When he retires at the age of 65, he is bereft, a man adrift, but he sweetly embraces his new life with all the gaucheness of a teenager on a gap year. |
I used to loathe its happy-clappy gaucheness, but now I quite like it, despite knowing that there's nothing gauche about its indomitable owner. |
Surrounded by the gaucheness of punk, and possessing cheekbones you could hang coats on, the age factor added to her alluring image of mature sexuality. |
For all his occasional gaucheness and undue display, he is the most thoughtful and provocative poet writing in English today. |
How could someone once so brilliantly funny not realise the gaucheness of those remarks? |
Their main defects are shapelessness, an overinsistent moralizing, occasional gaucheness, and naiveté. |