When she started school in London, she astonished her teachers by precociously beginning an essay with two Greek words from Xenophon's Anabasis.

In an interview with The Times, he stated that he began writing lyrics as a child, some of which were " dark and contemplative – precociously murderous and quite, quite feisty " was motivated to do so professionally in the 1970s when his grandmother, actress Angela Baddeley, starred in a London stage production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.

* Édouard Manet, who was much taken with the description of the " precociously immoral " Nana in Zola's L ' assommoir gave the title " Nana " to his portrait of Henriette Hauser.

He is precociously intellectual, prone to be contrary, and plays correspondence chess with an imprisoned mass murderer.

Used as a rootstock for grafted plants, quince has the property of dwarfing the growth of pears, of forcing them to produce more precociously, and relatively more fruit-bearing branches, instead of vegetative growth, and of accelerating the maturity of the fruit.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

Charlton became one of the famed Busby Babes, the collection of precociously talented footballers who emerged through the system at Old Trafford in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as Matt Busby set about a long-term plan of rebuilding the club after the Second World War.

The scherzo of this precociously accomplished symphony ( which shows a mature absorption of Bruckner and Richard Strauss ) is especially noteworthy, while Schmidt demonstrates his contrapuntal skills in the Finale.

* In the novel Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough, Caesarion is portrayed as a precociously wise young man who deplores many of his mother ’ s and Antony ’ s actions.

The unnamed second child grew precociously and he and Gwydion grew very attached to one another.

He seems also to have been remarkably and precociously intelligent, creating a map of Russia, which is still preserved.

For the series Stylized Sculpture ( 2007 ), Sugimoto selected distinctive garments by celebrated couturiers from the collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute, shot in chiaroscuro on headless mannequins — from Madeleine Vionnet ’ s precociously modern T-dress and Balenciaga ’ s wasp-waisted billowing ensemble to Yves St Laurent ’ s strict geometric Mondrian shift and Issey Miyake ’ s sail-like slip.

This forced her precociously to create movement forms that did not exacerbate her perception of symptoms.

Nineteen year old Charles ( Fletcher ) is a highly sexed and precociously intelligent teenager about to attend Oxford University.

She is also a precociously talented con artist, adept at using a sweet, innocent façade to mask her true self from adults so they will give in to her.

He quickly showed at Yale the same traits he had at JHU and Brown: he produced brilliant theoretical research, but was incapable of giving a lecture at a level that a student ( even a graduate student ) could comprehend.

Born the youngest of five children in Adelaide, South Australia, Howard Florey was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, where he was a brilliant student and junior sportsman.

After writing the second and third drafts of Empire Strikes Back in which the point was introduced, Lucas reviewed the new backstory he had created: Anakin Skywalker had been Obi-Wan Kenobi's brilliant student and had a child named Luke, but was swayed to the dark side by Emperor Palpatine ( who became a Sith and not simply a politician ).

During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857.

During that time he met in 1818, the young and brilliant Peruvian student of the Royal Mining School of Paris, Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz.

The special prize in 2005 was awarded to Iurie Boreico, a student from Moldova, who came up with a brilliant solution to question 3, which was an inequality involving three variables.

Brice Smith, a graduate student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics, said in The Tech in 2001 that " he first strip, taken alone, would have been a brilliant use of sarcasm that very sharply points out the need for such events ", but that the second strip " mocks the women ’ s demands to feel safe and to be free from rape, and then follows this up with the men brutally attacking the women, killing many quite graphically [...]" Brice Smith argued that " One almost does not even know where to begin addressing this kind of hate-filled message.

He was a brilliant student both in high school and at the university.

When he expels the brilliant Jewish student Albert Michaelson, a scientific genius whose experiments on the streets of Virginia City often cause commotion, Ben Cartwright steps in and confronts Norton on his bigotry.

* Thomas Aquinas: Aquinas was the student of Albert the Great, a brilliant Dominican experimentalist, much like the Franciscan, Roger Bacon, of Oxford in the 13th century.

One of his tutors, Professor Maitland, a leading figure among English legal historians, described Smuts as the most brilliant student he had ever met.

He " was not a brilliant student, and throughout his entire school career he did not get a single nomination for a prize, not even for the drawing classes.

He was a good student — described by his instructors as " diligent ", if not brilliant — but was not a social success, being too studious for many of his peers.

DeLeon was a brilliant student — well versed in history, philosophy, and mathematics.

The pair transfers to the all-girls Graviton High School and catch the unwanted attention of B-ko Daitokuji, a rich, spoiled and brilliant fellow student.

Pierre ranked first at the entrance examination to the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, and throughout his education held the title of " cacique " which was internally attributed to the most brilliant student, ahead of intellectuals such as philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch and two years before Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Aron.

After a brilliant career as a student, he entered the Church, this being the best way to attain a distinguished position.

Bunche was a brilliant student, a debater, and the valedictorian of his graduating class at Jefferson High School.

Cauchon was a brilliant student in the liberal arts.

The young man was a brilliant student, but when the First World War broke out in 1914 he immediately abandoned his studies and joined the German Army.

No, but I was interested in surprising the public with something new, and in making a brilliant debut, so that my student Pleyel, who was at that time engaged by an orchestra in London ( in 1792 ) and whose concerts had opened a week before mine, should not outdo me.

As a young man, he was a brilliant student, gaining acceptance to Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro at the age of 15.

Whilst an undergraduate, he became notorious as a brilliant and self-assured student.

In an example taken from his high school experience, Miller recalls that one of his classmates ... struck upon the brilliant idea of using an old, broken mousetrap as a spitball catapult, and it worked brilliantly .... It had worked perfectly as something other than a mousetrap .... my rowdy friend had pulled a couple of parts -- probably the hold-down bar and catch -- off the trap to make it easier to conceal and more effective as a catapult ... the base, the spring, and the hammer.

The entering class that year was one of the most brilliant of the nineteenth century and many of his classmates, such as Jean Jaurès and Henri Bergson would go on to become major figures in France's intellectual history.

Ostracized by his brilliant classmates, Bart visits Springfield Elementary, where his old friends also reject him.