When he was in school, he was a gawky 6'3''.
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A gawky, tall version of Hello Kitty got the title as well.
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Misha Hoekstra, the translator, smartly matches Sonja's erratic course: gawky one moment; graceful the next.
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He was 11 — bookish, gawky, one of the few Jews in his Munich public school.
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The older members look deeply vexed to find the gawky, longhaired firebrand in their midst.
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Highlights included tiny Tony Hale, an adorable young Jack Black, and a spectacularly gawky John Oliver.
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But, Peter's gawky vibes don't just end with his powers — they're the bedrock of Far From Home.
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Directors drew on his legend as a gawky, glam stage performer, but they also consistently burnished it.
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" The span of the book takes place as Geist grows from a gawky redheaded teenager to a slightly less gawky sunburned older teenager, all during the summers he spent working at his uncle's hotel, Arrowhead Lodge, at, as the tourist billboards have it, "Beautiful Lake of the Ozarks.
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I wish you knew how gawky and gauche people see you as, and that it's all in vain.
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Often it's a little bit gawky or cheesy or obvious because the talent is bigger than the concept.
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A gawky teen with braces and glasses, spotting the architect, fast-walked over and thrust out a hand.
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Annie is the kind of slightly androgynous instant icon whose boyish outfits and gawky mannerisms never feel outdated.
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Garabedian is humble but ambitious; the figures in his paintings are monumental but gawky – relatable heroes and heroines.
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Lucia, gawky and overdramatic, is an upper-middle-class Mexican who finds herself living in the United States.
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In Onward, Pratt, 39, plays the boisterous older brother, while Holland, 22, is the gawky, more reserved younger sibling.
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It's gawky, would-be unschooled, and its ugliness in biting yellows, dirty beiges, and dusty blacks has real punch.
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In the film, Pratt plays the boisterous older brother, while Holland, 22, is the gawky, more reserved younger sibling.
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They both started out as dorky, gawky, lads who spent far too much time fumbling about on their laptops.
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But the real force driving this experiment in popular government was often a gawky, anxious, ambitious 21-year-old.
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She herself is gawky, her frizzy hair pulled back in a serviceable puff above a narrow, long-nosed face.
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But in Kahn's button-pushing comedy, Worthy gets placed front and center as a Berkeley grad student named Adam who goes from writing a dissertation on the battle rap scene to becoming a part of it, making the transition from gawky white academic observer to gawky white participant an improbably good conversion.
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A few decades ago, Driver would have been a gawky Peter Lorre, a weird presence strategically deployed for supporting roles.
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It was uncanny how much the candidate recalled Barack Obama circa 2008, and not just because of his gawky magnetism.
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Gawky and bird-thin, he wore a Chicago-cop mustache and spoke in the gentle exhortations of a youth pastor.
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Encounters between two actual humans is always presented a bit more coyly – gawky, rock-like heads nod and knock together.
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" In Vanity Fair in 2013: "Swift cultivates a gawky adorkability in her music videos," but in fact, "Swift works incredibly hard.
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Pratt plays the boisterous older brother and Holland, the gawky, more reserved younger sibling (Louis-Dreyfus is the teenage boys' mother).
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Laird's novels have been pigeonholed as "lad lit" in the past, but they are more ambitious than this gawky sobriquet suggests.
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Or maybe, given the loopy gravity of its rhythms, it's more like QWOP's gawky, awkward and endearing take on anthropoid movement.
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Van Cliburn, a gawky 23-year-old, had a Cold War-thawing victory at the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958.
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Compared to his works, Roy Lichtenstein's and Andy Warhol's paintings are mostly very static, Frank Stella's formulaic, and Peter Saul's oddly gawky.
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Unlike most players of his height, who tend towards the gangly and gawky, he is solidly built, and still learning his own strength.
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But the best material is saved for Tracey, with actress Michaela Coel embracing all of the gawky eccentrics of her semi-autobiographical character.
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Eva Löbau plays a gawky 27-year-old teacher who arrives at a new job ready to show off her progressive pedagogical methods.
