button up

“I feel like the women in her work were always messy and more complex and they were quite flawed or as buttoned up as the rom-com heroines of Hollywood’s golden age,” Kaplan says.

“You don’t get to be Diddy... unless the people around you were buttoned up. There was nobody around him sloppy.”

At first, the character is "uptight, serious, buttoned up", and Dennis has to curb his natural instincts to play up to the crowd.

Today, he is quite literally more buttoned up, wearing a proper suit jacket and pale tie - perhaps a reflection of the higher stakes of this criminal proceeding.

“It was never particularly clear what constitutional theory undergirded the oath of office charges. I suspect the DA’s office will button up their theory and go back to the grand jury.”