The film takes what energy it has from the fact that he is so tightly wound.

The longer this goes on, the more tightly wound he'll get.

This time of year, he said, his body clock gets more tightly wound.

Frank seemed less tightly wound, more willing to listen to reason.

The thing is, he's such a tightly wound, very intense guy.

The tightly wound eye of the storm never hit the mainland.

The effect is that of a tightly wound middle-aged woman trying to sound like a sweet little girl.

Also, as we were talking about, having a small number of devices allows the company to focus on keeping everything tightly wound.

Yet she is the one who gets tightly wound at work, she said.

What may be relaxing to some only turns others into tightly wound springs.