How To Use Precocious In A Sentence
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her child behaves precociously
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Dororo's main character Kou Shibasaki (The Sinking of Japan) as the woman warrior Dororo, who was a precocious street child and self-styled "greatest thief in all of Japan".
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a precocious achievement
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He shows a precocious interest in the opposite sex.
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Operating a cash-poor shamus practice in Edinburgh, occasionally bringing along his precocious daughter from a broken marriage, Brodie is clearly more of a doer than a brooder.
Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Walking Dead, Case Histories and More!
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As a boy, Freud was intellectually precocious and an extremely hard worker.
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Of the two latest biographers, it is Nicholas Roe, a professor of English at St Andrews University, who writes most expansively about the poet's ancestry and precocious development as a poet.
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Too much time, too much energy, too much passion had he put into his battle to become the First Man in Rome, to stand by tamely and see the luster of his name dimmed by a precocious aristocrat who would come into his own when he, Gaius Marius, was too old or too dead to oppose him.
The Grass Crown
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Some may consider it all irresistibly smart, rather than merely preposterous and precocious in equal measure.
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He treats us to a long discourse on "banded mail", the full-faced bucket helms are probably fifty years too hi-tech, the use of a barrier in tournament is a tad precocious.
Zornhau: Past Lives: Ronald Welch's "Knight Crusader"
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The nineteen-year-old in question is precociously hirsute on account of his Mediterranean parentage.
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After the judges called her precocious, the word become the #1 search term on google trends. btw, pre·co·cious: unusually advanced or mature in development, esp. mental development: a precocious child.
American Idol 7 Miami Auditions: Ilsy Lorena Pinot (Video)
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His precocious ability recognised, he would go on to win the same scholarship held by Daniel Barenboim and Itzhak Perlman and to play at the Carnegie Hall.
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Like young Washington, Mr. Bhaer ` couldn't tell a lie ', so he gave the somewhat vague reply that he believed they did some - times, in a tone that made Mr. March put down his clothesbrush, glance at Jo's retiring face, and then sink into his chair, look - ing as if the ` precocious chick' had put an idea into his head that was both sweet and sour.
Little Women
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The vine is a precocious one, budding, flowering, and ripening early, which makes it prone to spring frosts but means that it can flourish in regions as cool as much of the Loire.
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Leaving out of account the precocious movements of the sexual instinct to which I have already referred as colored by psychic algolagnia, I may say that somewhat later, from the age of puberty and onward, I had three or four love affairs, devoid of any algolagnic tendency, and considerably more developed on the psychic and emotional, than on the physical, side.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
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Leaving out of account the precocious movements of the sexual instinct to which I have already referred as colored by psychic algolagnia, I may say that somewhat later, from the age of puberty and onward, I had three or four love affairs, devoid of any algolagnic tendency, and considerably more developed on the psychic and emotional, than on the physical, side.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
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Like you, young Ben was a precocious indie popster, earning attention far beyond his age and, some say, his talent.
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In the coming-of-age dramedy Whole New Thing, cowritten by and costarring out Canadian Daniel MacIvor, a precocious 13-year-old falls for his promiscuous gay teacher.
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But it's the undertow of precocious sexuality, the child-woman come-on, that's more worrying.
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He shows a precocious interest in the opposite sex.
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a precocious child
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Brothers Tim and David Dang have poured their proclivities for fanciful imaginings and arty doodles into a sharply drawn comic for kids, Brilliant Boy, about a handful of precocious tykes and their G-rated misadventures.
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A troubling drama set against the backdrop of the Korean War in which a young man gets involved with a precocious fellow student.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a sense, too, that Spielberg has a special fondness for the young chancer - perhaps recognising something of himself in his precocious exploits.
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You feel the precocious Dinah is auditioning for the show rather than extending the narrative.
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Well, sort of: in the real world, your first job is more likely to involve spirit-crushing manual labour than it is nannying a precocious tyke with whom you can exchange valuable life-lessons.
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He is a bit of a throwback, a player of real style and precocious élan.
