Stand upright, straight-backed, and make sure you hold your violin up; imagine there is a ball balanced on the strings of your violin and you have to make sure it stays there rather than sliding off the edge and falling on the floor.
It needs to be done on a flat surface, keeping the bottle upright and straight.
The Concerto for Orchestra gets an upright and straight ahead performance, flecked with the string suppleness and woodwind finesse of mighty Montreal recordings of yore.
In his autobiography, "Ambassadors at Sea: The High and Low Adventures of a Diplomat" (1998), Mr. Catto wrote how the prime minister "sat, as always, bolt upright, spine straight as a queen's" during the discussions.
As the jury's 55-year-old foreman, a retired Navy pilot, announced the guilty verdicts before the silent courtroom, Mr. Muhammad stood bolt upright, stared straight ahead and maintained the same stone-faced pose he had struck throughout the trial.
Sit or stand upright and straight.
The magazine will then uncurl and fill the boot shape, keeping it upright and straight all the time.
Keep your head upright and straight, place the ruler horizontally on the bridge of your nose in a way that its parallel with the floor, and slide it up and down your nose until the millimeter markings are visible right under your pupils.
From my boyhood I have been a constant voter with the Democratic party in all essential elections; I have thought that party to be upright and straight-forward in all the principles it has really adopted.
