The answer is both astonishing and improbable: Thomasina (Bel Powley), a 13-year-old child prodigy, has figured out the Second Law of Thermodynamics all by herself, much to the bewilderment of Septimus (Tom Riley), her rakish tutor, to whom she is no less precociously attracted. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)
During the meal, I precociously proclaimed myself an atheist. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Tiger Woods precociously appeared on the golf scene at age three, pushed by his infamously strict father, making numerous television appearances and winning every title available by eight. ❋ Charlotte Hilton Andersen (2011)
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. ❋ Unknown (2011)
So my spectacularly talented artist friend Elaine dropped by the other day (wife of techno life saver Peter, mother of precociously clever daughter Katie) and snapped some piccies of the puppeh. ❋ Karenmiller (2009)
As a mean-spirited, amoral crank who has labored mightily to raise reasonably insensitive kids, I find precociously virtuous children revolting. ❋ Joe Queenan (2011)
By then I was hooked though, and all through college I was reading precociously and writing constantly. ❋ Odysseyworkshop (2009)
These two precociously mature young skippers could be holding down their jobs for the next decade. ❋ Unknown (2011)
For seconds, she was the winner from among hundreds of similarly precociously talented hopefuls in a nationwide audition. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The moral anchor of True Grit and the character who embodies Wittgenstein's idea of helping-your-way-to-God is 14-year-old Maddie Ross (played by the remarkable newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, 13), the precociously pious, profoundly Protestant daughter seeking to avenge the murder of her father by the sociopathic simpleton Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin). ❋ Cathleen Falsani (2011)
By contrast, giving the mice benzodiazepines, which mimic GABA, brings on a precociously early sensitive period. ❋ Matt Ridley (2011)
England are not blessed with too many notable goalkeepers at present and young Steer, capped at Under‑19 level, grabbed his first opportunity with both precociously reliable hands, making a series of exceptional saves to see off West Bromwich Albion, who created the bulk of the chances. ❋ Unknown (2012)
This helps explain why, a century later, Mao would hail Hong as a "revolutionary" leader who, despite eccentric beliefs, had precociously progressive, proto-socialist ideals. ❋ Jeffrey Wasserstrom (2012)
He was a precociously talented child, writing stories at the age of 6, enjoying a distinguished career in Cambridge and publishing his first novel at the age of 26. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They probably pictured me playing baseball (I turned to ballet) and taking calculus (I chose car repair), but what they got was a hard-cursing, Feminine Mystique-reading, hyper-independent, precociously-sexual hellion who set off a pitched battle at the age of 16 when she announced she was refusing confirmation into the Catholic Church on the basis of its opposition to abortion and birth control and its 2,000-year-old refusal to allow women into leadership roles. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Williams satisfied an ideal of professionalism that formed precociously in Updike: "For me Williams was the classic ballplayer of the hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill." ❋ Unknown (2010)
