Sentence examples for up uptight from inspiring English sources

He said he's picked up uptight GOP dudes with working transgender women and took some gay convention-goers to the local bath houses.

All the tenants were button-up, uptight professionals, myself excluded.

The spectacularly useless Seth Rogen hooks up with uptight-but-perfectly-poised Katherine Heigl, and a baby results.

Your character in "Pitch Perfect," Aubrey, is very buttoned-up and uptight on the surface, but sort of boiling underneath, and I'd say the same thing about your role as Sarah Newlin on "True Blood".

"Teachers and middle-class parents undervalue kids' preferences, but I think we need to give up being so uptight about children's choices in books".

"When I walked up, I was uptight," he explained.

Before long, they're both working the phones, which helps to loosen up the previously uptight Lauren.

Director John Lee Hancock enjoys playing up the differences between uptight British society of the early 1960s and the freewheeling world of Hollywood.

[He was making money doing bits and pieces of DJing.] Living by myself, getting uptight, wound up, over stupid little things.

She showed up Robin Thicke as one uptight douche, though he helped by dressing as the world's edgiest Foot Locker manager.

So when he's in a hole for weeks, just laying up, he's not uptight, he's just biding his time.