Sentence examples for uptight world from inspiring English sources

The walls around her tiny uptight world tumbled: "You know her life was saved by rock 'n' roll".

Gravel events, he said, are a relaxed contrast to the often uptight world of hard-core road and mountain bike racing.

What follows is not so much Euripides as a choreographed stand-off between the warring cultures: the uptight world of Pentheus and the Dionysian anarchists.

As played by Mr. Fierstein, Uncle Winston is occasionally witty but more often sad and snarly, given to barking admonitions to an uptight world unready to accept him and his (unseen) partner.

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.

The "Artifacts of the Bespoke Economy" group stressed a "Romeo and Juliet" narrative in which a woman of the water falls in love with a guy from the uptight "dry" world.

It's also laden with politically incorrect jokes -- a welcomed relief for this Italian trapped in a sometimes uptight PC world -- and spotlights a magnificent score of hard to resist sing-along classics by Cole Porter.

With her four unruly children going off the rails and her options in Britain limited by her gender, she decides to uproot her family and move to Corfu in an effort to heal the family and escape the world of uptight Englishness.

The Monkees provided young viewers with a fresh, new set of four charismatic young men who move through a world of uptight adults while singing infectious pop songs.

The targets, insofar as there are any in Derek and Clive's world, are your uptight bourgeois sensibilities.

Tolerant of dopehead dipshits puking in their canals and haggling their whores, they make the rest of the world look like uptight assholes.