wonder child
Example Sentences
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Mr. Chandler’s story is also part of a certain New York myth: that of the fallen wonder child.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2018
Even the euphemisms were bland, and their conundrum was apparent: Golf’s bright young wonder child waited in the wings, literally overlooking the green, and the man about to beat him was hopelessly boring.
From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013
The rest of Welles's story is all Mercury Theatre, but the Mercury Theatre was a lot of things before it became Broadway's wonder child.
From Time Magazine Archive
Few industries took the 1960 recession harder than that postwar wonder child of the metal business�aluminum.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his youth he was fondled and idealized as a wonder child, but his circumstances deteriorated as he matured in his art and the more accomplished the works of his fantasy grew.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 by Goldman, Emma
