| The next semester I think he was living with a very buttoned-up girl named Megan in the same apartment complex. |
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| They're the perfect way to keep people guessing whether you're buttoned-up demure or old-school kinky. |
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| This is the 21st century, and no matter how badly some people want to fight it, the buttoned-up attitudes of the 1950s are gone for good. |
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| Unlike us buttoned-up New Orleanians, he spoke in a mellifluous twang, a product of Meridian, Mississippi. |
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| Even if you're working in a buttoned-up corporate environment, find a way to make the creative workers' space appealing. |
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| You were complaining of the lack of adventure and rowdyism in your prim, buttoned-up life. |
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| Instead of love, what her shoeless Harper gets from buttoned-up husband Joe is a craving for Valium and a nervous breakdown. |
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| Life is too joyful for one to walk around being a buttoned-up old grump, do you not think? |
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| But the school's buttoned-up administrators hadn't wanted to involve the police, and the rioters eventually were allowed to graduate. |
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| Even so it kept that distinctive face with its slightly wrinkled forehead, alert inquisitive expression and buttoned-up nose. |
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| The clean lines and beautifully minimalist room was built for languor and comfort, yet the atmosphere was buttoned-up with a starched collar. |
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| We ask our celebrities to pour their hearts out, and then chastise them if they stain our buttoned-up shirts. |
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| Unlike the buttoned-up Hu, he is sufficiently sure of himself to display a personal side in public. |
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| Indeed, during her short time on the stand Cheri revealed a very different personality than her buttoned-up husband. |
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| The GOP leadership is too hierarchical, too buttoned-up, too cautious, too boring. |
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| If head smooches from the chairman and bear hugs from store employees are disconcerting after nearly 30 years at the more buttoned-up GE, Nardelli isn't letting on. |
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| In Chicago, buttoned-up businesswoman Lorena longs to let her hair down. |
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| But he also managed to endear himself to the buttoned-up Kansans, the detectives and especially the two men who were eventually executed for the murders. |
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| Within this group were some of the most provocative online communicators I have ever met, ranging from the hilariously lewd to the buttoned-up and implacably self-righteous. |
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| If this is a letdown, and yet another example of the overwhelming chasteness of buttoned-up Americans, enter the always underestimated Canadians. |
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| Especially in this relatively buttoned-up town. |
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| If local women venture onto the dusty streets at all, they sport ankle-length dresses, buttoned-up blouses and 1930s hairstyles with buns and pompadours. |
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| My father seemed to transform each Monday, from a boisterous, opinionated cook to a more cautious, buttoned-up office manager. |
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| Another ARVN combatant, Major Le Tan Dai, watched as his men, despite the NVA's four-to-one superiority of forces, climbed onto the backs of the buttoned-up tanks in brave attempts to throw hand grenades into the hatches. |
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| Simon Hoggart amusingly recalled the buttoned-up world of Clement Attlee. |
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| In recent years, mannish shirts have been where the smart money is, but now the very buttoned-up, boxiness that was their appeal seems simply boring. |
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| With their hands in their pockets, a gang of bad boys in buttoned-up shirts and kaleidoscopic-print bombers over bermuda shorts stomped along the runway in lace-up thigh-high creepers. |
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