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  • Few Little League pitchers had the courage, astuteness and ability to manage those types of pitches.   (source)
    astuteness = intelligence and perception
  • "How astute of you," Grover burped.   (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
  • Mundt gained a reputation as a loyal and astute protector of the people, and he silenced forever those tongues that could betray his secret.   (source)
  • (Not that I had any illusions that I knew him, for he was too astute to allow any white man that privilege.)   (source)
  • I had been discussing just such a possibility with several astute British staff officers.   (source)
  • For all his sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge had gone the way of the rest.   (source)
    astuteness = smart perceptiveness
  • He studied the lieutenant unobtrusively with little astute eyes.   (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
  • When Gilbert gave him a small plantation, he managed it for two years with such astuteness ... that at the end of the time he could repay Gilbert a substantial part of the purchase price.   (source)
    astuteness = intelligence
  • ...as you very astutely observed.   (source)
    astutely = with intelligence and perceptiveness
  • "you've completely changed, you used to be so astute, are you losing it now?"   (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
  • Had his astute mind guessed the secret, then?   (source)
  • Yet the creature was astute; mastered his fury with a great effort of the will; composed his two important letters, one to Lanyon and one to Poole; and that he might receive actual evidence of their being posted, sent them out with directions that they should be registered.   (source)
    astute = smart & perceptive
  • he had a capacity for cards, played good-humouredly, and calculated rapidly and astutely, so that he usually won.   (source)
    astutely = with intelligence and perceptiveness
  • ...full of astute intelligence and affected humility.   (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
  • So I did not abandon the search until I had become fully satisfied that the thief is a more astute man than myself.   (source)
  • The worst that a prince may expect from a hostile people is to be abandoned by them; but from hostile nobles he has not only to fear abandonment, but also that they will rise against him; for they, being in these affairs more far-seeing and astute, always come forward in time to save themselves, and to obtain favours from him whom they expect to prevail.   (source)
  • Astuteness makes a forester, not brawn,   (source)
    astuteness = intelligence and perception
  • "Astute observation, Z," Art3mis said.†   (source)
  • He astutely—and bravely—borrowed money to buy his own power saw, tractor, and pulpwood truck.†   (source)
  • When the flames end I gather the ashes in a coffee can that Mark was astute enough to bring from the hotel.†   (source)
  • I can't imagine that a businesswoman as astute as you are, Mrs. Nitta, would call Chiyo 'poorly suited' ...†   (source)
  • Very astute.†   (source)
  • "An astute observation, Commander Ryan," Hunter said.†   (source)
  • He was politically astute, and the head of the propaganda department for the Building Materials Bureau in Qingdao.†   (source)
  • Each of these intervals is further subdivided 256 times with Local Ports, spaced exactly one kilometer apart (astute students of hacker semiotics will note the obsessive repetition of the number 256, which is 2~ power-and even that 8 looks pretty juicy, dripping with 22 additional 2s).†   (source)
  • Blanca laughed at the story and said it was impossible, because hens are born stupid and weak and foxes are born astute and strong, but Pedro Tercero did not laugh.†   (source)
  • Leona Cassiani, for her part, soon overcame her initial scruples, and she revealed what she had kept hidden with so much astuteness during her first three years.†   (source)
  • Jessica nodded at the astuteness of the question.†   (source)
  • There was an astuteness about Vernon, a deadpan quality of alert and se arching intelligence, a shrewdness waiting for a shapely occasion.†   (source)
  • The package of hamburger patties in Lee Harding's freezer and astute investigative work by Colorado health officials soon led to the largest recall of food in the nation's history.†   (source)
  • "An astute observation," he said.†   (source)
  • Glumra asked, surprising Eragon with the astuteness of her guess.†   (source)
  • This, however, was not the view of the more astute General Howe, who saw immediately in the Loyalists an advantage he had been denied at Boston.†   (source)
  • He mentioned often that if the people who worked for him met him halfway, he would meet them more than halfway, with the result, as he always added with an astute chuckle, that there was never any meeting of the minds at all.†   (source)
  • But I, as you yourself so astutely perceived, do have a choice.†   (source)
  • What could be so bad about being socially astute, politically aware in literature?†   (source)
  • If Sidona had blurted to an astute officer that there was a dark angel living in the roof.†   (source)
  • I found that the law offered a great deal of leeway to an astute and enterprising mind, and I learned to take on even the most damning evidence and spin it to suit my arguments.†   (source)
  • I'm very astute about these things.†   (source)
  • He also must have been exceptionally astute about matters pertaining to power.†   (source)
  • Astute!†   (source)
  • He was an astute observer of cloud formations and wind shifts.†   (source)
  • Chrysler may not like Toyota, but the astute Mr. Iacocca does not call for an air strike against Tokyo.   (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
  • If David had decided to sue, and in spite of everything, it was not out of the question, any astute attorney would go into court seeking damages upwards of $10 million,   (source)
  • The astute agent realized that the small print in the contract could severely hurt his client's bank account.
