| 单词 | gawky |
| 例句 | Tally watched the last few uglies make their way inside, gawky and nervous, unkempt and uncoordinated. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z His legs move with gawky and mechanical articulations, knees bending while his hands hang at his sides. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Jon could almost see her in that moment, long-faced and gawky, all knobby knees and sharp elbows, with her dirty face and tangled hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Instead of a frightened gawky girl and a young and doomed bridegroom, there were a handsome young man and a happy and beautiful bride. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I stood there looking gawky, with one foot tucked behind the other. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Through middle school he was this gawky and goofy kid with a cute smile. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He’s tall and gawky and sixteen years old. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She probably feels too tall and gawky, not realizing how beautiful everyone knows she is. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Would they see an Appalachian hick, a tall, gawky girl, still all elbows and knees and jutting teeth? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z But since she’d become a teenager, her legs had grown long and gawky. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He could not have been any older than sixteen, yet he was even taller than his father, almost seven feet of legs and shins and elbows, a gangling, gawky boy with a cowlick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She was small-boned, petite, and Olanna felt gawkily overgrown just looking at her; there was something childlike about her light-skinned, almost translucent complexion and tiny hands. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Johnny, remembering the gawky, callow, but upstanding young leather-dresser of Fish Street, was surprised that anyone could value him so highly. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He had yet to give up his rifle, and the silhouette of it across his back made him resemble a gawky, long-limbed bird. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Theon kicked his boots off, let his cloak fall to the floor, and poured himself a cup of wine, remember-ing a gawky girl with knob knees and pimples. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The African youth stood before us, a gawky and immobile spectacle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Crystal is surreal and gorgeous in blue velvet; Gigi comes out in a gawky teen prom dress look, mouth brace and all. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode 12 – what happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z You had to get accustomed to spotting his gawky figure, constellation of elbows and harmonica holder, in the distant sky.” Books of The Times: ‘Dissident Gardens,’ Jonathan Lethem’s New Novel 2013-09-11T19:49:43Z These are not the sophisticated “Gossip Girl” teenagers but gawky innocents desperate to grow up and prove self-sufficiency. Movie Review: ‘The Kings of Summer,’ Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts 2013-05-30T21:45:32Z Devi expects a gawky loser in a sweater vest to stumble into the place. "Never Have I Ever" highlights the rarity of South Asian couples on TV. Then it breaks up with one 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The immediate impression of “Joints Array” is of a field of gawky, long-necked, faceless creatures stretching and flexing, or simply of animated lines twitching in place. Art in Review: CHARLES ATLAS: ?Joints Array? 2011-08-18T20:43:15Z She was arrogant and then just a little gawky. At CMJ, Some Get Spotlight; Others Get Lost in the Haze 2010-10-22T23:42:00Z It is hard to spot the gawky, self-confessed nerd who admitted that "issues of attractiveness" continued to inhibit him even after finally telling his parents that he was gay, at the age of 25. Tony Kushner: 'It's a crazy time' 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z He’s still not giving what you’d call a fully fleshed performance, but the gawky enthusiasm, impatience and casual American arrogance of the half-formed Jake fit him well, and he’s comfortable and engaging in the role. ‘Tokyo Vice’ Review: Another American in Translation 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z A scene in the new documentary “The Thread” shows Kevin Cheetham, who was a gawky college freshman when he witnessed the Boston Marathon bombing two years ago, driving through suburban streets by night. The Boston Marathon and Reddit: When the Internet’s deluded amateur-hour detectives ran amok 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The winds were almost wild in a grinding, grim account of the introduction to “Siegfried” on Saturday, and gawkily reedy — at once sinister and whimsical — as Hagen and Gutrune plotted in “Götterdämmerung” on Monday. At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the couple’s three children, who range in type and age from gawky teen to mildly depressive yuppie fledgling, bolster the main themes by jaunting and plodding throughout their own romantic lives. “Wanderlust,” Reviewed: Toni Collette in a Self-Help Soap Opera 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z When, at the urging of Minerva, he disguises himself as a beggar to make his way back home, he encounters an endearing, gawky old shepherd, trusting by nature but a little out of it. Review: Puppets Are the Stars in ‘Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z She was arrogant and then just a little gawky, tugging at a top that kept slipping down, and flashing a girlish gap-toothed grin before the next programmed beat started up. ArtsBeat: Dominique Young Unique Struts at CMJ 2010-10-20T17:49:00Z This is one of the ways that "PEN15" broadens its point of view beyond those of its two gawky heroines to grant a richly developed empathetic look at their parents and peers. "PEN15" returns for another swim into the messiness of seventh grade 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z She was now 16, and where before she had been, in her words, a skinny, gawky teenager, Chopra had now “grown in pretty much the right places”. Priyanka Chopra: ‘I’m not arrogant, I’m self-assured’ 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z But the play really belongs to O'Flynn, who matures from gawky kid to grown woman with astonishing conviction and who movingly reconciles the character's fear of death with an unassuageable hunger for life. Port – review 2013-01-29T12:59:14Z He's gawky, he twitches, his voice seems still to be breaking. Comedy gold: Simon Amstell's Do Nothing 2012-11-15T12:00:55Z Its rhythms got into my gawky English frame and, at times, made me so happy and sad, I just didn't know what to do with myself. Hugh Laurie plays first ever blues gig 2011-03-23T00:05:03Z Mr. Klein’s models were barely contained by their Calvins, courting scandal and the occasional recall; Mr. Simons’s are gawky in the European high-fashion style, and barely fill theirs out. Can Raf Simons Reinvent American Fashion? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Jake becomes a teacher in a small town near Dallas, where he finds a tall, lovably gawky librarian named Sadie to fall in love with. In Stephen King?s Latest, Trying to Stop Lee Harvey Oswald 2011-11-02T15:57:51Z Unlike Spacek, who could projected the raw innocence of a gawky, geeky Star Child, Moretz is too conventionally attractive to play the outcast — who wouldn’t want her as a prom date, and not from spite? Carrie: A Remake Not Worth the Blood or Bother 2013-10-18T21:34:26Z As unsightly and gawky as the $5,500 machine is, it's what Petrozzi credits with helping her through the years as a ballerina. Performing artists stay fit between auditions 2010-08-17T16:10:00Z Almost gawkily teenage, her gamine face is hyper-expressive, beaming right to the back rows. Sir Frederick Ashton's Romeo & Juliet ? review 2011-07-16T23:06:38Z Spider-Man -- as a franchise reboot that takes the boy back to his roots as a gawky teenager who acquires the web-spinning capabilities and super strength of a spider. Andrew Garfield calls Spider-Man a role for life 2011-07-23T05:18:46Z The article leans heavily on the career of Tina Fey to push the point that attractive women have to pretend to be gawky and gormless to get laughs. Edinburgh is over. But comedy keeps the laughs coming 2012-08-29T09:06:23Z At 25 there is still something of the gawky teenager about him, and he is a hesitant interviewee, if unfailingly polite. Hudson Mohawke: beats, rhymes and lasers 2011-08-12T23:11:01Z Working together, they created comic dynamite from the generational rupture between the youth of the 1960s and their Eisenhower-era parents, and found their ideal lead in the gawky newcomer Dustin Hoffman. Buck Henry: the master of despair whose comedies seduced Hollywood 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z What I wasn’t prepared for was when Jeff turned up, he was no longer that gawky kid from “Nashville” — he was a god. The Real Stars of the ‘Jurassic’ Films? Friends, Not Dinosaurs. 