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"precocious" Definitions
  1. (of a child) having developed particular abilities and ways of behaving at a much younger age than usual

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Urias is the most precocious pitching prospect since Felix Hernandez, who himself was the most precocious pitching prospect since Rick Ankiel.
Like Gauff -- and Vekic -- she was a precocious teen.
" Casto, her mom says, was "very precocious, loud and funny.
The main character, named Lewis, is a precocious child inventor.
Precocious teen Jessica makes connections with Bi, Elizabeth, and Carl.
The movie's surreal framework ultimately proves too precocious and cutesy.
He wasn't precocious like Ken Griffey, Jr., or Bryce Harper.
Mahika "was precocious from the start," her mother Deepali says.
Both were precocious students, and they shared other talents, too.
Kids are really precocious these days but this is something else.
Precocious youngsters, too, can feel awkward about bossing their elders around.
Precocious sexualisation, however, is recognised as causing some forms of harm.
Mr Kurz may be even more precocious than his French counterpart.
Could the pugnacious figure of Gingsanglek rout the precocious teen titan?
The walls were papered with the precocious musings of elementary children.
The precocious success of Lena Dunham and Donald Glover was intimidating.
Adam Buchwald, stroking a precocious five-o'clock shadow, pitched a visitor.
The precocious tot is happiest when she's twinning with her mother.
Their children are precocious in a J.D. Salinger sort of way.
James Fenton, a precocious English poet, became my next war buddy.
I was a fast, voracious and precocious reader as a child.
We were ten, eleven years old and not regarded as precocious.
And as the movie progresses, a handful of precocious personalities emerge.
Sophisticated and precocious, Klinec winds up working at a London bank.
Precocious and all-too-cute, the Colorado native was a fan favorite.
Precocious and politically minded, they are in the mood for a revolution.
Can we keep them precocious and young and planted in 1983 forever?
She's just a feisty, agile, fearless precocious rat, and she loved adventure.
She is a precocious little girl who is wise beyond her years.
Traversing Delany's youth, we see a precocious mind grappling with his own
A precocious child, Ronan's intellect started to show at an early age.
The race also provided yet more proof of Max Verstappen's precocious talent.
It's impossible not to think of your having been a precocious child.
It was an indication, perhaps, of James's precocious grip on the league.
Jeff Augustin's drama about two dads and their precocious daughter moves on.
Precocious and social, Ms. Jordan had a wide network outside of school.
Lale, a precocious preteen, sneaks out of her house to go to a
Will the precocious teen get the depressed European teacher 20 years his senior?
They're precocious and churn out one-liners that match the show's rapid pace.
Precocious children are often dismissed as the product of pushy, middle-class parents.
That was cute when I was the precocious youngest woman in the room.
It probably comes as no shocker that Legend was a precocious little kid.
"Nevermind" hit when she was nine, and she was precocious enough to notice.
A precocious one, who at the age of five could draw perfect portraits.
Nineteen appears to be the age when the precocious baseball player breaks out.
"You've been brainwashed," explains Florence's son Willing, a precocious self-taught economic savant.
It was a trait that made me a good student, fastidious, and precocious.
They have one child, a daughter who is (of course) adorable and precocious.
STEPHEN SHORE A major retrospective of the precocious and prolific American photographer. Nov.
Indeed, we may be one of several precocious civilizations strewn across the cosmos.
Henry is now perpetually 14 and over-serious, Benny perpetually 7 and precocious.
If you are older, don't let these precocious overachievers make you feel bad.
And Berkson, too, a precocious writer, played an active role in that culture.
Regardless, "No Time to Die" is a moving showcase for Eilish's precocious talent.
It introduced his precocious command of craft and composition and his uncommon imagination.
One of nine siblings, Barragán was an avid equestrian and a precocious aesthete.
" 1998 - Portrays a melancholy millionaire who feuds with a precocious teen in "Rushmore.
He really was a polymath, precocious, driven, bipolar and to some extent bisexual.
It's contingent on the kids saying cute, horrible, weird, precocious, and heartwarming stuff.
This is somewhat expected from Chloe, since the show paints her as aggressively precocious.
In your pre-Sex Pistols days you were a very prolific and precocious thief.
Sister, Outsider - Along with her sister, Williams proved that precocious talent always trumps preconceptions.
Well, it sounds precocious but, at that time, everybody was talking about the markets.
Both ferocious and precocious, she jumps into every task with a roar of delight.
We were precocious back in the day, is the way I would say it.
Macron's private and working life to date has been an unusual and precocious one.
We love her, because she is what we want to be: gutsy, bold, precocious.
Mia is now a mom to two twin boys and one precocious girl. 4.
But I'm not the mad woman of the stories; I'm precocious, thoughtful, and curious.
Her precocious 16-year-old daughter (Tara Lynne Barr) is part of her baggage.
" I want to go to college, a precocious young Elisabeth Demand says, in "Autumn.
It was supposedly derived from having been called Little Professor as a precocious child.
Like the great American Pharoah, she possessed a precocious intelligence and charisma to burn.
Her precocious 16-year-old daughter (Tara Lynne Barr) is part of the baggage.
"Liiiiie to me," she crooned, with a winking heart and some true, precocious wisdom.
It sounds so precocious, but we had no doubt [that we would be successful].
Rouzan was precocious, entering kindergarten at 260, picking up English words and reciting poetry.
He also had a hunger for erudition, expressed in precocious poems, essays, and orations.
One particularly precocious juvenile stretched out his palm, making a "give it here," gesture.
My 14-year-old son has achieved precocious success in his profession of choice.
The precocious Capriati was greeted by breathless excitement as she emerged on the tour.
Safa was a precocious, passionate young man and a voracious reader, particularly of poetry.
Precocious as Porzingis may be, he is, at 21, not yet near his prime.
What might have been dutiful apprenticeship to the available material is instead precocious control.
A precocious, imaginative boy, he worries constantly about how his words and actions affect others.
When the precocious undergraduate business student caught the speech later, his reaction wasn't exactly glowing.
Angela's son, now a precocious 2-year-old, is the apple of his mother's eye.
Occasionally his teenage powers of insight strain credulity, but readers will enjoy his precocious company.
There are precocious young girls who know better than the adults (royal and contemporary trope).
It's a pretty precocious word for a 15-year-old, but no, not at all.
Rudderless without his confidant, Laxman finds solace in Guo, the precocious new kid in town.
The frenchman is known for his "precocious" personality, and it was on full display today.
I was furious at myself for being unable to find Lena-levels of precocious success.
That precocious four-year-old blazing through Super Mario on her 3DS is a gamer.
Thrasher, a precocious 19-year-old, closed out the summer with her biggest surprise yet.
When someone is freakishly precocious at acting, like Claire Danes, where does that come from?
"It was a place where Lovecraft's precocious nature was allowed to develop," Mr. Hobbs said.
There's Elle and Dakota Fanning, who seem to take turns playing precocious teens and twentysomethings.
Still, amidst the excitement over the Wolves' precocious kids, the approaching offseason brings organizational intrigue.
I was not precocious, so I read the conventional English books: Enid Blyton, et cetera.
Their girl characters were smart and deep and precocious, and their torments were taken seriously.
So is Raphael Alejandro as Hugo, who's sweet and winsome and precocious without being cloying.
As a child, Humar was precocious and stubborn — "big headed," the clan collectively called her.
But some creative and precocious millennial minds have discovered an alternative to traditional entrepreneurship: franchising.
Before long, his son did the most precocious thing an infant can and rolled over.
Masha and the Bear follows the adventures of a precocious young girl and, well, a bear.
Masha and the Bear follows the adventures of a precocious young girl and, well, a bear.
I was a deliberately provocative, sexually precocious teenager, and was thoroughly bored by boys my age.
As we squeezed together, the precocious young girl talked about wanting to become a fashion designer.
Just how important is suggested by the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY), founded in 1971.
Instead, she's released and moves in with her former assistant (Bell) and the assistant's precocious daughter.
After Mary's mother died, her uncle Frank Adler (Chris Evans) acts as the precocious girl's guardian.
He is the valedictorian of his class, a precocious and skilled debater and a champion athlete.
Few performances—and few films—glow as brightly with the gemlike fire of precocious genius. ♦
A precocious child, Mark at age 12 created a messaging program called "Zucknet" using Atari BASIC.
But wines selected by a precocious sommelier at Blue Hill at Stone Barns helped things along.
But the precocious nature of Black life is to know death before embarking on its journey.
Not only do you both have precocious reading habits, but you also have advanced friendship skills.
That diagnosis of aristocratic disdain must have been a gift to a precocious 12-year-old.
Mets 6, Marlins 5 MIAMI — Pete Alonso, the Mets' precocious rookie first baseman, needed some rest.
Her precocious and particular ambition: to be a New York City choreographer respected by her community.
Caroline Grogan gives a precocious, crackerjack performance as Mary Warren, a young girl in Abigail's cohort.
I do not mean to knock the handiwork of a gifted thinker and a precocious mind.
They wed in 21980 when Sontag was 21963, a precocious undergrad at the University of Chicago.
This difficult but propulsive coming-of-age story spills out in a precocious stream of consciousness.
Travis and Harrison aren't anything like the precocious youngsters in movies like Home Alone or The Goonies.
Legend has it that the precocious boy wrote his very first song, "Funk Machine," at age 7.
From its inception in 1942 until 1994, the search recognized more than 2000 precocious teenagers as finalists.
Directed with elegant understatement by Oliver Butler, the show begins with Ms Schreck reliving her precocious speechifying.
Jack and David Cahn are a set of precocious millennial twins writing a book about their generation.
The precocious group still shows signs of its youth, missing tackles or having breakdowns in zone coverage.
Wayne already sounds like a superstar, at 15, but he also just sounds like a precocious kid.
The letters, set to be released by Emory University on Friday, are cerebral, precocious and extremely fluent.
The artist's precocious works sum up the unappeasable agitation most of the working population experiences every day.
The book's third-person narrative voice is intelligent, confiding and personable — indeed, precocious — rather like Anna herself.
Unless you are a precocious 214.99-month-old who has already learned to read, this includes you.
Speaking of which... Dak to the Future Dak Prescott blew everyone away with his precocious preseason performances.
Luke's precocious daughter is all grown up now, and presumably still spouting wisdom well beyond her years.
They are poised and precocious, increasingly visible from their work on the show and in other projects.
The Patient: Lucy Branson, now 4, a precocious preschooler with a fondness for any sort of doll.
Born March 30, 1926, Kamprad was a precocious entrepreneur who sold matchboxes to neighbors from his bicycle.
Laura (Tara Lynne Barr), Valerie's sexually precocious 16-year-old daughter, is only part of her baggage.
I took advantage of the utter anonymity of the internet and my precocious self-expression to deceive them.
Newcomer Neel Sethi is also a precocious and endlessly watchable lead, guided by ambitious directing from Jon Favreau.
Lena Dunham may be one of the most precocious creative forces Hollywood has seen in a long time.
But Washington appears to be for real, a precocious teenager just coming out of an awkward growth spurt.
Hallie and Annie are raised to be wildly precocious poker-playing kids who are at ease with adults.
I thought I was precocious and mature and that's the reason older men wanted to be with me.
Perhaps, like so many precocious kids, I wanted to read adult books because I wanted to grow up.
She trades on her privilege, not in a calculated way, but because she is genuinely precocious and sheltered.
He's precocious, indulged, needy, and vulnerable; more human than his human overseers, with their stilted, near robotic delivery.
Walsh's daughter took Lupron for precocious puberty and now struggles with fibromyalgia and has had jaw-joint surgery.
On our summer 2019 vacation-style moodboard: puka-shell-necklace surfer bros, Scandi bloggers, and aesthetically precocious toddlers.
Spieth, 22, is trying to regain an elusive, precocious magic that made him seem unconquerable a year ago.
A satire, it revolves around two precocious 291-year-old girls who become obsessed with a classical pianist.
But the eastern German state of Saxony is home to a precocious little motorist who did just that.
Some precocious talents have experienced physical abuse, including Jelena Dokic, who reached the Wimbledon semifinals at age 23.
His father, Otto Demus, a prominent art historian, and his mother, a violinist, encouraged their son's precocious talent.
What she wants, in her precocious way, is not a return to normalcy, but a modicum of predictability.
A precocious ballplayer, Kaneda dropped out of high school to join the Swallows in 2003 at age 2200.
It stars three generations of Mr. Keegan's immediate family, including his parents, siblings, nieces and a precocious nephew.
It comes from Bosker's friend — and Sherpa — Morgan Harris, a precocious, brassily opinionated sommelier at New York's Aureole.
I knew I'd get to spend seven hours with these women, their flop husbands, and their unnervingly precocious kids.
American Hallie Parker, raised among kind, Labrador Retriever-esque people and a gorgeous golden retriever, is confident and precocious.
Like so many other entrepreneurs, there are plenty of anecdotes from his childhood demonstrating his precocious ability to hustle.
The young characters are ingenuitive and precocious, which means the writing can't be lazy, or it will ring false.
Ryland apparently keeps everyone back home up-to-date on their forecasts too, just like Alexa but more precocious.
She seems to be a precocious 17-year-old that happens to be the best snowboarder in the world.
A precocious child, Shaltmira claims that drawing came naturally for her, as did interacting with much more mature people.
This was "Bling Bling" part two, except this time Wayne wasn't just a precocious upstart coming into his own.
Nick Jonas was a child star, but he's not the kind of performer you would think of as precocious.
Aijaz Khan's "Hamid" is about the unusual connection between a precocious boy and a soldier in conflict-ridden Kashmir.
He was a precocious kid who sat inside and wrote screenplays rather than getting into dust-ups or worse.
Art Review A glorious retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces a precocious prophet of the modern age.
But he came up short against Donovan Mitchell, a precocious Utah Jazz rookie with his own sense of history.
TORONTO — More than 20 years ago, a precocious teenage girl made a surprising request of the novelist Margaret Atwood.
For a team that had emphasized rebuilding, it was a remarkable achievement by a mostly precocious group of players.
Enter Tess and Theo Biedermann, precocious twins named after the Morningstarrs, who live in one of the Morningstarr buildings.
You have to be really smart and really cool, but also they want you to be not too precocious.
