Sentence examples for astute powers from inspiring English sources

Flynn's humour, her ability to entertain, and her astute powers of observation are wonderful gifts.

Like Abigail Adams a century before her, Malvina Harlan used astute powers of observation and a natural gift with words to leave a written legacy, one that illuminated not only her life and that of her famous husband, Justice John Marshall Harlan, but the momentous times in which they lived.

One of his most astute essays, "The Power of the Powerless," was written to illustrate the unrelenting struggle to attain dignity.

But he has proved himself to be an astute politician with staying power.

"In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions,"' Ivan Krastev, chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and one of the most astute students of Russian power, told me.

He said the Rolls-Royce reactors would power the Astute class attack submarines and the replacement for the Trident missile-armed Vanguard class, subject to final approval.

Thaksin was an astute billionaire who abused the power that his party's dominance in Parliament gave him.

Morgan, who is astute on all kinds of power, is as clear-eyed on sexism as on racism.

Lower-caste politicians have become national power-brokers by astute appeals to caste loyalty.It is far easier for them to undertake to defend and extend reservations than to think of ways of making real economic progress.

He writes in an elegant and deliberately meandering style, as if confident of hypnotizing the reader with his baroque sentences, explorations of neuroses, intricate descriptions of palaces and hovels and astute reflections on money and power, class and race.

For Mr. Lee, an astute observer of the warping power of sexual desire and repression (not just in "Brokeback Mountain," but also in films as disparate as "The Ice Storm," "The Wedding Banquet" and "Sense and Sensibility"), the allure of "Lust, Caution" lies in the irreducible mystery of its love story, which culminates in a seemingly rash and irrational act.