A precocious composer, he was sent to France and Italy about 1664 to study the latest fashions in music. |
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It's a wonder I wasn't strangled before opening night, but at that age, precocious is cute. |
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By the time he reached his teens he showed precocious talent and at the age of 25 he was a rising star. |
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In the endeavor to resuscitate Rome's art scene after World War II, few were more enterprising and none more precocious than Piero Dorazio. |
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Her annoyingly precocious daughter becomes the main conduit to the supernatural by way of the imaginary-friend device. |
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Many wine tasters have resorted to using anthropomorphic terms such as aggressive, clumsy, gutsy and precocious. |
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You feel the precocious Dinah is auditioning for the show rather than extending the narrative. |
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The precocious talkativeness is a major attribute of the boy, who is known by the name of his class rather than a real proper name. |
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These precocious tetradactyl fliers developed a unique wing predicated upon a greatly elongated fourth finger. |
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He tells the tale of the precocious and gifted son of master court painter, who grows up illiterate but an exceptionally brilliant painter. |
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So far as I have been able to determine, nothing more is known of this precocious Baudelairean. |
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He was a precocious genius, became famous very early, and for a while tasted society life and the pleasure of entertainment and diversion. |
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That was a very precocious thing for a student to do, even in the seventies. |
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In the West, precocious puberty is sometimes treated with regular injections to slow down physical development. |
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Over the past few years, the Dandy Warhols have gone from precocious shoegazers to frontrunners. |
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She is blowsy, slightly needy, and struggling to keep in check the precocious sexuality of her only daughter, aptly named Lolita. |
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Duncan, a precocious, affectionate child, had failed to live up to his academic potential, and had become withdrawn and uncommunicative. |
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And when they are shown they are either precocious brats or philosophy-spouting saints. |
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Two new viviparous mutants showed some signs of precocious germination but did not emerge fully on the cob. |
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The apricot gets its name from the Latin word praecox, meaning precocious, for its habit of ripening early compared with other stone fruits. |
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The eldest, Gloria, is a poised beauty, while Dolly and Phil are pertly precocious. |
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The perpetual precocious adolescent flitting about mothlike, creating trifles, feuilletons, elegant piffle. |
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Tis the season of insolubly hard quizzes compiled for precocious public school boys, so here's my contribution. |
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The precocious teenage poet was committed to leftist internationalism, the united front against fascism. |
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Surely this precocious, polysyllabic facility is an invaluable boon to cognitive development. |
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Like you, young Ben was a precocious indie popster, earning attention far beyond his age and, some say, his talent. |
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Unlike many precocious talents he was relatively free of ego and willingly shared his gifts with the less gifted. |
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Judging by his phony picture he's one of those fussy, antiseptic, precocious little boys that mothers adore and fathers get used to. |
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As a precocious teenager, and now as a student, Millie has always shared her wild lifestyle with Jamie. |
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If I had my way I'd ban the most precocious kids from reading anything but Enid Blyton. |
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As a boy, Freud was intellectually precocious and an extremely hard worker. |
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A precocious child, he read voraciously and soon revealed an extraordinary aptitude for languages. |
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The point is made early on that Daniel is an intellectually precocious child. |
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When you realise how precocious was the talent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, you can only pray he was a nice kid. |
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He is an absolutely precocious talent, and as nice a person as I could wish to be associated with. |
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Outfield players, especially, must be nurtured almost full-time from the first inkling of any precocious ability. |
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Professor Frerichs recognized the precocious talent of this newcomer and encouraged Ehrlich's pursuit of histology and chemistry. |
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Olivier Messiaen was born in Avignon, France in 1908 into a highly scholarly family and showed precocious musical talent. |
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Neil Tarrant, on loan from Aston Villa, has provided the impetus with his precocious ability to score important goals. |
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In cold-winter climates, prune precocious magnolias in summer after they've bloomed. |
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Callery pears are precocious, having a very short juvenile period, and flower as early as 3 years old. |
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Some may consider it all irresistibly smart, rather than merely preposterous and precocious in equal measure. |
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Like her mother and her undefeated champion grandam, the precocious Storm Flag Flying keeps McGaughey on his toes. |
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A precocious big sister enumerates the discommodious nature of babyhood in this sassy tale. |
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I am three and precocious, dressed in a black duffel coat and with red ears in the cold. |
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It was not just the precocious brilliance of his jockeyship but his heritage. |
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Do you like him frozen in time as a precocious boy genius doctor with a ridiculous name? |
