How To Use Gawkiness In A Sentence
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From "Roger Dodger" to "The Squid and the Whale" to "Adventureland," the actor has been a go-to for a long line of writer/directors who see in his curly-haired gawkiness and anxiety-ridden demeanor an apt surrogate for their younger selves.
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He also had brown hair and a slightly endearing gawkiness to him - he hadn't quite grown into his very long limbs yet.
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She's a tall actress who projects a charming gawkiness.
'Please Give': A Fine-Tuned Study Of Envy And Guilt
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He is the one performer who can steal a scene from Ronald Reagan, and he did; as they viewed the Statue of Liberty, the visiting Communist played the self-confident superstar while Reagan ambled about like an amiable sidekick and Bush lapsed into the prenomination gawkiness that used to plague him whenever he stumbled across Reagan’s shadow.
American Sketches
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The film captures an essential truth of adolescence, its simultaneous gawkiness and glory.
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The comparison certainly catches something of his geekiness, his gawkiness, and all those nerdy faces he pulls.
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In the past decade, her beanpole gawkiness had turned into athletic grace, but she had the same force field of intelligence.
Hi-Ya!
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My adolescent hormones, gawkiness, acne, hair that refused to be tamed - all left me constantly on the verge of tears.
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Despite her gawkiness she was clearly going to be a beautiful woman one day.
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Apart from her music, I've grown accustomed to her over-expressive face, attached to her arm-flinging gawkiness.
Jacob Wren reads Carl Wilson by way of a digression
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They are magnificent, but they have a certain gawkiness about them.
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Despite the exuberant breasts in the snug sweater and the lissome hips in the tight-fitting mini, there is a certain adolescent gawkiness about this woman.
Alice in Jeopardy
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Despite her gawkiness she was clearly going to be a beautiful woman one day.
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It brought back all of the awkwardness and gawkiness and uncertainty of my place in the world.
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The glasses and the gawkiness told us that we, too, could have a go at what he was doing, if we were prepared to put away skiffle's tea-chest bass and washboard and invest in those solid-bodied electric guitars that appeared to have come off the same drawing board responsible for the era's befinned and chrome-laden Packard and De Soto automobiles and Wurlitzer and Rock-Ola jukeboxes.
Expecting Rain
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Reading back over some of their lines, I had to laugh imagining Zed's awful motivational speeches filled with classic Jack Black bravado, or thinking of Michael Cera's awkward gawkiness when Oh tries to dance with his love interest and eventually hits her over the head with a stick in an attempt to woo her.
Script Review: Harold Ramis' Year One - Biblical Blasphemy « FirstShowing.net
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His search-party, too, had looked awkward there, having rushed to the task of investigation — some in their shirt sleeves, others in their leather aprons, and all much stained — just as they had come from their work of barking, and not in their Sherton marketing attire; while Creedle, with his ropes and grapnels and air of impending tragedy, had added melancholy to gawkiness.
The Woodlanders
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But instead she goes for the cheaper, more seductive, thrill of suggesting that ungainly, weak female bodies are the most attractive to men, that teenage gawkiness could be made into an appealing vulnerability that brings all the supernatural boys to the yard.
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The play is tidily constructed around the absurd situation, in which Margot's deranged student, Molly (played with winning gawkiness by Anna Maxwell Martin), blames Margot for the suicide of her mother, who jumped under a train, Anna Karenina style, holding a copy of Margot's feminist bible, "The Cerebral Vagina.
Wyndham Lewis's Unusual Angle on Art
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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.
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She is very slim, just leaving behind her gawkiness, and she begins to hike her skirt up in front of the mirror.