Times, Sunday Times
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Art historians will remember that these precocious painters aren't an exclusively 21st century phenomenon: Pablo Picasso showed unusual promise at the age of 8 with his bullfighter painting "Picador," while Dürer crafted a strikingly precise silverpoint self-portrait at 13.
ARTINFO: From the Palettes of Babes: 5 Prodigious Child Artists to Watch
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Sometimes I talked to Tatum O'Neal, a redheaded actress I admired for her role as a precocious adolescent capable of falling in love with Richard Burton, who was old enough to be her grandfather.
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Just the pampered young minion of any Tuscan court, a precocious wrappage of wit, good manners, and sensibility, he looked what he spoke, the exquisite Florentine, to these broad-vowelled Venetian lasses; did not smile, but seemed never out of temper; and was certainly not timid.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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This is, stripped bare, a classic romantic comedy, given a barbed edge by the precociously talented Anderson, whose presence lends the film its refreshingly unique style.
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The first came from a precocious 12-year-old boy at a fishing show in Long Beach, Calif., who proved he could do the same knot as Kreh in about a 10th of the time, and the last two came from a doctor, who taught Kreh how to quickly tie two common fishing knots with a hemostat.
The Big Catch: Fly-fishing guru 'Lefty' Kreh of Maryland is still making a splash
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Her daughter was a young lady, whom by appearance in England, you would call somewhere in her teens; but, hereaway they are so precocious that one is constantly deceived in guessing their age.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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Lavish profiles of diligent and precocious students - aspirant astronomers, nuclear physicists and even theologians- and their proud parents adorn the newspapers.
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He shows a precocious interest in the opposite sex.
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The Jewish family pattern shows distinctive national and precocious characteristics.
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I was just six when I wrote it and my aunt was always one to dote on her precocious nephew.
Leftover Author's Notes
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The impressions must have been deep, since, writing in advanced age, he describes their personal appearance and their different idiosyncrasies with a minuteness which is at the same time a remarkable testimony to his precocious powers of observation.
The Youth of Goethe
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The eldest, Gloria, is a poised beauty, while Dolly and Phil are pertly precocious.
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Although he's initially terrified at the prospect of being a father, Angela soon has a calming effect on him, despite her precocious, junk food-fuelled behaviour.
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A precocious composer (his earliest anthems date from c. 1663), he was sent to France and Italy about 1664 to study the latest fashions in music.
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Any display of precocious talent - or even average ability - mysteriously finds its way into every conversation.
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Perhaps I was trying to impress him with my precocious wisdom.
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Jennifer Bostock, a precocious young scientist from New York clad in a vintage velvet dress that gave her the appearance of a slightly aggrieved Gothic tragedienne, swung around from her desk.
Soul
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Olivier Messiaen was born in Avignon, France in 1908 into a highly scholarly family and showed precocious musical talent.
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Starting more than 30 years ago, the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth began following nearly 2,000 mathematically gifted adolescents, boys and girls, tracking their education and careers in ensuing decades.
The freedom to say ‘no’ « Isegoria
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Geared from the start with her charm, fierce determination and a precocious vocabulary, I didn't like her, and I didn't like the character of the debouched marshal played with obnoxious magnificence by Jeff Bridges.
Carol Smaldino: Examining Our Nation's True Grit: Can We Change Our Minds?
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I saw a very young lady play a tiger in a comedietta of mine called 'If the Cap Fits,' I had no idea that that precocious child had in her the germ of such an artist as she has since proved herself.
The Story of My Life
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Judging by his phony picture he's one of those fussy, antiseptic, precocious little boys that mothers adore and fathers get used to.
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If I had my way I'd ban the most precocious kids from reading anything but Enid Blyton.
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As a precocious teenager, and now as a student, Millie has always shared her wild lifestyle with Jamie.
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Only Mulligan, so charming as the precocious teen in An Education, is distressingly wan and weak as the token saint; we'll wait for further films to see which film was the correct clue to her talents.
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A precocious talent, he joined New York City Ballet aged 16 and after a season with Zurich Ballet returned as soloist, becoming principal in 1995.
