Sentences with phrase «into precocious»

He recognizes that Moonee is kind of a unique kid, the sort who can get a kick out of making noises into an oscillating fan or brushing her doll's hair in the tub, but he never makes her into a precocious Hollywood cliche of the wide - eyed innocent.

Over the show's 8 season run, Michelle grew into a precocious troublemaker with a proclivity for shenanigans.

Mr. Murry literally vanished into his studies shortly after the adoption of Meg's little brother, Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), who has since grown into a precocious 5 - year - old, full of hope and encouragement for the more sullen Meg.

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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.

Fresh off the bread - baking spree launched by my precocious 9 year old daughter's solo foray into the art of gluten - free yeast bread, I've fielded lots of questions this week about the nuances of this sometimes elusive prize we call homemade gluten - free bread.

It is other clubs who are the ones that have the young players developing from precocious talent into top class talent, so that is another bragging right we have lost in reality.

Biologists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, show that precocious entry of the genome into the replication phase leads to molecular collisions occurring on the DNA and induces new mutations.

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.

Thus, both hormones and antibiotics are passed into the milk supply, which raises concern for precocious puberty and antibiotic - resistance.

Despite her harsh surroundings, the precocious and ebullient Moonee has no trouble making each day a celebration of life, her endless afternoons overflowing with mischief and grand adventure as she and her ragtag playmates — including Jancey, a new arrival to the area who quickly becomes Moonee's best friend — fearlessly explore the utterly unique world into which they've been thrown.

After a brief fling with former hockey hero «Boom Boom» Grafalk (Stephen Meadows), V.I. is shoved into the case of a lifetime when the man is murdered by unknown assailants, leaving his precocious daughter, Kat (Angela Goethals), in her custody.

Talking him into this is precocious preteen Izabella (Isabela Moner, «Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life»).

The Golden Compass (PG - 13 for fantasy violence) Epic escapist fantasy, based on Philip Pullman's award - winning novel, about a precocious 12 year - old scholar (Dakota Blue Richards) already attending Oxford who ventures into a parallel universe to save her best friend and other children kidnapped by an evil organization known as the Gobblers.

Such is the price for Disney choosing to adapt a British children's book into an ambitious period musical fantasy with precocious children, a central sequence set in an animated world, songs by Richard and Robert Sherman, a screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, direction by Robert Stevenson, a theatrically accomplished leading lady, a leading role played by David Tomlinson, music supervision by Irwin Kostal, Peter Ellenshaw visuals, Cotton Warburton editing, Bill Thomas costuming, Gausman & Kuri set decoration, and La Rue Matheron hair styling.

Precocious siblings Lucy (Georgie Henley, The Chronicles of Narnia series) and Edmund Pevensie (Skandar Heynes, The Chronicles of Narnia series), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter, Son of Rambow), are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia.

On the child - actor scale that runs from «irritatingly precocious stage - school kid» to «Dakota Fanning,» Jacob Tremblay is one of the few who falls into an extra special category: the «where - on - Earth - did - they - find - this - kid - and - how - does - he - give - a-performance-like-this» category.

The main premise is actually very silly, where Nate Johnson (Cedric, Barbershop 2), his separated wife Dorothy (Williams, Shaft), his rapper - wannabe son DJ (Bow Wow, Like Mike), his maturing daughter Nikki (Knowles), and his precocious youngest, Destiny (Soleil, «The Hughleys»), all load up into their pimped - out SUV to travel across several states for a family reunion where Nate's dear old mother will choose which of the off - shoot Johnson family will be declared Family of the Year.

The premise of the film is that divorced father Will Hayes (Reynolds, Smokin» Aces) is cajoled into relating the story in how he met his ex and the mother of his precocious daughter Maya (Breslin, No Reservations), who seems sure that she can get them back together if he could remember why he fell in love with her in the first place.

Luca Guadagnino's new film, which adapts André Aciman's 2007 novel about a precocious 17 - year - old who falls in lust and love with his father's 24 - year - old graduate student, is remarkable for how it turns literature into pure cinema, all emotion and image and heady sensation.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl Translating tricky source material to the screen with flying colors, actress Marielle Heller's feature directing debut, «The Diary of a Teenage Girl,» manages to plunge into the too - precocious sex life of a 15 - year - old girl without turning exploitative or distasteful.

Outlandish scenes tumble into each other, buoyed by Bukowski's drunken wit and saved from precocious romanticism by his direct, unglamorous honesty.

Professor Plummer was killed over a piece of software named G.H.O.S.T. (though not in the pantry with a candlestick) now believed to have been stashed somewhere in his home; when the snot - nosed kids — vain Zoe (Brittany Snow), surly Seth (Max Thieriot), precocious Lulu (Morgan York, also one of the Cheaper by the Dozen brats), and reaction - shot fodder Peter (Keegan & Logan Hoover) and Baby Tyler (Bo & Luke Vink (and with «The Dukes of Hazzard»'s impending renaissance, boy are those two in for a rude awakening at the start of school)-RRB--- grease the stairwell to take out Shane, they end up driving away their German nanny (a typically misused Carol Kane) instead, forcing Shane into a more maternal role and leaving him little time to search for the computer program.

This is the kind of character that can slip all too easily into the insufferably precocious child archetype and the fact that he never does is a huge testament to both Parker and the script.

It's a shaky pairing, but together they follow clues and thump on potential witnesses, not always successfully, as they peek into the seamy underbelly of Los Angeles, with Holland's precocious thirteen - year - old daughter Holly (Rice, Walking with Dinosaurs) finding herself in the middle of the action more often than not.

It captures with tenderness and wit the exquisite ache of growing up as Mulligan evolves into the architect of her own destiny only after incurring the scars, pain, and brutal disappointment that separate the genuinely wise from the merely precocious.

HBO said he «opens up about his bittersweet childhood and lifelong obsession with moviemaking, his precocious early work as a TV «wunderkind,» his rise to fame through an incredible string of blockbusters, his later forays into more serious dramatic films, and the personal and professional relationships he's cultivated through the years.»

Its assimilation into popular culture is such that the name «Lolita» has been used to imply that a young girl is sexually precocious.

Isabella d'Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black - eyed blonde and a precocious lover and collector of art.

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.

For most pet owners, we have watched our beloved companion grow from precocious youngster into golden - years snuggler.

The article covers the precocious Jenova and how we started out on the long road to game development along with an intriguing insight into how ThatGameCompany approach the tricky topic of ethics and gaming.

The precocious Flack was 17, her idol Franz Kline 40 and well into the group's sadly typical alcoholism.

These themes play into your first series of photographs that really gained attention, «Seeing in the Dark,» which you started making when you were 20 and first exhibited at the precocious age of 21.

Thrust into this heady milieu — New York was rapidly being acclaimed the new center of the international art world — the precocious Frankenthaler responded by producing a series of audacious paintings, among them Mountains and Sea, which she completed in October 1952, shortly before her twenty - fourth birthday.

Building on Ellison's precocious persona, recent video work It's So Important to Seem Wonderful Part II uses animation software to transform the artist into a marionette - like 3D rendering.