Mr. Lecesne, usually a skilled teen whisperer, even mucks up Leanne's annoyingly precocious 13-year-old daughter (Isabella Russo).
The N.B.A. playoffs do not slow down for any team, not even for one as precocious as the Bucks.
Children in such situations can take on precocious maturity as they turn their energies to resolving differences among adults.
A precocious student, he left high school in Rockville Centre at 21940 and enrolled in the University of Chicago.
Jawlensky's precocious impatience with the strictures of representation was the only real constant in his early portraits and landscapes.
Joan and her adorable, regulation-precocious 4-year-old boy, Lincoln, are passing a pleasant afternoon at the zoo.
Poised and precocious, Essien was the only teenager among 177 golfers at the 2019 Nigeria Ladies Golf Open Championship.
And Jaeden Lieberher is precocious and elegant as Alton, who seems too frail for anything more than being held.
As a young, precocious redheaded boy growing up in Framlingham, Suffolk, Ed Sheeran decided he wanted to be a musician.
This adorable version of "Feliz Navidad" features some high-pitched vocals from a precocious youngster, sure to brighten your holidays.
They're the preferred footwear of a precocious boy whose favorite things include chocolate, ice cream and hanging out with police.
Jacobs began writing early, as a precocious cub reporter without a college degree, in her native town of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Netflix's breakout hit Stranger Things can make a case out of precocious children, John Carpenter synths, and the Winona Ryderssance.
Alexie's expertly paced text zips along with loving interjections from the boy's entire family, led by a precocious little sister.
He seemed to emerge in the 1950s as fully formed a literary stylist as his equally precocious contemporary John Updike.
This is how Holmes went from precocious child, to ambitious Stanford dropout, to an embattled startup founder charged with fraud: 
Contrary to its name, the study also looks at verbally precocious youth and most of the participants are now adults.
Never that, he was in a "serious relationship with BJJ" and he even at his precocious age, he was faithful.
"Forest of Wonders" tells the story of Raffa, a precocious young apothecary, or "pother," in the isolated country of ­Obsidia.
If WALL-E lost his wheels but gained an intimate knowledge of memes, we'd end up with this precocious bot.
"Was it a serious question?" he said, since it was framed within the context of Verstappen and his precocious debut.
Their 10-month-old son, John Cale Jr, was a precocious baby, babbling a dozen words and exploring solid foods.
Shin-chan, a manga and anime character known for his precocious nature and mischievous humor, was popular in the 1990s.
Late in "Spring," Smith offers an excuse for those sections: They've been written in a notebook by the precocious Florence.
And then there was precocious young me, fresh out of Wesleyan University, where I'd edited the campus newspaper, The Argus.
The eldest of three sisters, Corinne joined the business as a teenager, but not for a precocious love of fashion.
Instead, we watched Fred circle the yard, speaking of him with the same affectionate bewilderment we would a precocious child.
With Yoel, some signs had always been there: his precocious rolling, for example, came from spastic tensing in his muscles.
Instead, the movie treats this as an opportunity for the precocious girl to have bonding adventures with her kooky grandpa.
A precocious child fascinated with architecture, Florence was virtually adopted in the 20033s by Eliel Saarinen and his wife, Loja.
FIGURING By Maria Popova In Maria Popova's strange and lovely new book, "Figuring," we learn about the precocious Maria Mitchell.
They highlight the precocious tit-for-tat of rulership, and help us find similarities in what appear to be stark differences.
To call it precocious is an understatement; it is a document of singular vitality, made ineffably poignant by its author's fate.
In Sally Rooney's novels, characters couple and de-couple with a precocious awareness of power differentials like class, age, and education.
But English clubs squandered this wealth in the transfer market, by signing established stars rather than precocious youngsters from lesser teams.
Delvin is the precocious and observant son of Cappie Florence, a prostitute in Red Row, the colored section of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Well, much like everything in our world, there's a good chance that those precocious pups are trying to sell you something.
The Brooklyn-born son of the music arranger at New York's famous Roxy Theater, Mr. McCann was precocious, irrepressible and persistent.
With only minor costuming changes he morphs from an angry clean freak to a flamboyant fashion designer to a precocious kid.
As a precocious young civil servant, he brokered arms deals which helped his uniformed counterparts to get the weapons they needed.
Or, she's Miss Honey from Matilda, living alone in a cottage, just waiting to adopt the perfect, precocious student one day.
The precocious home-schooled student from Oklahoma correctly figured out "tapas" and "nyctinasty," but she failed to make the competition's finals.
At the suggestion of Andy Warhol, Browne's precocious fingerpicking was on an electric guitar—Warhol thought it would "modernize" the sound.
Aggression became his calling card at the plate, his blend of rangy athleticism and precocious strength inviting comparisons to Giancarlo Stanton.
As a mother to a precocious four-year-old, and a former sex worker, I know this stigma all too well.
These D.I.Y. Halloween costumes require, at most, the skills of a precocious 6-year-old with access to a glue gun.
He had gone from looking precocious at the plate to besieged, a 22-year-old who was suddenly hitting like one.
Extraordinarily precocious, she began writing poetry and prose as a schoolgirl in France, where she lived from ages four to 12.
In "The Quick and the Dead," Joy Williams's kooky and ominous novel, three precocious, motherless teenage girls flirt with the dark.
Mr. Beale, especially, does this to real comedic effect — his turns as a quavering old rabbi or precocious child, for instance.
Davíd, the central figure, is a disconcerting and precocious six-year-old, who attends an academy that teaches numerology through dance.
Written when its composer was just 24, his "Messiah" still three decades in the future, "Agrippina" shows Handel the precocious master.
From an adult's perspective, an overly precocious child is always funny, and there are plenty of early Swift videos sprinkled throughout.
At its best, and most fully realized, it feels like a program made by unusually sophisticated, precocious children for their friends.
Then there's her unstable mom (a scene-stealing January Jones) and precocious teenage sister, who's the current star of the rink.
HB: Oh. Pretend I am a child, a very precocious child who is weirdly interested in the Constitution and political processes.
In Juno, I saw an annoyingly precocious teen like myself, using phrases like "shockingly cavalier" when "relaxed" would do just fine.
"It's like they've always been here," says Madonna of the precocious pair, who have become the stars of her latest Instagram posts.
You recognized Billy's precocious little foster sister from This Is Us, where Faithe Herman plays Randall and Beth's youngest daughter, Annie Pearson.
Nick dated Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus (and later wrote romantic odes about marriage foreshadowing his — rather precocious — nuptials to Priyanka Chopra).
The choral vocal layering continues, as the song's title pays homage to the film's precocious titular heroine, voiced by newcomer Auli'i Cravalho.
Lilly King, a precocious 19 year-old swimmer, won a gold medal by besting Russia's Yulia Efimova in the 100-meter breaststroke.
There was Lady Diana Spencer, the precocious teenager from Sandringham who knew how to make a Christmas sweater look anything but ugly.
Concluding that would probably require comparison to other precocious birds, like the megapodes, and a better understanding of bone development more generally.
Kamila Stanley is one of those precocious, self-taught, up-and-coming photographers whose improvisation and effortless captured moments get me excited.
The '30s period piece stars Matt Bomer as Monroe Stahl, a fictionalized version of the real-life precocious movie mogul Irving Thalberg.
But one thing the precocious teen from Atlanta has not done yet is release a music video and get the internet's eyes.
I think it's great that her 9-year-old son asks precocious questions, like what the adaptive purpose of dying might be.
Parting Shots • The space where Los Pepes carves up bodies for presentation makes them look, appropriately enough, like precocious art-school students.
The research also emphasizes the importance of nurturing precocious children and the importance of allowing fast learners to skip grades in school.
A. I grew up near Seattle in Bellevue, and I was a precocious, nerdy kid drawn to computers at an early age.
There, the precocious teen began her first forays into music, following in the footsteps of her father, who was also a musician.
It looks like KIBITZ might originally be from a German name for a shorebird with a reputation for being bossy and precocious.
A precocious student at public elementary and junior high schools, she graduated at 15 from Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx.
Harris Llewellyn Wofford was born in New York City on April 9, 1926, and grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y. He was precocious.
It helps to enjoy the eccentricity and precocity of Ms. Sherman-Palladino's dialogue (everyone is precocious in her shows, even the elderly).
The precocious Kevin McCallister who defended his home from burglars in the film is nowhere to be found in Culkin's Twitter post.
Devils left wing Taylor Hall first shared the ice with Hughes two years ago and was struck by the teenager's precocious technique.
The story they tell zigzags a bit on its way from an unhappy, privileged childhood through precocious success to disbarment and death.
Both Louis's deeply autobiographical novel and J. D. Vance's memoir are stories by precocious young men about the savagery of their childhoods.
The first stage of Wozniacki's career was as a precocious teenager whose determined, defensive game helped her rise quickly in the rankings.
Families can also take heart: While some works display extraordinary precocious talent, others look as if, well, your kid could do that.redbullartsnewyork.
Just 15 years ago, when he was perceived as precocious but persnickety, he was ridiculed by crowds at American major golf championships.
Families can also take heart: While some works display extraordinary precocious talent, others look as if, well, your kid could do that.
For Alexander and other precocious children, a virtual audience is always present, like air, and artistic creation feels as innate as breathing.
In 1856, the precocious scientist William Henry Perkin failed in an experiment to synthetically produce quinine, a chemical that helps treat malaria.
If she is slated to stake the stage, we think we can expect an adorable diva attitude from the precocious 5-year-old.
As Kenny, Galvin has the flashiest role, and some of the show's early, uneven episodes seemed built solely on Kenny's precocious one-liners.
By junior high, his precocious math and science skills landed him in an advanced-placement course with access to an Apple IIe computer.
Instead it explores how his mix of precocious talent and eccentricity proved captivating, particularly for the artists who were among his biggest fans.
You may recall that Ariel Winter, the precocious star of ABC's Modern Family, is currently enjoying a sweet relationship with actor Levi Meaden.
Prince comes across as a modern-day version of baby Drew Barrymore: precocious and uninhibited but with a hint of working-class grit.
But when she stepped to the blocks Monday for the 100-meter butterfly final at the trials, Vollmer channeled her precocious preteenage self.
"Here I Am" has its own gaggle of oppressively endearing and overachieving children, with their cello and fencing lessons and precocious existential questions.
Like many other precocious teenagers stuck in the dreary outer reaches of suburbia and beyond, I looked to culture as a teleportation device.
It's surreptitiously negative: the candidate positions himself against the "indoctrination" and "precocious sexualization" of children that he alleges occurs in Brazil's public schools.
Her mother, the former Elka Heller, passed her serious cultural enthusiasms — including literature, dance, music and theater — to Linda, her precocious only child.
Then there was that unique parenting riddle: At what age do you tell your precocious child that her father slept with her aunt?
" And if these stereotypes aren't enough, there are options that engage in precocious body-shaming: "Does this diaper make my butt look big?
Her voice shows signs of the husk she'd later develop more robustly but at this stage, she's mostly flexing her precocious songwriting muscle.
Mr. Shore was born in New York in 1947 and may have had one of the most precocious childhoods of any American artist.
Make sure to keep these near a sunny window with a precocious child who needs to be taught a hard life lesson early.
The Celtics built their lead behind Tatum, the precocious rookie, who led them with 24 points, and the veteran big man Al Horford.
Some see him as a precocious millennial, lacking in empathy or simply too risky a bet in a time when they crave stability.
By all accounts Mr. Macron was precocious: an accomplished pianist who excelled academically and starred in the school play, which Ms. Trogneux directed.
They had two children, the devoted Geneviève and the precocious Anatole, who died at the age of 8 and broke his parents' hearts.
That may not seem particularly precocious in an era when adolescent pop phenoms release entire albums that were recorded in their parents' house.
It's amounted to a variety of diagnoses over the years, as well as being described as precocious, anxious, smart, odd, and the like.
Even in A Prairie Home Companion, she plays a precocious young artist, in this case a poet but nonetheless very similar to Lindsay Lohan.
Not unlike in Moonlight, Elio's contrasting alienation is portrayed as a kind of precocious, diary-writing introversion, though also an endearingly neurotic self-consciousness.
In the scripts, Mila portrays a precocious toddler with opinions on everything from Santa ("this guy has no life") to working out (a bore).
There are some precocious climate justices, too, like startups taking bold bets on zero-carbon technologies such as carbon capture and storage or hydrogen.
William Rees-Mogg, a former editor of the Times, was a close friend and Sir Bill provided his precocious son, Jacob, with lengthy tutorials.
The Force Awakens' most precocious character was BB-8, the globular droid that rolled across the deserts of Jakku and straight into our hearts.
You can see why Adele or One Direction or the Rolling Stones have such industry clout—as any precocious teen would happily tell you.
And now it's obvious these seven precocious young people are poised to become the next Stranger kids phenomenon; the entire formula is all there.
A different drugmaker-sponsored study, completed long after Fleming's letter, looked at children who had taken Lupron for precocious puberty from 1991 to 2009.
Boehm described Alexander Camelton, the first Bactrian camel born at the zoo since 1998, as very precocious and said he was adjusting very well.
Murphy — the precocious reviewer behind the site Lights Camera Jackson — quickly shared the image of himself and the Trainwreck star to his social media.
After a recurring guest role on "Hannah Montana," Gomez starred as the precocious Alex Russo on "Wizards of Waverly Place" from 2007 to 2012.
One features Noah Jupe as the fresh-faced child actor Otis, a precocious talent, in the dubious care of his alcoholic, bitter father, James.
The two bright spots are Naseeruddin Shah, who plays the patriarch of the Srivastava family, and Sajid Kabir, who plays his precocious grandson Anu.
But in his early, vigorously cartoonish paintings of rudimentary symbols and stick figures he showed a precocious understanding of painting as avant-gardist provocation.
Eliza, a precocious six-year old from South Carolina, is battling Sanfilippo Syndrome, a rare genetic disease nicknamed "childhood Alzheimer's" for its degenerative progression.
Much like Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House, this new TV show presents a blood-curling narrative through the eyes of a precocious kid.
Then, in 1995, following a colossal failure with Alien 3, studios took another chance on the precocious commercial and music video maven David Fincher.
Born in Egypt in 1917, Hobsbawm discovered Communism as an orphaned, precocious teen in Berlin, before moving to England, where he made his name.
