awkward age

I like to think of a crowd with pikes and torches shouting passages from "The Awkward Age."

He was just of that awkward age when boys fancy themselves men, and men are not prepared to lower themselves to their level.

It is both; and until the loss and the gain, the new and the old, are permanently separated and balanced, the awkward age lasts.

Both were painfully conscious of their awkward age and the fact that they were no longer children.

"The Awkward Age," fairy godmother and spotless lamb and all the rest of it.