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51 examples of Uptight in a sentence

Confident of his odds, he bets the city's highest-roller, Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), that he can't woo uptight missionary Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons).
Anyone who gave this film a low score is obviously too uptight to sit back and have a good laugh at stupid one-liners and cheap gore.
This show is a piece of trash,I hate it when people try to tell you what to do and how you live your life.It is cloths people,wear what you want.If you like it and it fells good than power to you.Yes,there is some place where you have dress codes.There should be no rules in they why you present your self,express yourself they way you like.The one thing I hate is that women Stacy,she seams to be very uptight and make very rude comments.So,what if the cloths do not fit her shape.if
State Senator Willard Waterman is one uptight dude, but a politician with his ear to the ground.
It portrays the timeless struggle between innocent pleasure and rigid morality, when city-boy Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon) finds himself in an uptight Midwestern town where dancing has been banned.
Turns out Uncle Bumps is really a hard-drinking, free-wheeling bachelor who dislikes children--yet he is so taken with this uptight artist once he meets her, he attempts to woo her under an alias.
This is a very long Carol Burnett skit with Carol playing the role of Cathy an uptight 50's housewife who discovers that her husband Frank played by Tim Conway is a little light in the loafers.
Arrogant and despicable sleazeball control freak fetish photographer Roger Neale (a nicely slimy portrayal by Joseph Farrell), his perky assistant Maura Holloway (the delightfully spunky Rachael Robbins), amiable, morally uptight lug Sam Rogan (likable Rob Monkiewicz), and three beautiful models -- sweet, naive Bridget (the always adorable Misty Mundae), vacuous Lauren (blonde looker Heidi Kristoffer), and meek Jennifer (fetching brunette C.J. DiMarsico) -- go to a rundown and abandoned old building for a photo shoot.
Lana Turner plays against type as Constance Mackenzie, an uptight mother of an 18 year old girl.
Cleese is a uptight, cross-dressing hotel manager with a presence that takes the movie to the next level.
News of the couple's pending divorce brings other men Wyman's way, but naturally she's too uptight to do anything more than a little fancy dancing with them (but then that's understandable, once you get a load of graceless, nervous Aldo Ray on the dance floor).
Just don't watch it if you're one of those uptight movie-goers
Crocodile Dundee is back and treading in the footsteps of Axel Foley as he brings his rough and ready personality to the uptight show-offy candyland of Beverly Hills.
It is nice to see someone that can be so politically incorrect, and just having fun, when everyone else is so uptight.
Ironically (and completely on purpose) the movie Van Wilder, featuring Ryan Reynolds, casts Tim Matheson as Van's uptight father.
Of course, Goldie's Molly McGrath meets the obvious resentments from high school boys that you would expect finding out their new coach is a woman, but she does eventually win them over, even at the risk of losing custody of her two daughters to her uptight ex-husband (James Keach).
Another is an uptight conservative sans social conscience who magically awakens to his plight through no other means than simply suffering a bit of discomfort and outward bound-type group bonding.
George Segal plays an uptight New York City book-clerk who hopes to be a writer but can't get anything published; after calling the landlord one night on prostitute-neighbor Barbra Streisand, he finds her on his doorstep.
Dyan Cannon creates some magic with her bitchy, uptight Alice: memorable, seemingly improvised therapy scenes where the character's awkward communication skills are highlighted ring very true-as does her frustration near the end when she tries to initiate the orgy.
The only film which I'd consider Unintentional Horror is this it because I may explain the plot is about Lies and deception -- it's all in the family when a man must convince his future in-laws that he's as uptight as they are.
This may transform what was once seen as an ordinary human variation - being shy, uptight, or melancholy - into a psychiatric problem.
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