Sentence examples for astute public from inspiring English sources

We live in a time where we have a very astute public and they can smell bullshit a million miles off".

Symptomatic of the criticisms leveled at the notion of CCCs is the claim that they are merely an astute public relations exercise and there is, in fact, a wide chasm between rhetoric and reality.

Television saw its first major use in the election, and Dunstan, an astute public speaker, successfully mastered it.

Australia won the Test series comfortably and Johnson's astute public relations skills helped avoid a repeat of the crowd disturbances that had marred England's visit to the islands 12 months before.

The roles of astute clinicians, public health professionals, appointed public health leaders, and elected officials are described by the players themselves.

Sanger was always astute about public relations, and she seized on the publicity of the trial to advance her causes.

Arguably, though, in an age when owning a yacht has more than ever become the preserve of plutocrats, retiring the royal yacht was an appropriate, even astute, piece of public relations.

An emotionally astute novel on public themes, in which a charming 23-year-old psychopath comes back to wreck the life of the child psychologist who helped send him to jail 13 years earlier.

As David O'Reilly noted, "by astute use of public relations, particularly playing up his image of a Briton taking on the world, Sinclair has become the best-known name in micros".

Now, with a 1% limit looming, they have decided it is time to grab the extra cash.Defenders of Mr Eyman point out that he has been, until this week, an astute judge of the public temper, and a skilled finger-pointer at the emperor's scanty wardrobe.

Basing his staunch president on Georges Clemenceau, who saw France through the last year of the first world war, Simenon constructs a meticulous and astute psychological portrait of a public figure struggling to come to terms with his own mortality.