How To Use Astute In A Sentence
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It gives a little bling to the foulard and the masculine touch gives it an astute edge.
Gina Pell: What To Wear In 2010
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The politically astute know all about the importance of reputation management.
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What is left in ‘her’ wake, however, is an acerbically astute representation of a social environment in which mothers are routinely erased, undervalued, and ‘trapped’ within the domestic milieu.
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Your new love has an astute business brain and a generous heart.
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Has liberal views and is politically astute.
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A good leader must be an astute judge of ability.
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The threat of all Darlington Catholics voting against him was the most astute piece of political blackmail I have ever seen.
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He also makes astute observations about his colleagues at the department of trade.
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Another, again a political opponent said, "De Valera is the outstanding personality in Ireland today, by far the ablest and most astute politician and in many ways a constructive force.
What Next In Ireland?
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He was a thoughtful and engaging person, astute and bright.
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She offers many snippets of keen and astute observation.
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There is a wide variety of plants, ranging from mosses to grasses and astute insect eaters.
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She was astute enough to realize that what Jack wanted was her money.
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Has liberal views and is politically astute.
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The larger clubs will still be able to stockpile players to cover eventualities, but for the rest, a powerful weapon in the astute manager's armoury has been negated.
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Some of them possess the skills of astute politicians, and others have mastered the art of the political game.
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They have been the most patient and benevolent as well as astute of midwives.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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But Dole had little choice but to roll the dice in a way that surprised even the most astute political observers.
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Of course he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents.
The Purloined Letter
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* I have been appropriately called to task by my good friend, astute coach and NPR host, Marty Nemko, for bad mouthing the many entrepreneurs who have made this country great as "grabby" and opportunistic.
Mark Goulston, M.D.: Just Listen Microsoft - An Opportunist Does Not a Visionary Make
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Despite the company's effortlessly dramatic and often vivid characterizations under the astute direction of Mr. Ratmansky—not least the riveting yet often subtle portrayal by Diana Vishneva as the title figure—this "Anna Karenina" lacks the musical, motor energy to suggest depth beneath the pantomimed surface.
Forgoing the Classics, but Still Nothing New
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An increasingly educated electorate can spot bias with greater acumen and astuteness than ever before.
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We will look to be more tactically astute.
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Instead, he combines an astute perspective on earlier historical and sociological research with a sophisticated apprehension of the discursive dynamics of literary texts.
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Chris was known widely as an astute and efficient farmer and a devoted family man.
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She wants to be seen as an astute businesswoman.
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But the scores on such tests are meaningless unless they are interpreted by sophisticated clinicians who are totally knowledgeable in pertinent research on child and adult development, cognitive psychology, and neuropsychology, and who are astute observers and interpreters of behaviors such as the person's approach to problem solving or the degree to which anxiety or distractibility might have compromised the person's test scores.
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.: Intelligent Testing
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The more pertinent question is whether it would be politically astute to do so.
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The President's wife is often politically astute, ambitious and very influential in White House policy decisions.
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They also astutely observed the land and people around them as they jostled along.
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To all those critics who claimed he was not tactically astute enough.
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The politically astute know all about the importance of reputation management.
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Local government experts hailed the move as politically astute.
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My response as a fellow student to this bright and astute statement is that I indeed view my education as an earth science major as an investment.
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But it does so because they are endemic, and with the exception of a few astute contributions, it fails to assess the consequences of this reorientation and propose a way forward. decentre is comprised of short contributions that draw primarily on writers 'personal experiences with particular ARCs rather than theoretical or historical analysis.
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Besides my amusement in actually relating a current writing to Plato, I think the column astutely voices a deficiency of student engagement in classes.
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She provides copious notes and an astute introduction, offering an intelligently designed book that tells its own compelling story.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Graeme is a fantastic writer, astute and always willing to learn and evolve in his craft, which is how he came across the outline.
Secrets from Blueprints
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But it is an astutely packaged and worthwhile collection none the less, with translations from the Zulu on the sleeve.
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Terry's as tactically astute as anyone I have worked with and when it comes to motivation he's one of the best.
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It's so true that Lumet wasn't a visualist in the veins of Scorsese or Lee, or a populist the way Steven Spielberg is; or an astute comedian like Allen, Hal Ashby, or Paul Mazursky.
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The text rattles along entertainingly, powered by some astute observations.
