"The Good Catholic" is almost as strait-laced as its protagonist.
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Maybe that's why Le Quellec's menu is so strait-laced and serious.
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Strait-laced and slightly nerdy, Mr. Schiff tightly controlled the divisive process.
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Raymond Holt (Andre Baugher) is monotone and strait-laced to a laughable degree.
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Mr. Elsheikh was strait-laced and reserved, referring more often to Islamic texts.
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"He seemed beyond strait-laced," said Assemblyman Sean Ryan, a Democrat from Buffalo.
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In this puzzle, "Button-downs?" is not a collective noun referring to strait-laced people.
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"I found Bill to be very strait-laced when he showed up to college," he added.
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Ruth runs her shop, Ruth's Alternative Caring, with her strait-laced M.B.A. son, Travis (Aaron Moten).
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The latter's more strait-laced approach did not mix well with Mr. Kelleher more colorful, salesmanlike charm.
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Strait-laced pharmacists, used to selling remedies for aching joints, are nervous about supplying the makings of joints.
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The exchange was an intriguing departure from what had been a mostly strait-laced evening on Fox News.
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Like the apple falling on Newton's head, strait-laced scientist has mind-blowing cosmic epiphany was an irresistible meme.
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A second person briefed on the meeting described it as an awkward encounter for the strait-laced Mr. Pence.
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At U.T., Mr. Tillerson steered clear of fraternity excesses as not exactly résumé building for strait-laced Exxon recruiters.
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"The traditional buddy cop dynamic is that there's always a strait-laced one and a loose cannon," he said.
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In one "Modern Family" episode, weed supplies the jokey premise in which two strait-laced characters finally let loose.
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Another is the risk of a cultural clash between IBM's still relatively strait-laced culture and Red Hat's freewheeling one.
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As a strait-laced instructor barks orders, the trainees compete against snobby locals and have some fun in the sun.
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Usually the most strait-laced of investors, insurance companies are letting loose to gain some income, drawing the attention of regulators.
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The strait-laced Connor reminds his wife (and the audience) that Wes's fantasy is made up of pieces of another culture.
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Anna Camp, who played the strait-laced magazine researcher Jane Hollander, said she was "shocked" when the series was not renewed.
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The initiation was unusual for a strait-laced Chinese kid, but he was thrilled to be part of an American posse.
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The movie zeros in on the hypocrisy of strait-laced parents who condemn their daughters' profession but welcome the money it provides.
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"Coming off 'House of Cards,' playing someone so strait-laced, I was getting offered a lot of F.B.I. agents," he said, chuckling.
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Only this time, this prep style trademark was worn in ways that made it more inclusive and modern than its strait-laced predecessors.
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And from Saban to Michigan's Jim Harbaugh to Texas' Charlie Strong, the archetypal big-time head coach is stoic, driven and strait-laced.
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Some really smart, ambitious and strait-laced people — class salutatorians, Federal Reserve Bank analysts — morphed into cocaine dealers in no time at all.
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Sinan, the only man in the group, spends his days as a strait-laced office worker but leads a secret life at night.
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During a bit of squad bonding, Yellow Ranger Trini (Becky G) reveals that she doesn't want her strait-laced family involved in her relationships.
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The two main presidential candidates - strait-laced conservative Macri and center-left rival Alberto Fernandez - are seen in a tight race to the finish.
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Almost all of the book's characters speak fluent brag and dis, with the exceptions of strait-laced Isaiah and his beloved older brother, Marcus.
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In this comedy, Ned (Bryan Cranston as a strait-laced dad) knows he should be happy that his college-student daughter has found love.
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It's especially true of the larger-than-life West, as famous for her sharp tongue as for her overt sexuality in strait-laced times.
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Did the impulsive insurance agent choose the girl by the tree or the strait-laced fiancée who drives him crazy with her art-appreciation classes?
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Sometimes he would comment on how he thought I'd be happier with a "Pacific Northwest lumberjack type" who wasn't as "strait-laced" as he was.
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Mr Potdevin's successor, says Jennifer Redding of Wedbush Securities, an investment firm, should be a strait-laced professional willing to keep his or her head down.
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Like Evie Callahan, the strait-laced character she plays on the CW's "No Tomorrow" who throws caution to the wind, Tori Anderson has a bucket list.
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And LinkedIn, the strait-laced so-called professional network, was part of an enormous deal when Microsoft agreed to buy it last month for $1.653 billion.