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The prehistoric root flourished in many Indo-European languages, mainly carrying ideas to do with “cooking” and “ripening,” as seen in numerous words that English has borrowed: cook, cuisine, kitchen, kiln, terra cotta, and even precocious, as in “pre-ripened,” or “mature ahead of time.”
The English Is Coming!
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A pastiche of autobiography and post-modern plot twists, it was haunted by an off-putting tone of smug precociousness.
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This is a very confusing situation for a precocious trilingual five year old, but not such an unusual condition when seen in a pan-Canadian context.
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A precocious child, she went to university at the age of 15.
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My parents were a bit like those tennis parents who start drilling their kids on the court when theyre about two, with the idea of creating some kind of inhumanly precocious tennis prodigy.
Lev Grossman - An interview with author
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The young Lord Burlington was brilliant and precocious.
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Margaret was always a precocious child.
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(the monk of melodrama always has a bass voice), while excessive or precocious sexual indulgence tends to be associated with the same kind of puerile voice as is found in those persons in whom pubertal development has not been carried very far, or who are of what Griffiths terms eunuchoid type.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
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When he died he left her nothing but the boy Tom, a precocious urchin, inheriting some of his father's sporting propensities, with a certain slang smartness of tone and manner, acquired in those circles where horseflesh is affected as an inducement to speculation.
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
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Just by singing in English, precocious French duo the Do (pronounced "doe") have sparked a cultural shift in their homeland.
Frogsmoke.com
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I am certain that any 4-year old who not only knows the word precocious, but can also spell and properly use the word, also knows the word “fuck”. reply
Schwarzenegger Gives California Legislature A Hidden Finger
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Duncan, a precocious, affectionate child, had failed to live up to his academic potential, and had become withdrawn and uncommunicative.
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As a precocious teenage DJ in rural Washington State, Mr. Beck decided his destiny was to work in the famed studios of Radio City, which he encountered in the liner notes of a double-album called The Golden Years of Radio.
Glenn Beck Comes to Harlem «
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Rico Rodriguez, the 12-year-old actor who plays the young, precocious Manny on "Modern Family," was cradling his like a baby and had attached his white boutonniere to it.
Social Networking at SAG
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We call on the Scottish Parliament to enact a law banning precocious, gobby, wee, nyaff, pre-pubescents from embarrassing Scotland by singing on any form of medium which is publicly broadcast.
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This collocation of precocious poetic essence, stupefying lyricism and seditious brilliance sets up Rimbaud as the Romantic-Modern poet par excellence.
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Now those abominations whom you call precocious boys -- your little pet monsters, doctor!
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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In cold-winter climates, prune precocious magnolias in summer after they've bloomed.
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A troubling drama set against the backdrop of the Korean War in which a young man gets involved with a precocious fellow student.
Times, Sunday Times
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The perpetual precocious adolescent flitting about mothlike, creating trifles, feuilletons, elegant piffle.
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He is an absolutely precocious talent, and as nice a person as I could wish to be associated with.
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There's even one ambitious if awkward astylar effort by the adolescent Goodhue, precocious, if perhaps not having hit his stride quite yet.
W. Halsey Wood's Jerusalem the Golden
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He tells the tale of the precocious and gifted son of master court painter, who grows up illiterate but an exceptionally brilliant painter.
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And now I've just remembered Scarlet's sister, Cynara, who's dumped her husband to live with her dykey lover, D'Dora, who's driven the precocious Lola? you'll have to wait to hear more about her? out of their house and into Scarlet's.
Digested read: Kehua! by Fay Weldon
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The precocious talkativeness is a major attribute of the boy, who is known by the name of his class rather than a real proper name.
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That was a very precocious thing for a student to do, even in the seventies.
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For a young kid, he's extremely precocious from a standpoint of being a professional pitcher.
USATODAY.com - Beckett unfazed by hype and early frustrations
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Such unorthodox tactics incur the anger of Billy's traditionalist colleagues, most notably Philip Seymour Hoffman's head coach – a performance of mostly unleavened grumpiness, this, just as Robin Wright as Billy's estranged wife is simply supportive, and Kerris Dorsey as his 12-year-old daughter purely precocious.
