Sentences with phrase «in precocity»

As a solitary, clever, and bookish child he was a study in precocity, a model prig.

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Cardinal Mercier not only began the revival of the study of St. Thomas in the late 19th century, with the gratitude and encouragement of Leo XIII, but it was he who noticed the mathematical precocity of a young seminarian, and fellow Belgian, whom he encouraged to study the then revolutionary new branch of physics developed by Albert Einstein.

Korean - American parents are famously education - obsessed; add to that Michelle's being an only child, and throw in her athletic precocity, and it is hard to imagine a situation in which a child could be the focus of more parental love, support and pressure.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College published the update in the December 2014 issue of Psychological Science, writing: «For both males and females, mathematical precocity early in life predicts later creative contributions and leadership in critical occupational roles.»

He repeated this formulation in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), contrasting the Tenenbaum siblings, who'd lost their childhoods to precocity, with their capricious, irresponsible father, Royal.

In Max Fischer, Anderson created a true original, a man - child whose precocity was due not to any particular gifts but rather to his own furious will.

It could also be noted that students who wish to mask or partly conceal their exceptional mathematical ability for peer acceptance need to moderate their achievements principally in math classes, while students who wish to conceal extreme linguistic precocity have to be much more consistently on guard against «breaking cover».

Moderately gifted children, in contrast, are more appropriately described as bright children, children who may score 130 or so on an IQ test, who can achieve highly, but who do not show the kind of obsessive rage to master and striking precocity found in the profoundly gifted.

The use of radical acceleration in cases of extreme intellectual precocity.

But one would like to find out more about similar precocious qualifiers for art academies who then went on to achieve nothing but mediocrity or failure — in whom, of course, art historians are uninterested — or to study in greater detail the role played by Picasso's art - professor father in the pictorial precocity of his son.

As a curatorial practice, Cherry & Lucic focuses on exhibiting mid-career and established artists in a space that is resonant with the physical and economic precocity common to artistic practices.

Even in Pollock and Rothko certainly there is nothing to match the precocity and extremism of this huge black field canvas.