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The President's wife is often politically astute, ambitious and very influential in White House policy decisions.
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The incomes are good and astute investors are now locking in for the long term with five-year deals.
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What's ready to hand is not the very pulse of intuition but a hardened and socially-astute response.
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Diehl and Batiste are a singularly astute pairing: Mr. Diehl, a classical scholar, makes serious music sound like fun, while Mr. Batiste, a party-hearty New Orleans street parader, reminds us that fun music can also be serious.
Passing Down the Piano Torch Song
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What he has proved to be is a shrewd tactician and an astute responder to the public mood whose easy-going manner disguises some ruthless populism.
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RE #205 An astute prognostication, Steven, and remarkable timing steven mosher
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This was discovered by an astute cryptanalyst at Central Bureau and in April 1943 that code was broken.
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The writer gives an astute assessment of a country run for the few at the expense of the many. Run by the Palsy-Walsy brigade.
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Intense prayer, along with astute technical and diplomatic skill, was dedicated to this problem.
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Buying woodland is becoming an increasingly astute move for people wishing to find a haven for their cash.
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In one case cited, astute investors could return five times their money by 2012 without needing to go near a field.
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Ever since, the Nez Perce have been one of the most politically astute tribes, successfully holding on to their cultural identity.
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A more astute board might have kept quiet and tucked a bit away for any disastrous weekend to come.
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To stand up in Congress and speak against homeownership would have been as politically astute as to campaign against motherhood.
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I want to thank Brian Gelling for his foresight and astuteness in handling the negotiations.
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These are mostly 10th graders with some 12 th graders, but they are very politically aware and astute.
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The text rattles along entertainingly, powered by some astute observations.
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Buying woodland is becoming an increasingly astute move for people wishing to find a haven for their cash.
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Plus, of course, you need to be a profoundly astute businessman.
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He's probably the most astute politician in the Middle East, and we knew we could do business with him.
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Smicer again picked him out with an astute pass in the 18th minute that wrong-footed the visitors' defence.
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There are no derange liberals posting here, they are very astute observers of a very deranged woman that the right wing wackadoodles seem to have put up on a pedestal.
In Eugene, Palin says she eats granola too
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In one case cited, astute investors could return five times their money by 2012 without needing to go near a field.
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Oxford, as Evelyn Waugh astutely observed, is a city best seen in early summer.
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While the controlling Kwok family are known as astute investors, veering so clearly away from a core business is usually a red flag.
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As Eliot over at Buzzfeed so astutely points out: the definition of gristle is “tough cartilaginous, tendinous, or fibrous matter especially in table meats.”
Guy Ritchie Compares Madonna To A Piece Of Gristle | Best Week Ever
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Seeing the "way" of reason -- its "cunningness" -- is one of those insights only visible to astute observers, according to Hegel, at the end of history.
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He is a pioneer with an astute intellect and has a quick wit.
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In real life terms it required a hell of a lot of astuteness to keep the thing alive, even shambolically.
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I regard him as an astute businessman who is very conscious of the value of capital.
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In football anything is possible if you play organised, disciplined and tactically astute football.
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The advantage of using chum is that the slowly settling bits of bait can draw deep fish to the surface; this allows the astute angler to be selective.
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But this elite group was very astute.
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An astute and responsible mayor would use this decision as an opportunity for change.
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Based in the remote polder lands of Holland, Heerenveen, under the astute eye of their coach, Foppe de Haan, are seen in Dutch football as a sort of finishing school.
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The young man astutely observed him in action and tried to absorb the great lessons his boss had to teach.
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Mrs Thatcher may feel it would be politically astute to take a lead in getting a convention under way.
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She was also an astute businesswoman, eventually running three cafés and a catering business.
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We will look to be more tactically astute.
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If officers have to make decisions for the Council, they need to be visionary and commercially astute.
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In re-inventing Manchester for the new millennium, the city council has proved very astute.
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Ah, it's just that snark-ass kind of astuteness I need in my presidential administration.
Credit crunch solutions #1: Rent a wife
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Porras found an astute ally in newly elected President Alvaro Arzu, a pragmatic businessman with an instinct for building consensus.
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He was an astute businessman, yet was most comfortable in the company of intellectuals.
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To all those critics who claimed he was not tactically astute enough.
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She wants to be seen as an astute businesswoman.
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But underneath all the big talk and gross out gags, this is actually an astute little coming-of-age film.
