gawkiness
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The growing closeness between Olive, played with quiet radiance by Ms. Rogers, and William, whom Mr. McHale renders with galumphing gawkiness, forms another affecting strand of the score.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
The show's enduring sweetness always rested in Maya and Anna's glorious gawkiness, and the way it cements their devotion to one another.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2020
As with King Richard, though, we catch ourselves rather warming to his gawkiness, laughing at his jokes, and perhaps even quietly respecting his total disregard for what anyone else thinks of him: “Why be liked?”
From Economist ● Jul. 6, 2017
This melancholy comedy is the story of a young gay man, played with appealing gawkiness by Gideon Glick, who finds himself feeling increasingly isolated as his best girlfriends marry off, one by one.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2015
And indeed it seemed only last week that Alicia was nothing but legs, gawkiness, blushes, and screwed-up shoulders.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett