Up against a team containing his 25-year-old brother, Taulant, the younger Xhaka was as astute at pinging off passes as he was at stopping opponents and Behrami said: "He loves to win the ball.
Theatre is meant to be for pleasure as well as possibly being constructive and he is very good at giving astute, practical and constructive advice.
With so many British fashion designers struggling to keep afloat, it would be churlish to turn noses up at such astute commercial sense.
Beyond the goals, behind the portrait, are the painters with the brushes at hand: astute coaches brimming with innovation and ideas.
And yet, interestingly, the show is not at all astute about the actual political practices and exigencies of this moment; in fact, at moments it is horribly obtuse about them.
The sheet music starts at $3. Astute readers will not that this probably isn't a great idea for standard Kindles as the screen is a titch to small for active sheet musicry.
Sterling and Lebkowsky, they chat and they dissect and I find myself nodding and sighing in equal parts, delighted at the astute observations (Sterling's apt summation: "An extraordinary atmosphere of sullen, baffled evil, as the year opens") but also realizing how deep is the craving for, and how notable the lack of, such intelligent discussion elsewhere in various tech forums.
John F. Kennedy was so astute at circumventing the bureaucracy, and at using public statements to generate policy, that when he decided to give a speech toning down cold war rhetoric, he worked privately with his adviser and writer Theodore C. Sorensen and even kept the working draft away from the secretaries of State and Defense.
And Island Records, which bankrolled Marley at the instigation of its proprietor Chris Blackwell, was always astute at tapping into the zeitgeist.
I was never really that astute at "joystick games," and I was rubbish at first-person shooters my motor neuron skills proved incompatible with a control pad.
