Sentence examples for uptight doing from inspiring English sources

Too often we spend and waste our time and energy being uptight, doing things we don't truly want to do, feeling resentful towards others, and creating a lot of unnecessary stress and frustration.

Don't be uptight, don't be bourgeois".

But I can't help it: I'm definitely of the uptight, don't-be-late variety.

Because it's the sort of thing those meanie uptight Brits do, you see, like wearing monocles and drinking tea.

Uptight Mark doesn't approve of hedonistic Super Hans, who likes to give him random nicknames, including Professor Yaffle, the Iron Duke, Ocean Colour Pants and Captain Haddock.

On their first date, the freewheeling Tom and the uptight Eli do not hit it off, but after they run into each other at a Hollywood flea market they decide to try again, and soon a pleasant affair is blossoming.

Several Giants players chuckled when asked about Fassel's modeling debut but expressed a newfound respect for him, saying they previously thought he was too uptight to do something like that.

He performs in character as Skateboard P (his nickname at school) and seems lost: sometimes he's singing that he's too uptight and doesn't drink or take drugs; other times he's rapping in cliched boasts – his house is as big as Nasa, his jewels make him the pharaoh of the ghetto.

I was so uptight and didn't really want to make a mistake - and that isn't the way to approach it.

When I raised my concerns to the president of one agency, he suggested I was being uptight and didn't see the problem.

An uptight move, it did not betoken good manners exactly.