| They are magnificent, but they have a certain gawkiness about them. |
| 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. |
| She is very slim, just leaving behind her gawkiness, and she begins to hike her skirt up in front of the mirror. |
| They are also, as it happens, riddled with heartbreak and loss, and possess an essential gawkiness that, despite their wit, draws you close. |
| The film captures an essential truth of adolescence, its simultaneous gawkiness and glory. |
| Her mastery, like Emily Dickinson's, has some awkwardness in it, some essential gawkiness that draws you close. |
