"In fashion these days, to be uptight is to be edgy," said David Wolfe, the creative director of the Doneger Group, which forecasts fashion trends and whose clients include Wal-Mart and Nordstrom.
(It used to be uptight men who needed to walk barefoot in the park. Now it's women).
"If everyone's going to be uptight, we should move to L.A. and make lots of money," he said.
To Mr. Mazza of the Ainsworth, "our patrons don't want to be uptight, they don't want to dress up -- and they don't want to sacrifice the quality of the food or the service, since a lot of them are used to Daniel".
The goal is to entertain, and the episode in which foul-mouthed Sarah had to pretend to be uptight Alison during a suburban pot-luck dinner was one of the funniest and most entertainingly twisted hours of TV I've seen all year (there are moments with a glue gun you won't soon forget).
Even when he lost his first couple games early in the season, he didn't seem to be uptight".
His dream was to be like Maurice the dog, insolent and uncontrollable; the powers-that-be wanted him to be uptight, asexual and conservative, like Patapon the cat.
The film incidentally can't decide if Betsy is to be uptight or cool: the butt of the joke or in on the joke.
Here are some of the best and worst jokes of the 87th Academy Awards – not going by who laughed in the audience (hey, they were always going to be uptight about diversity jibes).
Given such minimalist and orderly circumstances, you might imagine Ms. Meier to be uptight and icy, the sort of person who pulls her hair back like a ballerina's.
