Sentences with phrase «precocious talent»

As a flashback informs us, Huang Yu - hsiang was born blind in a modest family in rural Taiwan, but quickly developed precocious talents as a pianist, to the point that he ran for several competitions at a very young age.

Jellett had precocious talent as a painter, and while starting out as a follower of Impressionism she began - as a result of her association with the Parisian abstract painter and teacher Albert Gleizes - to develop a greater interest in modern abstract art like Cubism.

Bellerin — Precocious talent ravaged with injuries this year.

The18 - year - old precocious talent has already represented Croatia's U-21 side, although the Gunners look set to face competition from Inter Milan for the wideman.

Following an outstanding campaign, which could yet end in promotion to the Premier League, Sessegnon is rated one of the world's most precocious talents in his age category - and has even been touted as a surprise inclusion in England's World Cup squad this summer.

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.

A similarly precocious talent, German midfielder Sebastian Deisler seemingly had the world at his feet and the hopes of the nation in his hands, only for injuries and depression to cut short a once - promising career.

It starts off with examples of de Kooning's astonishingly precocious talent at realism — two small still lifes done when he was 12 and 16 — and culminates in his last pictures, made at the end of his life (he died in 1997), when he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and the paintings are mostly white with a few ribbons of color staggering across the picture plane.

For four years the WTA tour has been the best soap opera in sports, a melodrama of exploding egos, precocious talent and breathtaking cattiness.

This is a more impressive feat of James» durability than anything else, I'd argue, but certainly he's a precocious talent like nothing we've ever seen.

and Fabregas was a precocious talent, an exception to the rule.But even he wasn't in the Arsenal first 11 at 17.

Another precocious talent to follow closely is Tonny Vilhena.

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.

GN5, I agree with you largely re Theo but he is one example (possibly the best example) I would use to ask whether AW is still that top coach that can develop a precocious talent to world class status.

Left wing is a position Arsenal could do with an upgrade in; Alex Iwobi is a precocious talent but is still developing, while Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain is more comfortable on the right or centrally.

That was asking a lot of the 19 - year - old, even for someone with his precocious talent.

Ed Woodward and many others in the hierarchy believe he is a precocious talent to be invested in for the future, but there is also an argument that he is badly needed right now, even if not always a starter.

A precocious talent, the 21 - year old is beginning to add end product to his intelligent movement and eye for a pass.

Agents will not say no to precocious talent, but it has to be in evidence.

Als spoke affectionately of the India - born British artist, discussing her precocious talent — she successfully applied to the Slade School of Art in London at age 15 — and the unfair way that her romantic relationship with the late painter Lucien Freud (her teacher at the Slade, with whom she had a son) overshadowed her early career.

Born in 1902 in Iron River, Mich., a poverty - stricken mining town, he worked in mines and lumber camps as a teenager while showing a precocious talent for drawing.

His family, having lived for some time in Jersey and northern France, moved in 1838 to London, where his precocious talent could be properly developed.