| Mary is brittle and bright, using her feminine wiles to get her way and being shrewishly clever to advance her agendas. |
| Her dreams of romance are always stymied by her shrewishly over-protective divorced mother. |
| The mezzo-soprano Lacey Jo Benter offered a chuckle-inducing portrayal of the shrewishly selfish Zita. |
| Easily half this movie's running time is going to be devoted to the two of them either bickering shrewishly or falling implausibly in love. |
| She does an admirable job of going from ecstatically happy to shrewishly miserable, from being a loving daughter to a hateful sister. |
| Marie's voice rose shrewishly, riding the high waves of the baby's incessant outcry against the restrictions upon appetite imposed by enlightened motherhood. |
