Sentence examples for uptight on from inspiring English sources

No longer uptight on stage, he is relaxed enough to enjoy banter with his bandmates and deliver a line like "Happiness, I've found you / How sweet you are" with palpable sincerity.

You'll find the courts can be surprisingly uptight on this matter, even taking a dim view of little things like riffling through your loved one's bins to discover their favourite brand of toothpaste).

"I can understand us getting uptight on the ball when you're 3-0 down, as you lose a little bit of confidence.

(Don't get all punctual and uptight on me when I'm trying to relax and have fun!).

Your character in "Pitch Perfect," Aubrey, is very buttoned-up and uptight on the surface, but sort of boiling underneath, and I'd say the same thing about your role as Sarah Newlin on "True Blood".

Some substitutes are very nervous, thus, making them uptight on order and proper behavior in class while other subs tend to not care what goes on.

Beyond us being too uptight to eat on the streets, there are other issues that may have contributed to street food failing to break through as a day-to-day resource.

Three boys in faux-fluff top hats with painted nails circle around you and tell you that your body language is uptight and jumping on a grenade would help fix it.

Alison Brie, who plays fastidious housewife Trudy Campbell on 'Mad Men' and a similarly uptight character on NBC's 'Community,' sheds her straight-laced image in a sexy new shoot for Complex magazine.

She's excellent, and Ms. Morrison, known for playing uptight snobs on "House" and "How I Met Your Mother," uses her whiskey-and-cigarettes voice (close your eyes, and it sounds like Angie Harmon) to good effect as the reluctant savior.

In the case of More London – a series of sterile glass blocks set amid some rather uptight landscaping on the South Bank – the very name is a deliberate deception.