(Don't miss the astute wall text comment on such ceramics by the film director Akira Kurosawa, who was himself a painter).
On the other hand, Moses Nahmanides, an important exegete in his own right, a very astute reader of texts, and a staunch opponent of Aristotle, professed his "open hostility and concealed love" for Ibn Ezra.
They need to be an astute selection of texts as windows into cultural traditions and values.
He was astute in his response to literary texts, his writing always falling naturally on the voice.
All those long-ago sections in hushed classrooms, clouded with students shuffling their feet awkwardly over texts, making astute-sounding stammers and abstruse-sounding circumlocutions?
Alexander, due to his meticulous and philosophically astute exegesis of a wide range of Aristotle's texts, in logic, physics, psychology, metaphysics and ethical topics, became known as the exemplary commentator throughout later antiquity and the Arabic tradition.
If the play is too long and the plot disjointed, the laughter along the way is sustaining, and Pamela Berlin's astute direction of an accomplished cast produces surprises no more than hinted at in the text (2 15).
It is possible for the astute reader to follow the background of any subject through the many important surviving texts from the classical and ancient world.
When Kotaku searched through Japanese text-board 2ch to gauge the reactions over there, one anonymous commentator was particularly astute - "Western internet forums are on fire.
The texts -- nothing is known of David outside the Hebrew Bible -- are sharply cross-examined by an astute scholar.