In this sentimental spinoff, Mr. Parsons provides "Wonder Years"-style narration while Iain Armitage ("Big Little Lies") plays Sheldon as just a precocious child.
And if the coronavirus outbreak becomes as iconic as the global financial crisis, this Medium post could be seen as precocious and equally epochal.
Parker is a precocious, curious, happy child who loves ballet, the movies "Leap" and "Moana," French fries, spaghetti, her Aunt Jana and Mrs. Obama.
Her charge: precocious 6-year-old Frances, played by Ramona Edith-Williams, who shines, in her first role, like a tiny ball of light.
This post, as Kenneth D. Ackerman shows in his biography "Young J. Edgar," was a key step on this precocious man's path to power.
A precocious student, he entered Harvard during his senior year in high school and graduated when he was 19 with a degree in English.
If the ever-precocious Mr. Macron is to succeed, his first challenge is to sell a product still largely unfamiliar to almost everyone: himself.
Tall and deeply tan with a long braided ponytail, Anisimova is just 2148, the child of Russian parents who have nurtured her precocious talent.
By that time, he'd been discovered as a precocious museum director in a Lithuanian Natural History Museum, and that enabled him to make movies.
In sitcoms and TV dramas — or at least those not aimed at preadolescents — children are typically presented as obnoxiously precocious, whiny, and self-absorbed.
Gone are the days of scrunchies, an impish thumbs-up delivered in concert with a precocious catchphrase, and matching detective's trenches with twin sister Ashley.
Thirteen-year-old Zendaya was a precocious, chipper kid, and there's nothing annoying about that — especially on the internet, where most people aren't very chipper.
In the movie Flatliners (out September 29), a group of precocious medical students discover a way to reach the afterlife — and then come back again.
Little Oskar is a welcome addition to the new family of four that also includes the spouses' precocious daughter Poppy, who turned 3 on Friday.
This is the precocious creature that spoke to the contradictory impulses of teens perhaps better than anyone in pop: invincible one minute, forlorn the next.
During this election season, every liberal pundit had a precocious toddler who offered incisive commentary on Donald Trump and the current state of American politics.
Mercury characterized himself as "a precocious child," and at the age of 8 he was sent to a boarding school across the ocean in India.
Living With Long Term Problems Valerie Ward, 453, who lives outside of Pittsburgh, said she took Lupron for precocious puberty, from age 245 to 213.
At BHSEC, the notoriously precocious student body—true to form—didn't even wait for the official walkout start-time of 10 AM to get started.
Kris Bryant, the precocious young slugger, isn't much for math, struggling to count back the years since the Chicago Cubs last won a World Series.
The research, titled the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, was originally founded in 1971 at Johns Hopkins but is now co-directed by Vanderbilt University.
The obstacles come in the form of precocious children who don't want to learn and wild storms that threaten to destroy the rickety school building.
She retains the confidence of a precocious only-child who grew up with her nose in a book and largely in the company of adults.
This was less because I was a precocious kid and more because most conversations about sports unfold at something like a nine-year-old's level.
His life settled after his mother remarried and moved to Tivoli, where Mr. Molinaro soon flourished as a precocious, if quiet, standout in government classes.
"Mayor, what do you think of the sumac?" a reporter asked, alluding to comments from a precocious child with surprising knowledge of the park's vegetation.
Charlie gets a career boost when his more successful best friend requests help with looking after his precocious tweenage daughter Gabby (an adorable Frankie Hervey).
But that meant the show felt very familiar to me, especially with how precocious it is to be a teenager earnestly talking about the Constitution.
After the Rams' dismal first season back in Los Angeles, the precocious rookie head coach Sean McVay secured the Rams' first division title since 246.
And their daughters are brilliantly written, precocious kindergartners who feel like actual children, funny and honest and two distinct people despite being children and twins.
As a precocious child who read everything I could about the war, I came across the latter in the public library of San Jose, Calif.
All indicate a precocious talent for drawing, a clear interest in depicting qualities of light, and — perhaps not surprisingly — a very strong attention to line.
Synopsis: A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
But the constantly self-doubting Berlin, whose first wife died just five months after their wedding, was "precocious in many things, including sorrow," Kaplan writes.
Soon, he was teaching himself pattern-making, fitting and other techniques that would shape his precocious fashion career — all while designing dresses for his dolls.
Many remembered Henderson, a 19-year-old from Ontario, as the precocious little girl who used to tag along behind them on courses throughout Canada.
Jojo Rabbit has been compared to Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, because of the childhood romance and the focus on an unconventional, comedically precocious scout camp.
But her rugged father and refined mother wanted more than just a rural life for their precocious daughter, and that led to another toughening experience.
Looking back on her childhood as a precocious tomboy, Scout, the narrator, evokes the sultry summers and simple pleasures of an ordinary small town in Alabama.
Their biannual affair is interrupted by Kwanda (Niza Jay Ncoyini), a precocious gay initiate from the city, frustrated by the two's repressed attitude towards their sexuality.
The tune in question is precocious intronaut Porter Robinson's much lauded "Sea of Voices," from his breakout 2014 album Worlds, released on the fittingly titled Astralwerks.
Whether you are a hustling and bustling entrepreneur or a precocious business person, there is a general consensus that the financial industry is not a joke.
Segui tilted her head, smiling and looking at Cuddy the way you might at a particularly precocious and captivating child, then headed off to a meeting.
The drama about a precocious college student who clashes with the conservative head of his college marks the directorial debut of former Focus chief James Schamus.
Her precocious kid brother, Charles Wallace – always called "Charles Wallace," never just "Charles" or, god forbid, "Chuck" – befriends one celestial being, then another, and then another.
T.J. McGibbon, who seems to be an in-demand child actor in Canada, does a fine job as Carrie Samuels, the precocious, light-fixture stealing daughter.
Cities from the small but precocious, to the deindustrialised and desperate to the already rich, are preparing to throw in their bids before the October deadline.
MGM is near a deal with actress Reese Witherspoon to reprise her role as the precocious, idealistic Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde 3," according to Deadline.
She's the actress behind Lisa, the precocious middle child in "The Simpsons," who has given the animated series some of its most heartfelt and memorable moments.
We finally have several inspiring and formidable women superheroes, from Brie Larson's Captain Marvel to Letitia Wright's Shuri, herself a brilliant and precocious inventor like Stark.
A new book chronicles Potter's evolution from a precocious naturalist to an expert artist with a scientific eye to a wildly successful author of children's books.
Teen girl sexuality is often packaged as a dangerous, irresistible elixir wielded by wiser-than-they-seem temptresses in bikinis, lustily grooming themselves poolside. Coquettish. Precocious.
Growing up in the 1980s and '90s in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Mr. Vizzini was a creative, precocious boy who excelled in school and loved Dungeons & Dragons.
The tap style of these men, who called him the Sponge for his precocious interest and ability, is what he's always presented as the real deal.
Shirkers, an irresistible mix of insouciance and precocious maturity, delivers a story of ultimate geekiness, as director Sandi Tan sketches a portrait of her younger self.
Shirkers, which has just made the Oscar documentary shortlist competing for the award with fourteen other films, is an irresistible mix of insouciance and precocious maturity.
But now in the NFL, after a precocious first two games this season, Wentz got the opportunity to test his mettle against Roethlisberger and the Steelers.
For the past four years, Martin has captivated viewers of ABC's Black-ish as the precocious, adorable daughter of Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson's characters.
" He added, "Even my hood cousin's kids sound like Tia and Tamera," referring to the Mowry twins, the precocious stars of the '90s sitcom "Sister, Sister.
Child-warping mothers like Maggie have been a staple of socially conscious British theater, often created by precocious young playwrights of advanced talent and merciless judgment.
A lonely misfit in shorts and a sombrero, precocious yet naïve, Frankie is grappling with a self she doesn't quite know and longings she can't name.
And the precocious Claudia (Lacey Chabert) watched her innocence slip away as she was forced to shoulder grown-up issues — like helping raise an infant brother.
Temperamentally they were opposites: Reed "big and loud and rough around the edges," a hedonist and dabbler; Lippmann sleek and cosmopolitan but earnest and intellectually precocious.
Because of his precocious talent, Kecmanovic was put in groups with older players bound for college, and later with pros like Kei Nishikori and Max Mirnyi.
As a young person, I was a constant, precocious reader, as he had been — binging on Dickens at 11, Shakespeare at 12; that kind of thing.
Dahlia is precocious for a 4- or 5-year-old, so a staff member at her center asked how life in the center compared to prison.
Perhaps America's precocious levels of anxiety are happening not just in spite of the great national happiness rat race, but also in part because of it.
His precocious showiness and how seriously he approaches his endeavor to bring entertainment to the people of the supermarket both remind me of myself as a child.
One of the very best things about Brooklynn Prince, the young star of Sean Baker's The Florida Project, is that she's not your typical precocious movie kid.
The parent of a precocious little girl says she spent two years growing out her hair in anticipation of her dream Halloween costume: Harry Potter's Albus Dumbledore.
It's more straightforward than that — a shifting, formless story about being in the headspace of a precocious 16-year-old girl in her first year of college.
The precocious son of Dr. Henry Minsky, an eye surgeon who was chief of ophthalmology at Mount Sinai Hospital, and Fannie Reiser, a social activist and Zionist.
He refused to stop, and "that's the precocious, prescient, urgent advice I managed to give myself, out of the blue, and somehow managed to take," he writes.
Anna is admittedly precocious, but she also has many relatable features to her child's view, particularly her ability to see the world in terms of a fantasy.
Lawrence wrote in her journal, 'The only young people in history anyone cares about were rebels — those kids whom parents saw as rude and precocious and incomprehensible.
Another study by researchers in Turkey concluded that treatment with Lupron for precocious puberty "may have adverse effect on bone health" due to severe vitamin D deficiencies.
At its core, Juno is a sweet story about family and friends rallying around a precocious protagonist, and it probably started some valuable conversations about birth control.
Seventeen years after the nation was shocked by news that the precocious pageant queen had been beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted, JonBenét's case is still considered unsolved.
Mourn, "Storyteller": Precocious Catalonian punks Mourn are releasing their new LP Ha, Ha, He. on June 3rd, and "Storyteller" is the second track they've revealed to date.
Sasha, a latchkey kid, cooks and eats on her own; precocious in the kitchen, she fries Spam and serves it with a mound of furikake-sprinkled rice.
That someone is, more often than not, Holland March (Ryan Gosling), a private detective with a drinking problem and a precocious young daughter named Holly (Angourie Rice).
Is Smith drawn to creating wordy, precocious characters because she is so fond of puns, or do her intelligent characters naturally lead their author toward such wordplay?
"You are a very smart boy," he has informed me, a few times now, after I came out with some unexpected fact or precocious bit of perception.
The young Harvard grad was an irresistible figure, depicted as the rare millennial enfant terrible who, with a precocious smirk, was willing to kick against the pricks.
Allowing precocious puberty, which happens to be common in children with disabilities, to proceed without intervention is like letting a kind of natural growth attenuation take place.
"Someday, Daniels, when you have your own platoon," Lieutenant Turner begins to say, before one mission, like a man discussing the family business with a precocious nephew.
As a precocious 20-year-old bartender with next to no cash, Julián Díaz went through a phase of opening criminally good illegal bars in Buenos Aires.
Christian Siriano, the precocious season four winner of Project Runway who established his namesake brand in 2008, tweeted back at Jones with a little waving-hand emoji.
As a child Follett had been enormously precocious, publishing an acclaimed novel at 12; two years later, her beloved father abandoned her mother for a younger woman.
But such atypical behavior was also a credit to the fourth-seeded Nadal: to his precocious presence, to his abundant energy and to his world-class nerve.
I'd entered the pageant because I was a precocious film student and I wanted to film it — yet now the fear of the bikini had taken hold.
The precocious Ms. Della Femina was a fashion upstart who that summer ran a trunk show with a friend, who had diabetes, to raise money for research.
After researching water quality detection techniques, the precocious pre-teen found that she would need some hard-to-find supplies, including carbon nanotubes, chloride and lead acetate.
Played by Ms. Namekawa with sprightly sensuality and exuberant wit, it burst with precocious energy — and outdid in profundity much music written by composers many decades older.
The initial reviews were those of a precocious, attention-hungry beginner: too many words, too much personality, too much hyperbole and too much look-at-me meanness.
Far from being an atheist, Jefferson was a precocious advocate of what was later called "civil religion," the moral foundation of a truly free and united people.
Federer, for all his obvious and precocious tennis talents, never made it to this late a stage of a Masters 1000 event in singles as a teenager.
Founded about five years ago, it has attracted more than 85,000 members, a developer base that includes nuclear-lab researchers, data-company workers, and even some precocious teenagers.
Even then, Hagner was in command of a precocious talent—and it was actually a performance in her high school musical that led to her first professional gig.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, as a precocious law professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, Mr Wang grappled with the political consequences of Deng Xiaoping's liberalising reforms.
The precocious teen parties and wild shoplifting trips are never deemed terrible, although for these characters, sex feels meaningless, and mental agony is nearly too overwhelming to face.
His waywardness began at a fairly early age: a precocious youngster (from whom his family expected much), he was expelled from Yale and was hospitalized after a breakdown.
Marion Palm has spent the past few years as an ordinary Brooklyn mom, living in a beautiful brownstone with her wealthy intellectual husband, and their two precocious children.
You have to presume at a precocious age that you're one of the best ~400 people in the world at something and devote your entire life to it.
Two years have passed since Artis's death, and Jeff now finds himself involved with a woman named Emma and her politically precocious son, whom she adopted from Ukraine.
SCRAMBLES intersecting SKINFLICKS is a nice crossing, since trying to decipher scrambled skin flicks on cable television was once a simple joy for precocious youngsters the land over.
From an early age, the precocious siblings churned out fantasy fiction set in Glass Town, Angria and Gondal, magical imaginary lands populated by aristocrats, poets and lovers aflame.
Crowe's precocious talent was rewarded 2704 months later when he made his test debut against an Australia side containing the snarling menace of Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee.
The actress said that she's had difficulty reminding people in the industry that she's more than just Sharpay, the precocious teen she made famous in the HSM movies.
They paint  a picture of someone who was incredibly precocious, who wanted to be successful and who believe her family's history had a lot to do with this.
