Sentences with phrase «of precociousness»

As Aileen's lover Selby, a fictionalization of the aforementioned Ty, Christina Ricci was accurately characterized in Theron's Oscar speech as the «unsung hero» of Monster: Though Selby personifies Aileen's salvation, Ricci drops any pretense of precociousness in the early going, a move that would seem as humbling for her as gaining weight was for the slender Theron.

Although such examples of precociousness might seem to undermine Caspari's argument, they actually support it.

Her high school teachers remember a mix of precociousness and humility — and an ability to multi-task at a very young age.

Not exact matches

«His left foot is fantastic,» Pele says, marveling at a precociousness that reminds him of his own.

Future: A player chasing the tail of Phil Jones as the most exciting, home - grown defensive option already around the first - team squad, McNair has been praised for his precociousness on the ball and resolve.

The couple's firstborn child, he showed signs of great precociousness, but his potential was tragically cut short.

Yelchin shows a wisdom beyond his years here and not an ounce of child - star precociousness.

This is not a one - dimensional or one - note depiction of a misbehaving child but rather a tremendously nuanced turn that exhibits Prescott's precociousness but also his searing intellect and at times also some vulnerability, The characterisation is not only rich in terms of Prescott but in the adults too.

This awfully contrived tale centers around Henry Carpenter (Jacob Lieberher of St. Vincent and Midnight Special), a nearly 12 - year - old boy who elevates precociousness to a new level.

Precociousness is hard to pull off, a fact illustrated perfectly by The Book of Henry, which will undoubtedly remain among the year's worst films.

But I'd like to think, given this girl's precociousness, that she's also hellbent on destroying this dream, if only to dream bigger: of a world not so small, after all, and as such not predicated on the self - containment that enables capitalism and turns us into its suckers.

In many ways, Wadjda and Hushpuppy from «Beasts of the Southern Wild» feel like sisters; independent, spirited, mischievious and played without manner or precociousness (in this case, by the young Waad Mohammed).

Almost as tough to swallow as Hard Candy, that faux - feminist bile that set a precedent for the precociousness Ellen Page belligerently spews here, though less sketchy than Little Miss Sunshine, last year's pageant of Indiewood quirkitude.

There is some cheesiness, mostly born out of Joshua's precociousness, which his slight, youthful presence exaggerates.

Who is not in awe of an uncalloused mind lit by bedazzling precociousness and disarmingly naive ambition?