Sentence examples for normally astute from inspiring English sources

Luke Akehurst, a Labour councillor and normally astute commentator, echoes such sentiments in a recent post for LabourList.

The normally astute Jeff Zucker, president of NBC Entertainment, made matters worse by dismissing complaints that his network was copying HBO.

There was disbelief in Hollywood last month when it was reported that the normally astute publishing house HarperCollins had paid a recession-busting $875,000 £550,0000) for the memoirs of one Jon Peters, the former head of Sony Pictures.

In 2001, when Joseph Simone, the president of the family-owned Simone Development Companies in New Rochelle, N.Y., bid $3.7 million at a state auction for a weedy 18.5-acre site in the Bronx, home to an abandoned residential treatment center, skeptics wondered what such a normally astute businessman could possibly be thinking.

Dave Moretti, of Las Vegas, normally astute, gave the Filipino just two rounds for a lop-sided card of 118-110, his fellow Nevadan Burt Clements, of Reno, and the consistent Connecticut official, Glenn Feldman, both arriving at a more reasonable 116-112 judgment for Mayweather.

But the normally astute Nick Watt from Newsnight was scraping the funnies barrel for his BBC quirk quota.

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Page, normally an astute critic, is here playing the role of corporate cheerleader and puffmeister: " 'Carnegie Hall Treasures' is not a traditional history.

The Dutchman appeared a little jaded, his touch uncharacteristically clumsy, as though the messages from what is normally an astute and quick brain were being waylaid.

Mr Museveni, normally an astute diplomat, misjudged the reaction of others: Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola had their own interests in Congo, and reckoned these would be best served by supporting Mr Kabila.For the Ugandans and Rwandans, things then went from bad to worse.

Jonathan Fenby London It is sad to see someone normally as astute as Hadley Freeman criticise those of us who have called for a boycott of Israeli theatre groups and cultural activities in protest at the horrific violence being inflicted on the people of Gaza by the Israeli government and army (2,000 dead, more than 10,000 injured at the last count – a figure nowhere mentioned in Hadley's piece).