Sentences with phrase «as precocious»

«As remarkable as its precocious beginning is the fact that the series, now numbering sixteen, is still ongoing and evolving with no definite end after more than twenty years,» said Mr. Lowry.

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Park exhibited with the New England Society of Independent Artists as a precocious 15 - year - old.

Born in 1930 in Haddonfield, N.J., Remington took classes at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) as a precocious child and enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute as a young adult.

Pablo Picasso as a precocious 14 - year - old boy kicks off this exhibition of portraits painted by the Spanish genius over the course of his exceptional career.

Included will also be a series of landscapes and skyscapes painted in the Surrealist style, as well as his precocious melancholic landscapes created in the 1920s as a response to the First World War.

(The column takes off from a questionnaire Proust filled out as a precocious fifteen - year - old.)

The man who began business life as a precocious «stock picker» has morphed into chief executive of one of the largest collections of businesses in the world.

With Havisham, Frame nimbly explores what some could call hallowed literary ground — we first meet Catherine as the precocious child of a wealthy brewer and follow her through her years of growth and social refinement.

There, as a precocious child, he exhibited a thirst for knowledge at an early age and learned to read the Bible with the help of his masters, Samuel (Armie Hammer) and Elizabeth Turner (Penelope Ann Miller).

It's been more than a decade since Owen Kline starred as a precocious Brooklyn kid in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach's comedic portrait of a fractured family.

Pam Grady: Diary of a Teenage Girl star Bel Powley adds further evidence that she is one of the most talented actors working today with a pitch - perfect performance as a precocious adolescent, a recent Harvard graduate, grappling with social isolation, troubling memories, and long - standing family drama in this character - driven drama.

Also, I adore the supporting cast, especially Frank Morgan as Mr. Matuschek and William Tracy as precocious Pepi.

81 % The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) Stylish but emotionally distant, this is the Coen brothers» clever tribute to the film noir genre, and it features a sharp turn by Johansson as a precocious object of desire.

This stylish but emotionally distant film is the Coen brothers» clever tribute to the film noir genre, and it features a sharp turn by Johansson as a precocious object of desire.

While her eldest daughter Emmy (Maddie Dixon - Poirier) is as precocious and as inquisitive as they come, kindergartner Jonah (Asher Miles Fallica) might have special needs as he frequently disrupts class and needs his skin «brushed» every morning before he can come downstairs for breakfast.

However, Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) offers a solid portrayal in the title role, as a precocious writer growing up in working - class Manchester battling inner demons and social awkwardness while dreaming of stardom.

Jack only knows these four walls and these small luxuries as he and his Ma try to find whatever they can to amuse and to survive, but as a precocious and intelligent young boy, his imagination knows no bounds despite such limitations.

Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz, whom some may remember as the precocious younger sister in (500) Days of Summer) has to be one of the greatest big screen superhero incarnations we've seen in a long time, and truly unique.

Kevin Kline has fun playing decadent, debauched Flynn, Dakota Fanning shines as the precocious Bev and Susan Sarandon conjures sympathy for Bev's sadly deluded mother, only too willing to look the other way.

Lady Bird: Yes, it's a genuinely funny coming - of - age story, with Saoirse Ronan killing it as a precocious high - school senior convinced she's better than her home town of Sacramento.

Schwartzman plays him as precocious, yet still a kid and inept in so many ways of the adult world he wants so desperately to inhabit.

Saoirse Ronan's Academy Award - nominated supporting performance as a precocious but troubled 13 - year - old in Atonement — a 2007 British period drama — provided clear evidence t...

The boy Sean — under Glazer's direction — comes across as a precocious weasel, sure of his purpose yet incapable of taking in the damage he's wreaking in Anna's life.

Plenty of strong support is offered by a cast of dozens, including Broadway heartthrob Aaron Tveit as rebellion leader Enjolras and little Daniel Huttlestone as precocious street urchin Gavroche.

As written and directed by Satrapi and comic artist Paronnaud, the French - produced Persepolis works as best it can as a precocious and relatable vision of childhood one - third of the way through, when it recounts Marji's forced, rapid maturation during the revolution and the war.

This is known as precocious puberty.

Still only 27, the England international burst onto the scene as a precocious teenager back in 2008, and as most Arsenal left backs in recent history, he was hailed as the new Ashley Cole.

For Walcott, the desire to win trophies for his new team burns as strong as when he first moved to The Emirates as a precocious 16 - year - old a dozen years ago.

Rooney burst onto the scene as a precocious teenager with the Toffees.

She distanced herself from her pious family when, as a precocious teenager, she renounced the church on the grounds that its scriptures were fictitious and its doctrines «most dishonorable to God and most pernicious in their influence.»

Not exact matches

A precocious and self - contained child, from an early age possessed of an outstanding facility for languages, he was dazzling as a scholar at Eton and, at seventeen, a scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he went on to gain first - class honors and a prize fellowship.

Let's cut to the cause of things, The bible, as wonderful as an inspiration to the soul, to be taken in the literal sense, word for word, is a tad bit precocious.

There were plenty of emotional headaches, such as a verbally precocious and otherwise immature youngster has to put up with in school and college.

When he was just 14 the precocious teenager went so far as to schedule an appointment with Denver «s then - Archbishop James Casey to discuss his doubts.

In doing so, he must also determine or discover where he stands in the timeless conflict between good and evil, particularly in light of his precocious ability as a wizard and his enigmatic role in the culturewide conflict into which he was born.

From the handful of occasions on which I interacted with Wiesel, I recall the eagerness and warmth with which he endeavored to put the company at ease, as if he were a celebrity forever loyal to the precocious, shy small town boy he once was.

But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine - guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say.

«18 It is partly in response to that void of an Italian Reformation that we may understand Gramsci's fascination, and not Gramsci's alone but that of almost every major modern Italian intellectual with Niccolo Machiavelli, the Italian contemporary of Luther and Calvin.19 Gramsci treats Machiavelli as a Reformer in secular guise, a «precocious Jacobin,» with a vision of a people armed, a national Italy, and Gramsci used the figure of Machiavelli's Prince to express the unifying and leading function of the modern Communist party.

Led by a young and precocious group, the USA is building a new nucleus as it continues to move forward following an infamous failed World Cup qualifying campaign.

At the maddeningly precocious age of 23, Steffes has pulled off a takeover that's as sudden as it is spectacular.

Even as Bolt's countryman Yohan Blake, a precocious 21, won the race in 9.92 seconds (Walter Dix of the U.S. was second), the Bolt Affair overtook the meet.

Led by a young and precocious group, the USA is building a new nucleus as it continues to move forwa...

Because I was precocious with language and read and wrote early, I suspect that my parents assumed I was advanced in other ways as well, when I wasn't.

Thomas Helleday (pictured left) was precocious long before he started supervising Ph.D. students as he finished his own doctorate.

A «rage to master,» as observed in some precocious young artists, may help define extreme visual creativity

In a project known as the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, Vanderbilt psychologists David Lubinski, Camilla Benbow, and their colleagues found that, even among a sample of intellectually gifted people, a higher level of cognitive ability in childhood forecasted great accomplishment later in life, both in school and beyond.

Jumping into the world of astronomy and physics as a career can seem daunting, especially for precocious high schoolers with a passion for the field.

This early puberty is known as «precocious puberty.»

The Precocious Crush trope as used in popular culture.

Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian - Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his precocious childhood in Nazi - occupied Paris, to his beginnings as small time jazz musician and finally pop superstar.