Kabulwarnamyo seems to be an exemplar of a remote community asserting its determination to educate its young, despite the dictates of government, and of securing a future through astute, job-creating land management and cultural protection.
Justices Breyer and Sotomayor, in particular, used questions to give an astute and powerful defence of the law.
The implicit homophobia underlying these messages sends an alarming signal to any astute observer that homosexuality is simply not normal and homosexuals do not have any place with children.
British winner The Phone Call is a maudlin, actorly exercise that does at least showcase typically astute, empathic emoting by Sally Hawkins.
One of the chancellor's political gifts is the self-knowledge to identify gaps in his own experience and to plug them with astute appointments.
But amid all the joshing, it must be remembered that Souness, who began his managerial career by transforming Scottish football with bold and astute signings for Rangers, also made some shrewd acquisitions while at Anfield.
"El Señor [El Mayo] is looking weak, but he is very astute and we are hoping that he has an ace up his sleeve".
As he has shown by rising through the ranks of the church Bergoglio is an extremely astute politician, who uses the sparseness of words and space to press home his considerable influence on government and legislature.
What has really happened, as the astute shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, later pointed out, is that the Conservative party has moved away from the centre ground and is proposing an extremely rightwing agenda if it wins in May.
He is astute to play on fears, now held by even some staunch Tory voters, that the Tories have "low aspirations for ordinary Britons, but high hopes for those at the top".
"We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy".