  • The astute scouting report helped the team win the game.
  • An astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease.
  • An astute consultant noted that the company had optimized their internal computer systems, but had not optimized data sharing with their vendors and customers.
  • I knew that so astute a villain would see that our hands were tied in the matter.   (source)
    astute = smart & perceptive
  • natural astuteness particularised by long association with cases in the police courts   (source)
    astuteness = intelligence and perception
  • He was an astute general, and Attolia appreciated that.†   (source)
  • Because you're probably quite astute at cross-examination, counselor.†   (source)
  • They threw cow gall onto the courtyard and, rubbed hot chili on the walls, thinking they could defeat her pernicious vice with those methods, but she showed such signs of astuteness and ingenuity to find some earth that Ursula found herself forced to use more drastic methods.†   (source)
  • It was in that way that Aureliano Segundo remembered the fortune buried in some place that only Ursula knew, but the questions and astute maneuvering that occurred to him were of no use because in the labyrinth of her madness she seemed to preserve enough of a margin of lucidity to keep the secret which she would reveal only to the one who could prove that he was the real owner of the buried gold.†   (source)
  • She was still a child in every sense of the word, with braces on her teeth and the scrapes of elementary school on her knees, but he saw right away the kind of woman she was soon going to be, and he cultivated her during a slow year of Saturdays at the circus, Sundays in the park with ice cream, childish late afternoons, and he won her confidence, he won her affection, he led her by the hand, with the gentle astuteness of a kind grandfather, toward his secret slaughterhouse.†   (source)
  • He had inherited his mother's delicate, transparent skin, and was small, astute, and fleetfooted as a fox.†   (source)
  • He was astute enough to be the first to call the left "the enemy of democracy," never suspecting that years later that would be the slogan of the dictatorship.†   (source)
  • He told her about the anxiety with which he had asked Nigromanta to howl like a cat and sob gaston gaston gaston in his ear, and with how much astuteness he had ransacked her vials of perfume so that he could smell it on the necks of the little girls who went to bed because of hunger.†   (source)
  • Amaranta Ursula defended herself sincerely with the astuteness of a wise woman, weaseling her slippery, flexible, and fragrant weasel's body as she tried to knee him in the kidneys and scorpion his face with her nails, but without either of them giving a gasp that might not have been taken for that breathing of a person watching the meager April sunset through the open window.†   (source)
  • The Frenchman never spoke of his private life, except to slip in certain subtle hints that would enable an astute observer to recognize his splendid past, his incalculable fortune, and his noble origins.†   (source)
  • He had made all the arrangements for the couple to go to the North, where Jean de Satigny hoped to settle down to a comfortable life supported by his wife's income, far away from the comments of astute observers who would not be insensible to the size of his wife's belly.†   (source)
  • That night the President, who had acquired the habit of outwitting his insomnia by playing chess with Jaime, discussed the matter between two games, while his astute eyes, hidden behind thick lenses in dark frames, scrutinized his friend's face for the least hint of discomfort, but Jaime continued to place his pieces on the board without saying a word.†   (source)
  • As a British spy was later to write astutely of Adams, he also had a particular gift for seeing "large subjects largely."†   (source)
  • With his phenomenal capacity for work—an attribute not lost on the industrious Dutch—he produced materials of every kind in an all-out effort to "undeceive" them, while at the same time providing Congress with some of the most astute political reporting of his diplomatic career.†   (source)
  • She's an astute strategist.†   (source)
  • "My astute uncle," continued the clerk, overriding and not hearing Prefontaine's soft monotone, "made it completely clear that we were privileged to be dealing with illustrious men who required total confidentiality.†   (source)