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With Unfinished, the Met seems to be shutting the door on gawky, adolescent openness, assuring us that the grownups are now in charge.
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Peter Parker is and has always been this gawky teenager from Queens who's unlucky in love and life, but striving hard to be better.
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And yet, no one would not confuse the art in this show, even these gawky works, with any pictures by Magritte, Picabia or Picasso.
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The ball girls and ball boys, however, race around between points as if they just learned to run — gawky, with knees and elbows flapping.
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Kid Twist, a 10-year veteran of the battle rap scene) follows Adam (Calum Worthy), a gawky grad student and a paperwhite audience surrogate.
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We see him as a gawky 14-year-old (played by Jack Dylan Grazer) in 1991; as a struggling, 40-year-old inventor (Mr.
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The reviews were unsparing: 'As Bill riffed, Hillary stood by his side, looking like the gawky sidekick in a teen movie … He stole the show.
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The daughter of a ballet dancer and a champion soccer coach, Michelle Dorrance is a tap dancer of gawky grace with especially quick, smart feet.
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How else to explain the intimate, gawky tenderness with which the heads of the dead Christ and the man supporting him touch, almost in a kiss?
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Bart (John Dall) is a gawky social misfit, his partner, Laurie (Peggy Cummins), a trigger-happy sociopath no less fresh-faced than Ms. Weld's drum majorette.
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Hunter happens to be the older brother of McKayla (Monroe), the most popular and sought-after girl in town, and whom skinny, gawky Daniel eventually falls for.
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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.
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In the film, Mia Thermopolis, played by Hathaway, is a gawky teenager with an unrequited crush on the school jock and a paralyzing fear of public speaking.
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" 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.
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Ever since he leapt onto our screens in 2000 as a gawky kid in "Billy Elliot," his opportunities to play a romantic lead have been virtually nil.
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I see them again that night in the lobby of the Clarion, gawky and pigtailed, sharing several tearful hugs, as their parents' vicarious nostalgia slowly turns to impatience.
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Mr. Rubchinskiy offers a reclaimed Soviet chic, his logo an imposing block of Cyrillic and his models a gawky lot of pale teenagers, found via an Instagram search.
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Because he conveys some of that gracelessness in the cadence of his voice, clumsily taking the angles of words like "technique-less," his gawky phrasing is more pronounced.
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Comparisons were made to Barack Obama, on the basis that the two men both had a certain gawky charm and both appeared to inspire an enormous amount of hope.
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Though her plots were often cheesy and she herself was girl-next-door cute, she managed to subvert standard teen comedy tropes with practiced physical comedy and gawky originality.
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Regina Hall ("Girls Trip") stars as a tech exec who wakes up in the body of her gawky 13-year-old self (played by Marsai Martin of "black-ish").
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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.
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He has wanted to be president since he was a gawky debate club teenager, and his relationships are so obviously secondary to his ambition that his own colleagues hate him.
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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.
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Ryan Hemsworth approaches rap beats like custom Lego playsets, jamming together parts that are kinda weird and gawky when first looked at but work nonetheless and, importantly, fun to play with.
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It's not a gawky, intentionally off-putting weirdness: songs like "DOA" and "Stiles" feel like someone mashed up the gentle keys of Lullatone with Quality Control's roster of Atlanta talent. HUSH.
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It could have been plucked from the mind of a gawky teen reading Black Belt magazine in the 1980s, imagining what the gladiatorial combat of the distant future would look like.
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In 2016, when girls on Snapchat are more likely to emulate glamorous Calabasas girls like Kylie Jenner, young women are less likely to encounter someone as proudly gawky as Paige Ginn.
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Garabedian isn't letting on, and the gentle, cheeky humor pervading the image — "monumental but gawky," in Samet's phrase — suffuses it with a lightness of touch that escapes any hint of ponderousness.
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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.
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Both roles differ greatly from the parts that made his career a decade ago when he became the quintessential gawky teenager of the 2000s, but are still unquestionably Michael Cera-approved roles.
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I can give the answer now that I didn't know how to give when I was a kid, when I chose the stupid Nets and was rude to poor gawky Brad Lohaus.
