| 单词 | precociously |
| 例句 | Panofsky, who had risen precociously in his two years at Berkeley to the rank of associate professor, detested the very idea of the oath, but signed— “reluctantly,” as he put it later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As a precociously gifted schoolboy Achebe thrived in the colonial education system and enjoyed reading the English literary canon, even if Africans rarely fared well in its stories. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z Precociously smart and precociously cynical, she was hungry to break the bonds of her own inexperience and transform herself into the woman she imagined herself becoming. Theater Review: ‘Sontag: Reborn,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-06-07T02:00:01Z But that sitcom is just one entry on a precociously long résumé. John Mulaney on Finding New Material and Why He's No Comeback Kid 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z She read the classic texts, absorbed precociously the upper-class terms associated with falconry and later flew her own falcons. Finding solace in the skies: Helen Macdonald’s memoir ‘H is for Hawk’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But as this absorbing biography shows, she embraced a precociously modern awareness of gender and class, campaigning tirelessly for the rights of women and workers. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z This is nimble nonsense—a precociously knowing manner with little knowledge attached. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Lieberher’s Oliver is frail and hypersensitive, shy but precociously alert. Teyonah Parris, Katherine Waterston and Others Break Through 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z At 27, with Away from Her, Polley showed that she was a writer-director precociously attuned to the passions and tensions in a marriage of sexagenarians. Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell: Secrets and Lies 2012-09-05T18:21:19Z Roth is required not only to be precociously studious, but also, ideally, to be show-off gifted. The Scientists: A Family Romance - review 2013-01-14T07:00:01Z These precociously brilliant physics students form an intense friendship at university, after which their lives diverge, leaving them with only sporadic contact. Crime novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Rather, Mr. Dildine, now 36, was known as the precociously talented executive director of Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, a program which offers free Shakespeare for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi River denizens. Shakespeare & Company Caught in Its Own Drama 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z About a modern young Algerian woman, it was published in English as "The Mischief"; Kirkus dubbed it a "precociously decadent debut." Assia Djebar dies in Paris at 78 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z It was the year when it wasn’t enough to be precociously talented if you didn’t possess the wisdom of the ages. It was the year of ‘OK boomer,’ and the generations were at each other’s throats 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The band at its center is already in precociously fine shape. ‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z At the same time, Brodsky was precociously aware of the imminent demise of a certain kind of intellectual seriousness in the world. 2010-01-20T05:20:00Z In Lynsey Addario's memoir, "It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War," precociously undertaken before she turned 40, she endeavors to explain the "why?" 'It's What I Do' a war-zone photographer's harrowing memoir 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z She precociously publishes an autobiographical novel, but is plagued by the sense that she lifted her literary voice from Lila. Elena Ferrante and What Liking Is Like 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Instead, the kids exist to demonstrate the wages of their parents angst or to generally behave precociously or terribly . . . very much in the vein of every standard sitcom non-adult. Netflix's "#blackAF" is Kenya Barris' wealthier, shallower, and meaner "Black-ish" 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Carrie Kemper was also a precociously sensitive diarist at the age of 5, keeping a journal that is still the talk of the family. Such Devoted Sisters: 'Office' Mates Carrie and Ellie Kemper Will Publish a First Book 2010-06-23T16:15:00Z What little criticism she received, though, was mostly reserved for her choice to program, somewhat precociously, the autumnal “Four Last Songs.” A ‘One-in-a-Million Voice’ Arrives at the Met Opera 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Lester is a “precociously shipwrecked” man to whom “nothing happened. And day after day nothing just kept on happening.” Brian Morton's 'Florence Gordon,' and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Mendelssohn was one of the most precociously talented musicians in history, and his cultured, affluent parents knew it. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Review 2011-11-21T23:13:14Z Mia and Pearl are constantly on the move, migrating in their beat-up car from city to city, a lifestyle that Mia attributes to her art practice and that the even-tempered, precociously intelligent Pearl grimly tolerates. Review: ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Ignites Over Race and Class 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The most striking was “Ambition,” a precociously skeptical and wounded song. Kodak Black Grapples With Tough Questions in His Music, but Nowhere Else 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Were it not another cliché, I might call Nikolai a fully realized character; he’s precociously wise as well as a bitter deliverer of harsh truths both petty and philosophical, often at the same time. A Grieving Mother Converses With Her Dead Son in Yiyun Li’s New Novel 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Many wore Sylvia Young Theatre School T-shirts, and danced and sang precociously behind the scenes. Eddie Redmayne: ‘I loved Harry Potter, so I don’t want to screw up’ 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Ben Elton found his voice precociously early: it's one-liners, puns, innuendo. Do comedians lose their edge as they get older? 