AT their most astute, memoirs are about more than the story of someone's life.

"America 1900" is most astute when it imagines the psychological effect of such turns.

She considered him the most astute and powerful of those beneath her.

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He has assigned his most astute political strategists to untangle the conflict.

The most astute civil servants get sent to these meetings.

But even the most astute questioning of his fellow workers had brought nothing to light.

The emperor is most astute, and all the world may suffer for that.

But perhaps her most astute observation came at the end of the war, when she visited Paris.

Yet the diagnosis can be a major challenge for even the most astute doctors.