Sentence examples for much acumen from inspiring English sources

In a year in which the race felt tighter Mr Vaziri's predictinator would have a greater chance to impress; predicting success for "Life of Pi" in visual effects hardly takes much acumen.

The contemporary Athenian Neoplatonist Simplicius, who spent much acumen on repudiating and excoriating Philoponian cosmological ideas, denied Philoponus' competence as a logician, and modern scholars tend to agree with him.

So score one for luck: buying and holding doesn't take much business acumen.

Richard Bellamy, a young dealer with a great eye but not much business acumen, liked the work and put it in a group show at the Noah Goldowsky Gallery.

And yet bestowing too much modern acumen on the central figures can be fatal, a show-off game that you quickly tire of.

Ruscha said he won't bring much financial acumen to his new post.

I used as much acting acumen as I could muster and said to myself: OK, I'm an administrator.

Their bosses and handlers emphasize their personalities as much as their acumen in an effort to carve out niche followings.

It is a place, then, to show off your fashion acumen, much as millions of Polyvore users already do in their picture collages.

Mr. Bell echoed Mr. Broad's view that the nonprofit museum world is a vastly more complicated place than it once was and that museum leaders must have much greater financial acumen.

For centuries, farmers have been dependent on weather, short growing seasons, fluctuating supply and demand cycles, and a host of environmental factors that make the farming business one of luck as much as agricultural acumen.