Sentence examples for uptight at from inspiring English sources

"So I think we were a little uptight at first.

"At the back we still look a little bit erratic and uptight at times which is leading to probably bad decision making on occasions".

So for years I lived a dual life: innovative, conscious guy at work and withdrawn, uptight guy at home.

And so you went and paged through that vast, floppy tome of ripped, extensively underlined and coffee-stained white pages to learn that your one true love (or physics partner... or jerky guy at the pizza parlor... or uptight lady at the reference desk of the local library) had a phone number.

"It was a very uptight feeling at home," Mr. Schwarzenegger said in "Pumping Iron".

And differences in corporate culture can provoke destructive clashes, as happened when the laid-back Swedes of Pharmacia linked arms with the uptight Americans at Upjohn in 1995.

"I kind of think that a lot of people would be very uptight, or at least a little bit concerned, wondering whether they have in their archives child pornography," said the daughter, Emma Tamburlini, now 43.

Midge is an uptight executive at a bottled-water company; Anthea is her flighty younger sibling, who, to Midge's consternation, falls in love with an androgynous, kilt-clad graffitist.

By contrast, Jason Marsalis has a way of urging the beat forward: he's a rigid, almost uptight presence at the drums, but he manages to turn that to his advantage.

You don't need to have your hair in an uptight bun at all times.

Because the Tense Fit doesn't work for some people who want uptight and traditional at the same time.