Sentence examples for precocious the from inspiring English sources

Difficult children can be the most vulnerable: the sickly, the precocious, the retarded, the rebellious.

Slight and precocious, the symphony was notable mainly for its passing instances of subtly contrasted dynamics, keenly represented here with precise, lively playing.

Often, stories told from the perspective of a child can feel overly precocious — the child has thoughts, or expresses those thoughts, in ways that are too sophisticated to be entirely believable.

At times this book bears the stain of a debut: the circumstances too implausible; the kids too precocious; the similes too frequent and the album references too cool (a Facebook-ready list).

_Often, stories told from the perspective of a child can feel overly precocious — the child has thoughts, or expresses those thoughts, in ways that are too sophisticated to be entirely believable.

There is the poet John Slater, once famously precocious, the kind of fellow "who brought Unity Mitford to dinner during the period she was stealing stationery from Buckingham Palace and carrying that nasty little ferret around in her handbag".

The precocious tics, the eagerness to please, the history of embarrassing commercials: these hallmarks are absent.

Maybe next season will propel Pato beyond the precocious into the irresistible striker even Dunga cannot resist?

Described in her youth as the "precocious of the precocious," Edwards demonstrated a remarkable range of talents (5).

The youthful Republican Party was also stunningly precocious, winning the presidency of the United States at the age of six.

When the town's physician was called, the precocious Velpeau impressed the doctor despite the boy's recent pharmacologic misadventure.