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She gawkily introduced every single song, unable to get over how strange it was to be wanted at last.

The robot was sitting, gawkily upright, in front of the barrier.

He settled gawkily to the carpet as she shrugged out of the bra.

His loose hands hang gawkily at his sides.

She moves gawkily, and even her outbursts have the ring of a teenager's impulsive tantrums.

On the bed in the corner the spavined figure of Sixsmith was gawkily arranged.

He left her standing gawkily, and within minutes returned, bringing a wooden fork laden with sweet-smelling hay.

He touched Modesty's hand, gave her a smile that lit up his rather chaotic features, then turned and marched gawkily away with arms swinging.

It was tall, thin, and gawkily angular.

The women both rose longingly en pointe and thudded gawkily in their toe shoes.

Tall and spindly, he came gawkily down the gangway, burdened with recorders and baggage.

He stood tall and thin in a gray robe, broad-chested but wasp-waisted, a frame that ought to have moved gawkily but instead flowed.

Circling, turning, swinging, falling and leaping in small bursting jumps, the characters are believable silent members of the gawkily odd, fetid, brilliant Bloomsbury group.

When commanded to demonstrate some Norman dances (Jamal has been passing himself off as a messenger from Normandy), he flounders around gawkily until an idea hits him.

His debut film, "Welcome to the Dollhouse," centers on a girl gawkily teetering into puberty who is tormented by her classmates and ignored by her family.

Characteristically, a photograph showing a back view of himself sitting gawkily in his bathing drawers beside the Mediterranean at Cassis is captioned 'An English Tourist'.

BUT there can also be no doubt that "The Lady in the Van" is an entertainment and, with Dame Maggie gawkily stalking the stage, a consistently enjoyable one.

In this solo to a collage of pop tunes and commercials, Cindy Scarborough stamped gawkily in work shoes, and she carried a mysterious object that resembled a giant beanbag.

Giddily romantic one moment, gawkily militant the next, this emotional seesaw of a movie switches back and forth between dreamy love scenes and Act-Up demonstrations without its feet ever touching the ground.

As Buck, Mr. Eckhart, who was so provocative in two Neil LeBute films, is gawkily opaque, and Mr. Jane's Sam is barely more than a prop.

Nevertheless, Ib Andersen was convincing as Apollo, taking big swings of his arms as he gawkily tried to play his lute in the first scene and gradually gaining dignity as the work proceeded.

In the essay "In the Playpen of the Damned," an account of his attendance at a 1997 porno awards show, Plimpton comes across both gawkily and slyly, like Cary Grant at an orgy.

But Mr. Green, with unabashed sincerity and exquisite tenderness, captures both the world-stopping intensity and the delicate absurdity of youthful longing, and Paul and Noel themselves are at once gawkily real and luminously peculiar.

While lesser mortals on Central Park West slipped or glided gawkily on the perilous ice beneath the new snow, she walked toward me, smiling and mysterious, with unhesitating steps and with the surety, yet vulnerability, of Garbo.

"Went to Coney Island on a Mission From God . . . Back by 5" is, thank goodness, not as gawkily clever as its title, but it is an odd mixture of boyish high spirits and grown-up melodrama.