grandstanding

Example Sentences

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This is one of those grandstanding populist ideas that won’t do much beyond deterring good businessmen and women from running for office.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, officials “chose grandstanding instead of the normal process” and arrested Williamson at home Wednesday, despite her being seriously ill and in need of a liver transplant, Scott said.

From Los Angeles Times

Whatever the grandstanding of pundits, it can't have been an easy decision.

From BBC

But it is so firmly grounded in truthful and complicated detail drawn from Mr. Dunne’s actual experience that it makes its powerful moral argument without any need for grandstanding or preaching.

From The Wall Street Journal

There is more to Noah Lyles than just the showmanship, the grandstanding and the dyed orange hair.

From BBC