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “I never felt gawky or like it was a disadvantage. I was kind of proud of being tall,” said Mr. Ferrell, who grew up in Irvine, Calif., where he played baseball, basketball and soccer. Will Ferrell on Donald Trump, Michelle Obama and His New Movie 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z But when she sang, she wasn’t a gawky, miserable young woman, but a strong voice. Music Review: Songs About What Went Wrong, but Performed So Right 2011-05-20T08:52:26Z It conveyed an aura of innocent play and endearing vulnerability to the round of gawky public performances that made his name. “Plimpton!” doc tells tale of literary heavyweight 2013-05-28T20:05:00Z For now, like many an adolescent, it remains a gawky, powerful work in progress. Review: The Chaos Beneath the Chorale in ‘The Lucky Ones’ 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Another early Police song, “Next to You,” came across as gawky Pops fare, while “She’s Too Good for Me,” originally a roadhouse shuffle, was winningly kinetic. Music Review: Sting?s Songbook at the Met, With Strings Attached 2010-07-14T20:35:00Z The Cook sisters were plain and gawky and ingenuous. Ida and Louise Cook, Two Unusual Heroines of the Second World War 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z In the meantime, though, there’s plenty to divert and amuse, from Mr. Sills’s exuberant flop of silver hair to Ms. Chlumsky’s gawky intensity to Mr. Long’s spirited physical comedy. In ‘Living on Love,’ Renée Fleming Moves Beyond Opera 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Families of tourists were trying on sweaters and coats in the men’s department; I watched a gawky young Italian man model for his mom and dad, each with a pile of clothes on their laps. On the Runway Blog: The Circle Game 2011-12-30T22:35:42Z He was a gawky, birdlike figure on the rostrum, but a compelling one, as several generations of orchestral players and concertgoers in Britain remember. From the archive, 7 April 1971: Stravinksy, the towering genius 2011-04-07T15:15:35Z Reyes so completely embodied the gawky, tenderhearted tomboy that you wanted to shake the thickheaded cowboys for ignoring her. A sparkling start to American Ballet Theatre’s D.C. engagement 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Friedman said Mr. Thorne’s work is populated with “strange outsider characters” who “are quirky, and gawky, and get through life with humor, and that’s been Jack.” Harry Potter Brought Him to Broadway. Now His Work is Everywhere. 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z But much of the novel’s action takes place in 1930s Hollywood, during the film industry’s gawky adolescence. ‘Falling from Horses’: bringing the Western myth down to Earth 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The good news is that she dances far better than that gawky teen shuffle of "Joe le Taxi"; the bad news is that… well, there's no bad news. 'I hope I was evil ?' 2010-06-26T23:02:00Z She seemed incapable of singing even the direst lyrics without a gawky grin. | Young Jean Lee’s Goofy Pop Existentialism 2013-06-26T18:14:31Z I was in my early teen years, sulky and gawky and pottering around Swanage on the Dorset coast on what would be the last real family holiday. After Tolkien, get Bored of the Rings 2011-02-08T13:01:04Z They were coltish and gawky, gamely braving matinees packed with overexcited girls in medium-sized halls where the seating moves back. One Direction – review 2013-04-06T23:06:21Z Yet Mitch refuses to forget the article, like a supermodel carting around her gawkiest middle-school photo as if to keep herself in check. Meet the very wealthy, very private couple behind Washington’s most original museum 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The silver-maned Byrne, in his sheepish, slightly gawky countenance, offers some spoken commentary now and then that activates the inclusive “us and you” component of “American Utopia.” Review | David Byrne brings his entertaining brain to Broadway in ‘American Utopia,’ and it’s totally dope 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z I no longer saw a gawky Jewish girl, I saw Diana, the dating huntress. How anal sex ruined my relationship 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z In the play’s first scene, we see the 17-year-old William gawkily trying to woo her while she flies a pet hawk. In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Wife Takes the Spotlight, at Last 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “Look at this photo of him,” my cousin said, taking out a picture of a gawky young man with deep-set eyes, a bushy unibrow and a tentative smile. Hearing His Voice Changed Everything 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z In the bright glow of the morning light, gawky young conifers and aspens with shuddering golden leaves pushed skyward: signs of a forest re-establishing itself. Journeys: British Columbia?s New Vine Trail 2010-06-04T15:36:00Z Her high school classmates called her “Fluff” because of her poofy, feathered hair and “NBC,” short for “newborn calf,” because of her gawky play on the basketball team. The young and eventful Senate career of wealthy Georgia businesswoman Kelly Loeffler 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z What a woman is not going to be is 6 foot 2 inches tall, really loud, kind of gawky and awkward, and frankly, telling people what to do. Julia and Paul Child's marriage was "a true feminist love story," directors of "Julia" doc say 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Having settled on marrying a gawky government official, Larisa then finds on the night before her wedding that she's the object of clamorous male attention. Larisa and the Merchants – review 2013-05-08T16:57:37Z William Miller somehow made being an intense, gawky teen with a music taste dictated entirely by my mum's dubious record collection seem OK. Why I'd like to be … Patrick Fugit in Almost Famous 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Singer Luke Bryan, the gawky host of this year’s CMAs, has invited Wallen to appear onstage with him in concert recently. Perspective | Inclusion at the CMAs? Sounds nice. So why that nasty cheer for Morgan Wallen? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z His alert blue eyes and gawky 6-foot-1 frame lend themselves well to physical comedy, though his looks, he said, have facilitated a versatile career. In ‘The Duke,’ Jim Broadbent Puts an Eccentric at the Center 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Next to George's gawky optimism, Dunst's Rose silently suffers, completely lost and isolated in the world her new husband has brought her into, which includes the hostile and abusive Phil. The power of Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z And yet here was Parsons, gawky in a bow tie and dark-burgundy tuxedo, being honored for his work in a show very much like the ones that they had starred in two decades earlier. How “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z She sounds forthright, gawky, untutored and unrepentant, determined to muddle through all the ups and downs of young love. Playlist: New CDs From the Morning Benders and David Byrne 2010-04-10T04:22:00Z I started watching the gawky redheaded host in middle school and I’ve never stopped. Get Ready New York: Conan O?Brien is Back 2011-11-01T14:15:11Z That unmistakable figure, all elbows, chin, nose and great unwieldy backside, suggests someone between middle-aged and old, and yet also like a gawky, maladroit teenager or hopeless boy. Film review: The Illusionist 2010-08-19T21:52:00Z The hilarious Héloïse Janjaud, playing a gawky student who longs to transform into a leather-clad vamp, nearly powers it all by herself. ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ Review: The Epistolary Novel as Instagram Feed 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The picture contains endless scenes of Streisand fishing for the audience’s compliments, playing gawky when we can see all along that she’s glam; it is the stuff of Marie Antoinette at the milking stool. You're so vain! The phenomenon of the self-loving actor-director 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Wendy isn’t bothered by the intrusion of what looks like a gawky teen who swung by Sherwood Forest for some fashion tips before embarking on a life of crime and home invasions. NBC's Peter Pan Live!: Recap 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z She seems gawky and guileless, a galumphing work in progress; “more goose than swan” in the view of New York Times critic AO Scott. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Television has afflicted Gompertz with the agitated blink rate of a fibber: alas, those 150 modernist years can't be compressed into a few seconds of screen time and a string of gawky jokes. Best art books of 2012 – review 2012-12-01T11:00:01Z They made an odd pair: Tar Ngye, the soft-spoken, responsible father, and Ko Phyo, at 20, a goofy, gawky college kid. A Three-Day Trek in the Highlands of Myanmar 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z “Decoding Annie Parker,” Steven Bernstein’s useful, high-minded docudrama about breast cancer, is a gawky mixture of medical tutorial and personal history. Movie Review: ‘Decoding Annie Parker’ Follows a Breast Cancer Discovery 2014-05-01T22:30:50Z At school, she was gawky and gangly, and was bullied her for her strange looks and her pale skin – "The Ghost Who Walks" was an adolescent nickname. Karen Elson 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z He meets Penny, gawky, lonely and, lacking other plans, working in her uncle’s clock and watch repair shop. ‘The Children’s Crusade,’ by Ann Packer 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The first season of the HBO series is an account of tech pubescence, that time of life when programmers, gawky but ambitious, figure out how to wield their power or prowess. HBO’s “Silicon Valley”: The Gayest Straight Show on TV 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Anna’s relatively tall stature embellishes the awkwardness of a gawky girl looming over a compactly oafish boy at a school dance. The Giddy Surreality and Emotional Honesty of “PEN15” 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Dorrance handled her gawky limbs and articulate feet with artistry, dribbling accents from foot to foot like a soccer star or like a con man hiding a coin. Dance Review: Michelle Dorrance and Dorrance Dance at St. Mark’s Church 2013-01-22T21:49:07Z He is gawkier, with an almost formal reserve. Songs of Separation, and Lessons in Persian Cooking 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z As the new show relates, Josephine was the gawky dancer at the end of the line who played for laughs. Connecting with a jazz sensation 2013-07-26T23:46:30Z Tall, pale, gawky and convinced of his superiority, he’s a caricature of a smarmy liberal white man convinced that he’s blond, blue-eyed Jesus’ gift to an ignorant world. “Jordan Klepper Solves Guns” answers crucial questions (unrelated to guns) 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z To gauge the psychic distance between gawky Lala Levy and her domineering mother, Boo, consider their way with a telephone. Review | Terrific cast in Theater J’s rendering of Uhry comedy 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z On tour since the album’s release, Lorde has presented herself as a passionate singer, a proudly gawky dancer and the center of an eccentric spectacle that, so far, has scaled up without sacrificing intensity. