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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

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

At the time, I assumed Birkitt was an ironist by profession, a bright young comedy writer or underground sketch performer with a knack for conveying the gawkiness of the college babysitter.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2015

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 The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur