| Her estranged grandmother insists on lovingly transforming her from gawky teen into beautiful royalty. |
| I might be the gawky gap-toothed kid who's not cool like everyone else at school, but as long as I like myself I'll be fine. |
| Those who didn't know him mistook him for a gawky teenager, though in point of fact he was twenty-nine. |
| I was a horribly gawky and nervous teenager and speech did not come smoothly out of my mouth. |
| Where she is gawky, submissive and quietly passionate in the new role life has found for her to play, Spader is pop-eyed and purse-lipped. |
| His only allies are his nerdlinger best friends, nebbishy Neal and the unspeakably gawky Bill. |
