straight-laced

“It’s a bonus when I’m able to stretch myself and feel like I’m being challenged,” Poulter says of his character, the most straight-laced figure in the film, but imbued by Poulter with a surprising vulnerability.

Paul is a straight-laced square, and Ford looks like he’s having a blast every episode pushing Paul to his limits.

Judge voices the central character himself, a straight-laced patriarch of a Texas family struggling to maintain his values in a changing world.

Tory was known as a straight-laced, button down moderate conservative — almost the polar opposite of previous Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose term was plagued by scandals involving public drinking and illegal drug use.

Case is the embittered, thick-skinned trauma survivor to Bob’s straight-laced, God-fearing lawman.