How could someone who was so incredibly astute seemingly have no sense of what was about to happen?
Stephanie Zacharek: Beware the seemingly random but astute observation, because there's always some editor ready to turn it into a symposium.
USA Today's review concluded: "All the familiar action-flick clichés are trotted out: the backstabbing, politically astute subordinate; the seemingly loony but loyal computer expert; the dabs of family loyalty; the requisite happy ending; the utterly unsubtle plugs for the sequel; the big action scenes.... Resist the hype, parents, booksellers and librarians.
And one of the best-remembered lessons he learned from this extensive childhood catechism was never to dismiss the seemingly meaningless gossip and chatter of astute old ladies.
Ostensibly a moderate, progressive and seemingly populist guy; to some more astute observers, the appointment smacks of all that the party has professed to now reject -- Old Etonism, blue lineage etc. Do you think this paradox -- regardless of any reality -- at the very heart of this appointment will be manna for the spinmeisters?
It also offered the premiere of the major new score he composed last year, "A Sunbeam's Architecture," an inventive, urgent 12-minute work for tenor and a 19-piece instrumental ensemble, which sets six poems by E. E. Cummings, offering Mr. Carter's astute take on the elusive, seemingly fanciful words.
The subject of endless scrutiny, from schlocky best sellers to academically astute studies, her 64 years of life have seemingly been dissected hour by hour.
Conversely, Kenyans who seemingly live beyond their means or are suddenly making it "rain" are lauded as "industrialists", "astute businessmen/women", "moguls", "savvy investors" and my favorite, "prodigious" with "a reputation as a fairly intelligent person...already (owning) a company".