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Initially dismissive of her gawky neighbor, Ruth warms to Minnie and sees potential for her as they begin to form a friendship. Review: Lucas' 'The Lying Lesson' a gentle comedy 2013-03-14T00:33:12Z The older members look deeply vexed to find the gawky, longhaired firebrand in their midst. Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Charles Philip Arthur George, then a gawky 20-year-old, was crowned Prince of Wales nearly 55 years ago in the crenelated fortress that dominates this pretty Welsh town. Disunited kingdom: Rifts in the realm as King Charles III's coronation nears 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Other times, the tower seems more like a gawky, gentle giant, awkwardly standing on the edge of a group photo. ‘Eye of Sauron’: The Dazzling Solar Tower in the Israeli Desert 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Neher’s character boasts that he’s done more than kiss, but he’s insecure about his gawky body and it’s clear that he hasn’t had much success with the opposite sex either. Review: 'The Beautiful People' is an uncomfortable look at combustible male rage 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z He was not stiff and gawky, perhaps a byproduct of playing hockey and baseball. If Saint Peter’s is David, here comes Purdue’s Goliath — and he’s 7-foot-4 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Long before he became one of America’s most notorious rock musicians, Manson was Brian Warner, a gawky metalhead from Ohio who dreamed of revenge against his schoolyard tormenters. Marilyn Manson's accusers detail his alleged abuse. 'He's so much worse than his persona' 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Around them, it’s easiest to witness the quicksilver changes in personae that O’Brien runs through — gawky freak, obnoxious boss, righteously exasperated bully — that allow him to find the best laughs in each moment. Review | Conan O’Brien’s late-night run appropriately ends with him as the beloved butt of the joke 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Sinclair has previously said he identified strongly with the character of Gregory, a lanky, gawky teenager going through the "madness of adolescence". Gregory's Girl: 'The affection for it overwhelms me' 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z I was gawky, and I used to be so introverted. Pageants, films, books? Check. But for Priyanka Chopra Jonas, there's still much ahead 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z He was “too gawky to attract girls, and too square to be socially popular.” Review | Inside the Washington Post newsroom: History-making moments and good gossip 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Alec Baldwin rebooted his celebrity with his gawky cartoon on “Saturday Night Live.” Commentary: There's an art to impersonating Trump. Just ask J-L Cauvin and Sarah Cooper 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z My first houseplants were a kindergarten of gawky, fidgety succulents I kept in a series of improvised cups and mugs in my windowsills. How Taking Care of Houseplants Taught Me to Take Care of Myself 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z "I was so skinny. I was always thought of myself as tall and gawky," she says. 'I became a successful model at 60' 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z They began to warm to the gawky elegance of Medvedev, more heron than gazelle. Rafael Nadal beats Daniil Medvedev in US Open final to claim 19th major title 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z At 55, there is still something of the sporty, if slightly gawky, teenager about him; his jeans and a lightweight hoody accentuate his height and wiry thinness. Malcolm Gladwell: ‘I’m just trying to get people to take psychology seriously’ 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z When a gawky teen restores a 1958 Plymouth Fury, the car takes on a life of its own and begins terrorizing those in its way. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Catalina Cruiser is gawky no more, and he took another emphatic stride in an increasingly distinguished career with a smooth victory in the Grade II $200,000 San Diego Handicap on Saturday at Del Mar. Catalina Cruiser shows new tricks by winning San Diego Handicap 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z "Dev has the potential to flit in seconds from being vulnerable, and gawky and funny, to being quite dramatic and strong." Armando Iannucci's Dickens film to open LFF 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z His affirmation enabled gawky David Silver to come into his own and annoying Steve Sanders to find some grace. Why Luke Perry’s death is so personal for many forgotten Gen Xers 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “Shame on you, Degas,” she scolded the French Impressionist for portraying women in gawky poses. Sister Wendy Beckett, celebrity BBC art historian, dies at 88 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z A gawky teenager from an odd family helps his new friend run for class president against a popular student. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The revelation here is Debicki, who gives a breathtakingly funny, pained and nimble turn, touched by a kind of gawky grace, as an often-underestimated woman coming fully into her own. Review: Steve McQueen's 'Widows' is a heist thriller with a vengeance — and a conscience - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The juxtaposition — robust muscleman and gawky fowl — is a wonderfully sarcastic rebuke to Plato’s description of humans as featherless bipeds. Out of the shadows, into the light: 'Chiaroscuro Woodcut' is a sleeper hit at LACMA 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z A gawky, tall version of Hello Kitty got the title as well. Pikachu is the ambassador of Osaka, and our hearts 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z A long neck does mean a certain amount of heat is lost, and the cormorant’s gawky profile is not as streamlined as a lightning-swift penguin’s form. Same Oceans, Similar Prey, Two Very Different Necks 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Much of Sharapova’s memoir is about growth – physically, from the six-year-old who hung from beams to make herself grow, to the gawky teenager, to the powerhouse who became world No 1. Maria Sharapova on failing that drug test: ‘I felt trapped, tricked’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z He walked into the Senate chamber to the sound of a billion cameras shuttering, looking self-conscious, like a gawky teen who still hasn’t mastered full motor-control of his tall, lanky body. What James Comey has in common with women trapped in inappropriate employee-boss relationships 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z As Plumb, Pappas is awkward but likable in the lead role, and her gawky charm works well with the film’s quirky approach to its story. Olympian Alexi Pappas packs 'Tracktown' with heart 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z "I was 13 and I was awkward, and I was gawky, and I was not a very cute kid anymore," Wilson told The Huffington Post in 2013. Six child actors who retired from showbiz - BBC News 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z But experience tells us that some teenagers are much more impulsive than others, so it’s hard to imagine that all adolescents are equally at the mercy of their own gawky brains. Teenagers Do Dumb Things, but There Are Ways to Limit Recklessness 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z As Doss in “Hacksaw Ridge,” Garfield beams gawkily, grimaces stoically and makes an excellent candidate for sainthood. In honoring 'Hacksaw Ridge' over 'Silence,' the film academy chooses the lesser of two religious epics 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Long before he toured the globe or danced in music videos alongside Nicki Minaj, Mr. Gray was a gawky teenager looking to blend in. Flexing, a Street Dance Born in Brooklyn, Pushes Boundaries 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z She herself is gawky, her frizzy hair pulled back in a serviceable puff above a narrow, long-nosed face. Zadie Smith’s Memory Tricks 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Like Jeff, a gawky good-looking dude in a Cubs hat who grew up down the street from me and who I have known since I was 5. Confessions of a Cubs fan 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z It was our first real introduction to Anne Hathaway, who stumbled into the frame in gawky spectacles and a bushy Hermione Granger mane, and walked out having undergone the mother of all Disney makeovers. Garry Marshall, a consummate spinner of modern-day fairy tales 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z That was where he grew from an awkward up-and-comer into gawky Division I potential. San Diego-born Stephen Strasburg is growing new roots ... in Washington 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z In recent years, his name has become synonymous with an internet meme: Rickrolling - where users are duped into watching Astley's gawky dancing in the video for Never Gonna Give You Up. Rick Astley: 'I didn't mind being called Dick Spatsley' - BBC News 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Like a typical gawky and insecure freshman, I drifted off on my own to check out the musical instruments the band had abandoned when they took a break. