He came across as an affable chap, particularly when compared with his uptight rival.
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Flattering, but since I had no clue what I was doing, I was pretty uptight about the whole thing.
"First Date" centers on an uptight young investment banker who meets a serial-dater at a local bistro.
Perhaps because of his already fallen status, Tarrin appears less uptight about the prospect of losing power.
"It was a breath of fresh air in the context of such refined, uptight beauty, " said Mr. Corrigan.
AB's laid-back Swedish bosses and Upjohn's uptight Americans, with their insistence on rarely-read monthly reports and urine tests to snare boozy employees.
When I was a kid, my parents were a little uptight because the things I was interested in weren't the proper things for a six-year-old.
If she's uptight, we'll just kind of like, well, let's just wait until she gets out of here to kind of like finish off our conversation.
Bits of Mackintosh, arts and crafts, and academic classicism, as well as a floral-dominated, charmingly uptight, Americanized art nouveau, were all part of a densely packed decorative scheme.
In two debates now, Bush has appeared tense and uptight -- and his answers have been, for the most part, memorized stock lines from his standard stump speech.
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But the Bank of England seemed pretty uptight about all this - and, I understand, the issue of whether taxpayers will guarantee the scheme is not definitively settled.
" He thinks the US president in particular could do with a makeover, "He's got a good body and he's easy going, " Frank says, "but he dresses too uptight, like a banker.
At the very moment that the players most needed the coach to transmit quiet authority they got the opposite - an uptight figure whose palpable tension affected his tactical judgement and made the task of the team all the harder.
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