astuteness

How To Use astuteness In A Sentence

• It is remarkable, but not unprecedented, that a person of such ability and political astuteness should turn out to be so unethical. Henry J. Stern: Betrayal of the Public Trust
• Who wouldn't like a philandering professor who'd added so many lapidary turns of phrase to my repertoire, including “physiognomy of astuteness” and “a knothole of a town in a stump of a state” about Columbia, Missouri, where my sisters went to college. My Night With the All-College Girl Revue
• Winning and keeping control of an empire here would require finesse and tact, brutality and astuteness.
• He is known far and wide, not for his intellectual astuteness or classroom achievements, but for his ability to energize campus social life.
• Massey is right on track - unfortunately, the venomous blood and soil right wingers bring little of the empirical astuteness of Massey to this debate. Yanquico, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• ‘I completely understand people's curiosity about the question,’ he says reflectively, with the political astuteness of an actor twice his age.
• The late Mr Ahmed, in his characteristic astuteness, once observed that the will of the U.S. ruling class to dominate is not quite shared by its people.
• Instead, Chen's address displayed a sensitivity and astuteness unexpected of a politician who until recently was rarely in the limelight.
• The British, with an astuteness which is oftener the character credited to their opponents, managed to get earliest word of the Declaration sent to their own forts on the An Account of the Battle of Chateauguay Being a Lecture Delivered at Ormstown, March 8th, 1889
• On the one hand, this is avariciousness; on the other, astuteness. The Secrets of His Succession