Sentence examples for uptight teaching from inspiring English sources
If the family situation is chaotic or the family is very uptight, teaching children to grin and bear it, that tough kids don't cry, these children will have a lot of trouble".
Maggie's Plan sees Moore adopting a strong Danish accent to play an uptight scholar teaching at Columbia.
Though one of Leigh's lighter films, featuring one of his funniest scenes ever - an explosively passionate Spanish woman trying to teach uptight English women flamenco dancing - its themes of education and psychological damage are put into high gear when Hawkins takes lessons from Eddie Marsan's monomaniacal driving instructor who finds her chitchat infuriating.
In its original production, "Jonny" ended with its title character — a black jazz fiddler who teaches the uptight European world how to fox trot — playing atop a spinning globe.
They have low self-esteem and confidence just because our culture teaches us to be so confined and uptight.
The central one involves an uptight writer named David (Hamish Linklater) whose first rave-Ecstasy experience teaches him a lesson in liberation.
The crucial comic stroke is that the hostess Natasha (hilariously played by Susannah Doyle) is a brittle, uptight control freak whose PC absurdities and competitive approach to motherhood (she's taught her little girl to scream "This is not a petting zoo. I am not an exotic animal" if anyone attempts to touch her hair) turn the evening into a minefield of potential faux pas.
"We were always uptight".
