gawkiness

It brought back all of the awkwardness and gawkiness and uncertainty of my place in the world.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Win a SONY Reader. It’s as easy as sharing your emotions. 2009

From "Roger Dodger" to "The Squid and the Whale" to "Adventureland," the actor has been a go-to for a long line of writer/directors who see in his curly-haired gawkiness and anxiety-ridden demeanor an apt surrogate for their younger selves.

Jesse Eisenberg On ‘The Social Network,’ Imagination And Playing Real People » MTV Movies Blog 2010

Reading back over some of their lines, I had to laugh imagining Zed's awful motivational speeches filled with classic Jack Black bravado, or thinking of Michael Cera's awkward gawkiness when Oh tries to dance with his love interest and eventually hits her over the head with a stick in an attempt to woo her.

Script Review: Harold Ramis' Year One - Biblical Blasphemy « FirstShowing.net 2008

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

Hi-Ya! Jason Henry McCormick 2010

She's a tall actress who projects a charming gawkiness.

'Please Give': A Fine-Tuned Study Of Envy And Guilt 2010

Apart from her music, I've grown accustomed to her over-expressive face, attached to her arm-flinging gawkiness.

Jacob Wren reads Carl Wilson by way of a digression Lemon Hound 2009

The play is tidily constructed around the absurd situation, in which Margot's deranged student, Molly (played with winning gawkiness by Anna Maxwell Martin), blames Margot for the suicide of her mother, who jumped under a train, Anna Karenina style, holding a copy of Margot's feminist bible, "The Cerebral Vagina."

Wyndham Lewis's Unusual Angle on Art 2008

But instead she goes for the cheaper, more seductive, thrill of suggesting that ungainly, weak female bodies are the most attractive to men, that teenage gawkiness could be made into an appealing vulnerability that brings all the supernatural boys to the yard.

Sarah Seltzer: "Twilight": Sexual Longing in an Abstinence-Only World 2008

His search-party, too, had looked awkward there, having rushed to the task of investigation — some in their shirt sleeves, others in their leather aprons, and all much stained — just as they had come from their work of barking, and not in their Sherton marketing attire; while Creedle, with his ropes and grapnels and air of impending tragedy, had added melancholy to gawkiness.

The Woodlanders 2006

Despite the exuberant breasts in the snug sweater and the lissome hips in the tight-fitting mini, there is a certain adolescent gawkiness about this woman.

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005