Sentence examples for bit precocious from inspiring English sources

I don't think we were nightmare children, but I was certainly fairly hyperactive and a bit precocious – so we were a handful.

In the end my teacher would ask me only to put up my hand if I didn't know the answer". Harold Smith, who became an upholstery teacher, was a primary-school contemporary and remembers the young Garner as "a bit precocious.

I was obviously a bit precocious.

Frankenthaler's stained-color technique has often been treated like a bit of precocious luck that Morris and Louis adapted and developed.

Drawing on the stories, Mr. Hwang, in a precocious bit of literary might, wrote a 90-page "novel," which he returned to, years later, for the play.

"You are a very smart boy," he has informed me, a few times now, after I came out with some unexpected fact or precocious bit of perception.

I was a bit of a precocious kid, very neurotic, and I feel as though I understood the film as intimately at that moment as I would today.

In a two-hour conversation, you sense a bit of the precocious 9-year-old who faced down a teacher for picking on a classmate.

"I was a bit of a precocious brat when it came to reading age, so first encountered Adrian Mole when I was still at primary school – I thought he was incredibly clever and sensitive, and I even admired his poetry.

He learns the chagrin of loneliness, which he confuses with with the chagrin of thwarted love, but he is saved when he meets a pretty 16-year-old named Raven Lee Halfacre, who is every bit as clever and morally precocious as he is (even though her mother is the local whore).

I have visceral problems with opera" — notwithstanding the backstage perks he enjoyed as a precocious youngster given bit parts in his father's productions — "mainly its aspect of social privilege".