Sentences with phrase «precocity of»

But one would like to find out more about similar precocious qualifiers for art academies who then went on to achieve nothing but mediocrity or failure — in whom, of course, art historians are uninterested — or to study in greater detail the role played by Picasso's art - professor father in the pictorial precocity of his son.
Cardinal Mercier not only began the revival of the study of St. Thomas in the late 19th century, with the gratitude and encouragement of Leo XIII, but it was he who noticed the mathematical precocity of a young seminarian, and fellow Belgian, whom he encouraged to study the then revolutionary new branch of physics developed by Albert Einstein.

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Anyway, here's a little gallery of football precocity — nine ballcarriers coming off fabulous freshman years.
Korean - American parents are famously education - obsessed; add to that Michelle's being an only child, and throw in her athletic precocity, and it is hard to imagine a situation in which a child could be the focus of more parental love, support and pressure.
He was only 15 years old and, because of his precocity, they called him Skyrocket.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College published the update in the December 2014 issue of Psychological Science, writing: «For both males and females, mathematical precocity early in life predicts later creative contributions and leadership in critical occupational roles.»
Like the Scripps National Spelling Bee, MasterChef Junior is a celebration of talent, precocity, merit, obsession, and, above all, losing.
A lot has been made of that precocity.
Profiles of precocity: The 1982 Midwest Talent Search Finalists Gifted Child Quarterly, 27 (3).
Precocity, complexity and intensity are identifying characteristics of highly gifted children.
Profiles of precocity: The 1982 Midwest Talent Search Finalists.
Moderately gifted children, in contrast, are more appropriately described as bright children, children who may score 130 or so on an IQ test, who can achieve highly, but who do not show the kind of obsessive rage to master and striking precocity found in the profoundly gifted.
The use of radical acceleration in cases of extreme intellectual precocity.
The New York Times Book Review wrote that her work showed «signs of brooding genius» and described Love as «a writer of great emotional precocity
Even in Pollock and Rothko certainly there is nothing to match the precocity and extremism of this huge black field canvas.
The stature of those that will to pay testament to Peggy — who was also the first person to exhibit Lucian Freud — confirms her precocity.
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