Sentences with phrase «from uptight»

Others take the vehicles to the beach for some family time, quite a departure from the uptight advertisements of other luxury automakers.

The reception he gets from her uptight father Jack (Robert De Niro) is anything but cordial.

He surrounds himself with the most A-List cast this side of The Avengers, from the uptight Princess Dragomiroff (Judi Dench) and her put - upon assistant (Olivia Colman) to the wounded Caroline Hubbard (Michelle Pfeiffer) and smart governess Miss Debenham (a scene - stealing Daisy Ridley).

From uptight BFF to sci - fi action star, we can help but admire this fantastic actress and total fashionista.

Moving from an uptight funeral director on SIX FEET UNDER to a serial killer on DEXTER, to Beat Generation figure David Kammerer in KILL YOUR DARLINGS, Michael C. Hall continues to illuminate humanity in transformative, complex characters.

But you can tell there's a lot of goodwill lingering around the edges since they are charmed by Dad's transformation from uptight to slightly crazy as he converts his apartment into a frigid ice and snow playground for his penguin pack.

The arrival of the penguins precipitates Popper's transformation from uptight money man into, well, Jim Carrey.

Just look at the pretend love from you uptight redneck religious lot..

Not exact matches

In some ways, to depart from my hyper uptight nature.

and nothing really strikes me as «boujee» about it other than the uptight people who come into the Giant from Silver Spring and Ashton

Monty has gone from being a boring, uptight, old man to a fresh and beloved character who is the soul of the party and glues the family together.

I'm there in my business suit, nervous and uptight, waiting in the lobby for someone from Human Resources to hand me some forms to fill out,» says this frustrated scientist.

Going from too much personality to zero personality, Patti's other client this week, Jason, is way too uptight and needs to loosen up to find a match.

My long, detailed, «man - wanted» list made me look like a hard - to - please, uptight perfectionist that any normal guy would run from as if being chased by a hungry momma grizzly bear.

Rita and Roddy have a reverse Han Solo / Leia thing going, with Jackman playing the uptight aristocrat needing help from Winslet's roguish loner, who captains a floating bucket of bolts that is more seaworthy than it looks.

It had the elements of the New Age mysticism but they led nowhere when the going was tough - it tried to be uplifting but most of the characters finished where they started... I have to say that there were fascinating performances from most of the cast, especially from Josh Pais as Abbie's uptight (slightly autistic or neurotic) brother, spending most of his time in the floundering dental practice which receives new life when clients seek out his healing touch.

An uptight, fastidious former manager at London's famed Harrod's department store, Thomas intends to sell the property in order to finance the opening of his own toy shop, but he hadn't counted on distractions from both Peter and his kind human caretaker, artist Bea (Rose Byrne).

But McAvoy carries the picture confidently enough as a leading man, and there is a nice performance from Benedict Cumberbatch as Patrick, the uptight team leader.

Four friends, including the groom - to - be, Doug (Justine Bartha); the bride's weirdo brother, Alan (Zach Galifianakis); jaded schoolteacher Phil (Bradley Cooper); and uptight dentist Stu (Ed Helms), drive from Los Angeles to Vegas, drink some Jägermeister on the casino roof, and proceed to enjoy themselves so thoroughly that the next morning they can remember nothing at all.

Everything is a bother for poor Kelly, who roils from the single - engine flight into town, sprays clouds of Raid in the air to kill off mosquitos, slaps the genial local sheriff (Brendan Gleeson) twice for hauling a decapitated moose head on their boat, and generally acts like an uptight city slicker.

For a while, we could be watching a twisted mismatched - buddy comedy, one about an uptight do - gooder under both social and financial obligation to tolerate the off - putting tactlessness of this strange girl from her past.

Patrick Dunne, from Greystones, plays the role of the uptight American.

Where Pleasantville entertainingly time - travelled back to the uptight 50s from a modern perspective, Haynes plays it as though his film is being released in the year it is set, 1957, aided by a marvellous bittersweet Elmer Bernstein score of the kind you don't hear any more.

This sibling story has a familiar setup, one that's not far off from the Duplass brothers film Jeff, Who Lives At Home; Nick (Jay Duplass) is an uptight successful lawyer with a wife and kid, while his brother Conrad (Linas Phillips) is a long - haired, easygoing slacker.

speaking with that uptight Allen-esque dialogue, but she soon succumbs to the lure of Barcelona and begins speaking more from her heart.

