How To Use Uptight In A Sentence
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Nakamura even gives them a bit of an Odd Couple twist: Buddha is frugal and kind of uptight; Jesus goes with the flow.
License request day: Saint Young Men
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Why would he wanna crawl after such an insecure, uptight little snot?
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I was incredibly nervous and uptight - seeing your hero in the flesh is truly a terrifying experience.
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Imagine switching from an easygoing, carefree lifestyle, to an uptight one with no breathing room.
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Relax! You're getting too uptight about it.
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Terry is a sad, lonely, twitchy, uptight, neurotic, shy, and pathetic man.
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My dad is really uptight and we live in a fancy high-class neighborhood.
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A professional actor who is appalled by the slack behaviour of an indisciplined group of amateurs seemed a good counterpoint for an uptight Christian coming amongst heathens.
Playing with fire: The Wicker Man musical
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Feeling uptight or low can lead to all sorts of symptoms, including itching.
The Sun
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But who'd be the uptight fusspot who, to preserve their shagpile, makes their guests feel exposed?
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone less uptight about these things will love it, though.
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Okay, so she was sort of uptight and standoffish, but I didn't think much about it.
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Where I get a little uptight is when I think about the current job hunt … and I’m told I don’t have enough experience.
TeeMorris.com » 2009 » March
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Try to laugh at it instead of getting uptight.
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In fairness, they can be forgiven for feeling uptight.
Times, Sunday Times
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And while some of us get uptight about smoking, we take a relaxed view of drinking.
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I even attempted panhandling once, quickly learning that when you are blotto it's difficult to shame ‘bus fare’ from uptight businessmen.
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An uptight young smartarse editor travels out into the middle of nowhere determined that HE can be the one to rehabilitate a famously reclusive writer who hasn't written a book in 20 years.
Crowdsource: Favorite Film about the Creative Process?
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We'd get a bit uptight about that one too, to be fair.
The Sun
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The film is soon overtaken by a new mood towards the churchy authorities, and the uptight religious types are shown to be just as nice as unwed moms.
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My impression of your central thesis is that, contrary to how we may view ourselves as a society, we are in fact a lot more uptight about sex than we'd like to believe.
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You have to learn to laugh instead of getting uptight about things.
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My real dad was mad at me and my mom one day because he couldn't understand why we made fun of him when he got so angry and uptight.
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I have always seen him as a bit uptight and dour.
Times, Sunday Times
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You need the reader to understand at a glance that some character is supposed to be an intimidating badass, or a provincial boor, or a smarmy selfish jerk, or a naive idealist, or an uptight bluenose, the quickest way to do this is by cuing the reader by invoking some stereotype complex that includes these traits.
The Wisdom of Clowns
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We must stop getting so uptight about numbers and quotas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Somehow you know where her relationships are going with the uptight mayor, the free-spirited riverboat dweller, and her cranky neighbour.
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You have to learn to laugh instead of getting uptight about things.
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You can shove your uptight morals up your ass.
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You can shove your uptight morals up your ass.
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I'm not sure that's evidence of racial uptightness... but I'm pretty sure that there wasn't a single white boy there who was relaxed enough to have ever admitted he noticed what happened to another man's butt-cheeks.
"Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close..."
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He's feeling a bit uptight about his exam tomorrow.
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Tonight he is manic, wired and uptight.
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He took it with him into the streets, galleries, beaches and bars he frequented, shedding the uptight decorousness that verse in the 1950s and '60s was expected to have.
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That was one of his most striking traits—he radiated easygoingness, which is remarkable for a guy who runs the most uptight company in the dot-com world.
21 DOG YEARS
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A bit uptight and self-righteous.
Times, Sunday Times
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See, there's this dude, dude, and he thinks people are too uptight, right?
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Remember before the Microsoft era, back when the archetype of the computer engineer was not that of a laid-back, semi-cool, scruffy geek but that of a strait-laced, uptight, button-down IBM company man with a company haircut?
Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt
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Don't get uptight about the exam - just do your best.
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I found myself feeling anxious and uptight as I adopted his demeanour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The important thing is to not get too uptight or change the way you play.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we were the bosses, we'd consider finding a replacement for this uptight , petty , sanctimonious clerk.
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He didn't appear to be the uptight character he was made out to be.
Times, Sunday Times
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Someday the 31% of us - gay and straight, will foredo the uptight self-righteous homophobic elitists and see just a bit more constitutional civil rights in the U.S.
