Only 20 years old and having played in just 56 N.B.A. games, the precocious second-year point guard Kyrie Irving is forcing a question: how early is too early to start talking about a player as one of the best point guards in the N.B.A.? It's seems like a silly question, really.
He is a precocious fifth-grade student with a mouth that bubbles over with words.
Meanwhile, Dennise Bock, a precocious sixth grader, is planning a car wash on July 20 to help raise the money.
Mailer, in his NYT piece, describes it playfully as a wonderfully precocious first novel, full of talent and energy.
Tyrell, a precocious ninth grader in gray sweatpants, looked bored by the whole experience, and eager to go home.
What is perfectly acceptable to the parent of a precocious third child may seem like insanity to the parent of a shy, tentative first-born.
Enter the New Zealander Eleanor Catton, stage left, delivering a wildly brilliant and precocious first novel (she's in her mid-20s) that's not easy to describe.
A raw ache of discontent emanates off the pages of her best works, starting with her precocious first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (1940).
People who knew the Linehans at that time remember that their precocious third child was often in trouble at home, and Dr. Linehan recalls feeling deeply inadequate compared with her attractive and accomplished siblings.
This was partly because of this very bay, but also because of the Soggy Dollar Bar farther down the beach, which Elise, a precocious third grader, assured us had the best drinks on the island.
She has written more than 400 of them, and they're genuinely not bad -- that is, they're as charming and alert and unfettered as you could expect from a precocious third grader.
