Astuteness

As this is growing wearisome, I would now recommend for a change something else for a pleasure -- namely, the unconscious astuteness with which good, fat, honest mediocrity always behaves towards loftier spirits and the tasks they have to perform, the subtle, barbed, Jesuitical astuteness, which is a thousand times subtler than the taste and understanding of the middle-class in its best moments -- subtler even than the understanding of its victims: -- a repeated proof that "instinct" is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered. ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)

Ah, it's just that snark-ass kind of astuteness I need in my presidential administration. ❋ Ms Robinson (2008)

The British, with an astuteness which is oftener the character credited to their opponents, managed to get earliest word of the Declaration sent to their own forts on the ❋ Unknown (1905)

There are also vices which are akin to them, not truly, but with a false kind of similarity, such as astuteness bears to prudence. " ❋ Unknown (1954)

It is remarkable, but not unprecedented, that a person of such ability and political astuteness should turn out to be so unethical. ❋ Henry J. Stern (2010)

Simm, most celebrated for Life on Mars, but also outstanding on stage in Elling, brings a no-fuss astuteness to the part. ❋ Susannah Clapp (2010)

Ms. Cooper, alternatively, notes a contemporary judgment that he "looked like a successful and fashionable businessman" even as a tyro: It may be that Effie's commercial astuteness found an answering call. ❋ D.J. Taylor (2011)

Two smart cookies – Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, and Michael Arrington, creator of the influential technology blog TechCrunch – have sold their publications to AOL, a company not noted for the astuteness of its recent decisions. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In Trickle Down Theory, a snake with the dollar bill's Great Seal on it's back stands for the shrewdness and astuteness of art collectors. ❋ John Seed (2011)

Allingham also played down her intellectual gifts, often casting herself as the modest, loving wife happily ensconced at a country estate: "The average British crowd is quick to admire beauty, especially in distress, but there is a curious streak of temperament which makes it distrust the quality of smartness, especially when it is allied, however remotely, to something questionable or suspicious," she wrote with considerable astuteness in "Flowers for the Judge" 1936. ❋ Sarah Weinman (2011)

Who wouldn't like a philandering professor who'd added so many lapidary turns of phrase to my repertoire, including “physiognomy of astuteness” and “a knothole of a town in a stump of a state” about Columbia, Missouri, where my sisters went to college. ❋ Con Chapman (2012)

So next time you're sitting in your favorite bar watching TV and the news announcer comes on and says that so-and-so has just won the Nobel Prize in physics, you can turn with an air of astuteness to your companions and say with confidence: “What a joke — everybody knows those things are rigged.” ❋ Con Chapman (2010)

His wealth has been estimated at £120m, and it is perhaps his astuteness as a businessman that has earned him such respect. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What is stunningly astonishing is the fact that these words rolled off the tongue of an individual lionized for his prodigious intellect and political astuteness. ❋ Alemayehu G. Mariam (2010)

This year's ragged yet focused "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" shows that Mr. Earle's lyrical astuteness remains intact, no matter the genre. ❋ Andy Beta (2011)

1. Whilst [watching paint dry], he said "have you noticed how there are [exactally] [322] bricks in this wall?" 2. He was so astute, that his resposes were 98% right everytime, which based on his school's standards was extreamly high, because they are all idiots. ❋ Mtbeaver (2006)

[Architecture] for the astute. ❋ LarstaiT (2003)

that [prof] is [sooo] astute ❋ Vincent (2004)

[Next week], we're all going [Caroling]; I plan to accompany with my [astute]. ❋ The Gay AgenDUH (2017)

[Lav] is an astute prostitute [by the way] she [examine] me. ❋ Rocvi (2020)

[Oh dear], look hereth at that [muffin]’s [astute chin] ❋ LeptonicToodleLoo (2018)