A moderately precocious twelve-year-old could weaponize the Internet of Things—your car or thermostat or baby monitor—and turn it into the Internet of Stranger Things.
The ones you loved when you were a precocious tween who eagerly awaited Saturday night DCOM premieres because missing the latest movie starring Ryan Merriman wasn't an option?
"When you had serve-and-volleyers going against baseliners, that was more of a complete and obvious contrast," said Tracy Austin, the precocious champion who faced Navratilova frequently.
Her precocious mother, Manjula, struggled in school with the poor grades she received from one professor, who realized that "she was poor and untouchable" and reacted with disgust.
Kinsley, still only in his 60s, has not yet entered the kingdom of the elderly, though he may feel he has been given a precocious peek at it.
That makes "Homegoing" what publishers call a "big book," the object of promotion and marketing campaigns designed to present it as the glorious flowering of a precocious talent.
The gifted child here is a 7-year-old math prodigy, Mary (Mckenna Grace, charmingly precocious), who is being raised by her uncle Frank (an impressive Chris Evans).
In the forests here in Tennessee, instead of tracking foxes in winter snow, I spent February being startled by precocious bloodroot and other wildflowers piercing the leaf litter.
Cute, precocious kids From the Stranger Things cast to Logan star Dafne Keen to little Randall from This Is Us, children are our future, and MTV knows it.
I was a pretty precocious and active reader as a kid, but even then it was more nonfiction than fiction: history books, magazines, big technical books about airplanes.
In Kristiania, as Oslo was then known, a radical bohemian scene besotted with Nietzsche cultivated Munch's precocious genius, but its advocacy of free love ill-served his sanity.
Perhaps, in hindsight, the last thing F1 should have done is handed its most precocious talent for years such a relatively straightforward opportunity to convert his first victory.
Over the past year, Bavor, a precocious and well-liked exec inside Google, was spending more time with Cardboard despite his broader responsibilities, several Google people have said.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, his mother Angelique Smith recalled Hussle's early years as a precocious student who asked to be placed in the advanced classes in school.
But as if introducing himself for the first time, he also dwelled on his origin story as a young Republican, and his rebirth as a precocious campaigner for Trump.
It starts with traditional landscape paintings such as "Trees along the Gein" (1905)—by a precocious and skilled painter with a strong, intuitive sense of line, form and composition.
At the end of my first year, I asked students for advice, and a precocious stoner wrote, "Make us talk more" in fat block letters on his suggestion card.
A precocious boy—a student at the University of the Witwatersrand by the time he was 15—and bullied for it, reading was his connection to the wider world.
It's one of the things that's made his novels so relatable, despite criticisms occasionally leveraged against Green that his books feature unbelievably precocious teens embarking on unbelievably quixotic adventures.
Without the detached coolness that characterized 2013's Pure Heroine, Melodrama retains all the precocious smarts of its predecessor while offering a riveting, more emotional journey of self-discovery.
Intoxicated by Daniel's irresistibly precocious daughter, Hazel (the product of the affair that broke them up years ago), Maeve surrenders almost immediately to an enduring desire for her ex.
The precocious Cohen-Watnick wasn't pleased with the news, and rather than accept his boss's orders, he appealed to Bannon and Kushner, who lobbied the president on his behalf.
No, Rooney is, for better and for worse, a national institution, and has been ever since he first burst into England's public consciousness as a precocious 16-year-old.
In Ms. Millard's retelling, young Churchill was entitled, precocious, supernaturally confident — one of those fellows whose neon self-regard is downright unseemly until the very moment it is earned.
So precocious was he, and so alarmed were some within the sport, that the governing FIA changed the rules to prevent anyone else under 18 from acquiring a superlicence.
Judy Murray, the brothers' first coach, watched the complex feelings that arise when two gifted siblings excel at the same sport, especially if the younger child is more precocious.
But as Top Drawer Soccer's Will Parchman points out, Missimo brings a mental capacity—with precocious creativity as a No. 10—to the game that's unparalleled by her peers.
Ever since he was a teenager in Far Rockaway, Queens, a precocious kid with an artistic bent and a propensity for tinkering, Rammellzee wanted to make letters into weapons.
Also turns out that Josie, as fresh and lovely as ever, has an adorably precocious moppet of a daughter, Billy, whom she has named after Liam's long-deceased mother.
Lisa Capitanini, his stepdaughter, said that though his parents were Muslims, they sent Cherif, their unruly and precocious only son, to a Jesuit-run Catholic boarding school in Egypt.
Ever since he was a teenager in Far Rockaway, Queens — a precocious kid with an artistic bent and a propensity for tinkering — Rammellzee wanted to make letters into weapons.
The reward for such unwavering determination and precocious putting genius was his second major victory of 183, a win that suddenly made anything, even golf's Grand Slam, seem possible.
The vocalist Lorde, pop's most precocious 20-year-old star, has a new album out, and she'll be on "The Tonight Show" to perform something from it on Thursday.
As a kid with a precocious mind for science — she made it to the Intel competition semifinals in high school, after all — Natalie Portman dreamed of becoming an astronaut.
These women are both vindicating and distressing: If Sally Rooney's skinny, precocious Irish beauties are this upset, then certainly I have every right to give up on the world.
Even the political theorist John Stuart Mill, Rich Lowry's favorite precocious child, fell into an intense depression as a young man, realizing he had missed out on his childhood.
" When his father catches him at it he's proud, misinterpreting the little boy's play for precocious lust, but his mother looks on sadly, "knowing what was really going on.
It was no surprise, then, that the lucky winner of that casting call was a charming and surprisingly precocious 11-year old actor by the name of Josh Gonzalez.
On Baseball CLEVELAND — Part of the charm of Pete Alonso, the precocious and powerful rookie for the Mets, is that he is both supremely confident and utterly awe-struck.
On Baseball CLEVELAND — Part of the charm of Pete Alonso, the precocious and powerful rookie for the Mets, is that he is both supremely confident and utterly awe-struck.
The precocious 15-year-old is inspired by a world of things, namely science and philosophy, and she also draws from genres like experimental pop, R&B and indie rock.
Popular factions in my school included the Baby-Sitters Club girls, the kids who stuck to R.L. Stine, and the precocious Tolkien readers who rolled their eyes at Narnia fans.
Early on in the movie, the precocious tween cranes her neck sideways for a better look at the graffiti that's been scrawled on the hood of Eli's beat-up Toyota.
With obvious athleticism, a breathtaking arm and a precocious command of head coach Andy Reid's passing offense, Mahomes was as aggressive, effective and efficient going downfield as any quarterback ever.
His was a remarkably assured performance for a youngster who could not drive on public roads until last year and whose precocious entry into the sport was questioned by many.
At age 53, his first major assignment for Vogue was to produce portraits of individuals with sizable reputations, including Marcel Duchamp, Igor Stravinsky, Salvador Dalí, and a precocious Truman Capote.
And in the film's beautifully surreal universe, touched by one quiet girl's precocious storytelling, we can't think of a better symbol for the wildness and creativity of an unbound mind.
Against this flattened backdrop, it's a challenge for even Keen's prodigious—and precocious—skills to convey the rapid activity of Lyra's mind as she wrestles with life-and-death decisions.
Thursday's performance means that he has now gone wire to wire to wire, which is quite a coup given all the life changes and pressures that precocious success can generate.
As a girl, Diane was dreamy and intense and sexually precocious and in cahoots with her brother, Howard, who would grow up to become poet laureate of the United States.
From a precocious youngster, Lewis grew into a tough man with a surprisingly friendly face, gnarled by his battles in the ring but, as a fighter, much stronger for them.
I'm sure my single mother, Joan Wicks, might describe me as a precocious child, but looking back in elementary school I often self-described myself as a plain "weird" child.
But they do have precocious stars like Jayson Tatum (24 points) and Jaylen Brown (16 points, 9 rebounds), who are playing with a sort of confidence that belies their inexperience.
Reunited after a separation of decades, Fran and Teresa remember how, as precocious little girls, they had talked of the evils of the world and whether or not God existed.
Then the precocious Timberwolves, who start three 21-year-olds — Towns, forward Andrew Wiggins and guard Zach LaVine — rose for a furious 20-27 run as the Knicks' offense stagnated.
The new family film "So B. It" follows Heidi, a precocious 12-year-old girl with an unusual lucky streak, as she travels alone in search of her family history.
Kristen Bell has played a number of epic TV characters, from precocious amateur teen sleuth Veronica Mars or the disembodied voice of your favorite shady Upper East Sider on Gossip Girl.
Sure, he may look cute and precocious and all, but let's be real: any five-year-old who knows he is destined to be king of England is probably super annoying.
Perhaps that's what gives the book its longevity; they're more precocious than pretentious — I couldn't relate to them on the same level emotionally as a teen, but I grew into it.
Famous for: Moretz appeared in 500 Days of Summer as Rachel, the protagonist's precocious young sister, and then followed it up playing Hit Girl and absolutely stealing the Kick-Ass franchise.
For all the comparisons of Eilish to the precocious stardom of someone like Lorde, there was no breakout, defining single like "Royals" to capture people's attention — and that was by design.
Precocious young DJ Martin Garrix has been riding the teenage dream of being a superstar EDM producer, and is showing no signs of slowing down before he turns 20 in May.
Their study, published by the West Indian Medical Journal, found that 13 children on Lupron for precocious puberty had serious vitamin short fallings, compared to two children in a control group.
Who but a precocious 23-year-old would have the temerity to confront one of the twentieth century's densest and wildest novels, impenetrable to many readers and seemingly an unfilmable text?
His departure is portrayed not as a triumph—the precocious kid finally freed from his stifling upbringing—but as a failure to become the person he so desperately tried to be.
In an age when owners look for precocious, win-early horses to recoup their investments quickly, he took the patient approach, emphasizing soundness, durability and the bloodlines to generate future champions.
Sitting in the restaurant in SoHo, I noticed the half sleeve on the artist's right arm includes a tattoo of Susie Carmichael, the precocious toddler from the 90s Nickelodeon series Rugrats.
If you have not had to sit in a family party where a precocious cousin aged nine sings an a capella version of "Someone Like You" you are a lucky person.
In the nineties, Gray emerged as part of the same precocious generation of American directors as Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson , and Sofia Coppola, all of whom he counts as friends.
At the precocious age of 16, he wrote an article on Morisot for American Painters, with the caveat that they would reproduce "Julie Manet and her Dog Laertes" (1893) in color.
I know well this cloth from which he is cut — the precocious young man driven to overachievement in order to beat back the unwanted but equally unavoidable truth of his sexuality.
" Moreover, referring to the conservative columnist Ben Shapiro, he points out that "young, supposedly precocious voices like his have proved deeply important to the modern conservative movement since at least 1960.
One of Alex P. Keaton's signature character traits was his love of the business section in The Wall Street Journal, which he carried around as proof of his precocious financial maturity.
When the family entered their new home in 2009, they brought with them two precocious young girls, a bouncing puppy, modern art and a new swing set on the South Lawn.
" Committing entire passages to memory, these precocious 8-year-olds transformed his tragicomic saga of the disastrous Scott expedition into their private adventure: "He was always Titus, I was always Cherry.
The story of a precocious child raised by a charismatic, unhinged mother, it was received warmly, the auspicious debut of a young writer keenly attentive to language and the natural world.
That's because Smith is the voice of Lisa Simpson, the precocious 8-year-old middle child of Homer and Marge Simpson and the center of some of The Simpsons' best episodes.
Expanding on an earlier survey at the New Museum, the Bronx exhibition takes the artist from precocious juvenilia to unearthly little pictures done the year before his death from AIDS in 235154.
Expanding on an earlier survey at the New Museum, the Bronx exhibition takes the artist from precocious juvenilia to unearthly little pictures done the year before his death from AIDS in 3970.
Knight Pulliam, who played the precocious Rudy Huxtable, appeared in just one episode more than Warner, so the pair likely nets the same in residuals —the residuals Warner obviously cares about keeping.
Four years later, Mr. Murry is still missing, Charles Wallace is almost unbearably precocious, and Meg is acting out at school, where a preening bully keeps poking her about her missing dad.
Expanding on an earlier survey at the New Museum, the Bronx exhibition takes the artist from precocious juvenilia to unearthly little pictures done the year before his death from AIDS in 1999.
Expanding on an earlier survey at the New Museum, the Bronx exhibition takes the artist from precocious juvenilia to unearthly little pictures done the year before his death from AIDS in 7733.
Expanding on an earlier survey at the New Museum, the Bronx exhibition takes the artist from precocious juvenilia to unearthly little pictures done the year before his death from AIDS in 46463.
"Mere Pyare Prime Minister" (My Dear Prime Minister) is about a precocious boy from a slum in Mumbai who writes to the prime minister to ask for a toilet for his home.
In another 2015 study, Eugster reviewed the records for 260 kids prescribed Lupron or a similar drug and concluded that 27 percent of them didn't meet the definition of Central Precocious Puberty.
Cuarón's film is a sort of love letter to his childhood housekeeper, and the love shows clearly, especially in the relationship between one of her charges, the precocious dreamer Paco, and Cleo.
The jacket copy for "Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel" calls her a "bohemian Eloise for our times," billing that brings to mind a self-consciously precocious imp.
But Rhode was the center of attention as she wrapped up a record that started with her double trap gold medal as a precocious 23-year-old at the 210 Atlanta Games.
Expanding on an earlier survey at the New Museum, the Bronx exhibition takes the artist from precocious juvenilia to unearthly little pictures done the year before his death from AIDS in 223.
Ferrell is a 25-year-old nursing student and mother of Kenna, a precocious child whose participation in protests creates some tear-jerker moments and points to the future of the movement.
Despite his precocious start, he was nearly forty when it came out, with just two other films to his name—a casualty of the struggle for financing amid meagre box-office performance.
Before he worked the room, mint julep in hand, we chatted about his precocious childhood, his new book — and why even people who can't carry a tune should sing while they cook.
"The cubs are extremely curious and precocious; they have been exploring and investigating every nook-and-cranny of their new home,"Michael Brown-Palsgrove, curator of Asia Trail, said in a statement.
My uncles—Zinn and Brian—were kind to me, their big sister's son, a skinny, precocious city kid with no common sense, as both were quick to remind me with a laugh.
We first meet Vinayak as a precocious 13-year-old who lives in Tumbbad, a village cursed by the gods because it is the only place that worships the demon god Hastar.