  • Van der Capellen knew the majority of the Dutch sympathized with theAmerican Revolution, but astutely he advised Adams that only American success in the war would enlist Dutch credit, for all the expressions of good will and interest he would hear.†   (source)
  • He had had an astute business manager, a mild, self-effacing little man of iron who, in the days of his glory, faced quietly the storms of Cameron's temper and brought him clients; Cameron insulted the clients, but the little man made them accept it and come back.†   (source)
  • The Devil's Disciple was not a bad man; he was only, like most men who pride themselves on their astuteness, a foolish one.†   (source)
  • It was remarkable then how that little seat of a roadster gave as much room for deployment and maneuver as the classic plains of Flanders and how a creature who could lie in your clutch as lissome as willow and soft as silk and cuddly as a kitten could suddenly develop that appalling number of cunning, needle-pointed elbows and astute knees.†   (source)
  • "Such an angel as YOU I am sure would," Mr. Dobbin said, with atrocious astuteness.†   (source)
  • 'Quite so,' some astute people will tell me, 'but what if they were in agreement?†   (source)
  • Thenardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a scamp of a temperate sort.†   (source)
  • He is a very honest and at the same time astute man.†   (source)
  • "So you DID get here, after all?" he exclaimed, casting a wondering eye on the astute and haggard little countenance of young Carfry's French tutor.†   (source)
  • Cronshaw was astute enough to know that the young man disapproved of him, and he attacked his philistinism with an irony which was sometimes playful but often very keen.†   (source)
  • His place put various converging wires of underground influence under the Chief's control, capable when astutely worked thro' his understrappers, of operating to the mysterious discomfort, if nothing worse, of any of the sea-commonalty.†   (source)
  • He had the dull man's unexpected flashes of astuteness, and Lily could not help joining in the laugh with which he had pounced on the truth.†   (source)
  • Children, most astute of match-makers, plot their campaigns quickly, and Sally had played a clever correspondence sonata to Isabelle's excitable temperament.†   (source)
  • The lady (whose consort was known as "Welly" Bry on the Stock Exchange and in sporting circles) had already sacrificed one husband, and sundry minor considerations, to her determination to get on; and, having obtained a hold on Carry Fisher, she was astute enough to perceive the wisdom of committing herself entirely to that lady's guidance.†   (source)
  • In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.†   (source)
  • The proud merely wished to be left alone, but the majority looked upon the well-to-do as people to be exploited; they knew what to say in order to get such advantages as the charitable put at their disposal, and they accepted benefits as a right which came to them from the folly of their superiors and their own astuteness.†   (source)
  • It really seemed as if some potent Fate watched over that daring Scarlet Pimpernel, and his astute enemy almost felt a superstitious shudder pass through him, as he looked round at the towering cliffs, and the loneliness of this outlying coast.†   (source)
  • You are unsentimental, almost incapable of affection, astute without being cunning and vain without being proud.†   (source)
  • The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had "placed" one by one in enviable niches of existence!†   (source)
  • One or two of the men, who had run after the fugitives, were now slowly working their way up the cliff: one of them reached Chauvelin's side, at the very moment that this hope arose in the astute diplomatist's heart.†   (source)
  • His disguise was so good that perhaps he meant, on recovering himself, to deny his identity: but Chauvelin was too astute to make such an obviously false and childish move, and already he too had stretched out his hand and said pleasantly,— "I am indeed charmed to see you Sir Percy.†   (source)
  • On his first appearance—when her improvident cousin, Jack Stepney, had obtained for him (in return for favours too easily guessed) a card to one of the vast impersonal Van Osburgh "crushes"—Rosedale, with that mixture of artistic sensibility and business astuteness which characterizes his race, had instantly gravitated toward Miss Bart.†   (source)