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Muhammad Ali Became a Big Brother to Me 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z “It’s only for God,” a gawky young man with glasses and a wide smile said. Teaching Anti-Extremism in Kenya 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z A gawky teen with braces and glasses, spotting the architect, fast-walked over and thrust out a hand. Alejandro Aravena, the Architect Rebuilding a Country 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z "I'm not so sure he was a skinny, gawky kid," Mora said. Archie Manning recalls Peyton's football trajectory, agrees with son's retirement 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Sound & Color finally captured the formidable live act that is Alabama Shakes’ in-concert vitality; 1989 transformed Taylor Swift into a platinum-plated pop star, her gawky, country teenage days fully behind her. Grammy predictions: who will win – and who should 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Growing up in suburban Tennessee, a shy and slightly gawky introvert, he papered the walls of his bedroom with pictures of locomotives and made regular pilgrimages to Central Station in Memphis. The Wreck of Amtrak 188 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Directors drew on his legend as a gawky, glam stage performer, but they also consistently burnished it. Remembering David Bowie's singular film career 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z This is a gawky, gaunt, strange thing, a document of sexual turbulence, loneliness, memory and urban alienation. Are the most expensive paintings ever worth their prices? A definitive ranking 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z He’s a gawky, fresh-faced and strangely earnest young thing, messing about with cheery folk music and wishy-washy new wave, mooning over puppy love and magical lighthouses and other such nonsense. Pulp: 10 of the best 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Maybe she wasn’t a great comedic talent in the end — maybe she really was the gawky assistant just being herself, rolling her eyes at the host for real, not as an act. Stephanie Birkitt has been written out of Letterman’s ‘Late Show’ history, and it’s a damned shame 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Some reviewers compare its intimate portrayal of a dysfunctional home to Grey Gardens; while some say it's dangerously gawky about what essentially amounts to child abuse. Our favorite films from the 2015 Sundance Film Festival 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z He looked much older than last time, a man rather than a gawky adolescent. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Pre-Trial Hearing 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z It begins as a shy love story, when gawky physics whiz Stephen and poetry scholar Jane meet as undergrads at Cambridge University. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Dumb and Dumber To,’ ‘Beyond the Lights,’ ‘The Theory of Everything’ At first she dreamed of becoming a dancer, but thought herself too "gawky" and acting became her ambition. Bacall's legend more than just acting and Bogart 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z "I've brought you to the best area," he laughs, as gawky young waiters stare at him in amazement. Can Iraq learn from its footballers? 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Jones and Idle and Palin actually look pretty sprightly, or at least no less sprightly than these gawky Englishmen have looked for the past few decades dressing up in silly clothes. Monty Python Live (Mostly) review – reunion show is one for the faithful 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z “Silicon Valley” lampoons not only gawky youngsters but also the seedbed of American innovation. Silicon Valley on TV: “Girls” for geeks 2014-04-03T14:57:38Z After some gawky adolescent years, filled with technicolor gifs and tasteless design, along with rampant fraud and lawlessness, it’s emerged as the defining force of today’s world. 'Privacy Will Be Something Only The Upscale Enjoy': 15 Predictions About Our Digital Future 2014-03-12T17:28:00Z “Why do only girls get their periods? Is it because the blood of boys is purer?” asked one gawky teenager with pigtails. India Ink: For Teenage Girls, Video Takes Fear Out of a Shunned Topic 2014-02-27T05:53:25Z The gawky late-bloomer, the darling of a close-knit Muslim family that immigrated to Germany from the Balkan nation of Macedonia before Pero was born, had grown pious and distant over the previous year. As son heads to Syrian front, family in Germany plots kidnapping to bring him back 2013-11-12T01:49:28Z It was gawkily visible when the models walked. Fashion Review: Fashion Review of Alexander Wang, Altuzarra, Louise Goldin, Prabal Gurung 2013-09-08T23:43:13Z Two enormous gawky gray birds strolled by, through the high grass. At Home With Dennis Wedlick: In Pursuit of the Perfectly Passive 2013-08-14T22:07:42Z In the song’s original version, Ms. Chenoweth’s character, a pretty and cheerful student, promises to help her green and gawky roommate, Elphaba, become popular. On ‘Tonight,’ Playful Advice for Weiner to Be ‘Popular’ 2013-07-31T17:27:44Z It's not just the nine clean sheets since Christmas, or the habit of making a save at some vital moment with just a finger tip or one of those endearingly gawky feet. David de Gea's collision with Andy Carroll may be a watershed moment 2013-04-19T11:07:52Z One thing you'll soon realise is that this new generation of superstar YouTubers are not just gawky kids sitting in their bedrooms with a webcam. YouTube superstars: the generation taking on TV – and winning 2013-04-06T23:05:00Z Cook became the school captain, but he was a gawky sort of kid and is still a bit of a figure of fun for his team-mates. Alastair Cook: our very own captain fantastic 2012-12-09T00:06:55Z The number 167 is five more than a multiple of nine, so in some bases that are divisible by nine, it ends with a five, which looks much more celebratory than that gawky 7. Why 167 Is a Happy Number Besides Being Scientific American`s Age 2012-08-27T17:15:00.343Z Phelps was a gawky, goofy kind of kid, still waiting for the growth spurt that would start the following year. London 2012: Farewell Michael Phelps, the Olympian beyond comparison 2012-08-04T21:44:13Z Her gawky young brother-in-law watches her every night from the bedroom door left open. India Ink: An Insider's View of the Film Censor Board 2012-06-19T05:59:47Z Elkjaer's celebration, a clumsy cartwheel before he was buried under team-mates, reflected the gawky, everyman charm and humble joy of a team the football world had fallen in love with. The Joy of Six: classic European Championship matches 2012-06-08T10:02:43Z “Devoted to the crown!” said the gawky theologian. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z A feminine laugh rippled through the gloom, for I wore a fluffy little beard, was undeniably gawky, and looked conspicuously older than my years. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The last-named flower I always disliked, a shapeless, gawky creature, described in florists' catalogues and like publications as "an effective plant easily attaining to a splendid form bearing many plume-tufts of rich lustrous crimson." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Eight years later, Ronnie pauses to contemplate an extreme makeover, the transformation of a doe-eyed, gawky freshman to one of the most complete big men in pro basketball. NBA All-Star Game: Roy Hibbert?s journey from project to masterpiece 2012-02-25T01:41:07Z Name the pejorative of disrespect or neglect and this sprawling city, forever in Denver’s shadow as the gawky suburb that outgrew its britches, has probably endured it. Aurora Journal: Aurora, Colo., Tries to Outshine Its Bigger Neighbor 2011-12-13T03:21:07Z The gawky seminarist was silent, with an angry air which implied that the arguments one was compelled to follow here were exasperatingly beneath one’s criticism. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z If he spies a gawky long-legged puppy swaggering about his own farmyard, he will come closer and entice him out to play by means of every sort of caper and gambol. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z But about two years since his solitude had been broken in upon by the arrival of his nephew, Rudolf Kransberg, a tall, gawky youth of two-and-twenty, who came to claim his help and protection. