Sentence examples for precocious schoolboy from inspiring English sources

Gabriele D'Annunzio, by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Knopf).This biography narrates d'Annunzio's ascent from precocious schoolboy to decadent poet and proto-Fascist firebrand.

Gabriele D'Annunzio, _by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Knopf)._This biography narrates d'Annunzio's ascent from precocious schoolboy to decadent poet and proto-Fascist firebrand.

In the 2004 auction, Luke Squires placed a winning bid and later appeared as "a sexually precocious schoolboy" in Adam Mars-Jones's 2008 novel, Pilcrow.

The antic criminal investigation is descended directly from the farces noires of Joe Orton, while the precocious schoolboy puns and self-congratulatory epigrams evoke a blend of musical hall routines and Oscar Wilde.

He helped Anderson get going on his second film, Rushmore (1998), a cruel and hilarious little gem starring Bill Murray as a misanthropic businessman whose midlife crisis is inflamed by a precocious schoolboy.

Cox brought the first science prize he ever received, The Observer's Book of Astronomy, for Moore to sign – and discovered for the first time that he had not won it for precocious schoolboy physics, but for attendance.

He came to prominence in 2006 as one of the precocious schoolboys in Alan Bennett's The History Boys.

I worry with Rabindranath Tagore that, "material advantage... has tempted the modern man away from his inner realm of spiritual values," and that these New Atheists, are the type of "precocious schoolboys of modern times, smart and superficially critical... driven by suicidal forces of passion, set their neighbours' houses on fire and are themselves enveloped by the flame".

Rimbaud, given the chance, would have preferred to have her disreputable Arthur come out looking like a precocious Catholic schoolboy who only briefly dabbled in absinthe.

Given that the son was - to begin with - a polite, precocious, straight-A schoolboy, there was plenty the father might have been proud of.

He told her the story of the German mathematician, Carl Friedrich Gauss, who displayed his precocious skills as a schoolboy when he worked out in seconds how to sum all the numbers from 1 to 100.