He looked upon him as a marvel of astuteness and cunning, as indeed he was.
Rarely if ever in the history of the country have two men of such ability and astuteness participated in a local canvass.
He has developed the astuteness of the devil, the open sincerity of a saint.
So much for the astuteness of the man with the iron cross.
How exciting to see a defence constructed by experienced astuteness and eloquence out of the slightest materials--out of a hopeless case--in the teeth of one overpowering for the prosecution!
Even so, he had shown a remarkable astuteness in relying on the conviction that he (Hodder) would not betray what he knew.
The daughter of Thurston Gore, with all her astuteness and real estate, was of a naivete in regard to spiritual matters that Hodder had grown to recognize as impermeable.
Louis Philippe sent his son the Prince de Joinville to superintend this removal,--an act of magnanimity hard to be reconciled with his usual astuteness and selfishness.
For a time the thief said nothing, but soon his innate Danagla astuteness came to his assistance, and he concocted a plan to revenge himself on Polinari, and again become chief gardener.
Awad, formerly head clerk of the Kassala Mudirieh, he appointed as his assistant, and through his astuteness and knavery he lost no opportunity of forcibly extracting money from the people.
Thus ended their interview; and it formed a strange contrast to that between the Abbe and Villequier,--showing how simple honesty may often baffle cunning which has succeeded against astuteness like itself.
On the other hand, Theodore Butterfield, who was recognized as a traffic man of unusual astuteness and experience, was brought from Utica to Oswego and made General Passenger Agent of the combined property.
With greatastuteness the Vanderbilts planned to upset the operation of the road, to the least possible degree.
An instinct of self-preservation, and an astuteness that now reached its final triumph, pointed the wiser way.
Of course she had not told the truth, but a new suspicion of Lena's astuteness made him cautious.
But the astutenessof my veteran circumvented all these plans.
The pantomime of astuteness is commonly the first step in that assimilation to the professional sporting man which a youth undergoes after matriculation in any reputable school, of the secondary or the higher education, as the case may be.
His failure lies in a growing tendency to discard an instinctive emotionalism for a calculated astuteness which too often attempts to hide its cunning under the garb of honest sentiment.
His presence might mean any one of several things, and the fact that he enjoyed a reputation for quite alarming astuteness of a brilliant kind presented elements of probable embarrassment.
This eminent Canadian had already reached the middle of the eighth decade of his life, but age had in no sense impaired the vigour or astuteness of his mental powers.
Well--it was not mere astuteness or vulgar cunning on the watch for an honorarium.
His magnanimity on this occasion was of course praised on all sides, whilst he himself rejoiced that he had for ever ridden himself of the only one of the Mahdi's relatives of whose knowledge and astuteness he was justly in considerable awe.
