| The film captures an essential truth of adolescence, its simultaneous gawkiness and glory. |
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| She is very slim, just leaving behind her gawkiness, and she begins to hike her skirt up in front of the mirror. |
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| Admirer, literary son and pretender, Iyer comes at his subject all elbows, with the endearing gawkiness of youthful passion. |
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| Her mastery, like Emily Dickinson's, has some awkwardness in it, some essential gawkiness that draws you close. |
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| They are also, as it happens, riddled with heartbreak and loss, and possess an essential gawkiness that, despite their wit, draws you close. |
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| They are magnificent, but they have a certain gawkiness about them. |
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| In the e-mail, I thought to myself, I would explicate my apparent teenage gawkiness from the previous day as the consequence of being mortifyingly embarrassed and hapless. |
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| As he juts his head forward and rolls it from side to side, gawkiness morphs into popping, and Mr. Abraham's body is established as a container: for awkwardness, for camouflage and finally, for transformation. |
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| Slater Bradley's closeups of a youth choir in the cathedral of Notre-Dame stunningly capture states of gawkiness and anxiety in kids whose singing channels divinity. |
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