uptight

Example Sentences

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Uptight and disagreeable, St. John’s George Lattimer isn’t a conventional hero; nor, as The Amsterdam News dryly noted in a generally favorable review, “the stuff of which positive images are made.”

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

What I found fascinating about Uptight was the way that the occasional bursts of violence in Crane’s stories for adults provided not shock value but narrative ambiguity.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2016

He even made the cover of Time magazine, which in 1970 proclaimed him the "Star for an Uptight Age."

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2015

Reporting from the Seriously Uptight Front is painter Terry Leness, whose hyper-precise oils on canvas come furnished with nicely biting titles.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2013

Uptight, frightened adversaries only a few hours before, now there was almost a mystical closeness and sense of companionship between them.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols