The phrase "at uptight" is not correct and usable in written English.
It seems to be a misphrasing or a combination of words that does not convey a clear meaning.
Example: "He was feeling at uptight during the meeting" does not make sense.
Alternatives: "feeling tense" or "being anxious."
With this Super Bowl advertisement for Budweiser beer and another "Whassup" spot that pokes fun at uptight yuppies trying to adopt a cool attitude, Anheuser-Busch succeeded in taking advertising's hottest series of commercials into a new year.
For these two weeks, there is no finer entertainment to be had than buying yourself a massive bag of lebkuchen and driving round the local garden centres laughing at uptight, list-making types strapping 8ft premium nordman firs to the roofs of their Volvo estates with the special Christmas tree clamps they bought from Halfords in September.
CROCODILE DUNDEE (Peter Faiman, 1986) Although there was nothing remotely subversive in its content, beyond some gentle poking at uptight metropolitan types and New York social mores by Paul Hogan's uncouth and thoroughly charming Aussie hero, Crocodile Dundee was an out-of-the-blue, worldwide box-office phenomenon that couldn't be (and hasn't been) repeated.
Childhood is one of the other things I wasn't good at (too uptight too early).
But the movie fails to develop fully fleshed characters, and its in-your-face portrayal of campus anomie and depravity has the hysterical tone of a spoiled adolescent thumbing his nose at his uptight parents (Holden).
Naturally, only a real nincompoop could object to this scene; in its sheer excessive outrageousness, it is brilliant, but it also functions unmistakably as a little pre-emptive strike at any uptight bores who are thinking of whining about offensiveness.
In the nineties I was a college student at an uptight Evangelical college in a small town in Virginia.
Well, what you don't see is how cut-throat everything is as well as at times, uptight.
Just keep shakin' that ass and poppin' that pussy all the way to the top, laughin' at these uptight Puritanical, in-the-closet pornography addicts jerkin' off for a fuckin' livin' while they talk shit about open sexuality.
So for years I lived a dual life: innovative, conscious guy at work and withdrawn, uptight guy at home.
"At the back we still look a little bit erratic and uptight at times which is leading to probably bad decision making on occasions".
