We have seen humanoid robots like Asimo learn to walk and cut apples and robots that appear to be able to think or at least answer any human question in an astute, conversational manner.
Known for witty and astute comedies of manners, she also helped make the study of children's fiction respectable - and wrote about it in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
It is a broad yet astute comedy of manners which emerges as a monstrous hybrid of Buñuel and Feydeau, with a generous dollop of Laurel and Hardy.
All of the approaches used on adult classics are now used on children's classics, sometimes with ridiculous results". Lurie is best-known for witty and astute comedies of manners like Foreign Affairs, The War Between the Tates (1974) and most recently The Last Resort ( 1998 ).
Set mostly in New York City at the turn of the 21st century, "The Emperor's Children" is a masterly comedy of manners — an astute and poignant evocation of hobnobbing glitterati in the months before and immediately following Sept. 11.
A morally astute sharpshooter with nice Southern manners, a sense of humor and a clean cowboy hat — you don't find men like him every day.
From Oscar Wilde to Dave Allen, Irish wags have always had a better grasp of the absurdities of English culture and Dara O'Briain's view of British mores and manners is especially astute, as he has shown so artfully on Have I Got News For You? In the theatre, he shows the same flair for thinking on his feet, and it's a treat to see him playing to a paying crowd, rather than a studio audience.
One participant described Mr. Putin's assessments of the primary as "astute" and presented in an affable manner.
His astute observations were fascinating, and his manner and delivery — brainy, wry, almost goofy with enthusiasm — were charming.
But beneath that mild manner was a strong-minded artist, astute musician and technically brilliant pianist, as I came to learn from performances then and since.
She can be antic, or cutting, or willful, or naïve, or she can suggest by her posture and manner that lurking inside her is an astute old woman, with a gimlet eye and a melancholy air.
