Loy's production, peopled upstage with men in dinner jackets craning their necks at the love-blind pair, is astute in suggesting this backdrop.
The Quaker campaigner was also an astute politician, suggesting that the mushrooming number of female anti-slavery associations should withhold their donations – making 20 per cent of the total – unless the gradualist approach was dropped.
Flower, ever astute, has suggested Cook has been crowded and suffocated by powerful influences within the team, without ever appearing prepared to accept that he might be one of them.
We thank the reviewers for this astute suggestion.
Short and to the point yet psychologically astute, the duet suggests how hard it can be for love to grow, even in the most fertile earth.
One astute Slashdot commenter suggests that this site has little to do with Asus directly, and more to do with the Goliath that is Microsoft PR.
The president made tactically astute, if extraordinarily disingenuous, use of the bully pulpit, suggesting to Americans that the tax cut was the answer to virtually every problem the country faced from the slowing economy to high energy prices.
His numerous activities in high school led to an award suggesting that he was, in polite terms, a politically astute suck-up.
An astute reader actually once suggested that I rename my blog, "Tales from the kitchen couch".
Al Hayat, an often astute pan-Arab newspaper, suggests that Russia is preparing to give America a free hand in Iraq as a trade-off for indulgence over the Chechnya war.Whatever the truth, Tariq Aziz, Mr Hussein's loyal leg-man, will be learning Russia's intentions in Moscow this week.