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z A boarding-school miss with gawky tendencies—a boarding-school miss with the smile of a young nymph—a boarding-school miss with little fingers that tugged the manhood—the weariness—out of his heart! The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z They were gawky plain girls, sallow faced and inclined to be hook-nosed too, with a skimpy black pigtail hanging down each of their backs. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Ships that stride across the great sandy wastes, grunting and gawky, with unwearying patience, unyielding tenacity, and unerring instinct. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z She could not make a gawky, captivating little movement but I would found something upon it, not a pretty coltish gesture but I had my inference to draw. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z Often the efforts fail, so in many lawns where mighty trees once grew, replacement saplings stand, as gawky as adolescents at a ball. Trouble for Gilded-Age Beech Trees in Newport, Rhode Island 2011-10-24T20:35:38Z Have I not warned her a hundred times that gentlemen do not love the gawky charms of a hoyden? The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z He was a very tall, gawky, and rough looking fellow then; his pantaloons didn't meet his shoes by six inches. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z He said she was a tall, gawky sort of girl, with no good looks to brag of, and he couldn't for the life of him see what she had to make her so proud. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z Suppose she had grown very stout—or were gawkily thin like his sister Danielle, or bold and forward, or dull. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z We walk around feeling like the world sees us as fat, or gawky, or whatever. Six ways to reward weight loss success without using food 2011-08-08T18:02:03Z He was lathlike and gawky, with very prominent upper front teeth, which gave a sort of bow-window appearance to his wide mouth. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z He is an over-grown gawky boy with a long, pinched face. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z For the passage was blocked, while in the hall were collected together all the pupils and the servants—that gawky James coming back and towering above all, like a horrible lamp-post in a crowd. A Fluttered Dovecote 2011-07-29T02:00:21.880Z His gawky, graceless body and long arms seemed to cover the whole court. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z “Goodness! what a gawky thing!” agreed Ruth Fielding, who was just getting out of the taxicab, following her chum, Helen Cameron. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z “You know Mr. Stagg’s as hard as nails—as hard as the goods he sells,” declared the gawky boy. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z She gave some encouragement to the gawky youth, but rather with a view of getting him to aid her in her escape than out of any regard to the over-sensitive stripling. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z The gawky black girl plunged ahead of us and ushered us into the house door. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z In the center of the vociferously amused circle of spectators, Don was making fun of his late adversary's gawky manners and poor eye-sight. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z When Tom returned that night he handed the gawky lad a small parcel which he immediately stuffed into his shirt and carried to the supper table. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z He was young and gawky and one could see hundreds of his like leaving the city high schools in America at half-past three o’clock, or pacing the walks about college campuses. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z One neighbor in Indiana remembered the young Lincoln as "a long -- thin -- leggy -- gawky boy dried up & Shriveled." Why the presidency aged Lincoln so dramatically 2011-05-29T15:01:00Z That may be why the gawky Kirchner caught her eye in the drafty corridors of La Plata University's law school. Special Report: Widowhood, Peron nostalgia, Argentine politics 2011-05-10T15:44:14Z To either it imparts a kind of gawky awkwardness. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z "No, no, aunt: I know her by sight too—a pale gawky thing, with an arm and hand like a prize-fighter's—oh no!" Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z In my opinion, the Internet as a societal force is in a period of gawky adolescence. Internet Transparency: A Chat With Buster Benson 2011-03-30T16:35:12Z The idea attached to it, as I understand it, is not so much that they are from the country, as that they are green and gawky. The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 2011-03-21T02:00:12.857Z The gawky boy exclaimed, 'Great golly!' and stood holding the horse. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z As the "staff"—the gawky lad and the decrepit old man—were present, it was difficult to say much to her, but I managed at intervals to let her know what I thought. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z “No, no, aunt: I know her by sight too—a pale gawky thing, with an arm and hand like a prize-fighter’s—oh no!” Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z When she was there he hadn't seen more than a long-legged, gawky girl, rather good at tennis, with red hair hanging down her back. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z I think," going deliberately up to a glass and surveying herself with a distasteful shrug,—"I think thin people have a meagre, gawky, hard look about them, eminently unbecoming. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z Nothing but a puling, gawky girl, when I went away. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z He saw in that misshapen, gawky form the very embodiment of the god of vengeance, the wielder of the flail of retributive justice which was about to strike the guilty at last. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z Enid, when she was with her, somehow made the 17-year-old-girl feel gawky, underdone, awkward, shy. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z "I was first smitten with the passion to act—a gawky girl of ten at a child's party," Selma began. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Oh, Guy adores fat women," says Cyril, the incorrigible; "wait till you see Florence: there is nothing of the 'meagre, gawky, hard' sort about her. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z All were gawky youths who stumbled over their own feet, never knew what to do with their elbows, and were apt to stutter or stammer when disconcerted. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z He was reminded of the flight of time only by the growth of his son—a gawky, long-limbed boy. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Pliskova, a lanky, slightly gawky lefty, ambled and loped around the court, smacking heavy first serves and angled backhands. Women Who Hit Hard 2010-08-25T17:30:00Z It is ridiculous to expect Finn, still a gawky 21-year-old, to go to Australia and win the Ashes for England. No frills Steven Finn has talent to go far with England 2010-05-31T15:51:00Z Curling is so slow, so gawky, so, well, weird, that it is hard not to watch. On Wall Street, a Romance With the Curling Stone 2010-02-25T23:01:00Z She was a world junior champion at 15, but she was also gawky. Inside The Rings: Glint of Gold Never Left Orser?s Eyes 2010-02-20T19:00:00Z His plumage is mottled, white and black; he has very little tail, but is provided with a great gawky head, a well-rounded body, and is a little larger than the domestic pigeon. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands She was an affable talker, a rather slim, gawky blonde, while Minnie was a stocky brunette with heavy, dark brows and black hair that was too coarse and wiry to be easily controlled. The Cottage of Delight A Novel She was half graceful, half gawky, like most young English girls. A Bed of Roses Frieda presented me, and she smiled, graciously, saying a few bright nothings about the heat, after which she rejoined her companion, a rather tall and gawky youth. A Top-Floor Idyl "I heard you, Dad," piped the falsetto voice of his daughter, a gawky girl of eighteen. John Marsh's Millions "And your partner?" said I. "Here's him," said Tom, introducing a gawky youth with a bundle; and I saw those two young men turn their faces to the East. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Chilly brightness and blue sky saw us making rapidly over the North Sea, visited by thrushes and linnets, while the water seemed crowded with those clever birds, though so gawky upon the wing, the divers. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday I stood at gaze, dazed, stupefied, open-mouthed; every thing that denotes the gawky fool. The Portal of Dreams They were mainly boys of about the same age and style as himself when he first enlisted, but he thought he had never seen so green, gawky a lot in the world. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign The wearer looked like a gawky school-boy with an old, old face. The Deaves Affair The ship was a skeleton, a long, gawky structure of naked metal beams. Martyr On the other side a huge country gawky shakes hands with the duchess, whose vast bonnet is a study. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. The boy was bright of eye, toothy of smile, gawky as only a teen-ager can be gawky, and obviously the proverbial apple of his father's eye. Frigid Fracas From these I was recalled by one of the officers, Lieutenant Hector Duncansby, a gawky, leering Highland boy, asking if my name was not “Palfour.