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Although he's initially terrified at the prospect of being a father, Angela soon has a calming effect on him, despite her precocious, junk food-fuelled behaviour. |
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Put another way, they are what every doting parent wants their precocious toddler to grow up to become. |
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We're all no doubt envisioning worthless adolescent punks who deserve to lose some teeth, but what if the perpetrator is female, or a precocious 12-year-old? |
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A precocious talent, he was nurtured by enlightened teachers in London and then discovered California. |
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The series begins with a voiceover from a 9-year-old boy named Charlie, basically a more precocious Meredith Grey. |
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The children are precocious and cute and the whole thing is freaking adorable. |
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He showed a precocious penchant for baseball and music, fronting a high-school band called Johnny and the Jaywalkers. |
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This collocation of precocious poetic essence, stupefying lyricism and seditious brilliance sets up Rimbaud as the Romantic-Modern poet par excellence. |
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As a child growing up in Moray, Caledonian Thistle's manager was nicknamed Pele because of the precocious talent which saw him signed by Manchester United as a 15-year-old. |
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That should knock the snark out of the precocious six-year old who wonders exactly how Santa knows all. |
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With few exceptions, literary attempts to encapsulate the early years of life have tended to sound either implausibly precocious or excessively dumb. |
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Always the scholar and never the socialite, I adapted to pre-teen activities and the effervescence of wide-eyed, precocious little girls, much to my delight. |
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The 27-year-old grew up in bleak times for Scottish sport, when there was neither the political will nor the financial support to nurture precocious talent. |
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Symbolic of the new freedom were the pre-World War I bohemians of New York's Greenwich Village and the sexually precocious young women of the 1920s, the so-called flappers. |
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His talent was as precocious as his future partner's, and back in America he would perform at children's parties and at his father's academic gatherings. |
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Family comedies, by their very nature, usually come beset with some sort of unsubtle message, a fair amount of gloop, and one or two precocious kids. |
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This is a very confusing situation for a precocious trilingual five year old, but not such an unusual condition when seen in a pan-Canadian context. |
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Occasionally I came upon a precocious spray of Dutchman's breeches, or wild bleedingheart, hung frailly with delicately transparent shell-like blossoms. |
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In the coming-of-age dramedy Whole New Thing, cowritten by and costarring out Canadian Daniel MacIvor, a precocious 13-year-old falls for his promiscuous gay teacher. |
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The budding relationship between the ornery sexagenarian and the precocious young child ultimately gives the film its momentum. |
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His precocious ability recognised, he would go on to win the same scholarship held by Daniel Barenboim and Itzhak Perlman and to play at the Carnegie Hall. |
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Penelope is closer in sensibility to an anodyne sitcom than a precocious bildungsroman. |
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She was a precocious child who could read before she went to school. |
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His writings provide an account of many scientific observations, a mixture of precocious accuracy and curious errors. |
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Edward was a precocious child who had been brought up as a Protestant, but was initially of little account politically. |
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Her Calvinism and folk beliefs were an early source of nightmares for the child, and he showed a precocious concern for religion. |
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There he befriended Henry Moyes, a young blind man who showed precocious aptitude. |
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The precocious student had really overpassed her peers, and was reading books written for children several years older. |
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A precocious mathematician, Babbage was already well versed in the Continental mathematical notations when he went up to Cambridge. |
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There were plenty of precocious mares in his first book, and Evanesce has already been placed for him this season. |
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A precocious musician, he was giving concerts when he was seven. |
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In a touching moment, Filan embraced him like he was his precocious kid brother, after McDonald almost outsung him. |
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Helen Monks stars as the precocious, extravert 15-year-old Germaine with Alexa Davies as her younger, more serious-minded sister Aretha. |
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Twain's precocious and wayward protagonist is hailed as a depositary and a hierophantic flag-bearer of the broad frontier-territory-wilderness ethos. |
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There's none of your precocious, drama-school brattishness about him. |
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Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious spore germination. |
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Martha are a clean-living, vegan band, and Courting Strong serves as a story-so-far set to jagged guitar pirouetting, a gallivant through the precocious years. |
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Based on the new technique, NIAS has induced precocious metamorphosis of silkworms by excessively producing juvenile hormone esterase, a kind of hormone-degrading enzyme. |
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Puberty which starts earlier than usual is known as precocious puberty. |
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The precocious child began reading the newspaper at age four. |
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Thank God I was not the only sex-mad precocious little saucepot around! |
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Cancer treatments also can lead to precocious or delayed puberty. |
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The monthly formulation of triptorelin is currently marketed in over 80 countries for prostate cancer, endometriosis, fibromyoma, breast cancer and precocious puberty. |
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