as astute

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Hitzfeld plans to retire after the World Cup but remains as astute as ever.

Only someone as astute as you could have made such a remark.

Despite occasional violent excesses, he has spun an ingenious, intricate tale that's as astute as it is entertaining.

Unless Mr Correa proves to be as astute as president as he was as candidate he risks descending as fast as he has risen.

She found what she calls the underbelly of his life, for as astute as Hill was at observing world events, there were gaping holes in his first marriage that he didn't even notice.

Only in France, you might say, and only from someone as astute as Hansen-Løve, who made the French techno-generation film Eden, and who is herself the daughter of philosophers; Huppert says she essentially plays the director's mother.

He may not be as tactically astute as Sexton, but he presented the opposition with a completely different set of problems.

Labour governments have always had to prove that they are as financially astute as Conservatives, that they can run the military and are not afraid of war.

At 35, Herndon is as politically astute as she is aesthetically daring – plugged in to a network of ideas for how to push our lives uphill.

I've yet to come across someone as dedicated, astute and efficient as he.

He was seen then as an astute businessman, but also as a bit of a metropolitan provocateur.