2013-04-27T16:59:01Z She was a precociously talented 13 when the pilot was shot for “My So-Called Life,” and that show’s Angela Chase is still the role for which she is most often recognized in public. 2010-01-31T05:37:00Z Raised in Louisville, Ky., by a father who loved bourbon, he became precociously fascinated with the spirit. Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for Your Booze Stash 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Aged just 18, Juliette Lewis scored her first and only Oscar nomination – for a precociously nervy, knife-edge performance in Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear that saw her go toe-to-toe with Robert De Niro. Which big-screen actors deserve a small-screen reinvention? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Directed by Joe Hill-Gibbons, this sharply drawn interpretation is a gleaming showcase for a young playwright’s precociously careful craftsmanship, a wicked delight in twisted narratives and a cool but genuine empathy for his self-imprisoned characters. London Theater Journal: Screams! Thrills! Chills! 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z Characteristically, this precociously accomplished young man brought it off as a virtuoso compositional feat. Duets That Reflect the World Offstage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Indeed, Ben might look like an “alien,” but, in his taste for meanness and cruelty, he is precociously worldly. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z He met Liza Minnelli in his teens – "I was a friend of a guy who Liza was dating" – and precociously played piano for her mother, Judy Garland, at a Christmas party. Marvin Hamlisch obituary 2012-08-08T12:26:28Z I read that some early apple varieties ripened precociously. The beauty of the dry garden The moment I knew that the stand-up comic Taylor Tomlinson was going to be a star was not after she made the precociously funny debut special, “Quarter-Life Crisis,” at the age of 25. Taylor Tomlinson: A Comic With the Confidence of a Star 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z We say A scabrously witty and precociously talented rapper who earned his grime credentials on underground radio and MCing at raves before a label tussle eventually saw him sign to Island. Stars In Our Eyes: This Season's New Music Talent 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Every one of the characters is assigned a specific value, which Nick precociously weighs in his mind. Gatsby Soundtrack Beats On, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into Failure 2013-05-10T15:25:50Z Possessing a precociously mature soprano voice, Andrews was widely promoted in the era as a child prodigy. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Past, present and future all look ominously cloudy as forecast by the young, precociously fatalistic Mr. Stoppard. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Bell’s precociously smoky, tender voice drifts through the sparse instrumentation: “But now you’ve left me, oh how I cry / You don’t miss your water till the well runs dry.” An Underrated Soul Singer Returns 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Where her burning ambition for fame came from, though, doesn't seem quite as clear, for by her own account she was the very antithesis of the precociously cocky stage kid. Victoria Wood: 'I feel at the BBC I'm not trusted, not valued, not needed' 2010-09-27T06:59:00Z In it, Sharma plays Pi Patel, who, as a child, precociously combines Christianity, Buddhism and Islam into his own blend of religion. A 'Life' changing film for the young actor of 'Pi' 2012-11-16T15:44:08Z As a precociously brilliant student at the Rhode Island School of Design, she arrived there already knowing exactly what she wanted to accomplish. | 'The Woodmans': Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Suicide 2011-01-18T23:30:09Z This precociously mature pianist, still in his teens, played Liszt’s deliriously difficult “Transcendental Études” on the way to becoming the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition last year. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z His art is realistic and precociously modern, and yet the musical instruments in his paintings and their association with amorous encounters draw on images and conventions rooted deep in the Renaissance. Vermeer, Lowry and a cauldron scandal – the week in art 2013-06-21T13:53:06Z She is Audrey and Greg’s only biological child — a precociously intelligent high school junior who, because it’s cable TV, is perpetually up to no good. Review | HBO has a real stinker in the dreadfully unrelatable ‘Here and Now’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z He began precociously with paintings of surrealistically deformed bodies that were inspired by the horror of Hiroshima, when he was just out of high school. