Taylor's astute political analyses blend with a palpable love of the African landscape and an incisive curiosity about its people.
Through the blog and Twitter, Walker blends astute analysis of issues with a raw candour about her personal experience of bipolar disorder, often posting brief and occasionally harrowing descriptions of how the illness is affecting her on any given day, including suicidal thoughts.
She treats us to his early love letters, an entertaining blend of smut, astute emotional observations and bad hippie poesy ("It's as if orange and red and fine rose-red waves come off your heart").
Similarly, chapter 20's use of the political turmoil of Liverpool City Council as a backdrop to the derby League Cup final illustrates Evans' ability to blend football and astute social observation.
Dyer's characteristic blend of fitful but astute scholarship, witty irreverence, and autobiographical digression (in footnotes that creep up the page) is here devoted to "summarizing the action of a film almost devoid of action".
As often in his career, talent blended with luck and astute associations.
The Conservatives, in a confident mood, feel that the new leadership has pulled the Party firmly together, and that Sir Alec Douglas-Home's very British blend of the pleasant amateur and the astute professional is going down favorably in the country.
2004 Criticism Dan Neil for his one-of-a-kind reviews of automobiles, blending technical expertise with offbeat humor and astute cultural observations.
Beyond that, he expects the most astute managers of such funds to do a better job of blending assets into a portfolio than the typical private investor or financial adviser.
Blending the febrile dream logic of Lucile Hadžihalilović with the astute gender commentary of Céline Sciamma, this Swedish magical realist teen movie brings an entirely fresh approach to transgender issues.