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) He recalled her in fact as a most unattractive, gawky little girl, who must have changed inconceivably for the better if she were to interest Mr. Ashly Crane personally. Clark's Field Andrew Jackson, a gawky youth, no more prepossessing than his boyhood promised, winked hard and looked enviously at Julian. Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success Oh, banal fool, he thought, she will despise you now, as if you were a great, gawky lout.... Changing Winds A Novel I know, of course, that our child would be a gawky youngster of twenty-three by now—that it might have turned into a scamp or a good-for-nothing girl. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays I joined in the dance, rather gawkily no doubt, for my mother's father was a Quaker preacher and we had never been allowed to dance at home. A Mountain Boyhood “Put up them guns, you dam’ gawky fools!” he yelled in a frenzy of rage. Hidden Water She was standing on the outskirts of a group composed mostly of women, quite alone so far as cavaliers were concerned, for the gawky youth had gone after coffee. Rim o' the World His bodily arrangement was pitifully gawky; he neither sat erect nor lounged—he slumped spineless. In a Little Town "Nothing, Dolly," he answered, his straight, athletic body a bit gawky with embarrassment; "nothing." The Trimming of Goosie Did not Mrs. Catgut say it was the most fashionable; and if I had not taken it, was not that awkward, gawky Sally Slender ready to purchase it immediately? The Contrast A Polish woman, whose husband had moved his family down from Pierre to occupy the Irishman's shack, came to the school, bringing her son, a gawky, hangdog lad of twelve. The Biography of a Prairie Girl The gawky youth came stumbling up, his outstretched hands carefully holding two tin cups filled with coffee close to the boiling point. Rim o' the World His hands rested on his hips, his thumbs hooked inside his overalls; a gawky pose that fitted well his colourless personality,—and left his right hand close to his six-shooter. Sawtooth Ranch While her sister is at the gawky age, she gets a short breathing space, because a child at that time is so clumsy, so unattractive and foolish. Too Old for Dolls A Novel Once Rebecca stumbled and a great gawky fellow caught her around the waist to prevent her falling. The Panchronicon Balmerino recognized me, nodded almost imperceptibly, but of course gave no other sign of knowing the gawky apprentice who gaped at him along with a thousand others. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Being gawky, he stubbed his toe as he was rounding the group of women, and Mrs. Miller shrieked and swung back her hand, cuffing the gawky one straight into the thickest of the crowd. Rim o' the World He was gawky, poorly clad, and doubtless presented a very grotesque appearance to the cityfied people to whom he vainly applied for employment. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Then, absent-mindedly, she paused, eyeing the approaching party,—that genial silver-haired despot, her husband, walking with Lord Borrodaile, the gawky girl between them, except when she paused to practise a drive. The Convert But we must all go through the gawky age; we must each of us take our turn. The Children of Wilton Chase I was a young midshipman on board her, and I can tell you we were all astonished at his appearance, for he was between seventeen and eighteen—a tall, gawky fellow. With Cochrane the Dauntless I suppose they think that a gawky country boy doesn't belong in such a fashionable congregation. Flip's "Islands of Providence" This salutation was to a big gawky boy, who slouched through the door, with the announcement: “Wal, I’m ready: what shall I do?” The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters Sittmann had been married once before he took Wilhelmine's sister to wife, and of this former union he had two gawky sons, who accompanied their father and stepmother to this land of promise. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg The center of the barn was already filled with dark-skinned Señoritas and tall, gawky miners dancing to the music of a squeaky violin. The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Immediately stepped forth a tall, gawky youth clad in dull brown, faded garments, without mittens, without overshoes, his hands purple, but with a long, low, narrow sled as tall as himself. The Adventures of Bobby Orde The gawky camel shuffles along, a picture of woe with a load of 2 cwt. to 4 cwt., whilst the little moke trips smartly with almost an equal weight upon his back. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Mr. Crocker, you take one side of the fireplace and Mr. Ellis the other, and please don't look so gawky. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World He could not see enough of her; he was amazed at the trick nature had played: a human being of the noblest mien and form had been born of a gawky, uncouth servant girl. The Goose Man My kibitzer came stalking out of the building, gangling and gawky. Card Trick She was very pretty as a child, though of course last time I saw her she was at the gawky age. A Girl of the Commune Then he calls a gawky, red-haired chap, that stood good six-feet two: "Here, Jones," he cries, "this lady here's enquiring after you." The Book of Humorous Verse Mr. Eadie a trifle gawky as Thaddeus, but then he finds himself in an awkward situation, especially when he has to fumble for the documentary evidence of his birth, attested at a Bohemian Registry Office. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893 Incongruous enough, for we have always thought of the "czimbalom-artist" as a gawky bushy-bearded fellow with the indispensable short-stemmed clay-pipe—all burned out and being sucked only for its bitter taste. Debts of Honor A gawky, long-limbed woman stalked in, smiling grimly at Eubank, but with the tail of his eye on the girl in the doorway. In Kings' Byways A long black coat hampered his movements, and he looked gawky enough, stumbling through the rushes. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn A water bird, a gawky bird, a sing'lar bird, by jingo! The Book of Humorous Verse For now she was desolate that she almost loved this gawky youth throbbing in sympathy with her tribulation. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Yes, some women are," Christine said, "but men look after them and say, 'What big, gawky women!' and you don't want to be looked after. The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War He was called Miss Susan simply because he was as unlike a girl as a great awkward gawky fellow, with red hair and a freckled face, could well be. Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days He was a plain, gawky, nervous man, very freckled at the hands, and as poor a leg in the kilt as well could be. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn He was nearly twenty-one; and, although tall and gawky, with tow-colored hair, a pale face and whining voice, he resolved to seek his fortune in New York City. Pushing to the Front Well," he pursued gawkily, though he perceived her drift clearly, "here I am, and I do love you. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure After this he gave a little laugh, which meant nothing, certainly not amusement; it was merely a gawky habit that he had unconsciously adopted. Clayhanger Lavender’s gawky, of course, girls are gawky at her age, but I shouldn’t wonder if she grew quite decent-looking in time. A College Girl The man with the want fell fast asleep in his chair, with his limbs in gawky disposition. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn "I kept that long-necked, gawky man off with it, pretty near tripped him up so's I could get to the table with that poor child." In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date Neither of them was so gawky now, and both of them were much sought socially during their vacations at home. The Blood of the Conquerors That evening, conscious of responsibility and of virtue, Edwin walked up Trafalgar Road with a less gawky and more dignified mien than ever he had managed to assume before. Clayhanger It is not high enough for such a tall, strapping gawky as you are. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 "You know whom I mean," I said, pursuing my plea, whose rustic simplicity let no man mock at, remembering the gawky errors of his own experience. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Silvey gave an exultant yell and beckoned to a gawky, loosely jointed lad who stood a little apart from the rest of the gang. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Poorly clad, tall, gawky, and green-looking, he entered the city where he had neither friend nor acquaintance. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success A little way off was this gawky, green, uncouth soldier striding back and forth with the snow pelting him in the face. Sermons on Biblical Characters He was nearly twenty-one; and, although tall and gawky, with tow-colored hair, a pale face and whining voice, he resolved to seek his fortune in New York City. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune I know it, because I heard him ask that gawky chap they call Mason if he could stay on Wednesday evenings for the dancing class. Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War Being very young, gawky, and ill-dressed, he was subject to a good deal of jesting and ridicule. