uptight

One rallygoer, William Tate, a forty-something caterer and audio engineer, said he was “uptight” because “you have a political party that has proven that they will do anything under the sun to retain power,” referencing the Democrats.

Sudden fame was a lot to take in, and he told Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1 in 2020 that he was "really quite uptight about a lot of everything that was going on" at that time.

Recently, Harris has been engaging in what a New York Times op-ed called “vice signaling,” by talking about owning a gun and saying she would shoot intruders in her home—i.e., conveying to voters that she isn’t the scolding, uptight kind of liberal.

Once the epitome of free-spirited fun, England have gradually lost their smile, not least the increasingly uptight Buttler.

Who would want to be uptight when you could be irrepressible?