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Speaking of craniums that tip the scales at way more than eight pounds, Noah Syndergaard pretty much went Anne Boylen on Mr. Met in retaliation for the gawky high school nerd tweet.
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PEOPLE's exclusive first look at the animated movie shows Pratt, 39, as the boisterous older brother, Holland, 22, as the gawky, more reserved younger sibling and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the teens' mom.
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A gawky, earnest singer lost in the keyboard flourishes and drum jitters she hears in her own head, a romantic who dreams quietly, she uses blank formal exercise as a site for introspection.
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Their gawky, playful range of voices and personalities, as will naturally arise in any boy band with seven members, saves them from dilution, as do their buzzy beats, anthemic choruses, and synchronized dance moves.
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When, at the urging of Minerva, he disguised himself as a beggar to make his way back home, he encountered an endearing, gawky old shepherd, trusting by nature but a little out of it.
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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.
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The video clip captures the music-nerd charm of the project, with smiling, slightly rumpled, slightly gawky singers glancing away from the camera's long tracking shot in a white-walled house without a stick of furniture.
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Women are starting to disrupt these spaces, and dealing with the inevitable backlash, be it England's Lionesses at the World Cup or a gawky 20-something wearing children's boots on a strip of grass in Edinburgh.
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Is it even possible to inject a little joy or elegance into what inevitably becomes a hurried ordeal in which the scarcity of counter space meets the gawky discomfort that comes with primping in front of strangers?
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Cohen was on an Australian talk show called Rove Live, as his flamboyant Austrian alter-ego Bruno, when he found out the gawky former prime minster of Australia, Kevin Rudd, was also booked for the same show.
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I think that the gawky pictures were a way for Owens to reconnect with the soul of the girl who had tried to get just right the vision of a figure in jail and a sassy dog.
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The gawky, rust-colored birds were installed in a small brown plywood coop, and so, on the last day of March in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, another New York household joined the ever-growing ranks of the chickened.
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And the intensification is in the direction of idiosyncrasy, which the gawky Ms. Dorrance both embodies and encourages in her dancers, especially in solos that help offset a machine-dance quality that hardens some of the ensemble sections.
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I was met at the door to his Islington flat by a very tall man, with a big smile and a big, slightly crooked, nose, all gawky and coltish, as if, despite his size, he was still growing.
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So when he gets his young followers—these gawky little white kids strung out on drugs—he starts telling them about the coming race war, black against whites, the blacks are gonna rise up and massacre the whites.
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Many, perhaps most of us, are willing to enjoy paintings of women by Pablo Picasso notwithstanding his obvious sadism; or by Gustave Courbet, allowing for his frankly salacious eroticism; or by Paul Cézanne, for their oddly gawky formal qualities.
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With their guidance and some hard-learned lessons about believing in herself, Meg blossoms throughout the two-hour tale from a gawky, self-doubting pre-teen to a fearless, badass warrior who can fight darkness with goodness and light.
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Everyone in this damn series strutted like a touched up supermodel too, with the perfect hair and chiseled cheeks; injecting hormonal extras an experience of what it feels be gawky, young, and sentimentally driven to the point of disorientation.
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For three years, brilliant programmer and Pied Piper company founder Richard Hendricks (played by Thomas Middleditch) has been the show's bumbling hero: a gawky genius with great ideas, a good heart, and a nagging tendency to shoot himself in the foot.
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Lyons' rags-to-riches story was often repeated: Growing up gawky with a genetic skin and teeth disorder that propelled her love of fashion, she joined the company on the ground floor as an assistant designer straight out of college.
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As a gawky fifteen year old marooned in the corny wilderness of rural North Norfolk I was hooked up to the wider world through my family PC. I was addicted to, and obsessed with, an NME messageboard spin-off messageboard.
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While in high school in the Boston suburbs, Chopra says she was a "gawky, imperfect child", telling the International Business Times back in 2012 that the traits she was made fun for are now the things that have made her famous.