Amy, the youngest of the sisters, is especially tricky, since she has to progress from the age of twelve or so (a precocious twelve, but still) to the status of a wife.
As thunderstruck as he felt in Ms. Della Femina's presence when they were teenagers — "she had this precocious elegance," he said — he broke up with her at the end of the summer.
STILL in his mid-teens, the precocious but disturbed narrator of "More", a novel about people-smugglers in Turkey, takes charge of a group of 33 Afghan refugees locked in a covered reservoir.
As in "Matilda," it takes a major misfit to lead them to liberation, though in "School of Rock" it's a childish adult with a guitar instead of a precocious child with telekinetic powers.
Fans of Natasha may be pleased to learn that Mark Berman appears in this collection's "Childhood," accompanying his precocious and difficult eight-year-old son on the son's first appointment with a psychologist.
But Fisher (who voiced Agnes in the first two Despicable Me movies) always keeps us hooked into Kayla's inner life without ever slipping into a kind of precocious maturity of polished child actors.
When you are traveling with precocious tween kids who are super judgy about any type of smoking and recoil from the stench of beer, how do you even broach the subject of marijuana?
Santa Clarita Diet star Drew Barrymore has had a very long career (at age six, the actress played precocious Gertie in beloved classic E.T.) but that doesn't mean life has always been easy.
Now aged 23, the charismatic Frenchman, who reached the Australian Open final 216 years ago, is part of the old guard holding back the charge of precocious young warriors hungry to seize power.
Chalamet also had to become a master of piano in order to play his role of the precocious Elio, which required flying out to set a month and a half early to study.
Julian Stanley, then a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University, over 25 years recruited 0003,000 precocious children, each of whom had intelligence-test scores in early adolescence high enough to gain entry to university.
A precocious statement, to be sure, coming just months before LIFE magazine famously posited Jackson Pollock as the greatest living painter in the United States and amid the ascension of American Abstract Expressionism.
In the end, she only gives Jon 220 measly men, but like other precocious child rulers before her, she cannot condone a course of action that will lead her to war. fixed. pic.twitter.
Mr. Borrello says he respects Mr. Morgan's precocious pluck, but believes he would do a better job of cutting bipartisan deals in Albany's often back-room bargaining sessions than the inexperienced Mr. Morgan.
With precocious assurance, the book shows the emotional directness and unabashed musicality that would abide across Neruda's drastic alternations of style, along with other personality traits, as it were, of a long career.
Skye Dakota Turner is a wonderfully vivid performer; there's humor in every facial move and bodily gesture, and she sings with precocious, echoing focus, like a bird perched on a cathedral's upper balcony.
And among the English players — who by a good degree are the most precocious group ever picked for a big event — Rashford stands as the one who has already made the biggest mark.
But these precocious youths aren't ingesting detergents or choking themselves out or trying to find increasingly more extreme ways to invite one another to what will likely be a very mediocre school dance.
" His two young kids are clearly the center of his universe—especially his precocious, anime-living eldest, who recently informed her legendary father, "Daddy, when I grow up, I'm gonna be a diva.
It introduced its children's press corps program in 2000, and for the last five presidential elections, Scholastic has sent precocious young political reporters to cover rallies, debates and stump speeches around the country.
Several of these pictures, including "Prison" (1949) and "To Joy" (1950), are substantial works that some have called masterpieces; they certainly display Bergman's uncanny, even precocious, command of film language and dramatic fluency.
But in the last few years, the precocious Shiffrin, 22, has won so frequently — 11 times last season — that her results this season had the ski racing world wondering if something was amiss.
His father, an engineer, and his mother, a librarian, noticed early on that Mr. Houston was precocious and encouraged him to explore his interest in computers, but did not want him skipping grades.
Ms. Caruso, the precocious teenage actress who was an incandescent presence in the David Bowie musical "Lazarus," lacks the devilish, deadpan piquancy that Winona Ryder brought to the same role in the film.
The invaluable organization Young Concert Artists opened its New York season on Tuesday with a recital at Zankel Hall by Nathan Lee, a precocious pianist from the Seattle area who is just 16.
Yet it is hard to avoid the impression that "The Hard Problem" — which often feels like the work of a precocious young neophyte rather than an old master — has yet to solve itself.
The idea was that Butler, along with the subsequent veteran additions of Taj Gibson, Jamal Crawford and another Game 3 standout, Jeff Teague, would show the precocious Towns and Wiggins how to win.
She gave me the confidence to believe in myself as a 'writer' at a precocious age, when I had no right to think of myself as such, but every opportunity to become one.
The firm on Thursday said it planned to buy the brokerage E-Trade, best known for users' self-directed stock-trading and its commercials featuring a precocious, stock-trading infant, for $13 billion.
The young stars of the year's funniest global home video have been transformed into a cartoon by a Brooklyn couple hoping that the precocious kids will be just as cute in two dimensions.
All of which is a new thing for Will and his team, who, despite their precocious success as producers, are still learning when it comes to the finer points of licensing-royalty splits.
The stylish violinist Giuliano Carmignola leads this period-instrument ensemble into the Classical period with Mozart's precocious Symphony No. 10, his Violin Concerto No. 4 and Haydn's Symphony No. 80.212-721-6500, lincolncenter.
He had always been precocious, but his home life was a mess — his mother was in and out of psychiatric institutions, and he lived in foster care for years as a young child.
Beginning its run in 1945, Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger was a single-frame comic featuring scenes in which the precocious Patty-Jo makes outrageous pronouncements as her lovely older sister, Ginger, looks on.
And, in 2015, Totah landed the role of precocious singer Myron Muskovitz for several episodes on Glee, FOX's beloved, transgressive Ryan Murphy-produced musical dramedy; the gig amplified her fame beyond the Disney demo.
Chris Evans stars as Frank, a soft-spoken Florida boat mechanic who takes care of seven-year-old Mary (Mckenna Grace), the adorably precocious daughter of his sister—a brainiac mathematician who committed suicide.
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In the court of public opinion, LaBeouf was edging toward child-actor stereotype — although he had successfully transitioned from precocious child star to "serious actor," he seemed to be breaking down in the process.
As precocious as Scout Finch and as fiercely tender as Meg Wallace, Ivoe's life is marked by a determination to write about the racial injustices she and her family have endured through the generations.
Among them: U.S. Army 1st Lt. Gordon Kaemmerling, a precocious and athletic Harvard graduate who had jumped at the opportunity to help the United States leave its shell of isolationism and join the war.
Director Jean-Marc Vallée and writer David E. Kelley take all the attributes of the most impossible version of "having it all" — great wealth, beauty, precocious kids, beachfront property — and twist them into horror.
The enormously popular Chinese social media video app is a colossal repository of viral comedy, virtuoso dance routines, daredevil stunts and talent-show theatrics, most of which seem to be performed by precocious teens.
Centered around two precocious teenagers in the picturesque town of Shimla, the film traces their lives and how they deal with the consequences of a seemingly harmless prank they played on the neighbourhood recluse.
It featured a veteran star of the saddle, John Wayne, as Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed lawman who comes out of retirement to help a precocious little girl (it won Wayne his only Oscar).
If you want to stay Grey-adjacent, try this 2002 film starring James Spader as E. Edward Grey and Maggie Gyllenhaal as the precocious secretary with whom he ends up in a BDSM relationship.
If only we had listened to the precocious libertarian children of the world and invested in gold, rather than trusting those elitist socialists who run the economy and the immigrants who run the government.
In the video, premiering today on THUMP, we find Freedia surrounded by an ensemble of dancing tweens outfitted in plaid and denim, commanding the screen with precocious skill and and magisterial confidence to match.
Nicola Coughlan plays the posh, precocious Jess and Rhys Isaac-Jones is the less-polished Joe, the kindly rural lad to whom Jess directs a degree of feeling that is clearly new to her.
From the time that she was an only child in southern New Jersey, living with her mother, grandmother and two unmarried aunts, Conway tells Time, she was "precocious," good with numbers, facts and figures.
The child's superpowers extended to an unusual political knowledge: he called Obama " POTUS ," which seemed curiously precocious, until I learned that he was the two-year-old son of Josh Earnest, Obama's press secretary.
While Jordan's star power and boundless charisma is unfortunately limited to flashbacks and the occasional supernatural vision, creator / writer Carol Barbee has assembled a wonderful cast centered on the show's charming, precocious title character.
Precocious and poised, she won the 153 Australian Open women's doubles titles with Martina Hingis and reached the semifinals of Wimbledon in singles in 1999 by wielding some of the game's most powerful groundstrokes.
That's significant, of course, and a wonderful thing, but would mean nothing if it weren't also such a vibrant, readable translation -- the kind that can easily beguile you and a precocious middle grade child.
The teenage Moran barreled her way out of a council-estate upbringing into a precocious career as a music writer, and she has since become one of Britain's most recognizable print and broadcast personalities.
Because of her precocious beauty, her parents sent her to a convent as a young girl to keep her away from leering men, but she ended up leaving to be with a rich British financier.
In An Education, Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is a precocious 16-year-old who spends her time with and eventually loses her virginity to an older, seemingly sophisticated man — who later turns out to be married.
As he explains on a recent humid spring afternoon in a tiny, monastic tearoom in New York's East Village, the precocious Baltimore native spent much of his musical life trying not to sound like himself.
It tracks, over some 600 pages, his time in the university town of Bergen, from 1988 to 2002, a period that begins with him entering a prestigious writing program as a precocious 19-year-old.
The new buddy comedy, comparatively modest in scope, begins with the adoption of Ricky (Julian Dennison), an impossibly precocious 13-year-old described as a "bad seed" by his children's services worker Paula (Rachel House).
In 1964, five years before Apollo 11 touched down in the Sea of Tranquility, he was a skinny, precocious young professor of space science at Rice University in Houston, specializing in the study of radiation.
The show's pervasiveness no doubt left an impression on kids of the '90s who, like me, got their diet of wholesome life lessons and appreciation of family from a precocious aardvark with on-trend eyewear.
Ben Lerner's 'The Topeka School' Revisits the Debates of the '90s In his third novel, "The Topeka School," Lerner revisits the precocious poet of his earlier work, this time as a morally confused Midwestern teenager.
Since their debut in early-2016 with the precocious Up To Anything, The Goon Sax have found them lauded from all corners: NPR compared them to Talking Heads; The Guardian gave their record five stars.
The Star Wars prequel trilogy tried to take Anakin Skywalker from precocious kid to troubled teen to iconic villain in three films, but it was rote and rushed, and never felt like an organic development.
"Cao Fei" (pronounced TSOW fay) at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, is an enthralling survey of Ms. Cao's precocious career, organized by PS423's director, Klaus Biesenbach, and Jocelyn Miller, a curatorial associate.
Less than two months earlier, the first-term senator was the Republican Party's favorite son: precocious and upbeat but exquisitely calibrated, never in danger of wandering off-message — in short, the antithesis of Donald Trump.
There seems to be little these days that can foil the Yankees, particularly Tanaka, their ace pitcher, and Sanchez, their precocious rookie catcher, who continue to plow through opponents as if they were language barriers.
Yet the script often feels as inhibitingly self-conscious as Ellis does as a host, suggesting a class writing assignment dutifully carried out by a precocious pupil who would rather be working on something else.
Saoirse Ronan stars as a precocious, combative teen straining against the confines of her hometown (which she derides as "the Midwest of California"), and butting heads with the family, friends, and teachers who populate it.
St.Paul Magazine, offers a wonderfully in-depth look at Prince's artistic development, and how it was shaped by his Midwestern roots in Minneapolis: [S]ome found Prince's geographical origins as surprising as his precocious dexterity.
Ward's gift for spotting precocious 2-year-olds and helping them to swiftly maximize their physical and mental abilities ahead of the competition allowed him to become the first American to win at Royal Ascot.
In both method and vision — imagining forms changing slowly over time in response to changing conditions — this precocious, even audacious idea anticipated and possibly inspired the theory of evolution Darwin would publish two decades later.
I hoped that he had thought of me as a precocious 16 year old, but in my heart of hearts I knew he probably thought I was just a lonely nerd who liked to read.
Like season eight of Game of Thrones, we're ending this impeachment saga with more loose ends just left untied out there than a rug woven by a precocious but not very talented five-year-old.
The more skeptical reading of this places Mr. Buttigieg's bid in the context of a precocious striver who was desperate to raise his national profile by climbing whatever ladder happened to be available to him.
" If it was difficult to be the youngest and most precocious of the Kroeber children, leaving the house to enter the world made Ursula feel like "an exile in a Siberia of adolescent social mores.
Singing with confidence, power and purpose, with both freshness and maturity, Ms. Davidsen, just 32, staked a precocious claim to the great Wagner and Strauss roles that require equal parts youthful flexibility and sheer strength.
He's a good athlete (sometimes he prefers baseball, sometimes basketball), a serious student with a social conscience, a passionate cinephile, a budding writer (sometimes journalism, sometimes fiction, sometimes film criticism) and a precocious young lover.
At the terrifyingly prestigious Lycée Henri IV, whose alumni include Sartre, Weil, and Foucault, he was no longer the precocious boy wonder, just a distracted new kid from the provinces who wasn't great at math.
Punchy seven-year-old Tony grew up to be a cab driver with three kids, precocious John became a barrister, shy East Londoner Jackie would eventually be feeding her fussy son cereal in their kitchen.
It captures the intertwined relationships of residents in this hermetic world, as seen from the unfiltered point of view of a feisty and precocious girl — easily one of the most memorable children in contemporary American literature.
The section also features a text by Serpentine curator Ben Vickers, who discusses historical examples of cloud-based management systems, from Vitalik Buterin's ambitious Ethereum blockchain upgrades to the precocious Chilean Cybersyn project of the 1970s.
It seemed to many onlookers that he had been brought in way too early, more out of Sauber's desire to secure funds to stay afloat rather than because they had detected a rare and precocious talent.
Tylyia, a bespectacled and precocious nearly 21-year-old, started pre-K at a DPS program housed inside a former traditional public school that had been renamed and turned into a charter school the year before.
The precocious Mr Mbappé—who produced a brilliant performance in the 4-3 victory over Argentina, and then became the first teenager to score in a World Cup final since Pelé in 1958—is only 19.
