The phrase "astute point" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when acknowledging a clever or insightful observation made by someone.
Example: "During the discussion, she made an astute point about the importance of data analysis in decision-making."
Alternatives: "insightful observation" or "perceptive remark".
My reply: "This is an astute point, and the credit for this is due to Snowden.
Bishop, for her part, found the book dull but made an astute point: "I'm sure those set-fire-works-sex-pieces will insure huge sales".
David Berman New York, April 23, 2010 To the Editor: David Brooks makes an astute point in commenting that the big-government-versus-small-government debate is stale.
ITV's match analyst Jim Beglin makes the astute point that when Barcelona players start doing that it's usually a sign they're running out of ideas.
He, and some of his excellent interviewees, also made the astute point that, at that time, the lives of men in the UK were changing.
In discussing the current trend of gamification in education and its pros and cons, Paul Oh made the astute point that the best teachers have always made learning into a game, a pursuit and rewarded levels of mastery, so technology is merely mirroring and riffing on an age-old best practice.
In among all this bilious, vindictive, guff there are some brilliantly astute points about what really went wrong, with the England team, with Flower's management, and with English cricket.
Readers may want to shrug off all that makes these devout women endure their existence of farmwork, housework, repeated pregnancies, jealousies, and little to call their own, but Freeman's novel makes astute points about the almost indistinguishable similarities between faith and love.
And when Kenny was accidentally thrown in jail on his son's birthday, he shared a cell with a conspiracy theorist who made some astute points about AIDS and the rate of its spread in black America and Africa -- providing a window on how, despite his wacky views on AIDS, a man like the South African president, Thabo Mbeki, retains his support.
Cavendish is very astute to point out the extent to which human beings are motivated by a desire for public recognition.