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money One lady in particular, Madame de Colombier, took a fancy to this gawky country lad and frequently invited him to her home in the country. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers The great gawky boy, with the curiosity of youth and ignorance combined, stood in the road and watched them. Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White It did seem funny driving off with him, for when I came to think of it, I was never alone with a man before; but he was gawkier about it than I was. Set in Silver "Daisy-roots and cream" were prescribed by the fairy godmothers of our childhood to stay the stature of those gawky youngsters who were shooting up into an ungainly development like "ill weeds growing apace." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Tall and gawky as he was in person, with tow-colored hair, and a scanty suit of shabbiest homespun, his appearance excited astonishment or ridicule wherever he went. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money In six short years the brooding misanthrope, the gawky young man who shunned his fellows, became the self-possessed leader of men, wielding a power of personal magnetism that was almost uncanny. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers His hands rested on his hips, his thumbs hooked inside his overalls; a gawky pose that fitted well his colorless personality,—and left his right hand close to his six-shooter. The Quirt The gawky chap was Mr. Dave Harrison, one of the finest operators in the profession. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers The gawky hero looked very sheepish while she tied the soft bandage fast. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett His personal attire, though rich in quality, ill became his gawky figure, and there was that about his badly folded turban which bespoke the parvenu. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond But how do you ken The gawky’s gone for good? Krindlesyke On the morning of the muster, there appeared before the tall Lieutenant, a man full three inches taller, and famous in his county as the gawkiest, slab-sidest, homeliest, best-natured fellow in the State. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis And so in the sixties the boy and the town went through their raw, gawky, ugly adolescence together. A Certain Rich Man Tall and gawky as he was in person, with tow-coloured hair, and a scanty suit of shabbiest homespun, his appearance excited astonishment or ridicule wherever he went. Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists A huge gawky vehicle seemed to be waiting for the ship to land; it shot out from the huddle of gray buildings almost the moment they touched down. Star Surgeon A gawky creature, with a coat like a bear's, he moved with the awkward grace of a puppy, slithering and slipping in the mud, yet always recovering himself with surprising speed and precision. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs A spirit of boyish rebellion and importance looked out of Ephraim's black eyes; his mouth was demure with mischief, his gawky figure perpetually uneasy and twisting, as if to find entrance into small forbidden places. Pembroke A Novel Luther Warden is all she has of kin, and if it makes him any happier to see her togged out in that gawky Dunkard gown——-" "Gawky?" said I. " The Soldier of the Valley "I'm a 'shoveleer' myself, and this awkward, gawky looking boy with me is our engineer." The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam Ladies get on better with them than men: either the ladies are more tolerant of twaddle, or their discerning eyes see in the gawky youth the germ of future usefulness. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour He ceased to be a pretty creature, pathetic in his helplessness, and grew into a gawky hobbledehoy, rough and rude and turbulent. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs He is an over-grown, gawky boy with a long, pinched face. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Julia, the tall, gawky, good, blonde, stupid daughter, came often to see Anna, but she could tell little of her mother. Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena "To-day she is a gawky, passionate, ill-disciplined child; and I am afraid, terribly afraid, she is very much in love with that great, cheery, good-looking nephew of mine." The Imaginary Marriage In short, she suggested the absurd idea of a solemn, gawky Marlborough disguised as a cook. The Cathedral Patty, dainty, graceful and sweet, was the very antithesis of tall, gawky Azalea, with her countrified dress and badly made black shoes. Patty and Azalea He was a tall, gawky countryman, rawboned, with long, unkempt hair. Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir For his complete writings some of us would sacrifice miles of gawky pale and florid mediæval paintings. Promenades of an Impressionist As Bob and Baker crossed the enclosed space, they saw him in conversation with a gawky farm lad from the plains. The Rules of the Game Albeit that brevity is a cardinal virtue in writing, a circumlocution would, we think, be better than a gawky word like this, so unsteady on its long legs. Essays Æsthetical I will not repeat the profaneness of a Southerner when he first observed a pair of them upon a tall and gawky shoe-black striding across the yard. A Collection of College Words and Customs She had formerly known him as a great, overgrown, good-natured boy, and now she saw him a "conceited gawky." 'Lena Rivers The dandy law clerks of metropolitan Richmond exchanged glances as this gawky figure entered, and took his place at a desk to begin his work. Famous Americans of Recent Times But he ran on those gawky legs of his faster than a racehorse, and kept landing out at me with sledge hammer kicks, and bringing his pickaxe down on the back of my head. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents Shosshi was a gawky young man with a blotched sandy face ever ready to blush deeper with the suspicion that conversations going on at a distance were all about him. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People She saw him as the gawky, shrinking boy, his lips apart, his eyes looking at her with uncontrollable aversion. The Purple Heights As Mamilius I was really a sweet little thing, but while I was playing Puck I grew very gawky—not to say ugly! The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections I tried vainly to recover the gawky, graceless city I had known, so unformed and so insistent on her shy self. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) Next day, a young man, gawky and seemingly unsophisticated, brought the animal. Adopting an Abandoned Farm But he ran on those gawky legs of his faster than a racehorse, and kept landing out at me with sledgehammer kicks, and bringing his pickaxe down on the back of my head. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Madame Gisèle," replied Manuel, "gawky and poorly clad and young as I may be, so long as I retain this sword I am master of you all and of the future too. Figures of Earth At first these lessons were fun for him; the big, gawky, half-starved, overworked child seeing so vividly in pictures all that he told her in words. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 He was shown the chicken-yard—full of gawky, half-grown chickens shedding their down and growing their feathers—and forgot his feet in the fascination of scattering grain to them and watching their fluttering scrambles. The Bent Twig Mind your dancing, and set to that gawky woman opposite. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." It was consoling to think that Falconer had been in love with the Dobieski long before he saw her: and Theo could almost forgive the Russian, whom she considered plain and gawky compared to herself. The Port of Adventure Mediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet. Heroes of the Telegraph Very odd those gawky things, like prehistoric Great Auks, looked in the moonlight. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies He was seventeen years old when he entered college and was one of the "gawkiest" students. Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch Past the lighthouse on its gawky iron stalls, she flew, and now rounded the white sands of Cat Island. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Did not Mrs. Catgut say it was the most fashionable; and if I had not taken it, was not that awkward, gawky, Sally Slender, ready to purchase it immediately? The Contrast He says you go along for hours not hearing when you are spoken to and acting like a gawky girl. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Well, he was a gawky, slouchy, shy farmer boy when he came to us. The Redheaded Outfield A gawky farmer seized the boy and struck him cruelly across the mouth. The Oakdale Affair When she passed the brown-eyed boy walking with the girl of her encounter, she knew, for she heard him say: "Did you really let that gawky piece of calico get ahead of you?" A Girl of the Limberlost She meant the body of Young Pine, who was her only son," said the Pelican, tucking her own gawky young under her breast, "and that is something a mother never forgets. The Trail Book The poor, gawky, long-legged, tearful, frightened, overgrown, wretched girl had not struck him as ugly; she had struck him as the most pathetic and to-be-pitied object that he had ever seen. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories At long intervals he went down to the settlements and saw Pancha, growing into a gawky girl, headstrong, and with the wildness of her mother's people cropping out. