Sentences with phrase «uptight way»

Maybe it was your father's gambling problem, or your mother's uptight way of controlling the household finances.

In fact, it's only encouraging the other parents in the neighborhood — not to mention thousands of people on the internet via Reddit — to gossip about their extraordinarily uptight ways.

It's not until she witnesses Mullins» free - spirited nature that she sees the need to change her uptight ways and become more willing to work with those around her.

Not exact matches

Being an uptight dad keen to follow specific instructions, I was way too worried about making sure we were following the method precisely, until I conceded that absolute precision wasn't the point here.

If you get all uptight about this, go visit a slaughterhouse some time, and tell me that their way is wrong and ours is right.

Perhaps these uptight religious zealots would do better to quit referring to a bunch of mythological BS when making their way through life.

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

And there are a lot of ways to intimidate players and get them uptight during matches.

This family looks way too uptight to make too many jokes.

We shouldn't get all uptight about a doll that mimics the natural way a baby eats.

Another way I like to use, is adding some really funky pieces to break down the seriousness and bring the fun and games into a proper or uptight outfit.

This breezy blouse is anything but uptight in washed habutai silk: an easy way to add an element of elegance to your every day.

That is changing this season; what was once known as an office - only print is making its way onto the streets and changing the way people see this stuffy pattern, usually associated with uptight bank clerks and businessmen.

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.

Im friendly, honest, dependable and fun loving... Down to earth, Very passionate and affectionate, Happy and even tempered most of the time, High standards and morals but not in an uptight or stick in the mud kind of way..

He was repulsive in a let - it - all - hang - out, Birkenstock - wearing sort of way, while she seemed unbelievably uptight, austere, and rude.

Along the way, these uptight Westerners will impose just enough of their own worldview to help a sympathetic young local achieve his own dream.

Hugh Bonneville is perfect as the uptight father, bumbling his cynical way through the absurd adventure with a straight face and spouting ridiculous statistics about health and safety («7 per cent of childhood accidents start with jumping»).

She's intuitive and demonstrative; Paul (Josh Pais) is dithery and uptight, and blind to the way his daughter (Ellen Page) has put her life on hold.

However, her boss is concerned about the uptight, 12 - year veteran's horrible habit of rubbing her relatively - relaxed colleagues the wrong way.

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.

Something bad is bound to follow, because such groups are generally pretty uptight, notoriously rigid with their rules, and they take matters like what breed your dog is, or what color your shutters are, way too seriously.

You can choose to get uptight and irritated that you have to wait, or you can find a way to enjoy that time by reading a book or striking up a conversation with the person next to you.

We live in a 1941 home where nothing is «square» or even... and so when he dings a wall instead of getting uptight, I see these marks the way they'll look in the future: evidence of life here!