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z His precociously adorable performance brings the house down. Chaplin: a little tramp through Charlie's love affairs 2012-11-22T10:03:41Z On Saturday night at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the singer-songwriter Stew was joined by his band, the Negro Problem, and a mixed-race chorus of precociously cool high school kids. ‘Mr. TOL E. RAncE’ on Black Entertainers and Race 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z So it was kind of comforting, two days later, to come across a 16-year-old boy who seemed to be precociously sure of his identity. Showgirls, a Monster and a Drag Queen: Singing Songs of Self 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Within a decade he was widely seen as having entered — again precociously — a decline that became ever more precipitous, exacerbated by relentless self-promotion, shameless hucksterism and a fervent return to Roman Catholicism. Art Review: Antics Aside, a Dal? of Constant Ambition 2010-09-02T21:32:00Z One day, when actor Richard Chamberlain and Danny were seated across from each other in a Los Angeles diner, Chamberlain heard the young boy precociously quote philosopher Henry David Thoreau. After childhood fame — and decades of infamy — Danny Bonaduce finds success and sobriety in Seattle 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z As she stood back from her drawing, a precociously skilled portrait of three fantasy figures, Katya allowed herself a look of satisfaction. In Warsaw Park, Ukraine’s Teen Refugees Hang Out and Hang On 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The leveling effect of no racers having experience of the Olympic course seems likely to benefit the precociously talented Odermatt, who extended his lead Sunday in the overall World Cup standings. Beat Feuz wins at Kitzbühel in last downhill before Olympics 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z But his precociously assured performance concealed what he truly felt. Elliott: LeBron James shows what's possible for Lakers when he's on the court 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Open, where she swept to the 2019 title in precociously grand style, defeating Serena Williams in straight sets in the final at age 19. Bianca Andreescu Returns to the U.S. Open With Winning on Her Mind 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z “Haven’t seen enough of DGG to form an opinion, but a keeper declining at 27 is pretty strange, even taking into account how precociously early he peaked.” West Bromwich Albion v Manchester United: Premier League - live! 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Not after the precociously gifted young American once again flashed her prodigious moxie and talent on the biggest of stages. Coco Gauff Defeats Reigning Champion Naomi Osaka at Australian Open 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z He was referring to his seven months in Afghanistan and recognizing that while he has been precociously ahead of the game in many regards, he was behind in others. Opinion | Is Pete Buttigieg Just Too Young to Be President? 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z He made a vertiginous climb in a hurry: from 763rd to 78th in a year with his precociously polished power game. Rafael Nadal Ends the Season in a Familiar Place: On Top 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z After two years, he returned to Europe, and by the end of the twenties he had a precociously successful career in Berlin, working as an editor and writer for one of Germany’s biggest liberal dailies. The Desperate Plight Behind “Darkness at Noon” 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z After Babos broke Gauff’s serve in the opening game, Gauff immediately broke back and became the more constant flame throughout the first set, consistently doing damage with her precociously powerful first serve. 2019 U.S. Open Highlights: Coco Gauff Wins the Night 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Last month on the slippery grass of the All England Club, Gauff was precociously poised and precise against veteran elders such as Venus Williams, and she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon. Coco Gauff Delivers Again, in an Electric U.S. Open Win 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z As he grows, Mark seems precociously aware of his fate. Review | How we create our spirituality and how it creates us 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Her earliest works — mostly highly detailed drawings from the 1960s — reveal the hand of a precociously skilled draftswoman. Adrian Piper’s Show at MoMA is the Largest Ever for a Living Artist. Why Hasn’t She Seen It? 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z And yet, at the center of this oddly riveting little picaresque is a performance of such quiet power by Plummer — as an antihero rash and precociously resourceful — that it’s easy to overlook the film’s flaws. Review | ‘Lean on Pete’ is a deceptively simple road movie about the search for family 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z As she has come more fully into her own power, Lawrence — already precociously self-possessed from the moment she arrived in Hollywood — has learned to stand up even more firmly for herself. Sex, violence and a Russian accent: Jennifer Lawrence takes another big risk with 'Red Sparrow' 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z The premise is intentionally preposterous and as is often the case with these kinds of films, all these so-called “adults” behave like precociously foul-mouthed adolescents. New video: 'Alien: Covenant' is one of the best of the 'Alien' franchise movies 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z A precociously gifted artist, Mr. Landau had been a cartoonist, illustrator and theater caricaturist at the New York Daily News in his teens before embarking on an acting career at 22. Martin Landau, Oscar-winning actor who played heroes and villains, dies at 89 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s all a cocksure, low-stakes lark, right down to the appearance of a precociously larcenous 8-year-old who shows up as camouflage for Baby’s pointlessly elaborate final job. Review | ‘Baby Driver’ has musical swagger to spare, but is ultimately a fetishistic ode to mayhem 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z I’ve known Morgan a little ever since he was the loud, precociously young editor of the Daily Mirror in the 