Sentence examples for uptight academic from inspiring English sources

Many of us have encountered those uptight academic buns, but the idea of their wrenching themselves free of the tyranny of hairpins is a new twist.

From the moment she makes her first appearance as the uptight academic collector of Scottish folk songs, her journey is very bit as transformative for the audience as it is for her.

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart is the eponymous tale of an uptight academic who specializes in the study of Border ballads, or long narrative rhyming poems that originated along the Scottish-English divide.

Comedy writer and Funny or Die stalwart Maggie Carey writes and directs – there's a role for her husband Bill Hader – and Aubrey Plaza plays high-school graduate Brandy, an academic overachiever and virgin keen to tick off various sex experiences on her uptight to-do list before arriving at college.

Sober, I'm uptight.

But never uptight.

"We were always uptight".

"Don't be uptight".

Vicky was so uptight.

He's very uptight".

They were too uptight".