond College, Anne has become an elegant, smart young woman.

At the John Deere store, he purchases a newer replacement lawn tractor from a salesman ( Everett McGill ) who is generous but describes Alvin as being reputed a smart man, ' until now.

::: But for me that saying of Pittacus doesn ’ t ring true either ( even if he was a smart man ): he says “ being good is hard .” For me, a man's good enough as long as he's not lawless, and if he has the common sense of right and wrong that does a city good — a decent guy.

He was a very smart man and knew how not to be obvious.

He was a very, very smart man.

:" Surely a man as smart as you can see this is a brilliant proposal.

Doug Heffernan ( played by Kevin James ) is an average parcel delivery man, with a somewhat of a smart alecky nature.

He speaks mostly in Latin, seems to be very smart, and works for Bolivar Trask, a greedy business man who funded the Venom project.

Beresford had a reputation for kindness to his men, saying ' Any smart action performed by an officer or man should be appreciated publicly by signal ... Everyone is grateful for appreciation '.

Sir Billy later wrote that " It was his instigation which was making the Parliament unworkable, not the Opposition's response, like the classroom situation where the smart little man hits the fellow next to him who retaliates and is seen by the teacher ".

Cummings ( the dumb, white, big-chested lifeguard ), Jamaica St. Croix ( the dumb, African-American, big-chested lifeguard ), Chip Rommel ( the dumb, hunky, muscular male lifeguard who is an obvious parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger ) and Kimberlee Clark ( the smart but flat-chested female lifeguard and straight man of the series ).

On this occasion Đukanović stated: Every smart Montenegrin and every honest man in this land mentions the name of the traitor Jevrem Brković with hatred, who in pure vanity betrayed his people and knowingly spreads anti-Yugoslav speeches across Zagreb, while the Ustašas, again like in 1941, bleed the defenseless Serbian civilians ( referring to the World War II ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Croatia ).

As Gloria lacks knowledge about people, and is rather gullible, a Jewish man in one episode called her " smart girl ".

One of the customers he meets is a very smart man who decides to let Meade know that some of his employees have been rigging the game to rob him blind.

Matvei Gedenschtrom was a smart, talented, educated, and kind man, who often helped local peasants with advice and money.

He's a very smart man.

He made accusations that Clodia was no better than a prostitute and claimed Caelius was a smart man to disassociate himself from her.

Critic Roger Ebert gave the movie three stars out of four, saying " Gibson gives an interesting performance, showing a man trying to think his way out of a crisis, and Sinise makes a good foil: Here are two smart men playing a game with deadly stakes.

Although she felt no sexual attraction to Paisley, as to all men, she recounts why Paisley was the man she decided to have a relationship with, " he ’ s wickedly smart, which is one of the reasons why I made the decision to spend time with him.

* Peter Belden ( Dad ): Trixie's father, a smart, honest, and generous man.

He was then regarded as not only a multi-talented performer, but a smart and noble man who was to be looked up to.