Sentence examples for uptight to from inspiring English sources

People I feel are tense and uptight to begin with.

No, they tell me that I'm just too uptight to just enjoy a fun pop song.

The coach was supposed to be too uptight to lead a team through six tournament games.

Great British Menu is far too uptight to represent Comic Relief.

Sometimes, though, the tension just causes the musicians to be uptight, to seem at cross purposes with a conductor.

His first musical collaborator, Jack Packer, has described Diamond's performance style as "very uptight, to say the least.

Comedy writer and Funny or Die stalwart Maggie Carey writes and directs – there's a role for her husband Bill Hader – and Aubrey Plaza plays high-school graduate Brandy, an academic overachiever and virgin keen to tick off various sex experiences on her uptight to-do list before arriving at college.

"In fashion these days, to be uptight is to be edgy," said David Wolfe, the creative director of the Doneger Group, which forecasts fashion trends and whose clients include Wal-Mart and Nordstrom.

So Dahl and her husband "play good cop, bad cop," she said, to get the uptight spouse to go along.

But Kele's evolution from uptight guitarist to loose-limbed body-jacker cuts to the very heart of indie identity politics.

Pressured by his uptight girlfriend to attend relationship-repair hypnotherapy, Peter begs the hypnotist to help him to "come home from work thinking I've been fishing all day".