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The Fort is a treasure house of priceless relics - miniatures, paintings, howdahs, palanquins and arms - all displayed with an astute eye for aesthetics and history.
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By the end of the evening I found myself recalling the astute diagnosis of a friend: "He doesn't just speak fluent German; he speaks fluent Western, too.
A Conversation With Putin
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As the theologian Robert Farrar Capon so astutely recognized, the entire argument of Ephesians in the first chapter is what is called a recapitulation.
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I am a much more careful, astute, mature coin collector from the experience.
Numismatic Landscape – Commentary by Laura Sperber : Coin Collecting News
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All three are politically astute and have been following the election in the media.
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To any astute observer, a beech-maple forest displays an integrity and identity as much as a crow does.
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You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics seems more than a pejorative stab, but rather, an astute observation of the narrow atheist view of reality, their unwillingness to concede science and reason's limitations, and other means of epistemology other than material empiricism.
Two or three . net
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The sailor's well-known partiality for drink was constantly turned to account by the astute gangsman.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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In 2002, McCain astutely pointed out that Bush was the first President in US history to start a war and not raise taxes to pay for it.
Obama: McCain 'obsessed' with Ahmadinajad
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His wealth has been estimated at £120m, and it is perhaps his astuteness as a businessman that has earned him such respect.
Tom Ford takes fashion back in time to find its lost mystique
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The way he astutely details intelligence operations appeals to me at many levels.
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Berkeley has a reputation in its sector as one of the most astute buyers of greenfield sites.
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Local government experts hailed the move as politically astute.
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It was probably the most astute financial accomplishment of the Herrera administration.
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She attended the whist drive in Ballinrobe every Wednesday night and was a very astute player.
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Lenin, however, was astute enough to realize that a strategic retreat was required.
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Will they have an astute sense of time, space, design, proportion, ratio, and the like?
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The play comes over as both an astute social comedy and a door-slamming farce.
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Wilson, who was still in his early thirties, was an astute trainer who sparred with his boxers.
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George's first-person text is punctuated by the wit and wisdom of his friend and confidant Derek Taylor, whose astute observations put the musings of the ex-Beatle into context.
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The astute Bismarck can not be suspected of being a progressionist in the modern sense but, being a product of German culture and philosophy, all his ideals were those of a strong state.
Manhood of Humanity.
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These astute restaurateurs have tailored their products to an undiscerning constituency that sees ‘curry’ as something you go for after too many pints.
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He was astutely generous too with commissions for churches, chapels, convents, vestments and altarpieces.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Eustache's dialogues are sharp-witted and astute, his characters larger than life from the start.
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At a far corner of the clubroom two astute gentlemen were, like some of the other members, sipping their tot of whiskey and engaged in hushed conversation.
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There are also vices which are akin to them, not truly, but with a false kind of similarity, such as astuteness bears to prudence.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
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As this is growing wearisome, I would now recommend for a change something else for a pleasure -- namely, the unconscious astuteness with which good, fat, honest mediocrity always behaves towards loftier spirits and the tasks they have to perform, the subtle, barbed, Jesuitical astuteness, which is a thousand times subtler than the taste and understanding of the middle-class in its best moments -- subtler even than the understanding of its victims: -- a repeated proof that "instinct" is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered.
Beyond Good and Evil
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He astutely pointed out that when either teachers or students know they are being videotaped, they tend to not behave normally.
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Being astute designers of dubious taste, we determined a while back to make our living room the "showplace" room.
MISSING COLEMAN ALERT - HUNTING BUNTING
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an astute and sagacious statesman
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In football anything is possible if you play organised, disciplined and tactically astute football.
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He could chip his golf ball with precision and was an astute reader of tricky greens, especially on long putts.
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The advantage of using chum is that the slowly settling bits of bait can draw deep fish to the surface; this allows the astute angler to be selective.
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“I notice that you have profited in the past by those very labour gouges you mention,” insinuated Brentwood, one of the wiliest and most astute of our corporation lawyers.
THE DREAM OF DEBS
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In football anything is possible if you play organised, disciplined and tactically astute football.
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She offers many snippets of keen and astute observation.
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He was an astute politician, instinctively knowing how to exploit popular feelings for his own advantage.
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He was an astute businessman, yet was most comfortable in the company of intellectuals.
