Phillip's prickly, precocious thoughts in "Luminous Motion" are channeled through the squeaky voice of Eric Lloyd, the cute, pudgy-faced actor enlisted to play this murderous, possibly psychotic character.
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.
_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.
Still, best avoided if you're made uncomfortable by the thought of precocious tweens rapping about going to Australia.
You did it despite all the instances when you or someone you knew had mistyped the address at the top of an e-mail — such an easy error, given the way our precocious devices assume our thoughts and finish them for us — and the message had landed where it wasn't supposed to.
There are rather modern factors in Confucianism, especially in traditional Chinese political thoughts and systems China is a precocious modern country in this sense, so that it inevitably has some appropriate modern factors, but the key is how to understand, study and judge the traditions of China.
But they thought I was too precocious.
I look at my chin in the mirror for a while before getting stuck into the big stuff: today's ego-mayo salad sandwich with a think-piece pesto crust – the thoughts, passions and ranked tastes of precocious Liberal Arts graduates the world over, all helpfully curated and blasted into my consciousness every morning.
Real Fast Food is Slater's Portnoy's Complaint, the bold and brilliant arrival, packed with precocious appetites and ideas, that changed for ever the thought of what to do with food in the cupboard or fridge.
