Sentences with phrase «making precocious»

Rather than making her precocious and endearing and non-threatening, this series made Anne real: why does she imagine so much?

This can make them precocious and more responsible, but deprived, having lost part of their childhood.

Not to make precocious scholars... not to impart the secret of acquiring wealth... not to qualify directly for professional success... but simply to make good citizens.»

In the early 2000s, the Boston University graduate made a precocious impact on critics and curators with a technical skill lending his surreal figurative paintings...

Not exact matches

You make them really, really expensive and super precocious and really naughty and very aspirational.

He is undergoing the precocious working through of images and sensations that over time will socialize him, make him viable, responsive, subtle.

Their pietism, which I confused with Lutheranism, early made me restive, not least because of my precocious reading of Britannica articles on evolution and Gibbon's Decline and Fall (my father's library was short on comic books).

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.

Something of a precocious talent, he made his debut at the tender age of 17 before winning the first of 77 caps two years later in a friendly against the Soviet Union.

It's an important point that they make I think: becoming peer oriented leads to flight from vulnerability, precocious sexual acting - out, aggression, but most important makes it harder for kids to genuinely learn and gorw.

So what did the precocious primate do with the 100 yen earned for making his first word match?

Despite its seemingly precocious abilities, Ichthyostega went extinct, and its method of locomotion vanished for 100 million years, suggesting that there may be other, yet unknown ways that early animals made their way onto land.

In case you're not familiar with these precocious little elves, the idea is that Santa sends one of his elves to each kid or household at the beginning of December to keep an eye on the kids and make sure they deserve their spot on the nice list.

Despite her harsh surroundings, the precocious and ebullient Moonee has no trouble making

Gilmore Girls is a genuine gem in the making, a family - friendly hour burdened by neither trite cliche nor precocious pablum.

In this sequel to the highly successful Home Alone, child - star Macaulay Culkin returns, in the role that made him famous, as Kevin McCallister, a precocious Chicago boy who mistakenly boards a plane to New York while the rest of his large family wings to Florida.

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.

Todd Louiso has some funny moments as the cranky male nanny to Mr. Lipnicki, whose little lisp and precocious manner have made him perfect for television commercials.

The story follows the life of a precocious and entitled high school senior (Ronan) whose over-extended confidence more than makes up for her lack of abilities.

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

Robertson is irrepressible and makes a bright contrast to Clooney's bitterness, and Raffey Cassidy holds her own as a preternaturally precocious little girl.

Nicholas Sparks is sitting this January out, but Forever My Girl offers a shoulder to cry on, along with the hallmarks of the most romantic movies ever made: parenthood, precocious kids, humble small - town stores, and the grim specter of death forever hanging over the characters» every move.

The latter is the regrettable category for «Rebel in the Rye,» screenwriter - director Danny Strong's dutiful rundown of the rise of J. D. Salinger from precocious wiseass to storied chronicler of the odd and disaffected — before those qualities in the author, made famous with his anti-hero Holden Caulfield, spelled his retreat from the world.

Effortlessly charming, stunningly empathetic and an all around a joy to watch, our central quartet make what could be written off as a silly premise - two opposites must now raise the precocious product of their one night stand from high school!

You don't suddenly think that because you're making a film that you're important and that you can [become] this precocious actor.

The writing is the first problem with «Huff», leaning hard as it does on the Dr. Phil Handbook for Fake Shrinks in its therapy sessions (leave out the dead gay kid, incidentally, and until episode four's guy - who - refuses - to - shit Huff's patients all appear to be beautiful women) and making the bad mistake of thinking that castrating bitch goddess mothers (Blythe Danner, playing Estelle Getty), nymphomaniac wives (Paget Brewster), and precious / precocious kids (Anton Yelchin) will write themselves out of narrative Bermuda Triangles.

It's just unfortunate that the actress playing her has a very grating voice, which makes the loud, precocious, whiney nature of the character all the more jarring.

By the time he picks up his adorable and precocious niece from school and drives her around while she talks about the trouble she's having making a short film for her class under Iran's expansive media guidelines, the intent is clear.

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.

It interviews a precocious Léaud about his experience making the film and about one standout scene he reveals was improvised.

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But when this precocious child witnesses the horrifying death of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly executed as a sorceress, she makes it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act.

First there's Darcy, a precocious 18 - year - old who has just sold her first novel for a hell of an advance and is forgoing college to move to New York City, where she'll see if she can make it as a writer.

The dry hills of California are a metaphor for her empty soul, but she can't afford to wallow in self - pity with an autistic son who can't make eye contact and a precocious twelve - year - old daughter counting on her to get it together.

It was probably these playful marine creatures swimming along the side of the ship he rode in the 1960s that made Michael Marasigan, a precocious kid back then, make a vow that some day he will go to every island in the Philippines.

The portraits at the Frick varied widely in formality and speed of execution, ranging from quick and expressive drawings and oil sketches to full - length canvases made in Van Dyck's capacity as court painter to Charles I. Works in the first category can look unnervingly contemporary, particularly the sensitive and precocious self - portraits that appeal, anachronistically, to our obsession with «authenticity.»

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.

Ms. Weil had been making photograms since her precocious girlhood, and she mentioned how annoying it is to find herself described in articles as «Bob's helper.»

Frank Stella (b. 1936) had a significant epiphany at the precocious age of 22 when he decided to make all parts of the picture equal — doing away with one of the last vestiges of traditional painting.

Archie Rand was a precocious abstract painter already showing at a prestigious Manhattan gallery in the 1970s, when he made a radical decision: to make Jewish art.

Her first solo exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery will showcase works such as prints made at the precocious age of eight in 1933 as a book for her father, as well as surprisingly sophisticated linocuts both in imagery and technique, accompanied by handwritten poems.

However, Schwitters's reliefs, violent and precocious, more than made up for this fact.

For many Americans it will be their first look at Ms. Szapocznikow's precocious Pop - Surrealist sculpture, much of which parallels work made on these shores by Lynda Benglis, Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke.

«Her joyous approach to working in the studio, coupled with her precocious creativity, made it a pleasure to turn up every day and struggle with the challenge of facing a blank canvas.

«This girl who was so precocious entered the male - dominated woods of the art world, and they made sure that she got lost in it,» he added.