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Nor is she an astute social observer, except in the sense that she has an unerring eye for what clichés are au courant, and what clichés can be dusted off and made new again.
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An astute businessman looking to invest in a football club had to notice the opportunity presented.
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It's an astute move to step back behind the camera.
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A more astute board might have kept quiet and tucked a bit away for any disastrous weekend to come.
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But these flourishes never distract from the droll human dramas that Wong has so astutely and amusingly worked out.
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Discerning, astute, uncompromising, his leadership inspired one to venture against all odds.
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It was a politically astute move: a way of keeping out of trouble at a time when the King and his heir were at odds.
Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
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An astute commenter - Steve-wxtalkwordpresscom - noted that as of 10 p.m. it was already down to 36 degrees at Reagan National with a wind from the northeast and a dewpoint of 25.
State of the snowstorm: Live blogging
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The ultimate yo-yo team in recent seasons, Nottinghamshire have made some astute signings over the winter.
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Drummer Wilson is astutely attune to the needs of the music as he seamlessly changes from brushes to sticks, from clashing hi hat to shimmering cymbal.
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He was a thoughtful and engaging person, astute and bright.
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It's an astute move to step back behind the camera.
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(Then again, it was going to be punctuated by my astute observation that even skinny young undergraduates look silly and – sorry – fat in this stupid belted-sweater look that some moron decided to resuscitate from the 80’s.
So, is this about feminism, or my neuroses? You decide! | Her Bad Mother
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Behind the broadcaster's hail-fellow-well-met demeanour and bluster lies an extremely astute and clued-in individual, who meets criticism of his television style with quotes from Mark Twain.
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L'Avvenire reports the Pope has urged priests to use the internet "astutely".
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An astute businessman looking to invest in a football club had to notice the opportunity presented.
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Along with our hostesses, de la Vega is one of the most astute commentators on Bushco malefeasance.
Firedoglake » Give Me Liberty — A Patriot’s Case Against Appeasement
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The most astute business leaders think long in advance about their exits and their legacies.
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Also, astute readers will notice that my list contains no mention of a certain grinch.
Christmas Reading
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Had Eustache been more astute, that is to say, less greedy, he would have waited, and not till they had returned to the University, to Maître Andry Musniers house in the Rue Madame-la-Valence, and he had put the two arms of the Seine and the five bridges of the city between the Rat-Hole and the cake, would he have hazarded this question.
III. The Story of a Wheaten Cake. Book VI
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Since there are those here abouts who are obviously far less experienced and astute in observation than you are we should try and answer these questions for them.
I watched a guy on tv last night harvest a deer with his bow and he shot the deer at 60 yards.now if he harvest a deer at 60 yar
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But she was also an ambitious and intellectually astute woman, who wasn't interested in being an objet d'art for Cadmus or anybody else.
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Local government experts hailed the move as politically astute.
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He was an astute businessman, yet was most comfortable in the company of intellectuals.
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She has since proved herself an astute businesswoman capable of earning up to 2.5m a year.
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It has nothing to do with her being a WOMAN or Senator Obama being AFRICAN-AMERICAN, as you so 'astutely' observe in your post.
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It's an astute move to step back behind the camera.
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Porras found an astute ally in newly elected President Alvaro Arzu, a pragmatic businessman with an instinct for building consensus.
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An astute mixture of laughter and tears, the screenplay constantly pulls back from the edge of outright sentimentality with a sarcastic one-liner or a cheeky remark.
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Most so-called astute mortgage shoppers think they should call around to shop rates.
The Top 10 Mistakes Mortgage Borrowers Make
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The more pertinent question is whether it would be politically astute to do so.
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It's an astute observation: hard work it has certainly been.
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Bolognas ei ole vaja vihmavarju, sest see on üleni täis erinevatest ajastutest pärit porticoid ja ma pean tunnistama, et sajandite tahm ja tuhk, mis paljudel neist küljes on, mõjub ainult positiivselt, sest ta tuletab meelde, et see linn on kogu aeg olemas olnud.
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Theatrically inventive and politically astute, it's a satire on American cultural imperialism.
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For in nature as in simple bodies, when there is an accumulation of much superfluous matter, it very often moves by itself and makes a purgation which is healthy to that body; and so it happens in this compound body of the human race, that when all the provinces are full of inhabitants so that they cannot live or go elsewhere in order to occupy and fill up all places, and when human astuteness and malignity has gone as far as they can go, it happens of necessity that the world purges itself in one of the three ways, so that men having been chastised and reduced in number, live more commodiously and become better.
