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
Most students applauded, but to Savio, Kerr's position was "totally inacceptable," and the university was set up for a perfect grandstand play.
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
Last week, still ailing and still talking of retirement, the 73-year-old Premier launched a desperate grandstand play to prolong his political life.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can't go back on what I have told you without everybody, who doesn't understand the situation here, feeling that I have just come out here to make a grandstand play.
From The Story of The American Legion by Wheat, George Seay