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California A frowsy, rat-faced woman and a gawky youth of fourteen stuck their heads out the doorway at either side of the man. The Oakdale Affair Bud was a sallow-faced, thin-chested, gawky youth from the States, who had wandered into these parts in search of health and employment. Southern Lights and Shadows Her cousin looked around in gawky embarrassment, bewildered by the splendor of the room; and after some deliberation selected the most substantial of the chairs, on the extreme edge of which he carefully seated himself. Lady Audley's Secret Behind her were a dozen or more children, varying from toddlers to gawky girls and boys of school age. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors The other was nothing but a gawky child; fine coloring—these Californians all had it—but with no charm or mystery. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California It was rather rapid, this intimacy between the odd assorted pair--the high-bred woman of fervid action and the mild and gawky Colonel born in a travelling circus. The Mountebank But for the ears, large and flap, it might have been the face of a cherub, poised on the gawky body of fifteen. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Deportment is also a requisite: special marks are given for it; and however gawky a freshman may prove at the time of his admission, he cannot remain so. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series For shame upon you, ungrateful boy, forgetting the dearest, noblest, most perfect of brothers, for that tall, gawky, fox-hunting Colonel, with his horrid oaths! The Virginians David was the youngest, the freshest thing imaginable; he was overtall and gawky, his cheeks were as delicately rosy as apple blossoms, and his smile was an epitome of ingenuous interest and frank wonder. The Happy End They had got fairly into the prairie, and now at some distance on left and right gawky Queen Anne houses appeared. The Web of Life She did not bump gawkily up and down in her saddle. The Call of the Cumberlands Now to be called gawky when he thought the gesture was particularly graceful, was indeed discouraging. Half-Past Seven Stories "I perfectly well recollect her when I was at home—a great, gawky, carroty creature, with a foot like a pair of bellows." The Virginians Nothing makes a woman more of a gawky than looking out after people and showing tempers in public. Daniel Deronda Even for his cousin Samuel Newcome, a gawky youth with an eruptive countenance, Barnes had appropriate words of conversation, and talked about King's College, of which the lad was an ornament, with the utmost affability. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family In his homespun, the gawky youth looked what he was--not the owner of the craft and about to try a speculation on the river, but one of the "scrubs." The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form His worship was gawky, flustered, and uncertain, and listened like a scared rabbit to mine host, a man of much talk, who explained proudly what was to be done. The Yeoman Adventurer Oh if there had ever been a thing to cry about it was being so consciously and gawkily below the handsomest offers any one could ever have received. What Maisie Knew Gwendolen made the expected application, and was not without alarm at the notion of being a gawky. Daniel Deronda He dropped down by her and patted her wrist gawkily. We Can't Have Everything He was exceedingly tall, and until years filled in his huge framework of bone and muscle, would very likely be called "gawky." A Daughter of Fife He was now seated at the grand piano with the youngest child, Alicia, a gawky little treasure, always alternating between pertness and timidity, aged twelve. Hilda Lessways These were followed by a gawky, weirdly dressed girl of uncertain age carrying an old-fashioned telescope traveling bag. The Ramblin' Kid "Our strapping cavaliers will make short work of your gawky bumpkins;" he remarked to Jack as the recruits loitered about the wide, shaded streets, waiting to be forwarded to the rendezvous. The Iron Game A Tale of the War She nearly felt that tenderness which good wives and fond mothers feel for the gawky creatures they hallow with their devotion. We Can't Have Everything Ponderously gawky, he steps as if the world was his, like a "motley" crowned in sport. The Open Air He was a very tall, gawky, and rough-looking fellow then; his pantaloons didn't meet his shoes by six inches. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 How can one write of these things for a generation which rather admires that inconvenient and gawky muddle of ironwork and Flemish architecture, the London Tower Bridge. A Modern Utopia A gawky fellow that plays the Jew's harp? Hobson's Choice Well, since she is not gawky, I like her better than if she were blase. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century His musings were cut short by a tap at the door; a long, gawky youth, with a budding moustache, entered and slouched over to a chair. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life At first Brinnaria had been notably more prone than Meffia to assume gawky or ungainly postures, and, as she was the bigger of the two, she was the more conspicuous. The Unwilling Vestal I used to be ashamed of my great, gawky self. Viola Gwyn Few incidents of Japanese life are more surprising than the metamorphosis of the gawky student into the dignified, impassive, easy-mannered official. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Now I know why he always makes me feel so uncomfortable —and afraid—and—and gawky. Janice Meredith Most men of that size are just leggy and gawky: he is neither. Winding Paths Why, I know that Fairfield girl, and she isn't gawky a bit! Patty's Suitors And he did his best to smile, and went off gawkily with the collar and came back with a linen one. The Old Wives' Tale The angular, gawky feeling gradually disappears; the girl becomes self-conscious; new impulses arise, and she gives up many of the hoydenish ways of childhood. The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene She had only been a gawky and thin fifteen or sixteen when she began to assert herself in his kitchen, dictate to Kow, and waste good butter and eggs on experiments. Sisters "No, do you think so?" the gawky young man jerked out with evident pleasure. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose Any spotty, gawky teenage boy could instantly transform himself into a suave, graceful BBS character. Underground When you first saw me I was a gawky schoolboy, learning to use my brains, and knowing already that life had nothing to offer me but a false position. Born in Exile It sets up a gawky fellow to find a girl who ain't ashamed to be seen walking with him Sundays. Tales of Men and Ghosts He is just the age now when a boy gets impressions which last him through—" "Yes, the gawky and stumble-over-things age! Tides of Barnegat He had never dreamed that the gawky and rather plain little girl whom he had romped with long ago in Paris would grow into such a being. Huntingtower When Lord Ingleby met her, and I suppose saw her incipient possibilities, she was a tall, gawky girl, with lovely eyes, a sweet, sensitive mouth, and a what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-next expression on her face. The Rosary He saw before him a tall, gawky youth in ill-fitting clothes, his face a mask of dust. The Guns of Bull Run A Story of the Civil War's Eve Instead of being a gawky girl of seventeen, in a faded blue calico wrapper, Susan, as transformed by one of Mrs. Smith's simple white gowns, was a young lady. Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent The boss' tone injected energy into the gawky lad. To Him That Hath: a Tale of the West of Today There was a slim, not to say gawky, individual with a chin beard and rubber boots, whom the committee hailed as "Andy" and welcomed to its bosom. Cap'n Eri Eight years later, his father not being able to afford the time, I conducted Master "Waterworks," now a healthy, uninteresting, gawky lad, to a school in Switzerland. Idle Ideas in 1905 Behind him Razumihin strode in gawky and awkward, shamefaced and red as a peony, with an utterly crestfallen and ferocious expression. Crime and Punishment To this school, therefore, I presently departed, gawky and homesick, and the rift between my soul and that of my Father widened a little more. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments He was one of those boys who develop young, and who seem never to have any of that gawky stage so noticeable in the youth of men made in a large pattern. The Man The lion-cub, at the same age, is a gawky and foolish and ill-knit mass of legs and fur; deficient in sense and in symmetry. Bruce Many of its component parts deserve the name of weeds, being gawky, ragged umbels, coarse docks, rank nettles, and many other things which I don't know, and never wish to see again. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan "A thin, gawky girl with a bad complexion," she suggested. The Fawn Gloves He had learned in the woods to be neat and precise in his ways, and his movements, for all his gawky look, were as soft as a panther's. The Path of the King I was playing the gawky when I helped you in the old house in Brooklyn. Initials Only One day he saw Lincoln—a tall, shambling man, long, bony, gawky, but tremendously impressive. The Financier, a novel As for the town of Brighton, it’s what I would call a gawky piece of London. The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family He was rather a gawky youth, and Lupin said he was the most popular and best amateur in the club, referring to the “Holloway Comedians.” Diary of a Nobody |
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