astuteness

astute | American Dictionary

astute
adjective
us/əˈstut/
quick to see how to use a situation to your advantage:
He was politically astute, and was soon appointed to a number of powerful committees in Congress.

Examples of astute

astute
Once again, however, respondents were often astute when it came to discussing underlying issues.
She was proud, astute, and worried about her husband's welfare.
Unfortunately, these astute observations on education are inappropriately framed as an internal feminist debate about transnationalism.
To achieve good results, it is necessary to make an astute choice of trial function.
He wages this campaign with clarity, care, and astute insight.
Politically astute individuals have found several uses for absolute borderline cases.
Astute observers looking ahead just a few years see some frightening possibilities.
Many ' rising men ' supplemented a core group of senior churchmen, ensuring that the commission was both intellectually highpowered and politically astute.
They were too astute to accept the rigid discipline and punishing conditions of life as front-line troops.
He is astute in showing how a split between unbelieving towns and the faithful rural hinterlands has widened.
We are lucky that such an astute sociologist was at work analyzing the changes as they happened.
I would also like to thank the anonymous referees for their astute observations and sensible recommendations.
The book is solidly scholarly, but is enlivened with astute, enlightening, touching, funny and occasionally moving observations.
Yet that potential was not entirely due to his brilliant abilities, for it also owed something to an astute marriage.
The final version of this article also benefited from the astute readers' reports of two anonymous referees for this journal.
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