Sentence examples for uptight as from inspiring English sources

Ms. Huffman, playing uptight as easily as she plays drunk, does well with the least sympathetic of the three principal roles, that of a woman who must incarnate the worst attributes of filial rebellion and maternal rigidity.

The far-left is outraged and uptight as well, especially those of hispanic decent and those of the Muslim faith.

"He was much less uptight as a Democrat," Alexandra remarked.

"It doesn't feel as uptight as a three-button, which just feels too 9-to-5ish".

And a woman as uptight as Clara is not the sort you can see doing Chakra.

Played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Mitchell is a lawyer and just as gnawingly uptight as his sister.

Clipped, uptight and as English as a rained-off cricket match, Hawkins is hopelessly miscast as the passionate, obsessive, despotic Khufu.

The film captures the culture war that pitted Siobhan's sex-positive dyke crew against a bunch of uptight lesbian feminists, as well as depicting a society that was hostile toward lesbians and gays.

The film captures the culture war that pitted Siobhan's sex-positive dyke crew against a bunch of uptight lesbian feminists, as well as depicting a society that was hostile towards lesbians and gays.

Jacobi and Reid provide a steady, steely backbone, but it's Sarah Lancashire as the uptight Caroline and Nicola Walker as the increasingly lost Gillian who really shine.

The appearance of a distinct tribe of people defying social convention in the name of a higher ideal was about as welcome in uptight America as Christians were in first century Rome.