gawkiness

There was no gawkiness at all in that easy, gliding progress.

But his customers' men don't have the kind of gawkiness that would win over old ladies.

A certain handsome gawkiness in young Spain passes for complexity.

In repose, her long, thin limbs have an adolescent's gawkiness.

Her debut in the role was colored by careful dancing, not without some gawkiness and strain.

The brace was gone, and so was the gawkiness.

And it was only a certain gaucherie, a gawkiness on Anna's part that irritated her against the girl.

For all his gawkiness, he moved with the light, random swiftness of a water strider on a hot day.

I dreamed about being 17 years old through the preceding 16 years of gawkiness and it spelled freedom to me.

Now she had an attractive gawkiness, as she hung a moment, not knowing how to carry her shoulders.

Freckles, blue eyes, pale lashes, no makeup, all the gawkiness of an adolescent.

So much naivete should accompany gawkiness, not grace.

The gawkiness of the body shapes and deconstructed steps is endearingly gauche.

All the gawkiness was gone.

In the past decade, her beanpole gawkiness had turned into athletic grace, but she had the same force field of intelligence.

The way he progressed from gawkiness to assurance in his movements suggested his growing musical confidence.

Yet her gawkiness ended at her music.

His performance had an alarming gawkiness and repressed terror and the movie added a new anxiety to taking a shower.

She has shed her coltish gawkiness to become one of Ballet Theater's most elegant dancers.

But if Thorpe has one frailty as an athlete, Talbot said, it is his gawkiness out of the water.

"Restaurant" is the kind of movie that deftly registers the self-conscious gawkiness people exhibit at weddings, especially when they're dancing.

For all his endearing, lanky gawkiness, there is something steely and calculating about Lenderking.

He had a kind of attitudinal gawkiness that was alternately goofily charming and eerily unsettling.

She was tall, with long slender legs and slim arms, and she displayed the halting gawkiness of a young antelope.

They are also, as it happens, riddled with heartbreak and loss, and possess an essential gawkiness that, despite their wit, draws you close.