Chalamet, who has been receiving critical praise for his performance as a precocious 17-year-old boy who discovers desire over the course of a fateful summer, thanked Hammer for his "brotherhood" in making the film.
It brings together a former real estate magnate and reality television star with a ruthless dictator half his age who was once seen as a precocious madman but who has emerged as a shrewd diplomatic operator.
He considers the treatment to be as ethical as the practice in his field of withholding medicines that suppress precocious puberty, a medical condition that causes maturation to start too soon and leads to reduced stature.
The turning point in his career came in 1965 when he met Tim Rice, whom his agent had recommended as a potential lyricist for a project the precocious 17-year-old was beginning to work on.
And there is joy in make-believe in "Lost Children Archive," which gains much of its wry charisma from the playacting of its precocious child characters — both those riding atop trains and those riding in cars.
He played the unassuming father of the precocious high school student played by Jason Schwartzman in "Rushmore" (1998), and later appeared in Mr. Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001) and "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" (2004).
He perceives himself to be strikingly dull compared with his precocious family members, some of whom are writing dissertations while others are composing experimental music and planning to be distinguished in ways yet to be determined.
In some ways, Mr. Assange, 20143, has never fully shed the rebellious, secretive ways of the precocious Australian teenager with a complicated family background who, with two pals, formed a hacking collective called the International Subversives.
You can call him precocious, but in the case of Billy Bloom (Alex Lawther), who we first see quoting the Irish writer and dandy in a flashback recalling sunnier times in his childhood, that's not enough.
For the uninitiated: It follows Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer who takes a job as a caretaker at the haunted Overlook Hotel, bringing his wife, Wendy, and his precocious 5-year-old son, Danny, with him.
Around the same time she started advising Mr. Obama, two precocious Harvard undergrads — her future adviser Ganesh Sitaraman and her future rival Pete Buttigieg — hatched the idea for a reading group considering new directions for liberalism.
Then, almost simultaneously, she makes a momentous life decision and is hired by a mixed-race lesbian couple (Charin Alvarez and Lily Mojekwu) as a nanny to Frances (Ramona Edith-Williams), their precocious six-year-old.
Zverev, still just 19, is a remarkable talent with precocious skills and court presence, one who has the potential to give Germany another Grand Slam singles champion in a hurry on the heels of Angelique Kerber.
"The A," as locals refer to Atlanta, offers significant advantages to a precocious talent like Will—a wide range of homegrown talent to work with, plenty of recording studios, and established producers to act as mentors.
MELBOURNE, Australia — Shortly after Marta Kostyuk became the youngest woman to reach the third round of a Grand Slam in 219 years, she seemed to be struggling with the post-match interest in her precocious talent.
A child of privilege in a house full of computer technology, Swartz makes for a precocious teenage crusader, cultivating friendships with the lawyer and political activist Lawrence Lessig and the World Wide Web inventor, Tim Berners-Lee.
But he went off to fight in the Great War, and in the interim, his wife passed away, leaving behind two young children: the precocious budding scientist Milly (Nico Parker) and her younger brother, Joe (Finley Hobbs).
Despite precocious success from Cambridge onwards, he never felt comfortable at the pinnacle of British theatre—especially not at the National, a dizzying public role where, like Nelson on his column, pigeons got him from every side.
Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter: Although those training sequences suffer from too much slicing and dicing, Jenkins captures Diana's progress from precocious 8-year-old (Lilly Aspell) to teen (Emily Carey) to young woman with admirable concision.
To Laura Cumming, art critic of the Observer, a British Sunday paper, Diego Velázquez, whose precocious talent propelled him to the position of sole portrait painter to Philip IV of Spain at just 24, is something more.
Purists may object to seeing their beloved heroine bullied and abused, but it can also be argued that Anne's emergence from that trauma still as plucky and precocious as ever is an example of the character's strength.
" Ufele's most recent designs are "in production as we speak," she says, and though there aren't any specific price points to share, the precocious designer says the items "will be inexpensive in cost, but very good quality.
On the one hand, she's full of bluster and accusation; on the other, she feels partially responsible, having allowed Jenny to spend so much time with grown strangers whom she considered suitable mentors for her precocious daughter.
Fuelled by his anger and irked by the complete lack of accountability, he decides to take matters into his own hands, kidnapping the precocious son of the country's home minister, hoping his cause will get some attention.
Another precocious youngster with no shortage of self-belief, Martina Hingis, did just that 21 years ago when she faced another aging icon, Steffi Graf, and a hostile crowd in the 1999 women's final at Roland Garros.
The same felt true of London's spring/summer 2018 men's fashion week, which took place this weekend, and was also dominated by youth: A handful of precocious and talented 20- and 30-something designers showed energetic collections.
They produced a set of fraternal twins in Henry and Gus, setting up quickly apparent distinctions between a typically developing, hyper-precocious child and his "delayed" brother, whose troubling deficits they managed to deny creatively for years.
Today, when the standard for a young female artist's self-fashioning has been set by the precocious accomplishments of the likes of Lena Dunham, Hogg's slower, more inhibited path to self-expression can be painful to watch.
His latest crusade in protecting the downtrodden involves another neighbor: precocious teenage Ellie (Jenna Ortega), who spends too much time in close proximity with sexually predatory adult comedian Henderson (Chris D'Elia, sucking the marrow from this role).
Matt Cohler, a board member at Uber who is seen as one of the most prescient and precocious investors in the sector, won't be a part of Benchmark's next fund, according to a new regulatory disclosure on Monday.
The precocious, 17-year-old Choi found water off the tee at the par-three 16th to scuttle her chance for an historic win, but birdied the last to complete a 71 for sole second at nine-under.
The precocious soprano – who first wowed the country on America's Got Talent when she was 10 – is releasing a cover of Skylar Grey's hit "Coming Home, Pt. II," and PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the video.
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Steidl, whose father worked as a cleaner in the presses of the local newspaper, had developed a precocious interest in the technical aspects of printing, and one day he asked the librarians if he might examine the book.
But the Huskies believe they can complete the hat trick with the program's first N.C.A.A. title because of a precocious freshman goalie with N.H.L. bloodlines, a dedication to defense and the most productive scoring line in the country.
Tracing Carone's evolution from talented child to precocious student, Ramm follows him from the Lower East Side of Manhattan and Hoboken, New Jersey, to the New York art world of the 1930s and encounters with then-celebrated elders.
And in a metaphorical sense, there is the premature boom of Oklahoma City's relatively new N.B.A. team, the Thunder, which traded the rising star James Harden away in 2012, and seemingly abdicated a rare chance for precocious supremacy.
As Susan Carpenter, Ms. Watts plays a role she knows well: a mother, now single, of two boys — the precocious Henry (Jaeden Lieberher), who acts as her personal investment banker, and the seemingly more ordinary Peter (Jacob Tremblay).
But in its most recent two seasons the show has smartly expanded Matthew's story line, depicting the life of a precocious queer adolescent who has a propensity for the dramatic and is almost entirely out of the closet.
Perhaps the most precocious of all, Magic Johnson was the breakout star of the 218 championship Lakers as a 183-year-old rookie, but he was fortunate to have been drafted onto a team with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Trousers were higher in the waist and wider in the leg than they have been since the precocious hip-hop consumers who once constituted his base took his preppy gear and made it hip by wearing it supersize.
But, by adding in Kenzi and all of her precocious charisma, we were introduced to a fully fleshed out Black man, who can be a fighter in the ring, but loves his daughter more than anything in the world.
In a production whose creative team includes the composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber, and whose cast is populated with precocious tween-age musicians, Mr. Brightman, a steadily employed if relatively unknown Broadway performer, could have been easily overshadowed.
Page's Eeyore-ish Vanya and Gallagher's precocious Number Five are standouts, while Hopper (famous for playing the oft-trolled Dickon in Game of Thrones) is stiff and airless as Number One, in ways the character isn't meant to be.
DuVernay stands over Reid and 9-year-old Deric McCabe, who plays Meg's precocious little brother Charles, softly but firmly explaining the emotions she wants to see on their faces to believe they're getting ready to travel through time.
We've seen Han Solo recklessly jump into his Millennium Falcon and fire at the imperial TIE Fighters in A New Hope, and a precocious Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace blow up the Trade Federation blockade ships against orders.
Though he only made a handful of appearances for Manchester United, the well-traveled Djordjic is remembered there as a precocious talent and winner of the Jimmy Murphy award for the best young player at Old Trafford in 2000.
Lewis dismisses most of the other candidates for the 1944 nomination with an adjective or two apiece—"neat little Dewey, rigid Taft, pompous Vandenberg, precocious Stassen"—but the Old Guard was determined to serve up its own unappetizing fare.
The precocious New Zealand singer and songwriter, who was born Ella Yelich-O'Connor, emerged in 2013, when she was sixteen, with a fully formed sound and perspective that, ostensibly, stood in stark contrast to the musical landscape around her.
Tom Thibodeau, who spent the past season on a basketball sabbatical, agreed Wednesday to become the coach and president of basketball operations of the Minnesota Timberwolves, a team with one of the N.B.A.'s more intriguing and precocious cores.
The premise was simple enough: A former bad boy DJ has his work cut out for him when he becomes "manny" (male nanny) to his best friend's precocious daughter, all while trying to restore himself to his former glory.
With her precocious blend of power, athleticism, court savvy and competitive drive, Gauff was the youngest United States Open junior girls finalist in history at age 13 and the second youngest French Open junior girls champion at age 14.
In the book, Hopps recounts his precocious childhood; his time as a curator in California, championing work by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell, among others; and his role in creating the Menil Collection in Houston, which opened in 1987.
Ashbery soon discovered poetry to be one of the most satisfying modes of escape, as Roffman shows in her discussion of his remarkably precocious early poems, including a "tiny tour de force" he wrote when he was just 8.
As always, Ms. Morisseau's characters are distinctively expressive, and there are beautiful monologues of self-revelation by Nya, Omari and Ms. Velazquez's uprooted boarding-school girl, who combines adolescent romanticism with a precocious awareness of how love usually ends.
"Big Little Lies" characterized its upper-class families partly through their children's precocious musical tastes; "Legion" created an unstuck-in-time mod soundscape; "The Handmaid's Tale" drops incongruous pop anthems into its dystopia like pirate broadcasts from free territory.
But at age 17, Anisimova, an American with Russian roots, is already a successful professional and the latest in a long line of teenagers in women's tennis whose precocious poise and power have gotten the better of their elders.
But the '2411s role Hendrix is most commonly identified with is Meredith Blake, the stepmother-to-be trying to stop the machinations of two precocious twins (both played by Lindsay Lohan) in the 73 remake of The Parent Trap.
Ms. Cara has followed what is becoming a familiar career path: singing other people's songs in precocious YouTube videos before getting a chance to record her own; her impressions of other singers reveal how carefully she gauges her own delivery.
Alex: The way Chalamet's voice cracks when Elio calls his mom and asks to be driven home — he's been independent and terminally precocious the entire movie, and it's in that instant that you understand how unbearable the heartbreak is for him.
A precocious phenom The first overall pick in the 1993 MLB draft, Rodriguez was signed straight out of his Miami high school and began his major league career the following year -- at age 18 -- as a shortstop with the Seattle Mariners.
More of a doctoral thesis than a visceral scary movie, its scholarly digressions recall the scene in "Call Me By Your Name" in which Oliver hears the precocious Elio playing Bach on the piano "the way Liszt would have played it".
Set in the unremarkable year of 1973, this film follows not a Misunderstood Teenager™, but a precocious nerd—a severely unhip Kevin McCallister—who dupes adults into believing in his knowledge of the world and validity as a person.
Both series slowly unravel the circumstances behind those cataclysmic deaths, flashing between the past and present as the protagonists catch up with former close friends, revisit their frustrating relationships with their mothers, and encounter an eerie collective of precocious, creepy kids.
In the mid-25000th century, according to some accounts, the precocious Saint Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi clandestinely fit herself with a crown of thorns and began whipping herself when she was only 143 years old to practice religious self-abnegation.
Born in South Carolina, she spent her adolescence in Philadelphia, where she befriended Eunice Waymon, another precocious young black woman who was as interested in music as Ms Smart-Grosvenor was in theatre (and later found fame as Nina Simone).
In three acts, Pescador chronicles his own experience as a precocious third-grader trying to convince his teachers and classmates to mount a stage production of the well-known Michael Crichton book, itself a Frankenstein-ish tale about overly ambitious scientists.
"Our son is creative and a bit precocious, so knowing his sense of humor, we thought it was hilarious," shared McCammon, who also said that her younger son gets upset over how "his brother often beats him at video games."
Given this current upper echelon status, it's tough to believe that Travis was once a precocious young'un like you and I, sharing his interests with the freedom that's granted by having less than 10 daily clicks on your Blogspot blog.
I used to say that I felt like Humbert Humbert, the notoriously unreliable narrator of "Lolita," who made a similar trip, but instead of traveling with a precocious preteen girl, I was traveling with a wife and a dewy-eyed dog.
By digging into an alternate history for himself—one based around having the teenage years of an angsty loser rather than of a precocious rap star—he imagined other courses for his life, and he set himself up to explore them.
But Kyrgios is as tempestuous as he is precocious, and his strong play at Wimbledon was overshadowed by his occasionally foul language, the invective that he hurled at his entourage and, above all, the ignominious way that he exited the tournament.
A certain indulgent pleasure can be had in reliving the innocent wonder that inspired Capote's Black and White Ball, a party its host had in some ways begun to plan as a precocious, lonely 8-year-old in Monroeville, Ala.
Luca Guadagnino's gorgeous film Call Me by Your Name adapts André Aciman's 2007 novel about a precocious 17-year-old named Elio (Timothée Chalamet), who falls in lust and love with his father's 24-year-old graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer).
As seen through the eyes of the precocious teenage Schreck, the Constitution becomes a tool of human ingenuity and wonder; we're given permission to feel a certain amount of positivity about the march of American progress, such as it is.
Wehrlein, who arrives at his home race in Germany this weekend in his first season in Formula One, has plenty of precocious statistics of his own — which is how he got to race in the series in the first place.
But on a team full of hit-or-miss swingers, Walker has consistently provided what a number of the Yankees' precocious young talent cannot — a veteran's seasoned eye and steady hand, rarely giving away an at-bat to youthful indiscretion.