1990s, and have always enjoyed his company tremendously. Piers Morgan: ‘I’m just putting opinions out there. It’s my job’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z But how precociously bored he looks, possibly because back then an afternoon was so vast it constituted a significant portion of life. The Mysteries of Our Family Snapshots 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z They knew Lucian would do fine academically, he often seemed precociously intuitive and observant. Hundreds of American kids are suddenly paralyzed, and doctors still don’t know why 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Grownups aren’t ready for their little innocents to be so precociously cutthroat. Parents Have Long Feared That Pokemon Is Bad for Kids 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z The consequence of so much unsupervised freedom was that I became precociously independent. The Voyeur’s Motel 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z This particular arm belonged to a lumpy kid with a precociously fluid pitching motion who could hurl a fastball that was already hitting the low 90s on the radar gun. The Julio Urias Dilemma: Baseball Babies Its Precious Young Arms 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z When he precociously asked for a pay rise his father wouldn't give him one. From bloodied knees to the House of Commons - BBC News 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z A later rendition of “Moon River” is just as precociously scorching. In ‘Amy,’ the singer Amy Winehouse comes into clear, unsettling focus 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z But anyone who could look beyond the general media nonsense surrounding her found a precociously smart and supple writer, which should not be a surprise. Not That Kind of Girl review – Lena Dunham exposes all, again 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Madison’s ailments didn’t prevent him from diving precociously into politics. A brilliant and shrewd statesman After scoring 13 points in as many minutes through a Christian Wade intercept try and two monster penalties from the precociously talented Elliot Daly, Wasps failed to add another point. Wasps 13-22 Saracens 2013-03-30T20:28:37Z Football players who become famous in their teens often remain precociously young in our consciousness. Wayne Rooney: football's gilded youth falls to earth 2013-03-10T00:06:11Z The precociously gifted batsman from Rajkot was deservingly declared the Man of the Match. India Ink: India's Bright Young Cricket Stars Bring Victory Over England 2012-11-19T16:42:26Z Picture a precociously gifted teenager, who survived a car crash and a coma, but was never quite the same again. Zimbabwe's elections a test of optimism 2012-10-13T10:53:12Z Though I encountered several warm, respectful, and precociously witty students over my three years at Bronx Science, I do not remember my experience there as fondly as I do my time at Stuyvesant. New York's Elite Stuyvesant High School Has A Cheating Problem. Here's How To Solve It 2012-09-29T09:27:49Z So far while dealing with empty seats Sebastian Coe has had the air of a patient headmaster fending off a series of precociously misguided questions from the lower sixth. Barney Ronay on those empty seats 2012-07-31T14:43:21Z The kid was precociously aware of her own environment, right? | Townies: For One More Day at the Office 2012-04-26T22:16:32Z Several species produce small peculiar flowers, precociously fertilized in the bud and particularly fruitful; and the ordinary flowers are often dimorphous or even trimorphous in the relative length of the stamens and styles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z He read eagerly and precociously, as a delicate child sometimes does, devouring all such books as he could lay hands on. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z And becoming precociously sophisticated—only too often precociously vicious—her nature and future are wrecked at the outset. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z It will be seen presently that functional derangements may be in like manner precociously induced, with the parallel effect of inducing such pains as are ordinarily the product of a later epoch. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z Indeed she was," said M�llner; "but there was something repellant about her, for she had been embittered by cruel treatment, which had developed her mind precociously, while it had stunted her body. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z The modern child is apt to be precociously occupied with books and adult interests, because he is brought so much into the foreground of family interests. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z As I was very serious, and my form developed itself precociously, I was early treated as a grown person, and I desired it too. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z He was precociously interested in swing theory and swing mechanics, more concerned with how many greens he hit in regulation than with his final score. Focused on the Swing, Not the Score 2011-05-11T00:56:47Z They are more reproductively mature, stressed, and their physiology is precociously oriented toward the freshwater environment. Upstream Battle: What Is Killing Off the Fraser River's Sockeye Salmon? [Slide Show] 2011-05-05T10:15:00.237Z His intellect was thought to be precociously developed; but if such was the fact, none of the later effects which usually follow unnatural precocity showed themselves in Mr. Seward's career. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z He was precociously wise, already given to thought, to wondering as children wonder. