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

And as Arabella, she’s the embodiment of brainy, hyper-aware intensity, without the slapstick gawkiness she wielded in “Chewing Gum” but with the same riveting physical presence.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 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

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, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)