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Eat: At TAK Room at Hudson Yards, the chef Thomas Keller salutes the strait-laced, spice-free food that rich, white Americans used to feed on.
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Still, it is a canny move by Boss, which tends to be typecast as the workplace outfitter of choice for strait-laced white-collar professionals everywhere.
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And didn't I, really, have an aversion to the straight and strait-laced married life I would have signed up for in the giddiness of love?
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Mr. Mueller, a strait-laced former F.B.I. director who has spoken publicly only once about his work as special counsel, had resisted taking the witness stand.
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They're convinced that the real lesson of 2016 is that an aggressive fighter like Trump makes a superior politician to more strait-laced Republicans like Mitt Romney.
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Shops stay open late, and on its bustling streets women mingle more comfortably with men than in strait-laced Lahore, Pakistan's inland metropolis 1,000km to the north.
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Even the Fox News slogan, "Fair and Balanced," was somehow a mantra anyone could remember: It tweaked Fox's strait-laced competitors and winked to delighted Republican viewers.
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He fashions himself a similarly strait-laced man of principle — though principle is a tricky business for an N.F.L. commissioner with many constituencies (and principles) to consider.
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Those strait-laced Manhattanites — Sue "has had more neighbor contact during five months in Rockaway than in all 15 years in TriBeCa" — are babes in these woods.
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Yet even the strait-laced Iranian government has used Mr. Tataloo's popularity to record a nationalistic video vaunting Iran's military effort in the Persian Gulf in 2017.
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Whippet-thin and strait-laced, he stands in dour contrast to Neruda, a plump sensualist with a robust sense of mischief and an inexhaustible appetite for pleasure.
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The Player: Vee (Emma Roberts), a strait-laced high school student who decides that she wants to be more adventurous in life and signs up for the game.
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Works like this were stylistic aberrations in the otherwise strait-laced careers of composers like Weinberger, who were pressed by publishers hoping to capitalize on pop-music fads.
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The 21942s were the last gasp for the firm, under the blingier designer Dagobert Peche, whose mirrors and cruets were as florid as his predecessors' were strait-laced.
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" And it was, he added, "a really nice alternative to the strait-laced Opera News and the very sort of academic opera and music magazines that were available.
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They pulled off some of the great double acts, whether as strait-laced Bert and wisecracking Ernie, or as antic Grover and flummoxed Kermit, now officially a frog.
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To melt the ice, two winters ago the strait-laced Mr Abe even took the Russian president for a naked dip in a hot spring in his home prefecture.
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The antics, especially those in which Todd figures, are supposed to be hilarious because Roger is a strait-laced fellow who is on the verge of running for Congress.
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" In a world of staid agency bureaucrats, they were "spooks who played by their own rules, kindred spirits who validated each other's quirky approach to their strait-laced profession.
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This strait-laced widower is at first baffled then won over by his quirky, big-city neighbors, particularly Freda (Matt Bomer), a transgender woman who earns money through prostitution.
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Cable news, with its sharp punditry, is seeing huge ratings, but viewership for the strait-laced network evening newscasts is falling, along with that of general-interest morning shows.
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OPTIMISTIC Republicans will take comfort in the naming of Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana and a strait-laced social and fiscal conservative, as Donald Trump's vice-presidential running-mate.
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Goldsmith is sober, strait-laced, punctilious; Chuckie sounds like he's telling it like it is, except when he's not, which is often — a trick he learned out of professional necessity.
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He says as much on Englistan highlight "Double Lives", capturing the juggling act of maintaining a strait-laced image for his strict Muslim community while also participating in western party life.
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In a first for strait-laced Disneyland, alcohol will be sold inside Oga's Cantina, where a tequila-based Dagobah Slug Slinger goes for $2700 and the space chardonnay is bright blue.
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Maria, as they call him, with a plot to take Chuck hostage, the lure of fast cash and vigilante revenge are enough to pry him out of his strait-laced shell.
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Even Ridgefield Park's most famous native — strait-laced Ozzie Nelson, from another black-and-white TV classic, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" — underscores the suburb's old-fashioned, unhip, Starbucks-free image.
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"My wardrobe was the sexiest ever," Ms. Tovar told NPR in an interview in 2008, and very different from the clothes Helen Chandler wore in the more strait-laced English-language version.
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A strait-laced, silver-haired former altar boy, he waved hello to his mother and to his wife of 31 years, and promised that Mr Trump would bring "no-nonsense leadership" to Washington.
