The final version of this article also benefited from the astute readers' reports of two anonymous referees for this journal.
Yet that potential was not entirely due to his brilliant abilities, for it also owed something to an astute marriage.
The book is solidly scholarly, but is enlivened with astute, enlightening, touching, funny and occasionally moving observations.
I would also like to thank the anonymous referees for their astute observations and sensible recommendations.
We are lucky that such an astute sociologist was at work analyzing the changes as they happened.
He is astute in showing how a split between unbelieving towns and the faithful rural hinterlands has widened.
They were too astute to accept the rigid discipline and punishing conditions of life as front-line troops.
Many ' rising men ' supplemented a core group of senior churchmen, ensuring that the commission was both intellectually highpowered and politically astute.