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" Before Oxford, Mallory had been self-contained—Jeffery West, who taught Mallory in a Duke acting class, and cast him in a production of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," said that he was then a "gawky, lanky kind of boy, an Other.
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Creator/writer/star Michaela Coel is fantastic as the equally gawky and curious Tracey, who in the first season launched herself into the brand new world of sex with such reckless abandon that the results were both hilarious and horrifying.
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But more than that, I was looking forward to watching Bradley develop — eager to see him expand on the flashes of brilliance he displayed as a freshman, to see him grow from a gawky teenager into a confident young man.
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Sometimes, on the days when Supreme releases new product — a drop, in scene parlance — I'll pass by the gaggle of gawky teenagers held behind barriers on Lafayette Street and wonder about all of the potential energy vaporizing into thin air.
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You brace yourself for the worst, but Balagov flips the scenario on its head: The two women rebuff the vulgar catcalling, as Masha dominates the gawky driver, Sasha, into a sexual encounter, while Beanpole whales on his companion outside the car.
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Ambient bands would foreground such noise at the expense of tune and tempo; instead, Emma Baker's drumming keeps the pace jumpy, producing a gawky propulsion that undercuts the soothing, underlying guitar whoosh, which in turn softens and alleviates its aggression.
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The video ended with Swift reviving all the personas of her music career - from gawky, guitar playing 16-year old to poised Grammy winner - and having them call each other out for being fake, pretending to be nice and playing the victim.
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Doyle was a bit of a gawky teen in Freshman year, but then again, no one is born cool like Jerry Only, whose high school years are said to have served as the inspiration for the Happy Days character, Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli.
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Heavy metal is rife with its shoulda-beens and coulda-beens: bands fucked from the start; bands cut short in their prime; bands who, like precocious childhood prodigies, blossomed early only to fade into embarrassing ignominy when puberty cast its gawky spell.
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Gianna Isabella, "I Put a Spell on You" Having to watch someone so young and gawky attempt the emotional maturity of Annie Lennox was chilling to say the least, and I wish to never fall under this spell again at any cost.
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Then there's Jared (Zach Woods), a gawky, tender-hearted business brain who decamps from the tech juggernaut Hooli (the show's Google cipher) to work for Pied Piper pro bono because he believes in Richard's vision to a zealous, almost self-abnegating degree.
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Ms. Streisand, you see, has always been in charge — of her image, of her career and, whenever possible, of her immediate environment — ever since she started singing in Greenwich Village nightclubs as a gawky teenager in thrift-shop clothes in the early 1960s.
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Tristan McIntosh, Vince Gill's "Go Rest High on That Mountain" At first I was appalled that she was safe considering her spotty past performances, but this week's piano-driven '90s hit was just the ticket for the gawky but gorgeous 15-year-old.
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It's easy to understand why both museums chose the same title: Soutine's animal carcasses are resolutely images of flesh, even of meat, while Albright's portraits give us the human body at its most grotesque — lumpy and gawky and pink, mottled with grey.
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In real life, Nina Dobrev is pretty far removed from both the girl next door turned semi-immortal character she played for six years on Vampire Diaries, and the gawky new role she's assuming in XXX: Return of Xander Cage, which hit theaters January 20.
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Nearly a dozen members of the House's incoming class are far from being gawky freshmen, stumbling wide-eyed through the strange corridors of Capitol Hill, but are instead experienced policymakers who have worked in previous presidential administrations — seven of them for former President Barack Obama.
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Not in an ironic or gawky way, or in this way where I get really fascinated with the culture around them while not actually listening to their music—the primary modes of ICP appreciation among the "media class"—but actually enjoying their music, as it exists.
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Gianna Isabella, Annie Lennox's "I Put A Spell On You" Damnit, this new teen's stupid spell snapped me out of fantasy beach mode and into reality, a jarring realm in which Gianna is still too overall gawky to have real Idol potential despite obvious visual upgrades.
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At the heart of it is an attempt to right a wrong: Manchester—the city Rae moved to as a gawky white teenager obsessed with black music—is revered the world over as the hallowed home of rave and the rain-soaked birthplace of The Smiths.
