| The prose romances are tentative, immature, with the gawkishness and lack of ease of immaturity. |
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| Honest Jack forgetting his rags and gawkishness in his generalship, got out of a sick bed to vote against his benefactor in the House of Commons. |
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| While he served and waited for the misunderstanding to be clarified, he was most often on punishment duty for gawkishness and for not saluting officers in the street. |
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| At sixteen, she had none of the natural boisterousness or gawkishness of youth but a quiet confident demeanor that came with knowing exactly what she wanted out of life. |
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| This nihilistic strain of going in hard comes without the rosy-cheeked gawkishness that accompanies British boozing. |
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