So much naivete should accompany gawkiness, not grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvenbane]
She's a tall actress who projects a charming gawkiness. From Wordnik.com. ['Please Give': A Fine-Tuned Study Of Envy And Guilt] Reference
That kind of adolescent gawkiness has to come naturally, I think, to look sweet. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a 15-month-old] Reference
It brought back all of the awkwardness and gawkiness and uncertainty of my place in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Win a SONY Reader. It’s as easy as sharing your emotions.] Reference
"Oh! as to gawkiness, an accident of the like might happen to any one," said Petullo, irritably. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
For all his gawkiness, he moved with the light, random swiftness of a water strider on a hot day. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
Apart from her music, I've grown accustomed to her over-expressive face, attached to her arm-flinging gawkiness. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Wren reads Carl Wilson by way of a digression] Reference
In the past decade, her beanpole gawkiness had turned into athletic grace, but she had the same force field of intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Hi-Ya!] Reference
He smiled at something, hopefully not her height or her gawkiness or the goofy look on her face -- but she liked him, anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas]
What a contrast the lady behind must find in his gawkiness compared with the correct and composed deportment of the Capital she had come from!. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Lavender had to admit to himself that he had married an exceedingly beautiful girl, and that there was no country gawkiness about her manner, and no placid insipidity about her proud and handsome face. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
"In his Grace's class, Mr. Petullo, and incidentally in my own, nothing's said of a guest's gawkiness, though you might hardly believe it for a reason that I never could make plain to you, though I know it by instinct.". From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Eloise had made it plain that she had little time for other women, and especially for a young girl just beginning to blossom out of gawkiness, although there was no way Cressy could ever have rivalled her volup tuous charms. From Wordnik.com. [The Tycoon's Mistress]
Alicia had the delightful gawkiness of twelve years. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
She's a tall actress who projects a charming gawkiness. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
His gawkiness called attention to his hands and elbows. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Midshipman Easy]
The glasses and the gawkiness told us that we, too, could have a go. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
In another year he would doubtless lose all his gawkiness and become quite a gallant. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Episode] Reference
No trace was left of immature gawkiness in her gestures or of simplicity in her intonations. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Creedle, with his ropes and grapnels and air of impending tragedy, had added melancholy to gawkiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
Louis Jordon plays man-about-town Gaston, who witnesses Gigi go from girlish gawkiness to cultured glamour. From Wordnik.com. [Knox] Reference
I dreamed about being 17 years old through the preceding 16 years of gawkiness and it spelled freedom to me. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
And indeed it seemed only last week that Alicia was nothing but legs, gawkiness, blushes, and screwed-up shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
As it turned out, the minister's wife did most of the talking, smiling good-humouredly at country gawkiness the while. From Wordnik.com. [A Window in Thrums] Reference
How a young lover made ridiculous by the gawkiness of modern costume must envy the picturesque gallants of seventy years ago!. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
The pair even manage to nail-or at least closely approximate-the gauche gawkiness of teenage life, something more popular fare, like. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
They are also, as it happens, riddled with heartbreak and loss, and possess an essential gawkiness that, despite their wit, draws you close. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
He is plagued with the problems of a developing young player, and yet beneath the gawkiness of his game lies a potentially useful finished product. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
But these were mostly confined to that despairing period when most girls are nothing but arms and wrists and gawkiness and shyness; when their clear, bright complexions turn muddy, and they want to enter convents. From Wordnik.com. [The Spread Eagle and Other Stories] Reference
Schlegel has a physical presence that’s part watchful intensity, part gawkiness, part charm. From Wordnik.com. [A Grand and Bold Thing] Reference
4. Napping with all three cats 5. The gawkiness of boys just before a growth spurt when their feet become ridiculously oversized. From Wordnik.com. [Grace in Small Things: Part 228 of 365] Reference
That Julia was certainly visible in this one, but the gawkiness had been transmuted into sleek style, and the innocence in the child’s gaze had been lost long ago. From Wordnik.com. [Leave the Grave Green] Reference
The baby fat disappears; the gawkiness softens. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Her mastery, like Emily Dickinson's, has some awkwardness in it, some essential gawkiness that draws you close. ". From Wordnik.com. [Avoiding the Muse] Reference
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