Straight-laced Michael Powell told me of his recent Corvette purchase, a beautiful silver job.

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After the bruising experiences of the 1970s, many central bankers throughout the Western world still fret about losing their straight-laced, inflation-fighting credentials.

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Regardless of what a Blackberry user is really doing, the phone itself just seems so much more straight-laced and serious than the iPhone.

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Robert Oppenheimer, the free-spirited and controversial physicist who ran the scientific-side of the Manhattan Project, had the straight-laced and utterly conventional Brigadier General Leslie R.

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Pat Nevin, a Scotland team-mate of McLeish during the pair's playing days, insists there is more to McLeish than the straight-laced disciplinarian he plays to camera.

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Welcome to the world's newest Monaco, a haven for the ultra-rich in what until recently was mocked as one of the most straight-laced, boring cities in the world.

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The film's main characters include Tarek Khalil, an immigrant from Syria whose big passions in life are his girlfriend and his drumming, and Walter Vale, a straight-laced, older American who learns to let go through music.

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Yet, though Mr Almodovar sought to shock Spaniards out of what he saw as their straight-laced complacency, his films nonetheless celebrate the home, the family and the power of motherhood at the core of Spanish life.

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