Sentence examples for astute use of from inspiring English sources

He also became one of the first writers to recreate himself as a brand-name, helped by astute use of video games.

Through its astute use of color and rhythm and its occasional semi-improvisatory passages, it creates a magical sound world in which time is elastic.

"Seminar" makes astute use of topical and intellectual references, which are usually well known enough to make middlebrow audiences feel highbrow.

From 1993, he reverted to more conventional flat surfaces, creating space through interleaving painted forms, but always demonstrating his extraordinarily astute use of colour.

Pinter is no less famous for his dramatic silences and for the most astute use of the theatrical pause since the heyday of Jack Benny.

Thanks to the astute use of flashbacks, the revelations come thick and fast: not only do we learn more about Rory (a charismatic Peter Capaldi) but we also meet Prentice's long-dead Aunt Fiona and her husband Fergus.

Back in 2008, it was received not only as an astute political use of new media technologies, but as the apotheosis of the internet itself as a liberalising force.

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.

He was psychologically astute; devoid of egotistical use of political leverage; practical in his references to gun safety and mental health; direct in professing ignorance about the gunman's mental processes; authentic in his use of citizen heroes as models of sacrifice and generosity.

Having a position that enjoys authority; possessing a personality that is astute enough to maximize the use of that authority; and operating at a point in history where one's actions have the chance to be pivotal — all these are important ingredients in the power mix.

Their use of political symbolism was astute.