Sentence examples for precocious by from inspiring English sources

Traditional children's development of social skills is precocious by our standards.

But it will be the rare 10-year-old who is not inspired to be precocious by Savion Glover's story.

Jean was particularly precocious; by age 12, he was employed by the bishop as a clerk and received the tonsure, cutting his hair to symbolise his dedication to the Church.

It is adapted, by Helen Edmundson, from a novel for young adults (or perhaps precocious children) by Jamila Gavin.

But few have undergone an adolescence as tumultuous as Lee; jaded by 18, chart-topper at 20 and being called a "precocious cunt" by Bernard Fanning before he was even legally allowed to drink in his adopted home of New York City.

With its current exhibition, "Between Two Centuries: Spain 1900," the Mapfre Foundation offers a stunning overview of that epoch with canvases that range from grand stylized portraits by Ignacio Zuloaga to the sun-dappled Mediterranean scenes of Joaquín Sorolla to precocious works by the young Dalí, Picasso and Miró.

This precocious touch by the young prince brought a burst of applause from the solemn crowd.

On one occasion, he tells me, he silenced a precocious infant by saying: "Do you know what, Charlotte?

On her first public performance at a Girl Scout function, Ms. Lavin, then 13, showed a precocious quirkiness by introducing her own song "The World Is Going To End".

Gertler's mother proudly pinned to the wall of her kitchen the letter of encouragement sent to her precocious son by Sir William Rothenstein.

Voting to let the country fall off the cliff was an audacious, even precocious, move by the Democratic golden boy and presidential pet — one that, oddly, put him on the side of Marco Rubio and Rand Paul rather than Obama and Joe Biden.