Word: uptightness
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...example, he points to the stereotype of the law school student as an uptight, overworked, angstridden creature as symptomatic of doubts among scholars of law "about the social utility and moral worthiness of the legal profession...
...supposed to be kind of fun. We were dancing and playing improvisational theater games. But I was all business. One woman I later taught with said to me later in the year, "Jason, I like you a lot and everything, but I thought you were such an uptight little prick in tryouts." No matter. I was determined to make it and needed to make sure my rightful didn't become to attracted to my left...
...platinum blonde half-Asian sprite with the thick granny glasses is flouncing his way down Mount Auburn Street, smoking cloves, chattering about the city of Boston (totally uptight) and his one-piece Calvin Klein underwear (just wonderful) and his new boyfriend Paulo (the most magnificent man in the entire world). He's doing it in italics, which is the way Thomas M. Lauderdale does everything. Thomas--everyone calls him Thomas--is wearing hiked-up khakis (so comfortable), a cream-colored print tie decorated with nuclear radiation symbols (too cool) and a woman's fire-engine red felt jacked...
...people here are very uptight and somewhat paranoid," says Jennifer Hill, a 23-year-old nanny from Salt Lake City who works in Gulf Mills, Pennsylvania. "They're afraid to extend a helping hand to people...they're afraid they'll get robbed or shot...
Inside the embassy, Strauss seems quite popular. He has attempted to introduce a little democracy and normality into what has long been one of the foreign service's most uptight and insular postings. He frequently eats in the staff cafeteria, and at a recent meeting lectured the staff on the dangers of workaholism, urging them to try to spend more time with their families. Afterward a woman approached in tears to thank him. Old State Department ways die hard, however. For months Strauss tried to reverse the department's ban on hiring Russians for menial embassy tasks, but U.S. security...