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The expected position of CNN in all this is center, allegedly – and certainly King and Jake Tapper did their straitlaced best to lead us into an obviously unexpected turn of events, greased by terms like “slippage” and fluffed by interrupting gongs heralding “too close to call” non-alerts.

Do your more straitlaced neighbors know you’re Clown from Slipknot?

In one scene, playing a straitlaced husband who gets high with his wife and Bobbie, he confronts difficult marital feelings his character would normally censor in a comically alert performance that mines Furth’s book for dramatic gold.

Straitlaced economists literally call it a “holy grail” economy.

Why did DeSantis’s attempt to appeal to Republican voters as a straitlaced version of Trump fall so flat?