Sentence examples for slightly uptight from inspiring English sources
His childhood friend Jonathas is sung by the radiant Portuguese soprano Ana Quintans, made to look like a bookish, slightly uptight young man with short hair and glasses.
'People who are relaxed and laid-back may be more inclined to put on weight than those who are slightly uptight or tense or worried.' More research is now likely to take place, aimed at finding out which personality traits show a tendency to fidget.
So far, I have gathered that my date was neat and clean, modern and tech-savy, sophisticated yet practical, health-conscious, slightly uptight, and best of all, already mad at me.
He's almost 60, a little younger than Hata but only slightly less uptight.
Partly because of her slightly chilly, uptight manner, as leader of the Commons Mrs Beckett has never received adequate appreciation for her role in holding both wings of the Labour party together.
On the whole, Orthodox Christians are slightly more uptight than most moderate Catholics this is because they still haven't forgiven Judas.
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.
Greenwood said: "It's all about trying to play classical music in slightly different venues with a slightly less uptight atmosphere than is usually found in concerts.
The series stars Jane Lynch as a slightly debauched guardian angel assigned to an uptight charge played by Maggie Lawson. .
Haphazard and fragmentary, the recordings were made as part of his final undergraduate project at Harvard, and they strike the one note of un-uptight lunacy in this promising, if maybe slightly old-before-its-time, lineup.
