Sentence examples for slightly precocious from inspiring English sources

A shorter section follows in New York, where Jeffrey and his girlfriend Emma amble around with Emma's adopted Ukrainian son Stak, a possibly autistic teen who provides the familiar DeLillo note of volatile and slightly precocious intelligence.

She wears her auburn hair pinned back by a barrette, in demure schoolmarm fashion; in her choice of clothes, too, she favors an unprepossessing look — a carapace of ordinariness, forged out of her Illinois childhood and "the ability of Midwesterners to pulverize people who seem slightly precocious," she explained.

In fact, in long days AtVOZ2 overexpression in atvoz1-1 atvoz2-1 resulted in slightly precocious flowering at fewer leaves than WT.

A slightly more precocious MCH production could also explain the absence of MCH neurons in the PVp.

What should have been a wonderful week on the back of his call-up to the England national team for the friendly with Sweden turned slightly sour when they precocious 20-year-old found that being the centre of attention was a little too much for him.

An analysis cannot conclude without praising the precocious savvy of Mike York, the slightly built, second-year center, while wondering about his stamina.

His politeness is self-effacing and charming, but it's also part of a stage presence — back straight, eyes wide, head tilted slightly upward to project — that calls to mind a precocious m.c. of a middle-school talent show.

The good results in terms of the recovery of ROM obtained in almost all our patients are most probably related to the very precocious postoperative elbow motion permitted by the external fixator which slightly distracted the elbow joint, thus protecting ORIF, and stabilized the joint even in most complex injuries.

As a schoolgirl, war was the slightly boring pastime of grown-ups, conducted on battlefields, irrelevant to invincible precocious types like myself.

(As Des is precocious and Grace is a hippyish 39, this union is slightly less crazy than it sounds).Two questions drive the plot: what will happen when Lionel discovers that Des is sleeping with his mother?

Unsurprisingly, everything's slightly more complicated when you're exiting a period of being worshipped for your precocious talent.