The documentation was massive, without obvious patterns, until, finally, astute analysts noticed that every conflict had something in common: Victor Bout.

Sid is a wonderful writer and an astute analyst of policy and politics.

One year later, no astute political analyst is questioning the presence of women in the traditionally male bastion of political fund raising.

When Freud is at his best, for instance, there is no more astute analyst of our frequently regressive need for authority figures.

Be that as it may, his maverick personality certainly makes him a compassionate judge of other outsiders and an astute analyst of antisocial behavior.

"He'll pay for that," the astute analyst averred.

Both Presidents are highly intelligent and astute political analysts, but despite those skills both were seen by voters as vacillators.

Sometimes described as too theoretical, he was an astute analyst: The awareness of the artfulness of every play on the field is what makes baseball exciting.

He is one of the Democratic Party's most astute analysts, an expert reader of polls and pols.

Professor Levine refers to him as "more of a social scientist-philosopher at heart than a lawyer, albeit an astute legal analyst."