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In the television version of Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope's insightful novel of the politics of
one small outpost in the Anglican Church in the mid-nineteenth century, Nigel Hawthorne plays a local
churchman who is so outraged at the behavior of his Bishop that he can hardly speak. Hawthorne brings a new
understanding of the term, "up tight" in his portrayal. He shakes, he steams, his eyes bulge, his lips tighten and
his face reddens, but so outraged is he at what he sees before him that he simply sputters, because the words will
not come.
This link will take you to the section about "The Barchester Chronicles" on a wonderful site about Donald Pleasence. It also has a most delightful picture of Pleasence and Hawthorne.
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