Sentence examples for drew uptight from inspiring English sources

Public Enemy and N.W.A, for example, performed together as far back as 1988, when rap tours were rare and not only brought legions of new fans to witness the music live for the first time but also drew uptight police harboring ill will toward rappers who criticized them on stage and on record.

Nobody allows himself to get uptight".

"Don't get uptight," he said.

Everydaysexism.com has become enormously popular because women get so used to street harassment and sexism that it's become normalised and you're seen as uptight if you draw attention to it.

"But I try not to get too uptight about it".

Meanwhile the screen is a heady swirl of shiny streets and spangly nightclubs, with Duffy belting out Timi Yuro's Make the World Go Away to celeb-packed crowds as flat-footed cops (Christopher Eccleston's uptight Leonard NipperReadeand and lairy villains (Sam Spruell's nicely drawn Jack "the Hat" McVitie) drift in and out of carefully choreographed frames.

"Jitters" ("Oroi") (6 30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, Landmark Century Centre Cinema) This Icelandic "coming-of-age" film, which has drawn comparison to the British series "Skins," follows Gabriel, a somewhat uptight 16-year-old boy as he visits England and meets Marcus, a spirited, outgoing boy who helps him along his path to owning his burgeoning sexual identity.

As the original Elyot, Coward tended to reserve the best lines for himself; but Niall Costigan's uptight Victor and Jessica Baglow's empty-headed Sibyl are an acerbically drawn pair of boobies who clearly deserve one another.

Moss is drawn to intelligent oddballs, characters who are deeply moral, ambitious, and willing to be perceived as uptight or difficult in order to get what they want.

Thus the cast kick off with their best-known cover, Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'", and have hardly drawn breath before we're treated to a series of solo performances, from a show-stopping "Don't Rain on My Parade" by Lea Michele (the show's uptight diva Rachel) to a moving rendition of Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" by the big-voiced Amber Riley (who plays bolshy Mercedes).

When uptight professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) heads to Reno to get a divorce from her husband, she mets a younger, free-spirited casino worker/artist Cay (Patricia Charbonneau) and the two are quickly drawn to each other.