Sentence examples for up precocious from inspiring English sources

Jeffrey Roork grew up precocious, his father said, and started his creative endeavors early, publishing an underground magazine in high school and experimenting with amateur film making.

I grew up precocious, as many kids do in Manhattan, and from an early age, I was independent and found a woman who lived in our building whom I decided I wanted for my mother.

And Ian Stuart Spiro, 46, who described himself as an international commodities broker, dropped by the Fairbanks Country Day School most afternoons to pick up precocious Dina, 11, the couple's youngest child.

Then Gustavo, the photographer, asks him to nuzzle up to Precocious.

Ms. Rodham has been described by people who knew her growing up as precocious, and in the letters she is scathingly judgmental at times.

There's the attractive, intelligent but scatty Nenna, struggling to bring up two precocious children in the absence of her husband.

Samuel Champion, Daniel Cook, Gareth Cooper and Caroline May-Jones make up a precocious four-piece whose mix of skits and songs make up a compelling set that is gloriously daft.

Spivet is that staple of contemporary literature from Salinger onwards: the misunderstood child genius, damaged, hypersensitive, refusing to grow up and precocious way beyond a fault.

The script, by Mr. Adamson, Joe Stillman, J. David Stem and David N. Weiss, has jokes that grown-ups and precocious kids will congratulate themselves for getting, and plenty of broader humor (which actually works better).

· Why do pop stars' kids grow up to be precocious little horrors?

The six-part series centred on two parents, played by comedian Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner, struggling to bring up their three precocious children.