Moneyball – review
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Surely this precocious, polysyllabic facility is an invaluable boon to cognitive development.
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The phrase illustrates little African-American girls' precociousness as they attempt to comprehend and overcome the challenges adult African-American women face in their strategies for survival in an oppressive society.
Irene Monroe: 'Womanist': Saying Who We Are
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I've gotten about halfway thru the 550-page 2nd volume of the Library Edition; I've finished, that is, all the poems he formally published & collected during his lifetime (the collection of record, which more or less signalled the close of Ruskin's already negelected poetic career, came out in 1850, when he was 31), & have just embarked on the real live "juvenilia," starting with the bits of precocious doggerel he was cranking out at 7 or so ....
GotPoetry.com News
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Barbara Billingsley, who gained the title supermom for her gentle portrayal of June Cleaver, the warm, supportive mother of a pair of precocious boys in Leave It to Beaver, has died.
CBC | Top Stories News
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Like young Washington, Mr. Bhaer 'couldn't tell a lie', so he gave the somewhat vague reply that he believed they did sometimes, in a tone that made Mr. March put down his clothesbrush, glance at Jo's retiring face, and then sink into his chair, looking as if the 'precocious chick' had put an idea into his head that was both sweet and sour.
Little Women
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She is blowsy, slightly needy, and struggling to keep in check the precocious sexuality of her only daughter, aptly named Lolita.
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Yet within the English critical formalist tradition, there is a precocious - and pertinent - esthetic responsiveness to unornamented industrial architecture on the part of Clive Bell.
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His precocious skill is immediately evident in the Piano Trio Suite Op. 8, which he wrote in his late teens.
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This collocation of precocious poetic essence, stupefying lyricism and seditious brilliance sets up Rimbaud as the Romantic-Modern poet par excellence.
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Soon perhaps to be the frontman for a TV series, he is every blue stocking's dream of a sex symbol: tallish, precocious, dark, and self-deprecatingly humorous.
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These precocious (Late Triassic) tetradactyl fliers developed a unique wing predicated upon a greatly elongated fourth finger.
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They become precocious experts in tragedy.
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Billingsley, who gained the title supermom for her gentle portrayal of June Cleaver, the warm, supportive mother of a pair of precocious boys in "Leave it to Beaver," has died Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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The 27-year-old grew up in bleak times for Scottish sport, when there was neither the political will nor the financial support to nurture precocious talent.
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At Precocious Curmudgeon, David Welsh takes a look at King City in pamphlet form.
Quick pamphlet comments
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Yet the sawmill was a conservatory of sorts for Maxine, Jim Ed and Bonnie, who early on revealed their musical precociousness by identifying exactly when a spinning saw blade had been properly tempered.
"Nashville Chrome," a novel by Rick Bass, about the Browns
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His talent was as precocious as his future partner's, and back in America he would perform at children's parties and at his father's academic gatherings.
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Many wine tasters have resorted to using anthropomorphic terms such as aggressive, clumsy, gutsy and precocious.
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This precocious introduction of Rabanus as "puer oblatus" in the Benedictine monastic world, and the fruits that it gave for his human, cultural and spiritual growth, opened up very interesting possibilities not only for the life of the monks, but also for the whole of society of his time, normally referred to as "Carolingian.
Benedict on the Liturgy: "The Faith is not only thought"
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The precocious teenage poet was committed to leftist internationalism, the united front against fascism.
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Symbolic of the new freedom were the pre-World War I bohemians of New York's Greenwich Village and the sexually precocious young women of the 1920s, the so-called flappers.
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A precocious child, she went to university at the age of 15.
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A precocious child who was promoted to fifth grade at age 7, he was asked by psychology professor Lewis Terman - creator of the Stanford-Binet IQ test - to participate in Terman's Genetic Studies of Genius, a long-term research project that followed the lives of 1,500 children into adulthood.
