grandstanding

Example Sentences

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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 • Nov. 13, 2025

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 • Oct. 2, 2025

The U.S. and Malaysia have largely enjoyed warm relations over the years, notwithstanding occasional rhetorical grandstanding, especially on the part of former longtime Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2025

"One of the conditions was I was absolutely adamant when we started this journey 12 years ago, that it must not be a grandstanding, soap box, beating-people-around-the-head, finger-wagging exercise," Hawley explained.

From BBC • Feb. 29, 2024

Nevertheless, several accomplished alpinists not on her team regarded Pittman as a grandstanding dilettante.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer