Steiner has some astute things to say about the latter.
He rarely reviewed poetry but his review of Seamus Heaney's Selected Poems in 1990 had astute things to say.
Another member of the group announced that in her opinion Chang and Sparacino, regardless of their aesthetic differences, always had astute things to say.
Never famous in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson had some astute things to say about fame as a phenomenon: "Fame is a fickle food," for instance, and "Fame is a bee".
Then as Mr. Jubeir came to be regarded as an astute political strategist, things changed.
They are, among other things, astute chroniclers of Southern poverty, but they're not particularly interested in being good guys.
The only corollary to this is that sometimes letting "the people's will" prevail has been met with disastrous consequences, as my friend Diane Zeiger, always an astute observer of things political, points out.
(Including the aforementioned Alexa Chung, who, in my opinion, expresses truly creative personal style and has said some very astute and valid things about her own experiences being scrutinized for her thinness).
"They can provide an astute physician indications that things may be going on internally that, you know, even the average physician might not even be aware of".
The one thing missed by Astute's captain, Commander Stephen Walker, is that he no longer has a traditional periscope to peer above the water.
