How To Use Astuteness In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Winning and keeping control of an empire here would require finesse and tact, brutality and astuteness.
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He is known far and wide, not for his intellectual astuteness or classroom achievements, but for his ability to energize campus social life.
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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
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‘I completely understand people's curiosity about the question,’ he says reflectively, with the political astuteness of an actor twice his age.
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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.
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Instead, Chen's address displayed a sensitivity and astuteness unexpected of a politician who until recently was rarely in the limelight.
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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
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On the one hand, this is avariciousness; on the other, astuteness.
The Secrets of His Succession
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Two smart cookies – Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, and Michael Arrington, creator of the influential technology blog TechCrunch – have sold their publications to AOL, a company not noted for the astuteness of its recent decisions.
Is this the start of the second dotcom bubble?
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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 think he is one of those managers who got jobs not necessarily because of any real tactical astuteness, but because chairmen felt their club needed a lift or an injection of personality.
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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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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.
Discourses
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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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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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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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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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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 want to thank Brian Gelling for his foresight and astuteness in handling the negotiations.
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An increasingly educated electorate can spot bias with greater acumen and astuteness than ever before.