The simple question made the gawkish man start.

The Astronomer-Select and the gawkish boy had spent many long nights at Sternhoem polishing and fitting out the small telescope.

Harry noted that Stuart Bruxton was tall and somewhat like Powell in appearance, except that he lacked Powell's rather gawkish manner.

Then there's bumbling blue-stockinged publisher Maggie, played by La Thompson as full of gawkish Enid Blytonisms and a mind-boggling pash for Fry.

The girl was in the gawkish age of mid-adolescence, but there was a wild, coltish grace in the way she moved her lanky legs and slim arms with their prominent elbows.

Ms. Burnett is the straight man, not just for Mr. Bosco but for her own rowdier comic persona: the Carol Burnett of the double and triple takes, the arms and legs that strike such bizarre angles, the half-strangled guffaws that can signal gawkish incredulity or hopeless cynicism.