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But it's mostly about the evolving enlightenment of Patti (Genevieve Angelson), a wild child; Jane (Anna Camp), a strait-laced blue blood; and Cindy (Erin Drake), an aspiring novelist in a confining marriage.
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But that is not what these "strait-laced engineering kids" deserve, said Gregory L. Germain, a law professor at the university who serves as a pro bono adviser to three of the students.
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In love with an artist named Josie, and happily out just a few months back, Abigail scrambled into the closet the moment she was hired by the school's strait-laced principal (Kim Brockington).
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Ms. Davis, however, a flashy dresser who lived a party-girl life, made a poor impression in strait-laced Amarillo, where the case had been moved, during two weeks of withering cross-examination.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - In his baseball cap and baggy yellow t-shirt, the rap star Li Yijie - better known by his stage name "Pissy" - is an unlikely face of China's strait-laced ruling Communist Party.
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But for now, his presence on the panel is assuaging the Republican base, which is looking for someone tough to go up against Mr. Schiff, Democrat of California, a strait-laced former federal prosecutor.
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The name has been changed, but the menus are nearly identical; they glorify the strait-laced, spice-free food that rich white Americans used to feed on when nobody was shaming them into being adventurous.
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WASHINGTON — Steven T. Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, and his fiancée, the Scottish actress Louise Linton, are a match made in Hollywood, and one that tends to cut a conspicuous presence through this strait-laced capital.
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Joe, a closeted, strait-laced Mormon, finally loses his faith in Roy when he asks Joe to abuse a job he has been offered in the attorney-general's office in order to protect Roy from disbarment.
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The episode allows Melissa Benoist to explore new, rebellious shades of her normally strait-laced character, and it's just as much fun watching Kara let loose as it must've been for the actress to tackle it.
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It was my father's show, being much too corny and strait-laced for an emerging adolescent like me to embrace, certainly not when the more subversive likes of the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix were to be had.
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And you'll be really helping the founders of Merchantsoft: Adrian Merchant, a strait-laced entrepreneur looking to take Hypnospace mainstream, and his brother Dylan, an irreverent hacker type who seems a little uncomfortable with his own success.
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The Communist Party's effort extend increasingly to co-opting swathes of Chinese popular culture, such as Tianfu Shibian - a rap group fronted by star Li Yijie, who has become an unlikely face of China's strait-laced ruling party.
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The social conservatives are strait-laced, and he's promiscuous (he says); the male anti-feminists are insistently straight, and he's flamboyantly gay; the working-class white heartlanders are, well, working-class heartlanders, and he's a British-accented foreigner.
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But for the younger Mr. Boylan, the holiday prompts more hard-boiled reflections of the time his father, a young, strait-laced, Harvard-educated prosecutor, became involved in a harrowing extortion trial that was daunting for the entire family.
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But ask about his Broadway debut in "Kinky Boots," as the strait-laced English shoe manufacturer Charlie Price, and he doesn't bother to hide his giggly excitement — the word "phenomenal" popped up with alarming regularity in a recent conversation.
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He has essentially written two plays: a Trump-era tragedy for Trevor, about a man's losing his place in the world, and a cheeky comedy for Alice, about a strait-laced woman who falls in with an unlaced crowd.
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It was a spectacle that underscored the odd couple nature of the GOP ticket, that now unites Trump, a brash, volatile outsider with a sparse ideological track record, with Pence, a strait-laced, disciplined warrior of the social conservative movement.
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My own hero, Gabriel Allon, is a rather strait-laced character who has no real personality flaws, other than the fact that he's a bit of a loner and has killed a good many people, most of whom deserved to die.
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And it's something of a surprise when he is introduced in his new HBO series, "Vice Principals," which makes its debut on Sunday, July 17, as Neal Gamby, a seemingly strait-laced high school administrator in a sweater vest and tie.
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During the workweek, Mr. Meng, 53, a strait-laced budget analyst who wears a red Chinese Communist Party pin on his lapel, spends his days shuttling between meetings and poring over reports as a budget analyst for a state-owned firm.
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"The impression I got was that he was fairly strait-laced, and he wasn't very flexible," said Norm Chryst, who spent almost two decades as an umpire for the ATP Tour, which employed Ramos on a contract basis through the 1990s.