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Over the last decade, Glick, who is gay, has established his own kind of endearing-but-awkward type by playing gawky, often gay characters in straight plays such as Stephen Karam's "Speech & Debate" (2008), Samuel H. Hunter's "The Few" (2014) and Joshua Harmon's "Significant Other" (2015).
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Arguably another viral video that would be slotted into the "weird but wholesome" category, 2011's "Friday" was a laughably mundane song and music video introducing the world to a gawky-but-sincere 13-year-old named Rebecca Black, and to YouTube's utterly baffling video production wormhole.
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For one thing, it has been debated that the song's popularity in comedy and underground circles was enough to shift the definition of the term "geek" from the realm of circus performers to the socially-awkward gawky dork definition whose demographic power has surged, unchecked, over the last couple decades.
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Sherman was a rarity in the male-dominated portrait photography profession, and some of her best subjects were women: the country singer June Carter Cash in her gawky, beautiful youth; an aging Gertrude Lawrence, famous as the first Anna in "The King and I"; and Pearl Buck, looking typically formidable.
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Mr. Ocasek's lead vocals mixed a gawky, yelping deadpan with hints of suppressed emotion, while his songs drew hooks from basic three-chord rockabilly and punk, from surf-rock, from emerging synth-pop, from echoes of the Beatles and glam-rock, and from hints of the 20073s art-rock avant-garde.
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The crowd at Conway Hall was full of young men with pinched faces and gawky enthusiasm, displaying a full gamut of unfortunate sartorial choices: some of them in cravats, some with chinos and navy-blue blazers, some with dragon T-shirts and scraggly beards, at least one person pairing a tweed jacket with cargo shorts.
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He is the impossibly cool, impossibly beautiful senior guy who is dating the impossibly beautiful senior girl — and yet as soon as Jake Ryan hears that gawky, awkward sophomore Samantha (Molly Ringwald) has a crush on him, he immediately begins to like her back, defying all the laws of God, man, and high school popularity.
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In addition to the played-out Big Brother vibe, the cast is mostly white, the male performers more gawky and awkward than suave studs intended to attract the female gaze, and — at least in the first episode — the sexual dynamics aren't exactly equal (it's telling that there's a blowjob contest, but no test of anyone's cunnlingual skills).
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Instead of laughing, I take heart: If the present feels defined by the politicians and precocious entrepreneurs who compete to sell us horrifying visions of the future, a gawky, costly television tower can reassure us that such visions rarely come to fruition, and that our own self-styled visionaries probably have no idea what they're talking about.
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I have had to engage all manner of students — dark, teary kids who fill lined paper with open-hearted scribbles, gawky science dudes who can't speak in public without covering their eyes with a palm, recent immigrants working 30 hours a week to help support their families, angry kids with violent parents, kids who try, with hoodies and downcast eyes, to be invisible.
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In the present day, a Breakfast Club-esque collection of teenagers are roped into detention together: there's Spencer (Alex Wolff), a standard gawky nerd; Fridge (Ser'Darius Blain), the football star; Bethany (Madison Iseman), who spends most of her time on her phone; and Martha (Morgan Turner), filling the Ally Sheedy role as a young woman who feels like she's a lot more awkward than she actually is.
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The disco influence inheres in the band's casual mastery, the way the beats circle back on themselves to imply the permanence of an eternal loop, and in the enthusiastic vocals of Eno Williams, who belongs to a grand tradition of gawky, somewhat awkward singers swept off their feet by the grace of a beautiful dance groove and everything it represents — connection, romance, poise, confidence, community.
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Mechanically percussive hooks; dubstep-style drops distorted to sound like beatboxing, or a car's bass speaker turned up too loud; voices that would sound gawky even if they weren't gargling pixelated buckets of Auto-Tune; lyrics that combine rap and middle-school disses, as if trying to capture how social media-damaged adolescents talk; weird drums and sampled noises thrown in for the sake of clutter — on 1000 gecs, these elements are strewn all over the place, and swerve between comic juxtapositions.
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