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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

Some studied themselves in the wall-to-wall mirrors; others fixed their gaze on Jones, whose eyes moved from body to body as the dancers executed an arm-swinging gesture imitative of immature gawkiness.

From Washington Post Oct. 30, 2019

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

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

From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome




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