Isn't it queer
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Jamie seems like yet another uptight Catholic, unmarried and unattached, unable to practice his mother's religion but unable to forget it.
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Try to laugh at it instead of getting uptight.
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This 1963 play, which flopped twice in a row on Broadway, is one of Williams's ripest exercises in Southern-fried Gothicism, a parable about a rich, imperious and scared old lady with the improbable name of Flora Goforth (Olympia Dukakis) who is dictating her memoirs to an uptight Ivy League prig (Maggie Lacey) in a frantic attempt to set the record straight before she dies of cancer.
The Most Sweetly Delectable Musical
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When you set the table and serve it just feels uptight, the more relaxed people are, the more fun they have.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is normal to be a bit uptight in those circumstances, especially as we did not know each other that well at that stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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You are angry, uptight and feeling the physical effects of this anxiety.
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Swinging liberals are just as prone to fear as uptight reactionaries; they just aren't as upfront about showing it.
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Grant's counterpoint, Colin Firth, is all-out broody repression - he is never better than when he is uptight.
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Getting anxious and uptight just pumps out more adrenalin so it lasts longer.
The Sun
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She is both poised and uptight, both intellectually curious and submissively ladylike.
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People can get very uptight in this age of political correctness.
Times, Sunday Times
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And getting uptight is almost certainly making it worse.
The Sun
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The premise is simple; an uptight German bureaucrat upbraids his wife for allowing her frillies to fall off at a parade for the King.
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Picky eaters, calorie counters, carb avoiders - whatever you want to call them, it all spells uptight and unsexy as far as we're concerned.
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I have always seen him as a bit uptight and dour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Getting uptight will just make it worse.
The Sun
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He is frequently caricatured as a frosty pop intellectual, dry and aloof and uptight.
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Regardless of how you think things will turn out, you have to admit, it's nice to have someone in there that doesn't look like the same stodgy, uptight, ancient, dried-up old codgers that tend to inhabit the Presidency.
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Yet Logan is not anywhere near as uptight as he once was.
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When you get uptight, you tend to gulp down air.
The Sun
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I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
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‘I'm always glad to hear I'm annoying the uptight prigs that are out there,’ says Ryan.
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The traditionalists who cling to uptight Wall Street business wardrobes and rooms full of Hepplewhite reproductions are exiled to style Siberia.
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You have to learn to laugh instead of getting uptight about things.
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There is, finally and thankfully, a murder and one of the silly, uptight moos gets locked up.
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It starts out like a modified buppie version of Hangin' with the Homeboys, except this quartet of uptight tools couldn't carry on a coordinated conversation if their life depended on it (and it does later it really does).
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Ah, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, that sentient ray of sunshine sent from heaven to warm the heart and readjust the attitude of even the broodiest, most uptight male protagonist.
How Now Brownpau
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After all, she's now forced to serve as step-parent to an uptight child - William Charlie Tahan, Jack's son from his first marriage.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Other Woman
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It was also rumoured that he could keep officers like Connie on the rails when they showed signs of uptightness.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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And you may be too busy or uptight to eat properly.
The Sun
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Those of you who are less uptight will find much to love and be intrigued by on its follow-up.
Times, Sunday Times
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He breathed in and out slowly, hating that he was so uptight and edgy.
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We want to do so well that we are a bit uptight.
Times, Sunday Times
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I get a bit uptight these days. Hormones, I suppose.
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With her usual perfection, Keaton plays an uptight frigid woman who is quietly appalled by her daughter's romantic liaison.
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They tend to build up as the day goes on, and are worse the more uptight you're feeling.
The Sun
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Capt Osborne, head of military police at Fort Clayton, is put in charge of the case, but she's too uptight and starchy to make a mouse squeal.
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Jeong is either gonna be a straight laced, sarcastic uptight guy who gets annoyed like in knocked up or an Asian caricature.
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Not to be a tightass about it, but I think that my korean friends would privately get uptight about their alphabet being called “chinese characters,” the same way Italians would get uptight if you called their language “Mexican.”
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I tend to get very uptight during a match.
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All you've done is been really uptight for months.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it is difficult, in this so-called enlightened age, to understand why we remain so uptight about it.
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The first time I experienced being "uptight" was in tenth grade, when my older sister (a college sophomore) took me and my three girlfriends to see "Grease" at the Wang Center in Boston (wang! foreshadowing!)