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Wilshere's footballing temperament, however, appears to tend towards the precociously phlegmatic, and he seemed disinclined to allow the manager's words to disturb his composure. Jack Wilshere lives up to the hype in a short but sweet England start 2011-02-10T00:06:02Z She was precociously aware that intimacy with Lady Isabel Clare's daughter was likely to accrue to her own advantage later on in London. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z "She was shot for no other reason than that she was, at the age of nine, precociously interested in politics," it adds. Newspaper review 2011-01-10T05:09:25Z Most flowers of this kind, indeed, never open at all; but the closed floral coverings are forced off by the growth of the precociously fertilized pistil. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools He had little schooling, but he was fond of books, and educated himself precociously by reading a wide range of literature in English, French, Italian, and Latin. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Nature gave him a resolute will, a keen and precociously active intellect, a vehement individuality; that is to say, a consciousness of his own powers, and a determination to make them recognised by his fellows. Studies in Contemporary Biography Even in the refined circles where mental curiosity is precociously excited, what singular ignorances conceal themselves under the free talk of some young worldly girl or of some student who knows everything and understands nothing! Pierre and Luce The analytical gift manifested itself in Hazlitt precociously in the study of human nature. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature I have referred already to the precociously developed trick I had of savouring life as a spectator, of observing myself as a figure in an illustrated romance--probably the hero. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography They will discover which girls are cold and indifferent, and which are precociously erotic. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study If, on the other hand, the parents had been criminals and had, themselves, set a bad example, nobody would have supposed that these depraved tendencies were innate in the children or had developed precociously. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso A man that 's fond precociously of stirring Must be a spoon. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature One of the monks was a young Dominican, handsome, brilliant, precociously grave; it was the curate of Binondo. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere They looked so calm, so remote—why did humans introduce such problems into the scheme of things? questioned Isabelle precociously. The Cricket As the object concluded these precociously philosophical remarks, it looked up in its mother’s face with an earnest inquiring gaze. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains He had scarcely emerged from boyhood; but his boyhood was passed in scenes of danger and trial, and his extraordinary talents were most precociously developed. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Dean Milman has not explained to us how any man's could; but Jerome's childhood, at any rate, was extremely other than recluse, or precociously religious. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens No country is so precociously old for its years.' Mushrooms on the Moor Raised in the harem, surrounded by obsequious slaves and designing women, neither his pride nor his passions have been effectively restrained, and he grows up a pompous tyrant and probably precociously depraved. The New World of Islam The Auto.—The advent of the automobile is responsible for an easy and convenient manner of satisfying precociously aroused sex instincts in young girls and boys. Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English A thousand impromptu concerts were given, and a thousand insults grew precociously to blows. Nights in London But, in this vast and favoured country, the very associations and impressions of childhood foster and enlighten the intellect and precociously rouse the energies. Diary in America, Series One He took precociously to rhyming: like Pope, he lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author This friend was a rather precociously dissipated youth, and with him I had actually now and then—very rarely—a glass at a bar and oysters. Memoirs The very children had become sailors; they were precociously weather-wise, and rather fond of being tossed on the waves than otherwise. The Lifeboat Not that she was over intelligent—one of those precociously "smart" young women that, thanks to the female colleges and the "higher culture" are being "developed" in such alarming numbers nowadays. Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem Directly and indirectly, he himself took in hand his son's instruction, but without appreciation or consideration of the affinities of a mind with precociously developed instincts. The Youth of Goethe Thackeray was quite aware of his early weaknesses, and in the maturity of life knew well that he had not been precociously wise. Thackeray He had been from boyhood as precociously a man of the world as I was the opposite. Memoirs On the other hand, what sad havoc does not the sexual passion play where it is precociously developed and wantonly indulged. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence The man who is fond precociously of stirring may be a spoon, but the man who lies in bed half the day is something worse. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses As if precociously providing for an ultimate alibi, the fickle Tootles began to show unmistakable signs of aversion for her temporary parent. The Husbands of Edith Do not you know that foreigners, coming from the contemplation of races less precociously intellectual, see the danger we are in, if we do not? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 So here I'll lie, my morning calls deferring, Till something nearer to the stroke of noon;— A man that's fond precociously of stirring, Must be a spoon. