Sentence examples for uptight with from inspiring English sources

The rest of the company are too uptight, with prim dancing from the corps.

News reaches this very politically correct corner of Europe that we are being too uptight with our sexual harassment laws.

You can't understand why your partner gets so uptight with you in the bathroom, or how they manage to get 10 more squeezes out of an empty tube.

"Sometimes fans are quite close to you on that dugout and one or two were getting a bit uptight with some passes that went astray and things like that but ultimately it was about us being nice and solid and I don't think we looked like conceding".

I was too uptight with words and I found my freedom in painting.

People are more uptight with their work and frustration bleeds into every conversation.

Menzel was playing Maureen, Boho performance artist with attitude; Diggs was playing Benny, uptight landlord with eviction notice.

In September 2008, Radio 4 broadcast a play by John Dryden and Miriam Smith entitled A Tokyo Murder, which was loosely based on the Hawker case and which trotted out the same xenophobic caricatures about an uptight society with an underlying streak of insanity that refuses to co-operate with western forces of reason and justice.

Jane (Ashley) is the uptight overachiever, with a color-coded day planner, a closet full of pastel business attire and a room decorated with Republican Party memorabilia.

You're an uptight all with a short fuse, sworn to nail scofflaws like me - and my diplomatic immunity drives you bats!

It's not hard to imagine him sensing a subversive treat lurking in the Iron Lady's silk blouses -- or, as Mr. Jacobs said, "It's that uptight blouse with a healthy bosom".