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An odd tone pervaded, as if a very strait-laced stock analyst were trying to loosen up and channel Left's combative voice ("Chairman Hui's pet projects are comically off-strategy ... the endgame is nearing ... a maze of Ponzi-esque debt").
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Meant, apparently, to reference the love triangle of Adam, Eve and the serpent, and followed by lacy lingerie slips, strait-laced shirt dresses with sheer mesh tops and chain mail apple-red skirts slit to mid-hip on either side.
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He has weathered complaints, even derision, from L.G.B.T.Q. progressives, many of whom say he's not gay enough, his manner and mannerisms too strait-laced, his policy preoccupations too moderate, his success infuriatingly reflective of how readily and well he assimilates into heterosexual America.
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Voters will choose among 10 presidential candidates, but the main political parties have already established theirs, so the primaries, known as the PASO, should reveal whether the strait-laced Macri has any serious hope of catching his main rival, the moderate Peronist Alberto Fernandez.
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Yet some riffs draw chuckles: Aubrey Plaza reaches some personal seventh heaven trading aggressive come-ons with Mr. De Niro; Jason Mantzoukas thrives as a flagrant drug dealer; and as Jason's strait-laced dad, Dermot Mulroney does a lot with a little deadpan delivery.
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A growing number of economists, regulators and former central bankers are warning that European insurance companies — traditionally some of the most strait-laced of investors — are among the market players most at risk of a meltdown because of all the negative-interest-rate debt.
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Having ignored the increasing debauchery of his city for so long, and being bent a bit toward debauchery himself, he figures that the only way to restore moral order is to take a vacation, deputizing the strait-laced Angelo to repair things in his absence.
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But an unusual move by the South Carolina Democratic Party to bar the network from putting on a live broadcast of its annual convention — which is doubling as a major showcase for 21 presidential candidates — has left executives at the strait-laced public affairs network fuming.
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Getting those certainly helped me crack things more open, and I found it interesting and amusing that Mr. Diehl upended the nature of a themed grid this way, by using such strait-laced long entries and then spicing everything else up as much as he did.
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But for Democrats uttering the first whispers of impeachment talk in the halls of the Capitol, the president's unobtrusive and strait-laced understudy has emerged in recent days as a prime target — an heir apparent to an increasingly embattled president whom they are eager to tarnish.
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The batter, Danny Saunders, is in line to replace his strait-laced father as the leader of an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic sect; the pitcher, our narrator, Reuven Malter, is from an observant but more permissive religious background — he's allowed to go to the movies and read secular books.
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But the Dutch company Het Laagland will show how easily they grow down when presented with favorite old toys, toe-tapping tunes, an environment of whirling night stands and just the right amount of magic to make strait-laced professionals loosen their ties and let down their hair.
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Not part of the group is the more strait-laced Kay (Karen Fishwick), whom Fionnula cattily describes as "stuck-up, sugar wouldn't melt in her mouth, off to university"; she's a year older than the rest and restrained, though when she runs into Fionnula in the city she's enticed into overindulging.
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In a memorable comic turn on Saturday night, President Trump performed an impression of himself if he had been a conventional, strait-laced head of state; he hurled an obscenity at Chuck Todd, the host of "Meet the Press"; and he boasted that he knew what Oprah Winfrey's weakness was.
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By the end of the book, that daughter, who since high school has worked strait-laced jobs in (wait for it) banks, has cut off contact with Joseph; the mother has happily remarried; and it's the author who is visiting and writing to her father in prison in an effort to make sense of the untender bits.
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It would be easy to frame the rivalry between McIlroy and Spieth as the millennial version of Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, with McIlroy cast in Palmer's role as the swashbuckling feel player, a showman who sees the course as his stage, and Spieth as Nicklaus's strait-laced technician, a statistician who treats the course like a spreadsheet.
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The square-jawed Mr. Kelly, the first general to hold the chief of staff position since Alexander M. Haig during the Nixon administration, will be an imposing and strait-laced figure in a West Wing filled with constantly warring aides and advisers, most of whom came to Washington with virtually no experience in federal government before Mr. Trump's victory last year.
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For more of Andrea Savage, stream "I'M SORRY," on truTV, her semi-autobiographical series about a seemingly together, tad too-eager-to-please comedy writer who only looks like a grown-up as she plays off her more strait-laced husband, Mike (Tom Everett Scott), and their preschooler, Amelia (Olive Petrucci); her writing partner, Kyle (Jason Mantzoukas); and her divorced parents (Martin Mull and Kathy Baker).
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