Sentence examples for uptight working from inspiring English sources

She's had a hold on the daytime soap crowd ("One Life to Live"), filled packed theaters at night ("Wit," "Lombardi"), and who could forget Angela Bower ("Who's the Boss?"), the uptight working mom only Tony Danza could soften?

While Tom Wolfe called him a "Nathanael West with an eye for the year 2000," Tom Shone wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "For all its outward-bound urges, 'Miss Wyoming' remains a curiously clipped and uptight work".

For all its outward-bound urges, "Miss Wyoming" remains a curiously clipped and uptight work, unwilling to let loose in any direction that doesn't hold out the promise of camp cleverness.

SWIMMING -- Lauren Ambrose of "Six Feet Under" plays a sexually uptight teenager working in her father's diner in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

He said he's picked up uptight GOP dudes with working transgender women and took some gay convention-goers to the local bath houses.

Like the uptight fossils who work at Sunglass Hut.

Why are the actors working in such an uptight, old-fashioned, pre-Method style?

Mr. Mandvi plays Samir, an uptight sous chef living in a sleek Manhattan apartment and working in a white man's restaurant.

They feed off one another, he says, and by working on several he doesn't get too uptight about any particular one.

Before long, they're both working the phones, which helps to loosen up the previously uptight Lauren.

But the loose shift has been working its way into fashion for a couple of seasons, if only as a respite from uptight clothes.