William E. Bradford, USAID program officer and volunteer reader, dies at 96
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- Barbara Billingsley, who gained the title supermom for her gentle portrayal of June Cleaver, the warm, supportive mother of a pair of precocious boys in "Leave it to Beaver," has died.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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But these are interesting and formative days for the precocious Arsenal midfielder's international career.
Times, Sunday Times
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Precociously gifted, Schjerfbeck was 11 when she entered the Finnish Art Society's drawing school.
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A ‘precocious five-year-old’, he was taken by his mother to see The Sound of Music and fell madly in love with Julie Andrews.
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Art historians will remember that these precocious painters aren't an exclusively 21st century phenomenon: Pablo Picasso showed unusual promise at the age of 8 with his bullfighter painting "Picador," while Dürer crafted a strikingly precise silverpoint self-portrait at 13.
ARTINFO: From the Palettes of Babes: 5 Prodigious Child Artists to Watch
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Family comedies, by their very nature, usually come beset with some sort of unsubtle message, a fair amount of gloop, and one or two precocious kids.
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He seems to have been aware of this from adolescence: certainly from the time when, in his early twenties, he lived and worked in Rome under the patronage of a bevy of cardinals who admired his precocious talents.
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For precocious local high-school students like Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Walter Hopps, it had provided a mind-expanding opportunity to see in person what they'd only read about in art magazines.
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It was also a thoroughfare for the gay equipages of the square, which passed through it daily on their way to and from the adjoining stables, thereby endangering the lives of precocious babies who could crawl, but could not walk away from home, as well as affording food for criticism and scandal, not to mention the leaving behind of a species of secondhand odour of gentility such as coachmen and footmen can give forth.
Fighting the Flames
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Addison, a precocious scholar, was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, becoming a fellow of Magdalen College in 1698.
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He has an avuncular, precociously adult manner of speaking - like a tweedy professor with elbow patches.
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He was big for his age, precociously self-reliant, and he was determined to be a sailor in time.
TESTIMONIES
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Neil Tarrant, on loan from Aston Villa, has provided the impetus with his precocious ability to score important goals.
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The shout of laughter that followed this was not in proportion to the depth but the unexpectedness of the joke, and John Adams went on his way, chuckling at the impudence of what he called the precocious snipe.
The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers
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Unlike many precocious talents he was relatively free of ego and willingly shared his gifts with the less gifted.
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In any case, I am cautious about pushing a precocious child on to first grade.
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She was a precocious child, it would seem, and already demonstrating where her adult interests would come to lie.
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The point is made early on that Daniel is an intellectually precocious child.
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As I headed back down to the chapel in my white kittel, the special garment that is the color of mercy, worn only on the Day of Atonement, I heard a precocious five-year-old avouch nasally, “My Barbie wins”
The Barbie Chronicles
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Mostly by implication, the film takes on education and upward mobility; the meaning of competition; our deep ambivalence about highfalutin language; and, of course, the cult of the precocious child.
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From childhood, he was evidently at once rebellious and precocious.
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In the West, precocious puberty is sometimes treated with regular injections to slow down physical development.
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Jackson entered the public consciousness as an impossibly cute, preteen wonder in 1969, an unbelievably precocious singer in his family band, The Jackson 5.
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Gazing upon them, my heart softened and I almost forgave the gums their manifold iniquities, their diabolical thirst, their demoralizing aspect of precocious senility and vice, their peeling bark suggestive of unmentionable skin diseases, and that system of radication which is nothing short of a scandal on this side of the globe ....
Old Calabria
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As a child growing up in Moray, Caledonian Thistle's manager was nicknamed Pele because of the precocious talent which saw him signed by Manchester United as a 15-year-old.
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Cornishmen of a different stamp emerged: John Opie, the precocious portraitist and art theoretician, Richard Trevithick, wrestler and inventor of high-pressure steam traction, Humphry Davy, perfecter of the miner's safety lamp.
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Callery pears are precocious, having a very short juvenile period, and flower as early as 3 years old.
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From an early age she displayed a precocious talent for music.
