The phrase "astute time" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear what is intended by "astute time," as "astute" typically describes someone who is clever or perceptive, while "time" is a general concept.
Example: "She has an astute sense of timing when it comes to making decisions."
Alternatives: "sharp timing" or "keen sense of timing."
Quotes from Kozintsev's astute "Shakespeare: Time and Conscience" (Hill and Wang).
So I was heartened to see a big celebrity saying something astute in Time magazine.
Whatever its contribution may have been to the field of communications theory, it was so astute about Times affairs that it was passed around among reporters as a kind of in-house Masters and Johnson.
Thinking about her characters in Frantumaglia, she engages in astute, at times dream-like ruminations: on clothes and their link to mother's body and smell; on figures like Dido, whose tragic abandonment and loss of love lead to fury and the destruction of a city; on her very own beast in the nursery – or, in this case, the storeroom of childhood.
In particular, we were moved by EunBin's astute awareness of time and couldn't help but notice the musicality of the language in some of her descriptions.
Ange Postecoglou is nothing if not tactically astute, as his time in the A-League with Brisbane Roar and Melbourne Victory demonstrated.
Unlike the old periscope that would pop out of the water for minutes at a time, Astute's mast breaks cover for just a few seconds.
But over time, astute national security wonks learned to watch him.
Popular science writers often refer to archaic mythologies as though these are entirely uninterested in empirical truth; but in fact most traditional mythologies offer astute (for their time) observations about nature.
Cameron's stark, psychologically revealing portraits -- vastly different from the stagy allegories and literary tableaus her name brings to mind -- are so astute and at times so modern that they seem to leap across time.
So what a pleasant shock to find that the latest Bridget Jones installment, "Mad About the Boy," is not only sharp and humorous, despite its heroine's aged circumstances, but also snappily written, observationally astute and at times genuinely moving.