  • He had very little brains, it is true, but he had plenty of muscle: surely, if she provided the thought, and he the manly energy and pluck, together they could outwit the astute diplomatist, and save the hostage from his vengeful hands, without imperilling the life of the noble leader of that gallant little band of heroes.†   (source)
  • "It is only AU REVOIR, Chauvelin," she said pleasantly, "we shall meet at my Lord Grenville's ball, anon." And in her eyes the astute Frenchman, read, no doubt, something which caused him profound satisfaction, for, with a sarcastic smile, he took a delicate pinch of snuff, then, having dusted his dainty lace jabot, he rubbed his thin, bony hands contentedly together.†   (source)
  • Chauvelin was close upon his heels; here in Calais, the astute diplomatist was all-powerful; a word from him and Percy could be tracked and arrested and ... Every drop of blood seemed to freeze in her veins; not even during the moments of her wildest anguish in England had she so completely realised the imminence of the peril in which her husband stood.†   (source)
  • This man, so subtle and astute in official life, did not realize all the senselessness of such an attitude to his wife.†   (source)
  • To us it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other either because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg wronged.†   (source)
  • "I perceive, Avdotya Romanovna, that you seem disposed to undertake his defence all of a sudden," Luzhin observed, twisting his lips into an ambiguous smile, "there's no doubt that he is an astute man, and insinuating where ladies are concerned, of which Marfa Petrovna, who has died so strangely, is a terrible instance.†   (source)
  • If Mrs. Moss had been one of the most astute women in the world, instead of being one of the simplest, she could have thought of nothing more likely to propitiate her brother than this praise of Maggie.†   (source)
  • This Timofeitch, a little old man of much experience and astuteness, with faded yellow hair, a weather-beaten red face, and tiny tear-drops in his shrunken eyes, unexpectedly appeared before Bazarov, in his shortish overcoat of stout greyish-blue cloth, girt with a strip of leather, and in tarred boots.†   (source)
  • He had determined upon the bold stroke of asking for an interview with Miss Vye—to attack her position as Thomasin's rival either by art or by storm, showing therein, somewhat too conspicuously, the want of gallantry characteristic of a certain astute sort of men, from clowns to kings.†   (source)
  • Dexterity, coolness, bravery, and cunning were virtues he possessed to a high degree, and it took a truly crafty baleen whale or an exceptionally astute sperm whale to elude the thrusts of his harpoon.†   (source)
  • He was to send his letters to Mere Rollet, and she gave him such precise instructions about a double envelope that he admired greatly her amorous astuteness.†   (source)
  • Of course he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents.†   (source)
  • Besides," Philip went on, with all the inventive astuteness of love at one-and-twenty, "if there is any enmity between those who belong to us, we ought all the more to try and quench it by our friendship; I mean, that by our influence on both sides we might bring about a healing of the wounds that have been made in the past, if I could know everything about them.†   (source)
  • As to the astute Aramis, he did not entertain much dread of him; and supposing he should be able to get so far, he determined to dispatch him in good style or at least, by hitting him in the face, as Caesar recommended his soldiers do to those of Pompey, to damage forever the beauty of which he was so proud.†   (source)
  • A great part of the altered demeanour and popularity of Sir Pitt Crawley might have been traced to the counsels of that astute little lady of Curzon Street.†   (source)
  • From this a general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that predominancy has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.†   (source)
  • Astuteness makes a forester, not brawn, and by astuteness on the open sea a helmsman holds a ship on the right course though roughed by winds.†   (source)
  • The individual whose visual organs while the above was going on were at this juncture commencing to exhibit symptoms of animation was as astute if not astuter than any man living and anybody that conjectured the contrary would have found themselves pretty speedily in the wrong shop.†   (source)
  • I, master barber, am not Neptune, the god of the waters, nor do I try to make anyone take me for an astute man, for I am not one.†   (source)
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