On the one hand, there could be a drift toward Victorian uptightness.

In summer, the Milanese let go of their bourgeois uptightness.

He's intense when he needs to be, but in general, there's no panic, no uptightness.

Laughter is one of the greatest ways you have of breaking down your uptightness and negative tapes.

If you do, you will drown out those negative tapes which can create uptightness and tension in life.

The rapacious advantage she took of those luxury fruits corkscrewed right into my uptightness.

And better, indeed, than Mr. Robbins's attempt at cultured uptightness.

Britta brushes her off by slamming her religious uptightness.

There is nothing like a shot of tequila at either of these establishments to clear the system of urban uptightness.

I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

After cutting a swathe through traditional British restraint and uptightness, Wearing has in recent years taken a more introspective turn.

Wacky Dharma rebels against her husband's uptightness.

The square top on the central panel of each of their backs conveys an eerily figurative uptightness.

To me it has always seemed like numbnoggin uptightness to have made it illegal to go up the line to discover lost manuscripts or paintings.

Said Utley: "All the frenetic uptightness we had trying to get this accomplished has ended with a huge relief.

And that uptightness is most alarming, and potentially harmful, when it seeps, as it often does, into the actual performance.

Only Kyle Hollingsworth, behind the keyboards, displayed the relative uptightness of the completely shod.

Despite my readiness to embalm myself in debt, my uptightness was so rattled that I bolted without even the skirt.

Moreover, her show's busy mix of sophistication and awkward exhibitionism lent an uptightness to what could have been a more relaxing trip down memory lane.

The designer wanted to mirror the "mix of repressed Victorian uptightness - and this guy's joy of seeing incredible sensuality".

Sadly, this was to be danced to by the epitome of L.A. uptightness, Rob Kardashian.

It had also previously been described on Gawker as a "travel-culture magazine" and a repository of "lifestyle sensuality and gaywad uptightness".

Pencil skirts The perennial returns, and welcome back, as its tongue-in-chic uptightness (thank you, Mad Men) makes a nice counterpoint to floppy trousers.