Sentence examples for to astute from inspiring English sources

Its success owed much to astute casting and the careful matching of each guest with the right material.

"To get rich is glorious," he is said to have declared, sounding a rallying cry to astute private entrepreneurs and unscrupulous strippers of state assets alike.

Invitations came to conduct a number of American orchestras; Abbado, already showing an indifference to astute career moves, preferred to return to Europe.

Shafak can switch from a picaresque tale of a father and son's broken noses to astute observations of how strangely despair and love manifest themselves without pausing.

Mishka Henner's Google Earth aerial photographs of Texan oilfields and a cyanotype of a post-industrial wasteland by Felicity Hammond use relatively basic techniques to astute effect.

His stock sales took advantage of the 58percentt increase in Golden State's stock this year, thanks to astute management and an expectation that interest rates are heading down.

We would have to be astute to avoid becoming just another channel for churnalism.

The trick, he said, is to be "astute enough to pick out the patterns that connect you to the DNA".

But, with defender Konrad's starring role in a pre-season win over Manchester City and striker Tankulic's competitive debut goal against Peterhead, they could prove to be astute additions to Dundee's squad.

He has never hesitated to voice passionate opinions or to make astute and prescient observations.

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