That makes the film patchwork and episodic, but it also makes On the Road a rich ensemble, with memorable cameos from Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee, Alice Braga as a migrant labourer, and Steve Buscemi as an uptight travelling companion who shares an eye - watering night with Dean.

Equally - annoying, are the colorful supporting characters displaying an array of increasingly bizarre behaviors, ranging from Sheeni's uptight, Bible - thumping parents (M. Emmet Walsh and Mary Kay Place) to her rebellious big brother (Justin Long) whose idea of a practical joke is to lace Thanksgiving dinner with hallucinogenic mushrooms which cause their father to smear mashed potatoes on his own face.

With the help of pot - laced brownies, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas» groovy free spirit Leigh Taylor - Young helps transform uptight Jew Peter Sellers from a stone - cold square to a swinging proponent of free love and sense derangement.

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.

But Linklater provides a wide array of personalities here, from the happy - go - lucky stoner (Rory Cochrane) to the uptight intellectual (Adam Goldberg), and we can latch on to any of them for the film's slow ride.

The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.

That leaves Arthur trapped between a rock and a bank account when his tycoon mother says he'll be cut off if he doesn't marry uptight Susan (Jennifer Garner), who can't hold a candle to the far more appealing Naomi (Greta Gerwig, a considerable step up in the cuteness department from Liza Minnelli).

Shelton has a way with puncturing male competitiveness and macho posturing but she crosses over from arthouse to multiplex with this comedy of friends who get into a pissing contest over, essentially, who is the least uptight and most free.

The leads are neatly balanced: as Rose, Francois glows with the radiance of utter sincerity; as the uptight, controlling Louis, Duris has a Willem Dafoe - ish grimace to his smile, as if he's already trying to clear the taste of the 1950s from his mouth.

Fired off in the company of trained astro - chimps Luna (Cheryl Hines from Curb Your Enthusiasm) and the uptight commander Titan (Seinfeld's Patrick Warburton), Ham III lands («one small step for Ham») on the newfound planet.

Fellow bandmate, Dick Diamonde (Du Toit Bredenkamp) was also born in the Netherlands and the series shows him reconciling the issues arising from his religious upbringing and his uptight mother with playing rock «n» roll music.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, PG) «Clint Eastwood movie from the 1970s, when the major studios were, on the evidence here, less uptight.»

He's assigned to a top - secret military satellite launch in Hawaii, and sets out with an uptight military liaison to get a blessing from local spiritual leaders who believe a prophecy involving the gods Lomo and Pele is about to come to pass.

Her work is cheeky and sincere, distinguishing the uptight Annie from the blasé Hallie with astonishing ease.

From shyly uptight to iconically wide - open, that was the arc travelled by Lovelace (born Linda Susan Boreman in Yonkers, New York) in the early 1970s, as she became the most famous pornographic performer in the world on the strength of a single film: 1972's Deep Throat.

As uptight, grandstanding, aggressively perfect Helen, Byrne was faced with the film's toughest challenge: make this closed - off antagonist keep up with the likes of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Maya Rudolph, all while being the only major cast member not coming from a comedy background.

Meanwhile, as he continues to see movies on assignment from his newspaper (circulation 100,000), his editor gets uptight that the last time he gave five stars (the paper calls them «seats») to a movie was twenty years ago.

If anything, the one - liners from Midler and Stockard Channing (a bundle of meow as Susann's actress friend Florence Maybelle) amuse, as does David Hyde Pierce's warmed - over Niles Crane act as Susann's uptight editor Michael Hastings; and the gaudy costume and production design serve as sweet eye candy.

We've seen all these characters before — the nerdy dentist with the shrewish girlfriend; the inappropriate fat guy; the schoolteacher who's about as mature as his students and yet happily married; the slightly uptight groom - to - be — but we've never seen them from quite this angle before.

And so, with rates quite low, the model selection plentiful, and the economic outlook finally making the leap from «uptight» to downright optimistic, the question you may be asking yourself is...

He wanted «Howl» to announce a break from the behavioral restrictions of our square little uptight human world.

That particular genre is in many respects the polar opposite of uptight perfection, with its canvases rumpled and littered by everything from cigarette butts to charcoal to sand — all of which would be anathema to the clean lens and the pristine print — yet here Labatte slyly rearticulates the painterly gestures in an ecstatic series of photographic prints titled «Spotting,» 2014.

Hoyland, like many other young British artists at this time, benefited from that ever so slight relaxation in the «entry rules» to a snobbish, uptight, class bound, nepotistic art world.

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