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Such astute use of credit cards has kept Margaret in financially good shape for 15 years.
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She offers many snippets of keen and astute observation.
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The threat of all Darlington Catholics voting against him was the most astute piece of political blackmail I have ever seen.
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The incomes are good and astute investors are now locking in for the long term with five-year deals.
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So which brother is the most tactically astute?
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This year's ragged yet focused "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" shows that Mr. Earle's lyrical astuteness remains intact, no matter the genre.
Funk Yards, Beacon Blues
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We will look to be more tactically astute.
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An astute businessman looking to invest in a football club had to notice the opportunity presented.
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Mellon is financially astute and his arrival on the share register was a pointer to possible developments in the future.
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The perioperative environment is becoming more complex, and its leaders need to possess some business savvy and be clinically astute.
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Writing with pronounced respect and admiration for the preacher, colored by a serious concern about method, Morrison offered an unusually astute and critical analysis of American revivalism.
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But, we would beg to remind all such astute reasoners, of what they seem to be ignorant, namely, that sometimes diamonds are picked up from the dirtiest dung-hills, while the most beautiful of pearls are taken often from the bodies of the ugliest of testacean bivalves.
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Mrs Thatcher may feel it would be politically astute to take a lead in getting a convention under way.
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Alright, say my more astute inquisitors, why not go the whole hog and adopt my mother's surname or even my granny's, etc etc?
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This man, apparently so foolishly good-natured, simple, and absent-minded, could guess all the cunning of a prison wag, unmask the astutest street huzzy, and subdue a scoundrel.
The Commission in Lunacy
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I was incensed that my friend, an astute judge of character, had said yes.
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They defended superbly, attacked courageously and played the most astute tactical game.
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He had sent Craig Bellamy through for Liverpool's goal with an astute flick-on but that did not suffice on a demoralising evening when his control, shooting and effort was poor.
Andy Carroll pays the price for lone ranger role at Liverpool
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Not only is he an assured manager, he is accomplished, astute, admirably able.
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It was an upbeat but terminally untrendy style that was never going to find favour in Britain, but he displayed an astute eye by wowing new audiences in untapped, unfashionable places.
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The most astute business leaders think long in advance about their exits and their legacies.
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She wants to be seen as an astute businesswoman.
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This year, a lot of GMs have pulled off some crafty trades and astute free-agent signings.
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It was probably the most astute financial accomplishment of the Herrera administration.
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It was a politically astute move: a way of keeping out of trouble at a time when the King and his heir were at odds.
Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
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It is worth nothing the qualities this historian ascribes to them: they were fearless, high-principled, deeply versed in ancient and modern political thought, astute and pragmatic, unafraid of experiment, and --this is significant--"convinced of man's power to improve his condition through the use of intelligence""---Barbara Tuchman
"An ambiguously worded political compromise written hundreds and hundreds of years ago."
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He also said he sent Ashkenazi a blog post written by Max Boot of Commentary, which he said "astutely" picked apart the erroneous information that's been floating around.
The Two Malcontents
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Pope Benedict XVI urged priests to use the internet "astutely" and make the most of opportunities offered by modern technology.
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He was astute enough to see how the arguments of polygenists could serve slaveholders and imperial adventurers.
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It was a politically astute move: a way of keeping out of trouble at a time when the King and his heir were at odds.
Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
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With Ted, we've bred a staff of really talented mixers who are technically astute with the format.
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Equally astute in publicity as in invention, Edison invited the two stars of a hit Broadway musical comedy to come to his Black Maria studio in New Jersey to perform their climactic stage kiss in front of his latest technological wonder, a motion picture camera he called a kinetograph.
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His is too astute to fall for this and we, in the meantime, should simply be glad of his consistently high quality over every three course dinner, five choices for each course and, de rigueur these days, two classy amuse-bouches.
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An immediate promise to continue funding the service is both the fair and politically astute thing to do.
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Astute salesmen know how to invest emotionally.
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Discerning, astute, uncompromising, his leadership inspired one to venture against all odds.
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He is said to be acutely focused and astute in assessing what he should and should not buy.
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All the while, an astute farm boy from Kansas named Robert Bradley was noting a simple phenomenon: farm animals deliver their young unassisted yet rarely have complications in birth.