grandstand play
Example Sentences
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This isn’t a grandstand play on my part; I’ve discovered—and you can see it in other entertainers—when they don’t reach out to the audience, nothing happens.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2012
"A grandstand play," snorted Candidate Wagner, who countered by summoning his own advisory council, headed by Ford Foundation President Heald.
From Time Magazine Archive
Faced with a long-drawn fight for control which will ruin all the little stockholders, grandstanding Dan Armstrong makes the best grandstand play of all.
From Time Magazine Archive
Powered by the celestial arrangements of Nelson Riddle, the album is not a sentimental journey, a dizzy camp-out or a show-biz grandstand play.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he realized he was licked he tried to save his face by a grandstand play.
From Heart of the Sunset by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
