Sentences with phrase «of precocious»

David Hockney's career has spanned and epitomised the art movements of the last five decades; his story is one of precocious achievement at Bradford Art College, the Swinging 60s in London where he befriended many of the iconic cultural figures of the generation, to California and the cool of the swimming pool series of paintings, through the acclaimed set designs for countless operas around the world and major retrospective exhibitions.

And its visual correlative — stark black enamel stripes arranged in a predetermined symmetrical pattern — is the work of a precocious smart aleck (whose youthful callowness is also on display in the title of the 1958 Black Painting, «Arbeit Macht Frei») demonstrating the true condition of the art form.

STEPHEN SHORE A major retrospective of the precocious and prolific American photographer.

An eerily prescient, biting social satire, J R tells the story of a precocious 11 - year - old capitalist who, with the unwitting help of his school's resident composer, inadvertently creates the single greatest virtual empire the world has seen.

Why it looks cool: Australian high school student Daniel West refused to allow his lack of computer programming knowledge to stand in the way of his precocious game design talent.

Thanks to the exploits of my precocious pooch, Lulu, I have the phone number for quite a few pet trainers locked and loaded in my mobile phone.

When Ashley was six, she started showing signs of precocious puberty, which is common in children with brain damage.

It's full of small village charm, with a dash of poison and murder — and all through the eyes of a precocious 11 - year - old.

Ender's Shadow told the tale of another precocious general, Bean, who became Ender's strategist and friend.

Set in Kerala, India, during the 1940s, The Maramon Convention follows «the life of a precocious girl who escapes her town in southern India to become a pioneering physician in spinal surgery.»

In these years it started up the National Plan of Prevention of Mental Handicap, to avoid, by means of precocious diagnosis, diseases that can evolve with serious mental deterioration.

Few films glow as brightly with the gemlike fire of precocious genius.»

Arriving on Amazon Prime Video just one week after its DVD release, Sean Baker's warm, stunning and heartbreaking drama tells the story of a precocious six - year - old and her rag - tag group of close friends, whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure, while their parents and the adults around them struggle with hard times.

If I tell you that it consists largely of the adventures of these precocious motel - residing kids, it would probably sound like some horribly cloying piece of Hollywood trash, those movies that idealize youth and really look down on poverty.

Named Peyton (not after Peyton Manning or Walter Payton, as a leatherhead would hope, but Nobel Prize - winning M.D. Peyton Rous — an early herald of her precocious pretentiousness), she invites herself to stay for a month while her mother ostensibly does philanthropic work in Africa.

The adventures of the precocious fifteen - year old Oliver Tate are punctuated by some fantastic weirdness, enlivening what will be a fairly familiar story to most moviegoers.

Most of the rest of the events take place in Georgetown, where Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show, The Wicker Man) plays Chris MacNeil, a film actress and single mother of a precocious girl named Regan (Blair, Roller Boogie).

Meanwhile, his adopted brother Chuck (Church, Spider - Man 3) is left to take care of precocious teen Vanessa during a period where she thinks she knows it all, including leaving the nest once and for all to go to college somewhere else.

Nadav Lapid's enigmatic, unsettling tale of a precocious student and his teacher confronts the nature of art and hints at Israeli society's tensions

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.

Writer - director Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird,» which follows the senior year of a precocious high schooler as she learns one life lesson after another, is one such rare case.

Directed and co-written by Sean Baker (Tangerine), THE FLORIDA PROJECT is the story of precocious six year - old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure.

The series followed the exploits of a precocious seven - year - old (voiced by Hill) and his two dads, Richard and Jeremy.

Presumedly, Disney World is in some way a backdrop to Baker's script, which he co-wrote with Chris Bergoch («Tangerine» and «Starlet») and tells the story of a precocious six year old and her rag - tag group of close friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility, and a sense of adventure, while their parents and the adults around them struggle with hard times.

Bautista will star as «a hardened CIA operative who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9 - year - old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family,» ComingSoon writes.

Then there's the allusion to J.D. Salinger's novella, an account of the precocious genius of the Glass family, by now something of an American literary legend.

The story is told through the eyes of a precocious child, «Sophie,» played by newcomer Ruby Barnhill, who is befriended by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies 2015).

«Breathe In» Synopsis: The arrival of a precocious, talented and beautiful foreign exchange student disrupts the fragile equilibrium of a family in Upstate, New York.

As in «The Devil Wears Prada,» she frequently relies on her a kind of put - upon hauteur to extract humor from unprepossessing material, though there is perhaps too much of that playfulness at the expense of the precocious sensuality she displayed so brilliantly in «My Summer of Love»; this Young Victoria remains a notably sexless figure.

Shortly after, Charlie discovers that he's the father of a precocious, mechanically brilliant 11 - year - old son, Max (Dakota Goyo), whose mother has died.

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.

The Nanny Diaries (PG - 13 for profanity) Sacrlett Johansson handles the title role in this romantic comedy, based on the best - selling novel of the same name, about a college grad nanny for a wealthy Manhattan family who finds herself having to put up with the parents» (Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti) dysfunction and the demands of their precocious son (Nicholas Art) until hope arrives in a relationship with a well - heeled, handsome Harvard alumnus (Chris Evans) from Park Avenue.

Goldthwait, on screenwriting and directing duty for the fourth time, ups the ante of precocious C - bomb dropping teenage girls (an alarming number of these characters seem to be popping up, from Hit Girl to Boltie) with Roxy (Tara Lynn Barr) who might not have the best aim with a handgun, but does a mean Jeff Foxworthy impression and has an impressively long list of grievances (and Star Trek trivia) for one so young.

I'm a serious guy by nature, a dentist by occupation and single parent of a precocious 5 - year - old daughter.

And all this without the use of the precocious Oxlade - Chamberlain.

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.

He had the star mentality with the behaviour of a precocious child and caused unbearable tension within the group of players.

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.

There is something perfectly Reagan-esque about a government that is at once malevolent, omnipotent, and vulnerable to the meddling of precocious children.

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).

That allowed millions of precocious tots to ring up hefty credit - card bills without their parents» knowledge.

Not exact matches

According to a fascinating recent Nature article by Tom Clynes, science has been hard at work trying to figure out the answer to that question for more than four decades with the the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth.

Edmark's precocious cat, its clever cow, and its irresistible orangutan had won the hearts, Vetras says, of «the tweed - jacketed, Volvo - driving 130 - plus - IQ set» who shopped at specialty chains.

In 2012, Chan and a precocious undergrad named David Novati planted a first flag, publishing a paper on a new way to calculate the value of hockey players.

He was a precocious child of extreme intelligence who read the encyclopedia for fun; not surprisingly, he was picked on relentlessly.

There's a profound insight here about our Darwinian natures untutored by civilization or about the immaturity of even a precocious girl.

The point is that almost all of us, unless we are exceptionally gifted or precocious, require more than bureaucratic exhortation or the abstract knowledge that the study of the humanities is important.

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

But by then, the precocious teenager had decided to become a musician, thanks largely to the influence of composer Igor Stravinsky (an improbable neighbor of the Zevons).

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.