“The prose romances are tentative, immature, with the gawkishness and lack of ease of immaturity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“How a young lover made ridiculous by the gawkiness of modern costume must envy the picturesque gallants of seventy years ago!”

“She is very slim, just leaving behind her gawkiness, and she begins to hike her skirt up in front of the mirror.”

“The film captures an essential truth of adolescence, its simultaneous gawkiness and glory.”