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The clowns are neither the bewigged bozos who gave you nightmares as a child nor the bemasked Italian Harlequins that gave you nightmares as a college student, but instead red-nosed, wordless caricatures that embody certain Metro tropes like Guy From Baltimore Who Hits on All the Ladies (Jon Reynolds) or Uptight Intern With a Laugh Like a Fire Alarm (Micael Bogar) or Tourist Who Apparently Has Never Before Seen a Map (Lenore Sack).
Theater review of 'Separated at Birth' at Mead Theatre Lab
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That is one of the reasons why the wealth creators of New Zealand are so upset and uptight with the Government.
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If you're a fan of the TV hit series "Six Feet Under," you certainly do, Michael C. Hall, best known as the uptight undertaker David Fisher.
CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2002
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His old lovers are a mix of married, single and widowed women who lead a mix of uptight, safe, and slightly loopy lives.
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Psychologists say it's all part of our uptight nature.
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It lurked in air like a poisonous cloud, making everyone feel uneasy and uptight.
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I have always seen him as a bit uptight and dour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pauline describes her mother as uptight and fearful of the world, but also "home-loving, a woman who loved babies".
Pauline Black: Going back to my roots
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Think of the lyrics of old pop songs: "Uptight and outsight" wasn't exactly innocent.
A Conversation With William Bennett
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Near is particularly adept at the arch delivery typical of his uptight businessman in the early scenes.
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I know I shouldn't be getting so uptight about it but I'd really like the satisfaction of knowing that I got it right.
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Wayne annoys me, and Alfred doesn't have the dry sense of humor he once did, instead now seeming an uptight, gruff type.
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We must stop getting so uptight about numbers and quotas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Duke is brittle and uptight, unable to forget his position in society.
Times, Sunday Times
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It might be an Araucana, the kind that lays green eggs, or a stately Blue Andalusian, with its uptight posture and blue feathers.
Birdology
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When you get uptight, you tend to gulp down air.
The Sun
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These will teach him techniques to calm himself if he gets uptight and anxious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Try to laugh at it instead of getting uptight.
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His posture was less anxious and uptight.
The Sun
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He's pleased that it's his customers who have voted for him and his team, rather than some shabby crew of critics; he's delighted that it justifies four years of very hard work; thrilled for what it says about his conviction that top flight, big-fisted food doesn't have to be served in uptight, prissy, overly formal surroundings.
Best UK Restaurant 2010: The Kitchin, Edinburgh
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I remember him when he was an uptight teenager.
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The British are uptight; ergo, they go on holiday to chill.
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No longer suppressed and uptight, we are happy to confess all to a stranger, often spending thousands of pounds in the process.
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But the wider message was, of course, that we have a sense of humour about ourselves, we are not uptight, we are human.
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An attractive young woman, she also sees imaginary people, in the form of her uptight immigrant sister (and her Australian boyfriend), her dead alcoholic father, and her sex-starved ex-boyfriend.
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Get Susan May Pratt aka the uptight dancer from Centre Stage! back to the tanning salon stat.
Waterlogged
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The leisurely horizontal qualities of the Spanish landscape are rudely disrupted by his uptight and upright entrance.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Thousands of people stripped to their underwear and ran through Salt Lake City to protest what they called the "uptight" laws of Utah.
Utah Undie Run: Thousands Strip In Salt Like CIty In Protest Of Conservative Laws
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And the straight-and-narrow (aka uptight) sibling gets so upset at the unfairness (in their mind) of sibling #2 not getting "punished" for forging their own path, that they feel compelled to point out the "wrongs" every time they're in the same room.
Home Again, Home Again!
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Those close to the team say the rookie quarterback is too nervous and uptight to let his abilities show.
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These women often come across as uptight or too bothered by small details.
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For much of the film, Emily courts embarrassment with wheedling, flirtatious attempts to stop the girl's uptight uncle from taking her back to the States.
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However, was entirely filled with same uptight gym-trained and manicured mothers from fundraising meeting, just many more of them.
AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
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He plays Dewey, a heavy rock musician - in both senses - who is thrown out of his band for excessive guitar solos and inappropriate stage-diving, and has to take a job as a supply teacher at an uptight private infant school.
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Try not to get too uptight.
The Sun
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Try being low - key and open rather than uptight and defensive.
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Wannstedt wrecked his chances of succeeding with the Bears by micromanaging and by being too uptight and too insecure.
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He's a tax lawyer and he's recently divorced and obviously uptight.
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And there is no point in getting uptight about it.
Times, Sunday Times