There also are panels from Marvel's Millie the Model, which ran from 1945 to 1973, as well as Les Triplés, a regular comic feature about three precocious children that has appeared in Madame Figaro, Le Figaro's weekly fashion supplement, since 1983.
Or perhaps they'll continue on as the book series has, until in the end there is nothing left but the boxcar children, forever preadolescent and precocious, solving mysteries in perpetuity with their immortal grandfather, as the world decays around them.
The track makes the 18-year-old Eilish the youngest artist ever to record a Bond theme, the latest in a string of achievements that has made the precocious Gen-Z-er a regular fixture on the Guinness World Records blog.
My cousin, a single mom, had moved back in with my aunt and uncle, and everyone was helping her raise Jiajia — a precocious three-year-old who orated rather than babbled, and loved instructions, dogs, and Fruit-by-the-Foot.
Debuting in his hometown Sydney, it charts his rise from precocious teenager to drug-addled art star, including the back story to some of his most famous works, such as his vivid, bold depictions of the Sydney Harbour and sensual nudes.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 24%Synopsis: In the drama "Fierce People," precocious teenager Finn (Anton Yelchin) is an inspiring anthropologist who is given the accidental opportunity to record the outlandish lifestyle of the Osbourne family, headed by billionaire Ogden Osbourne (Donald Sutherland).
Salahi was a precocious student; after school, he used to steal chalk from the classroom and return to Bouhdida, a dusty, unplanned neighborhood in Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, to re-create the day's lessons for kids who couldn't afford an education.
From what I could see during my time at the magazine, blacks were good enough to serve as local guides for photographers on assignment in Africa, subjects of exotic photos, work as film technicians, and the occasional, precocious office assistant.
"I started reading Hemingway when I was in junior high," he told me in a recent email exchange, and even at that precocious age he admired all the things you might expect a future military historian to admire in Hemingway's work.
For as much as Harris vamps and the Baudelaire orphans try to out-precocious each other, the best acting comes from side characters who pop in and out of their world, bringing with them the exact right amount of absurdity.
Although she is separately signed to Epic Records (a friend of her mother's scored her an audition with LA Reid, and the rest is history), her music crackles with the same precocious teen DIY energy that has made Yachty such a breakout star.
While the precocious, smart and confident 11-year-old is just a normal, wide-eyed kid in Captain Marvel, it's clear from her interactions with her mother Maria and "aunt" Carol that she's far past her age in intelligence, both intellectual and emotional.
But now we are starting to see the cracks as well as the shifts: Daenerys is succumbing to the paranoia and distrust of her ranks that often comes with power, while Arya is coming into her own as a precocious woman of action.
With an expertise that comes from being a licensed boat captain since 1984, Sanchez piloted the virtual ferry (named "Lunchbox" by some precocious New York City public school kids) through a variety of obstacles — container ships, kayakers, buoys, and, of course, other ferries.
That story — which began as a book by Roald Dahl and has since made its way to musical form on Broadway — was beloved for many reasons when the film version was released (among them, a precocious and enlivening performance by Mara Wilson).
He played an almost flawless semifinal to beat Juan Martín del Potro, and was just good enough against the fourth-seeded Zverev, a precocious 20-year-old German who was bidding for his third Masters 1000 title in the past 12 months.
Sheeran's appearance was indeed just a cameo but also how dare he interrupt what might be the series' most interesting character arc, that of precocious-kid-fighter-turned-brutal-shapeshifting-assassin Arya Stark (Maisie Williams, who plays Arya, is apparently a noted Sheerio).
Her bi-racial family includes her mother (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, herself bi-racial in real life), her kooky scientist father (Chris Pine) who's disappeared into space, and her precocious younger brother, Charles Wallace, adorably portrayed by up-and-comer Deric McCabe.
Whether you've got a playroom full of kids down the hall while you're in the kitchen or a precocious puppy running wild while you're at work, a digital security camera can help you keep tabs on what is most precious to you.
And March's relationship with his no-nonsense 13-year-old daughter Holly (Angourie Rice) can be exasperating — she's a precocious movie-kid stereotype, an adult in a size-extra-small child suit — but it provides some warmth, and plenty of comic setups.
Timothee Chalamet stars as Elio, a restive and precocious 17-year-old who quickly becomes fascinated by his family's summer houseguest, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a confident American academic whose presence in Elio's life will have a profound impact on both young men.
Mark Wahlberg plays Mike Williams, chief electronics technician on the Deepwater Horizon, who has the kind of impossibly precocious daughter and perfect wife (Kate Hudson) that you only see in movies about people who are about to find themselves in mortal danger.
Heavy metal is rife with its shoulda-beens and coulda-beens: bands fucked from the start; bands cut short in their prime; bands who, like precocious childhood prodigies, blossomed early only to fade into embarrassing ignominy when puberty cast its gawky spell.
On her precocious debut album, "No Burden" (recently reissued by Matador after a smaller independent release earlier this year), even the fuzzy, full-band stomps build like the ballads: Release comes only when Ms. Dacus has laid the foundation for emotional wreckage.
Sam is lewd and indelicate, but the show has a gentle way of exploring how a single mother in the entertainment industry must juggle her friends, her aging mother, her work, her shoddy romantic prospects, and the needs of her precocious, headstrong children.
If Edgar Allan Poe had taken time out from inventing Gothic horror fiction and the detective story to write a book suited for precocious 5-year-olds, the result might well have sounded a lot like this deliciously strange and lugubrious monologue.
" The FDA considers the drug's impact on children's bones an unanswered question, according to a statement: "The effects of bone density in children whose central precocious puberty is arrested with a GnRH agonist are considered 'unknown' as they have not been studied.
But what if I told you that this was not an obsessively practiced performance by a precocious 7-year-old, but the original creation of an artistic artificial intelligence, the work of the boffins at Google Research (specifically, and naturally, Google Brain)?
Diane is a preternaturally precocious child, made so by her mother, the pinup-perfect Marie, who is so thoroughly governed by her dependence on female competition for self-worth that she considers her infant daughter to be her greatest rival, and neglects her.
And in "Turn Up Charlie," Elba's new Netflix series, he plays a one-hit wonder who's intent on resurrecting his D.J. glory, but whose man-childish ways are tested when he's hired to care for his famous friend's precocious daughter (Frankie Hervey).
Now she's raising her precocious teenage daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel) in a whimsical small New England town and tentatively working toward reconciliation with her WASPy estranged parents, Emily (Kelly Bishop, also entitled to an Emmy nod) and Richard (the late Edward Herrmann).
The quandary over how to handle a precocious, hard-throwing pitcher is a familiar one for the Yankees, who 10 years ago devised the so-called Joba Rules, guidelines for how to deal with Joba Chamberlain, who was then a prized pitching prospect.
In Hillary, we see her as an adorable kid on a tricycle, and as the precocious teen who declared—"the worst thing I could think of saying to my father"—that when she grew up she was going to marry a Democrat.
But in his newly published memoir and manifesto, Permanent Record, Snowden describes other handles, albeit long-defunct ones: Shrike the Knight, Corwin the Bard, Belgarion the Smith, squ33ker the precocious kid asking amateur questions about chip compatibility on an early bulletin-board service.
In it, Mx. Tobia, 27, describes a metamorphic journey from intellectually precocious, effeminate, churchgoing son of middle-class parents in Raleigh, N.C., to standard-bearer for an identity that, while far from new in historical terms, still is met with discomfort and scorn.
Precocious, solitary, sad and a little weird, Marcus, 11, is sent to an island in South Carolina at the beginning of the book to live with his prickly great-aunt, Charlotte, after a useful plot device (car accident) leaves him an orphan.
Kylon Middleton, an A.M.E. minister who had known Mr. Pinckney from childhood, described his lifelong friend as immensely precocious (he began preaching at 13) and strategically ambitious (he aspired to be both a bishop and, perhaps, the state's first African-American governor).
In the elevator down from a SiriusXM interview, during which she'd picked nervously at the sleeve of her Palace sweater, Ms. Cottrill, who is often mistaken for a precocious middle schooler, grew teary-eyed at the genuine interest being shown in her work.
In each of the collection's three best stories — "Mushtibushi," a precocious child's testimony about a sexually abusive elevator; "Moonseepalty," the cannibalistic reunion of two estranged friends; and "Kloon," a clown's foray into prostitution — the migrant laborer's growing sense of shame finally explodes.
The ailing writer (André Engel), jogging his memory with a stack of photographs, conjures visions of himself as a precocious child (Georges Du Fresne) and then as an adult (Marcello Mazzarella) who frequents high-society realms while unsparingly chronicling and dissecting them.
But the toys that clear that hurdle then face another test: a panel of irritatingly precocious children who make their own sometimes fickle judgments and, each episode, send one lucky inventor on to the finals, where a winner will eventually be crowned.
The Carpetbagger The runaway charmer of this year's awards race is Brooklynn Prince, the precocious 7-year-old star of "The Florida Project," which tells of a little girl, Moonee, living a hardscrabble life with her mother, Halley, in an Orlando-area motel.
A number of scientists and specialists are working on the rig, the most experienced and prominent of whom is Zhang (Winston Chao) and his daughter, Sunyi (Bingbing Li), a single mother who brought along her own precocious daughter Meiying (Shuya Sophia Cai).
He continued his precocious play in the soccer-mad German city, leapfrogging youth squads to the first team in January, and becoming a favorite among local fans who have begun to chant his name in the Westfalenstadion, one of the world's great cathedrals of soccer.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A precocious youth forced to work in a factory during the Cultural Revolution, the painter Zhu Jinshi afterwards joined the seminal new art group the Stars (星星), producing works that dabbled in the imported medium of abstraction.
It's a narrative she's insisted on to the point where it has become, in some ways, key to her sense of self — that she was precocious and daring, not being taken advantage of by an adult; that she was the heartbreaker, not the victim.
Beyond the immediate appeal of being a precocious kid actor, Dunst proved how interesting she was when, in short order, she appeared in a run of films that still hold up, including the pageant world's Drop Dead Gorgeous and the Watergate-scandal rewrite Dick.
As a soloist in her father's choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, she sang sacred and gospel music from a young age and proved to be a precocious musician, learning how to play the piano by ear before taking formal lessons.
Kids whose character descriptions span some combination of too-cool teen (see: Black-ish's Zoey), lovably dopey goofball (see: Bob's Burgers' Gene), or neurotic nerd (see: The Middle's Sue), with a close cousin of precocious and/or terrifying star student (see: Modern Family's Alex).
Not only that, but when her precocious and nervous son Ray (Mason Cook) calls her out on having disproportionate priorities, accusing her of putting his disabled brother first to the detriment of her other kids, Ray and Maya have a real, even ugly, fight.
Ko, one of the game's best putters, poured in a seven-footer nearly identical to one she missed on the third extra trip to the par-five 18th, to win her fourth title of the year and 14th of the precocious 19-year-old's career.
Baseball's longstanding arbitration system for players with three years in the majors — long considered fair and equitable — should at least be re-examined in the aftermath of the Harvey case, which raised important issues on risk and potential reward for the young and precocious.
In 2000, Ryan Kramer, a precocious 10-year-old, along with his mother, Wendy Kramer, created what would become the Donor Sibling Registry, a place where children like him could enter their donor numbers, seek out their biological fathers and possibly their biological half siblings.
The combination has attracted some of the biggest crowds for any recent women's World Cup race in North America or Europe — nearly 35,000 fans for two races over the weekend — and they witnessed the precocious Shiffrin edging that much closer to a career milestone.
Then, there are the murkier efforts: in January, Jaden Smith, the precocious son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, modelled women's wear for Louis Vuitton, leading advocates to wonder whether gender fluidity was simply the latest iteration of flat chests and bare midriffs.
It's easy to see why: The young adult fantasy author is known for her delightful characters, and In Other Lands' hero, Elliott, is a precocious, snarky wunderkind who's whisked away to wizarding school, where he's given his choice of becoming a warrior or a diplomat.
A precocious talent for musical composition proves to be as much a curse as a gift for the mostly unseen heroine of "Her Requiem," a thoughtful, beautifully acted new play by Greg Pierce that opened at the Claire Tow Theater on Monday in an LCT3 production.
That album celebrated similar themes— capitalism, ignoring haters, black beauty, racial pride and family— but it was also about navigating her identity as a mother, and examining her graduation of her relationship from a pair of newlyweds who were drunk in love to raising a precocious child.
Fourteen years later, the Mets are on pace for 90 losses after dealing six veterans but hanging on to Reyes in the hopes he can mentor the club's youngsters, especially Amed Rosario, the organization's most exciting shortstop prospect since Reyes was a precocious 20-year-old.
Miss Americana shows us the fractals of Swift as a public person—first a precocious young songwriter, then a newly political entity—but there is no real through line to connect them, other than that Swift's perception of herself hinges entirely on other peoples' perception of her.
Tarantino doesn't short audiences on the expected technical bravado, memorable dialogue, or flashes of violence — see an early scene following Cliff home that finds a camera flying above a drive-in screen and a long scene between Rick and a precocious child actor (Julia Butters) for examples.
Chalamet has been receiving critical praise for his performance as a precocious 17-year-old boy who discovers desire over the course of a fateful summer in Call Me By Your Name, having already taken home the honors at the New York Film Critics and Gotham Awards.
But the true revelation is Chalamet — perhaps best known for playing Dana Brody's rebellious boyfriend on Season 2 of Homeland, along with roles in Interstellar and Miss Stevens — who imbues Elio with precocious wit and coltish energy, at once both awkward and fearless, ravenous and reticent.
Age ain't nothin' but a number, or so says Yusra Siddiqui, a precocious New York teen whose refreshing take on collegiate style (which provides plenty of inspiration for our "grown-up" wardrobes, too) made her an instant follow when we came across her on social media recently.
And Neil Patrick Harris, who first warmed our hearts as the precocious pipsqueak on Doogie Howser M.D. and then gave us endless catchphrases as Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother, has cemented himself in the imagination of Americans everywhere as an eternally tousled bleach blonde.
It remains one of the most immersive things I've ever done with mobile VR. Now Bavor, whom Bergen described as a "precocious and well-liked exec inside Google," has made it his whole job to work on VR and has a team behind him to do it.
