Sentence examples for astute life from inspiring English sources

The beginning of literary biography for anyone is probably Boswell's classic life of Samuel Johnson (1791), an entertaining portrait of the inimitable sage, or such Victorian treasures as Elizabeth Gaskell's astute life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) or John Forster's intimate biography of Charles Dickens (1874), his close friend.

As the reader, though, we know he's way more vulnerable and big-hearted than he might let on, and his candid and astute observations about life made me laugh so much.

Peter Schneider, a writer and astute observer of life here, said there was a growing acceptance that the victory of capitalism had never been as black-and-white as it appeared after Germans took hammers to the wall.

A soul who is both astute witness of life and full-hilt engager of it, and ambitious if only for to bring unfiltered truth to all people.

He is an astute observer of the life around him.

In "Wars I Have Seen," filled with astute observation of daily life, a reactionary tone sometimes creates discomfort.

Ferguson made one of the most astute decisions of his life a year ago on Thursday when he agreed to bury the hatchet with the Peterborough chairman, Darragh MacAnthony.

An astute chronicler of expatriate life, he portrays ambassadors and soldiers, writers and spies and trust-fund bons vivants: avatars of the American imperium, political and cultural.

We will especially miss Joe's smiling face, his curiosity about every facet of life, his astute political insights and his unfailing courage.

A more novelistic biographer would have exploited the dramatic potential of the crises, but Williams's life is astute, rigorously researched and engrossing.

His mastery of light and color, his astute perception of American life and its commonplaces, and his consummate technical execution have created decades of visual poetry, potent and unmatched.