buttoned-down

How To Use buttoned-down In A Sentence

• He hired comedian Phyllis Diller in the early 1960s as a pitchwoman, breaking from the buttoned-down banking image of the era. He Built Banc One Into a Potent Force
• And there's Bill Lee, a.k.a. "Spaceman," an iconoclastic cult hero to college-age Boston fans in the late '70s, a quintessentially flaky southpaw who once boasted of sprinkling marijuana on his breakfast cereal -- before the buttoned-down Red Sox brass exiled him to the Montreal Expos, in whose uniform he is (sadly) pictured in the card collection. FOUND: Lots and lots of baseball cards
• Tonight he was splendid in fashionable buttoned-down mauve shirt and violet tie. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
• But for me, it was the legacy of Byron and the Shelleys — and thejuxtaposition of such larger-than-life characters in such a pristinebuttoned-down place that gave Lake Geneva its most powerful allure.
• Just as its kindred discipline yoga has been embraced by buttoned-down lawyers and accountants, tai chi is no longer limited to hemp-clad New Agers who impose vegan diets on their pets.
• He had the distinguished look of a buttoned-down, wealthy tycoon who fed his rebellious streak in the shadowy edges of his life. I.O.U.
• My company was way less buttoned-down and closed-mouth than most, so the problem wasn't them, but me; I'd sucked down enough of the Kool-Aid by my mid-twenties to keep lots of myself under wraps and behind the veil, the way most corporate people do -- a stupid waste of creativity and human power. Liz Ryan: Putting The 'Human' Back In HR, Part Two
• And as the buttoned-down publisher learns Internet geekspeak, it is also finally forcing its mini-fiefdoms to speak to each other. Bertelsmann's Online Onslaught
• We already knew Stamos could pull off scrubs thanks to his time on ER, but damn, he does the buttoned-down, rolled-up cuffs look quite well. Annie Stamell: John Stamos Makes His Glee Debut As Dr. Carl, Raises Dentist Standards Everywhere
• They do exhibit a certain buttoned-down wit, though. American Everyman