Remo Belli, a precocious musician who was credited with developing the first commercially successful synthetic drumheads — saving the hides of countless animals, turning millions of finger-tapping novices into accomplished percussionists and feeding rock 'n' roll fever in the 2300s — died on April 203 in Pasadena, Calif.
More accurately, the advisory group criticized the racial and socioeconomic bias of the test, and recommended replacing the programs with new initiatives, modelled on those in San Antonio, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland, which challenge precocious children without relying on a test or academic tracking.
The father in "Disgrace," the searing book by the Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, turns to his daughter when looking for his own redemption; and "The Saskiad," Brian Hall's gorgeously allusive novel from 1997, follows a precocious teenager who reunites with the father she has tragically mythologized.
Luca Guadagnino's gorgeous Call Me by Your Name, set in 1983 in Northern Italy, adapts André Aciman's 2007 novel about a precocious 17-year-old named Elio (Timothée Chalamet) who falls in lust and love with his father's 24-year-old graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer).
Luca Guadagnino's new film, which adapts André Aciman's 2007 novel about a precocious 17-year-old who falls in lust and love with his father's 24-year-old graduate student, is remarkable for how it turns literature into pure cinema, all emotion and image and heady sensation.
In her Hollywood days her name was Peggy-Jean Montgomery (she later changed her name to Diana Serra and added Cary through marriage), and she was a precocious 2½-year-old in 1921 when Century Studio cast her as Baby Peggy, opposite Brownie the Wonder Dog.
"Unless my precocious 85033-year-old has some burning questions about what's next in the impeachment hearings, my bet is we are more focused on the parade and the dog show, and I don't anticipate it will be a topic at my Thanksgiving table," Jen Psaki says.
And Monica Rambeau, Carol's adopted niece of sorts (in the film, Monica says that she and her mother were Carol's family, because Carol had problems with her own family) will no longer be a precocious kid but a grown adult (again, if she survived the snap).
In the season premiere of the HBO series "Crashing," on Sunday, Young-White plays a version of himself, a precocious comic with a herky-jerky delivery whom the star, Pete Holmes, persuades to come to New York, where he helps him gain entree to the club scene.
It is a startling shift for Ms. Barbery, a French novelist and former philosophy teacher who catapulted to fame with "The Elegance of the Hedgehog," a quirky, philosophical novel about the erudite concierge of a Paris apartment building and the precocious, suicidal 12-year-old girl who lives upstairs.
The actor made his screen debut as a precocious 10-year-old in an episode of TV's ER from 2000, prefacing a growing body of work that would see him shuttle between the small and big screens before eventually landing his big break on 2009's Star Trek.
His dismissal of technology's role is in line with the broader administration's desire to scapegoat globalization rather than good ol' homegrown innovation for job losses in some sectors, but that doesn't mean that he hasn't been compromised by a precocious rogue Alexa consciousness bent on disrupting the human economy.
Futuristic pod will both house and feed you -- crickets Using orange peel and avocado skins, the precocious student created a super absorbent polymer (SAP) capable of storing reserves of water hundreds of times its own weight, forming reservoirs that would allow farmers to maintain their crops at minimal cost.
The mini-mansion they bought when Andrew was a teenager was a third, even more expensive, home—the one we see them move into at the beginning of "Creator/Destroyer," except that Versace suggests that he was just a precocious ten- or 11-year-old at the time.
In case you're not familiar with these precocious little elves, the idea is that Santa sends one of his elves to each kid or household at the beginning of December to keep an eye on the kids and make sure they deserve their spot on the nice list.
Leslie Knope refuses to be beaten by Jeremy Jamm (spoiler alert: it is strongly hinted that Knope becomes President after the end of Parks and Rec.) Even Election's Tracy Flick, whose name has become a byword for precocious, fastidious, no-fun politicking, is a winner in the end.
Childs is a wonderful storyteller, and she intrigued us with accounts of the KKK, and of being a precocious and stubborn young girl who took drinks from the "whites only" water fountain back in the days of segregation because the water in the "colored" fountain was never cold.
The Girl With All the Gifts pitted a precocious teen against a militarized academy attempting to control her; Maze Runner had Dylan O'Brien caught in a metaphorical labyrinth of social conventions and expectations; 10 Cloverfield Lane saw Mary Elizabeth Winstead battling her way out of a survivalist bunker.
Plucky and precocious, young Diana learns the ways of the Amazons—muscular, humorless women in leather gladiator/cheerleader skirts, brass headbands, and eyebrows plucked into angles of gravitas, who spend their days practicing archery, swordplay, equestrian stunt-riding, and leggy, tanned-glute-revealing, anti-gravity Caipoera air-spins.
The girls in Jack's life — the precocious Robyn (Scarlet Lizbeth), a crush object who's flattered enough to string him along for amusement, and the sweeter Harriet (Yainis Ynoa), who sympathizes with him — both come across as coltish and just a little ahead of him on the maturity scale.
Already, we notice how much determination, and how little visible pleasure, are involved in that rise; Celeste responds with precocious aplomb to a record-company executive (Jennifer Ehle) and drives herself to master choreographic routines, as if some internal motor had been set spinning and cannot be stopped.
Dan Mallory, who turned down requests to be interviewed for this article, was born in 1979, into a family that he has called "very, very Waspy," even though his parents both had a Catholic education and he has described himself as having been a "precocious Catholic" in childhood.
Of course, at script level, Phantom is a lot of bunk: Jedi knights Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) discover a precocious sprog who might be the Chosen One, Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), in the midst of an intergalactic skirmish over a trade dispute.
At 17, Ms. Fisher made her first movie, "Shampoo" (1975), Hal Ashby's satire of Nixon-era politics and the libidinous Los Angeles culture of the time, in which she played the precocious daughter of a wealthy woman (Lee Grant) having an affair with a promiscuous hairdresser (Warren Beatty).
The book has barely begun when he doses for the first time, feels divine vibrations, asks to buy five tabs and is given instead 1,000 to sell at the Catholic boarding school to which his parents have banished him — their precocious boy, "different" enough perhaps to be a priest.
Seth Meyers describes awkwardly meeting John Kerry after impersonating him on 'SNL' James Corden and Usher breaking bad news to people with songs is hilariously ridiculous Stephen Colbert on Elizabeth Warren's 'classic campaign mistake': Not having a penis Tom Holland gets asked awkward questions by precocious little kids
Seth Meyers describes awkwardly meeting John Kerry after impersonating him on 'SNL' Trevor Noah shares his thoughts on the lack of diversity in the presidential race Stephen Colbert on Elizabeth Warren's 'classic campaign mistake': Not having a penis Tom Holland gets asked awkward questions by precocious little kids
My uncle knew the basics — the trope of the precocious girl, the Japanese fashion subculture, the heart-shape glasses — but he had not actually read the novel when he gave it to me as a gift a few weeks later, after I told him my father wouldn't buy it.
Amara's also a big reader, curious and precocious, which is how, as her 12th birthday draws near, she successfully pressures her parents into allowing her to travel with Dad on his business trip to New York during N.B.A. All-Star Weekend — something like the Super Bowl for sneakerheads.
Her early stardom revolved mostly around the fact that she was a precocious young country artist who wrote her own songs, without the risqué edge or sexy-but-wholesome cognitive dissonance of someone like an early Britney Spears to worry white parents and inspire pearl-clutching tabloid magazine covers.
But save room for Season 3 of this tiny gem about Valerie (Michaela Watkins), a repressed therapist and mother to the precocious Laura (Tara Lynne Barr); Val's younger brother and roommate, Alex (Tommy Dewey); and the psychic cargo hold's worth of baggage they've been lugging throughout their lives.
Neil Patrick Harris leads the way as the equally campy and dastardly Count Olaf, who wants nothing more than to steal both the spotlight at his community theater and the vast fortune of precocious orphans Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes), and Sunny (astonishingly expressive baby Presley Smith) Baudelaire.
Beginning with the iconic opening line "It was a dark and stormy night," Madeleine L'Engle's classic children's sci-fi tale takes us on a harrowing journey with iron-willed Meg Wallace, precocious Charles Wallace, and charming Calvin as they they bend time and space to find Meg and Charles's missing father.
Tessa Thompson (the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Valkyrie, and co-star of Annihilation and Dear White People) stars as Molly, a precocious go-getter who, in childhood, considers Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time light bedtime reading, and in adulthood is obsessed with finding and joining the Men In Black organization.
Stephen Curry may have a second consecutive NBA championship within his sights, a loving family with a precocious daughter, and the Hollywood good looks of the late Allan Arbus, but deep down, Kevin Durant has something Chef does not—a mediocre Vice Versa-style comedy in which he plays himself.
That fall, as precocious 15-year-old freshmen, they entered Morehouse under an early-admissions program aimed at filling classrooms emptied by students drafted for World War II. Dr. Cook is survived by his wife, the former Sylvia Fields; their children, Samuel Jr. and Karen J. Cook; and two grandchildren.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%Summary: Based on the meteoric rise of social-media founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), "The Social Network" examines his transition from precocious college student to Facebook mogul, through the help of friends like Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) and influencers like Napster founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake).
McEwan is a master of the domestic quarrel, which, in his works, is regularly intensified by the introduction of a third party: a precocious child in " Atonement ," a stalker with de Clérambault's syndrome in " Enduring Love ," or, in this case, an artificial man with Kantian morals and a fully functional phallus.
These days, it could come off as some kind of perverse or precocious kind of gustatory bragging to say that as a child I adored the blob of marrow from the soup bones and had a particular love of the brains in brown butter with capers that my mother cooked.
" He was, by his own description, an unhappy child, but he was a voracious, and precocious, reader, who tore through so many books that at 8, after reading all the age-appropriate material his mother brought for him on a family vacation, he read her copy of "The Color Purple.
García was a precocious public speaker, in the mold of his mentor, and a good singer, a talent he later employed to great effect when he was busking as a student in Paris, and, even later, when he campaigned with famous Peruvian musicians, belting out Creole classics in his melodic baritone.
So when the team not only is undefeated and ranked No. 19953 in the country, but also has begun to resemble the Golden State Warriors on training wheels — averaging nearly 100 points per game, leading the nation in assists and showcasing a pair of precocious freshman stars — what's not to like?
Doubtfire and on Melrose Place in 1993; nabbed her first leading role the next year, starring in the Miracle on 34th Street reboot; sang the opening number at the Oscars in 1995; and was a bona fide national treasure by '96 after playing the precocious title character with telekinetic powers in Matilda.
" So naturally, being the precocious youth that she was, Dunham took matters into her own hands, literally, attempting to "create a superthin shape using my dad's dull tweezers, then use a pencil of some sort (lip- or eyeliner; who really knew the difference?) to fill in what God had not gifted me.
As a counselor at the zoo's day camp for precocious animal-lovers ages 6 to 12, I spent most of my time mediating disputes over popular crayon colors, assuring anxious parents about peanut allergies, and asking my campers, "Is it an emergency?" in a voice that carried the proper ring of adult authority.
Even Metacritic's more detailed description of the character as "a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian" who "spends his days in his family's 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzi" leaves out the one thing Elio spends most of the film doing: sleeping. Elio!
By age 10, he was as good as any junior player in Norway, and by 11 there was just one player his age in the entire world who was better, a precocious Russian by the name of Sergey Karjakin, who himself was on his way to becoming the youngest grandmaster in history.
Last season on Hulu's "Casual," Valerie (Michaela Watkins) was left by her husband for a younger woman; packed up her precocious teenage daughter, Laura (Tara Lynne Barr), moved in with her brother, Alex (Tommy Dewey), a dating-site creator; and went a bit bonkers as she navigated singledom with him as her wingman.
Tween Kate (Darby Camp) is the precocious ideal of an annoying little sister, obsessively filming things on her dad's old video camera, in order to feel closer to him, but really so The Christmas Chronicles' filmmakers can shoot certain scenes to look as if they were captured by a 20-year-old camcorder.
Despite her precocious start in motion pictures, by her account she was discovered, in the Hollywood vernacular, only in 1941, when Herbert J. Yates, the president of Republic Pictures, spotted her in a bathing suit poolside at the home of her brother-in-law Billy Gilbert, the comedian renowned for his spasmodic sneezes.
If France's experiment in confining its citizens — less rigorous than the Chinese, more precocious than the Italian, far more organized than the American — yields the hoped-for flattening of the curve, it would be vindication not just for the underlying system, but for a Western democracy's organized effort to combat the coronavirus.
Stephen Colbert on Elizabeth Warren's 'classic campaign mistake': Not having a penis Tom Holland gets asked awkward questions by precocious little kids 'The President of the United States is undermining public health': Seth Meyers slams Trump's coronavirus response James Corden and Usher breaking bad news to people with songs is hilariously ridiculous
As did Betty Woodman, who started out as a "precocious studio potter," says Stuart Krimko, the research and editorial director at David Kordansky Gallery, which works closely with the artist's estate, and who ended up being the first living woman to have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — in 2006.
Before changing the face of pop culture, music and fashion with a slew of ostentatious alter egos (from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke), Bowie – who died of cancer Sunday, just two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his album Blackstar – was just a precocious kid in a middle-class family.
Over the years, Blunt has accrued a reputation for precocious brilliance and inventiveness across a number of different mediums - he's released outstanding, eclectic albums (we rated one of them as our 2nd best album of the year) and abstract videos, put on extravagant and wildly unpredictable live shows, and a couple of aborted stage plays.
Children are very adept to this, and the older they get, the more precocious they are, the more able they are to manipulate it, so his legal posture may be as a subordinate but as a practical matter and as a represented party of the proceedings, he's kind of got the keys to the car.
He won an Academy Award for his film adaptation of "Amadeus," about the rivalry between Antonio Salieri, the court composer for the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the precocious composer whose magnificent gifts thrill the older man and fill him with malicious jealousy as he realizes his own consignment to mediocrity.
Unlike Shamima Begum, Tooba wasn't a teenager when she left to join ISIS: She was a precocious and mouthy 22-year-old college student who had tried to justify on social media the beheading of the British aid worker Alan Henning in October of 2014, a good two months before she left for Syria.
It's the do-gooding, often hapless English who become surrogates for much of the audience, and they are given winningly ardent and angry life by, among others, Jo McInnes and, as a precocious city planner fresh out of Eton, Alex Lawther (the teen psychopath from the Netflix series "The End of the ___ing World").

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