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood It often happened that in the illustrated papers, in the mythological engravings of our dining-room, or in a shop-window, that a beautiful face, or a harmonious and graceful figure attracted my precociously artistic gaze. First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life Such a thin, stunted little woman, precociously learned in trouble! The Doctor's Dilemma She matured precociously in the atmosphere of her own despair. The Dangerous Age He perceived that this precociously wise, subtle youngster of his was now close up to the line of injury and death, going to and fro from it, in a perpetual, fluctuating danger. Mr. Britling Sees It Through At the other extreme, another group of children are so neurotically and precociously sensitive that no precautions will preserve them from such influences. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society This was the case of a boy of 16, precociously mature and fairly bright. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Up to 18, familiarities passed at intervals between me and the son of the village doctor, a youth about two years older than myself, and precociously immoral. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion From the very beginning he seemed precociously gifted in music, and began at a very early age to study the piano. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians It was all charmingly and not precociously done. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" He nibbled at various books and was precociously brilliant in Latin. Against the Grain In his frescoes the qualities essential to the style of the Renaissance—what Vasari calls the modern manner—appear precociously full-formed. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Kissed and fondled by great beauties, from the age of five, it is small wonder that Mozart began to improvise upon the oldest theme in the world precociously. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 The only bright spot in her days was Jack Junior, now toddling precociously on his sturdy legs, a dozen steps at a time, crowing victoriously when he negotiated the passage from chair to chair. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest It would be a forced interpretation to suppose him to have set forth precociously the Darwinian theory of the struggle for life. Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern Midway the boy stopped and eyed Susan's bare leg and foot, a grin of pleasure and amusement on his precociously and viciously mature face. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise It has been shown that he was one precociously convinced of the necessity of managing mankind, by studying their tempers and humouring their weaknesses. Vivian Grey Bryant was sickly till fourteen and became permanently well thereafter; was precociously devoted to nature, religion, prayed for poetic genius and wrote Thanatopsis before he was eighteen. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene All their attention is absorbed in what they are about; they employ on the game all the cunning of their wits, precociously developed, and so soon stuck fast in material things. Saint Augustin His settlements developed precociously,—almost like "mushroom cities" in the great American West,—and reached the apparent limit of their development soon after solidifying. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints But the boy was terrified: his ill-health made him more sensitive than other children: he was precociously intelligent, and he had inherited a fierce and unbalanced capacity for feeling from his mother. Jean-Christophe Journey's End He read, wrote, and drew precociously; his knowledge of the Bible, in which his mother's training was relentlessly thorough, of Scott, Pope, and Homer, dates from his fifth or sixth year. A History of English Literature And in speaking to him sometimes she would put on a grave and precociously sapient mien, as if to indicate that she had access to sources of wisdom for ever closed to him. Hilda Lessways The tadpole lives not out its day as a tadpole, but precociously turns into a frog. The Glands Regulating Personality This second comer was a young man precociously mature after a certain style. An Original Belle But since their talent for music has brought them precociously into public notice, I must beg for your kind and indulgent patronage and—leave to take them back to the swamp.' Swiss Family Robinson With that precociously sophisticated instinct of hers she realised that the man had been emotionally stirred, and divined in her funny child's mind that it was her dancing which had so stirred him. The Lamp of Fate They grew slowly, and never attained to the full stature of ordinary plants; some of them flowered precociously, and others late in the season. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species They were Cissy's peculiar adornment, remarkable for their length, thickness, and the extraordinary youthfulness imparted to a figure otherwise precociously matured. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories If, accordingly, these precociously selected spirits are to be excluded because no new birth is observed in them at a mature age, they must continue outside in the cold, since the phenomenon cannot be repeated. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments A childless woman with the maternal instinct strong within her, she had taken this precociously intelligent, wide-eyed lad to her heart. Scaramouche "He's got a big pistol and a belt!" exulted the leader, who had precociously felt beneath Lin's coat. Lin McLean He found the boy not only precociously intelligent, but eagerly desirous of information, especially on matters relating to religion. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. Bleak House |
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