She is beautiful, skinny, and comes from money- and since she is usually the most grounded, most uptight, least colorfully zany and most relatable, millennial audiences have a very hard time watching Marnie show their truths and make their mistakes- and Williams does it so perfectly that it makes it that much harder.
In a time of more straitened and anxious conservatism, there is even something vaguely encouraging in De Quincey's authorship: Toryism, it seems, at least need not be uptight.
Gradually, Howie realizes he's in over his head, but it's too late: the isle's inhabitants are -- at least as the very uptight policeman sees them -- a pagan lot led by the charismatic Lord Summerisle (a startling star turn by Christopher Lee).
While Ben (Rogen) is barely functional, at least he has fun, unlike uptight Alison (Heigl).
"I kind of think that a lot of people would be very uptight, or at least a little bit concerned, wondering whether they have in their archives child pornography," said the daughter, Emma Tamburlini, now 43.
His first musical collaborator, Jack Packer, has described Diamond's performance style as "very uptight, to say the least.
Into this atmosphere comes a young American lieutenant with the 6th Fleet who stays with his cousin, an uptight businessman who at least is in tune with local feeling and embarrassed by his unwanted guest though he concedes to showing him the city – bars, discos, all of it – and introducing him to an attractive Catalan woman, who says, "You seem very intelligent for an American".
You may want to slap, or at least tickle, some the area's uptight bourgeois bohos, but please don't (they keep SBIFF afloat).
(Isherwood) 'THE DEAR BOY' An uptight English teacher learns to cut loose, at least a bit, when he's confronted with an unflattering portrait written by a gifted but troubled student.
