Sentence examples for emotionally uptight from inspiring English sources
Whereas Ms. Tyler's most powerful work has been animated by an intimate knowledge of her characters' inner lives — sympathy that lofted us up over whatever was clichéd or cloying about their stories — the people in "The Beginner's Goodbye" are irritating stick figures, insipid and emotionally uptight.
"In Scandinavian tradition, they're not so uptight emotionally.
Fat, useless, ugly stoner Seth Rogen turns out to be more switched-on, emotionally connected and beautiful-inside than the uptight blonde Wasp with whom he has an accidental baby.
Still, her New York social world initially felt lackluster and full of caricatures the tightly wound JAP, the slightly misanthropic free spirit, the uptight preppy girl (who would never be friends with Greenpoint hipsters), the emotionally challenged fuck buddy.
Paul Dermot Mulroneyy) a haunted and uptight District Attorney from a spectacularly beautiful, affluent suburb of Santa Fe, and his emotionally fragile wife, Diane Diane Krugerr) are desperately searching for a deceased lung donor for their eleven-year-old daughter, Chloe, dying of a rare disorder for which there is no cure.
"We were always uptight".