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A precocious child, he read voraciously and soon revealed an extraordinary aptitude for languages.
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Professor Frerichs recognized the precocious talent of this newcomer and encouraged Ehrlich's pursuit of histology and chemistry.
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From an early age he displayed a precocious talent for computing.
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Operating a cash-poor shamus practice in Edinburgh, occasionally bringing along his precocious daughter from a broken marriage, Brodie is clearly more of a doer than a brooder.
Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Walking Dead, Case Histories and More!
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It's Maria Lark, who plays precocious middle sib Bridgette, who's feeling the pain.
Medium's Final Message
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Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all.
Main Street
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It's a wonder I wasn't strangled before opening night, but at that age, precocious is cute.
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It was not just the precocious brilliance of his jockeyship but his heritage.
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Always the scholar and never the socialite, I adapted to pre-teen activities and the effervescence of wide-eyed, precocious little girls, much to my delight.
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That speech confirms what many people feel and fear about politicians: that they were the most despised classmates at school - the swot, the precocious prat, the political trainspotter.
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Moreover, Duwes depicted Mary as possessing a precocious grasp of the complex details of office holding and patronage when Mary threatened the almoner specifically with the denial of "a good benefyce" or church office that the old almoner had evidently been coveting.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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Just like the public hand-wringing over the HPV vaccine and improved access to contraceptives and birth control, a lot of anxiety about precocious puberty deals with whether it will "sexualize" a generation of girls too early.
Cristen Conger: Girls' Puberty Coming Sooner -- But What about the Boys?
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He was a precocious genius, became famous very early, and for a while tasted society life and the pleasure of entertainment and diversion.
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I think the term precocious is applicable as is free spirited.
Survivor: Child Island
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Barbara Billingsley, who gained the title supermom for her gentle portrayal of June Cleaver, the warm, supportive mother of a pair of precocious boys in Leave it to
The Seattle Times
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When you realise how precocious was the talent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, you can only pray he was a nice kid.
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precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias
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By the time he reached his teens he showed precocious talent and at the age of 25 he was a rising star.
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Objective To explore the fast assessment method for identifying isolated premature thelarche(IPT) and central precocious puberty(CPP).
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In the endeavor to resuscitate Rome's art scene after World War II, few were more enterprising and none more precocious than Piero Dorazio.
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The New Yorker's precocious Ryan Lizza has nice McCain mash note up this week.
On the Bus - Swampland - TIME.com
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There's still something of the precocious child about him.
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We're all no doubt envisioning worthless adolescent punks who deserve to lose some teeth, but what if the perpetrator is female, or a precocious 12-year-old?
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And when they are shown they are either precocious brats or philosophy-spouting saints.
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Emilie was precocious in many ways, and by the age of 16, when she was introduced to the court at Versailles, she had matured into an attractive, intelligent and sharp-tongued woman.
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He truly was a precocious master of the Hammond and in a light jazz setting such nimble-fingered wizardry shines out.
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Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted — private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training — edutainment products are part of a system that divides children into haves and have-lesses.
Extreme Parenting
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I had prepped precocious Cindy Hammer for a feature on Camp Pa-He-Tsi in Winnisquam, Michigan, using every tool in my portable makeup kit; styptic pencil, upper armpit blusher, highlighter.
A Day in the Life of a Supermodel Armpit Makeup Artist
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Outfield players, especially, must be nurtured almost full-time from the first inkling of any precocious ability.
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But this precocious, 22-pound boy with coffee-colored skin, curly hair and washboard abs is far from a typical toddler.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Always the scholar and never the socialite, I adapted to pre-teen activities and the effervescence of wide-eyed, precocious little girls, much to my delight.
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The filling of the juvenile mind, long before nature brings the body to maturity, with impure imaginations, not only preoccupies the ground which is greatly needed for something else, and fills it with shoots of a noxious growth, but actually induces, if I may so say, a _precocious maturity_.
The Young Man's Guide
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Precociously conscious of the precious, inexplicable burden of selfhood, I have steered my unique little craft carefully, at the same time doubting that carefulness is the most sublime virtue.
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