Sentence examples similar to uptight waiting from inspiring English sources

But here, everyone in the box is not only waiting for the race to begin but also feeling uptight socially in some way.

You're waiting to laugh, because his look expresses a certain demeanor not uptight, exactly, but prone to taking umbrage".

You're waiting to laugh, because his look expresses a certain demeanor — not uptight, exactly, but prone to taking umbrage".

The uptight dudes we were hanging out with ungenerously turned us out of their apartment at dawn, and we were forced to wander around the sidewalk, jabbering incoherently and waiting for the metro to start running again.

Waiting, waiting, and waiting.

Art world people were either chic-uptight-yuppies out of Sex and the City who had to wait in long lines or be on a VIP list to get into a show; or they were Upper East Side preps out of a Whit Stillman film.

But women didn't want to look uptight.

Sober, I'm uptight.

But never uptight.

"We were always uptight".

"Don't be uptight".