Sentence examples for by precocious from inspiring English sources

Unlike the usually quick-fading male teenage heartthrobs, the diva lineage they're claiming is characterized by precocious beginnings that lead to long careers.

Network development departments are now filling up with more families with slightly overweight fathers harried by precocious teenagers and sparring with their much-better-looking wives.

The sets might just as well have been built out of available household stuff, the stiff figurines animated and ventriloquized on a classroom or bedroom floor by precocious children.

For Dr. Furman, red flags are raised by "precocious daters" who pair off before their peers, and by "uneven, inequitable relationships," in which one partner is controlling and the other dependent.

That swimming is so regularly dominated by precocious teens is probably down to its status as purely physical contest, where spongy adolescent lungs trump guile and experience every time (long-distance swimming, where mental strength comes into play, is another matter).

China won't be outdone by precocious Qatar or northern friend Russia.

Still, women on the verge have always been romanticized, not least by depressive, precocious teenage girls as impressed by the looks of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Jean Rhys as by their work.

Beginning with Peter Eotvos's very early "Kosmos" for two pianos, an atmospheric depiction of the big bang theory composed by a precocious teenager, the program built piece by piece to Bartok's colossal Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.

It is a serious, ambitious work by a precocious and perhaps overreaching young writer, populated by characters with blunt purpose; a little slow moving, particularly in the opening act; and a little pedantic, particularly in the third (and closing) act.

He grew up in the stifling, Waspy town of Bloomfield, New Jersey, raised by a single mother who was somewhat awed by his precocious intelligence.

The papers and publications of Henry Boynton Smith show how one of those roads, travelled by a precocious young man from Maine, passed directly through Union, marked by a collection of signposts and waypoints in the Burke archives.