Word: uptightness
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...Woody Allen movies, she is wonderfully attuned to the nuances of neuroticism as it exists in a certain type of young American woman. Allen movies, however, are not vacuums that need filling, and so she has never had the opportunity for the full-throated, full-throttle exploration of an uptight woman trying desperately not to show her true colors...
...also wish to assure you that the "legal setback" is only temporary. With the help of friends, both homosexual and heterosexual, I plan to appeal the decision. I am secure in the belief that I am a good mother, despite the verdict of ten Dallasites who are uptight about homosexuality...
When I was in the warehouse I'd be in work early just to be with the guys, now I'm always late. Everybody's uptight, the bosses don't even trust one another, they go through the motions, but you can see it, there's less freedom and the atmosphere stinks. In a way I feel sorry for these poor slobs...I'm just bidding my time hoping and praying I can retire in another seven years, I sure hope...
They are "uptight," Harwell speculated, "because they haven't been able to get into gear. It's a phenomenon that I just haven't seen in the past...
...fashioned something more than a palpitating apologia. She was, after all, an accidental witness to some high crimes and misdemeanors, and her views of the pressure-cooked conformity of the Nixon White House are mordant and telling. After a circumspect New Year's Eve party with two other uptight Administration couples, Mo notes: "As far as I could tell, no one had taken offense at anything anyone else had done or said, so the evening had to be chalked up as a roaring success...