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Discover LudwigThe phrase "astute sentence" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a sentence that demonstrates keen insight or intelligence, often in the context of writing or analysis. Example: "Her astute sentence captured the essence of the argument in a way that was both concise and impactful."
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So when on W1A (Wednesday, 10pm, BBC2), a new show is described as "Countryfile meets Bake Off with a bit of The One Show thrown in just in case", it's a contender for most astute sentence broadcast on the BBC in the last decade.
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But what I fell for was his writing: strings of perfectly spelled, grammatically unassailable sentences, at once clever, subtle, astute, modest and wry.
But these are forgivable in a book that is so psychologically astute and well written at the level of the sentence.
She didn't talk with us so much as at us, great blocks of speech that were by turns funny, astute, and so contradictory it was hard to connect the sentence you were hearing to the one that preceded it.
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.
Astute move?
The strategy was astute.
Very astute question.
Others considered it astute.
A very astute man.
Voters are astute.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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