What Rogerson's astute scholarship and detailed narrative shows is that this period in Islamic history was in reality far from a golden era.
Computer games can help children learn narrative structure, make astute decisions and build confidence, even in dysfunctional homes.
"Despite all the commercialization," he writes, "I believe that they believe that little Colton said things he thought to be true and that were shaped into this artful narrative by an astute collaborator".
His first narrative feature makes some astute observations about adolescence and identity, including that of the culturally shifting American South, in a way that is at once immediate and timeless.
He appears to inhabit Mark Twain's head, so astute is his sense of how the narrative must have evolved.
With the play's glib exposition, which smacks of romantic comedy, Greenberg reverses our narrative expectations and spins a psychologically astute, compelling study of narcissistic delusion, in which the payoff is not revenge but revelation about the stranglehold of symbiosis.
From this somewhat incredible beginning, with its glib exposition that smacks of romantic comedy, Greenberg reverses our narrative expectations and spins a psychologically astute, compelling study of narcissistic delusion — his version of "The Heiress," in which the payoff is not revenge but revelation about the stranglehold of symbiosis.
Chappelle remains one of the best storytellers alive, booby-trapping his narratives with head fakes and hilariously astute turns of phrase.
Thus the astute spectator will be presented with two dramatic narratives to follow; Allen is not respecting traditional conventions of cinematic accompaniment since the score's events do not match the story unfolding onscreen.
Bad recruitment over a number of years is the principal reason why both Sunderland and Newcastle have found themselves in such a mess this season but thanks to some astute January buys, Allardyce has succeeded in changing that narrative.
Witty, astute, and compulsively readable, he knows how to shape a critical narrative and where to slide in a comic aside.
