Meaning of grandstanding in English
(Definition of grandstanding from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
grandstanding | Intermediate English
Experts criticized the program as mere grandstanding by corporations and local officials.
Examples of grandstanding
grandstanding
Once the dust, and the grandstanding, settled, authorities appeared frozen.
From Huffington Post
As graceful as it is by design, it's equally cumbersome in storytelling, never choosing between oblique understatement and exposition-heavy grandstanding.
From A.V. Club
There is no polemical grandstanding going on, no bombast.
From Slate Magazine
Historically, the occasional need for the executive branch to request congressional permission to borrow money had been an opportunity for grandstanding.
From Slate Magazine
And it may just be that they're grandstanding.
From NPR
What's troubling is just how many people this grandstanding sticks with.
From Huffington Post
It is time to get past the endless political grandstanding and put a few key reforms in place.
From Heritage.org
Of course a liberal edit board is in favor of liberal grandstanding and against conservative grandstanding.
From Slate Magazine
With a presidential race heating up, grandstanding candidates will weigh in with all sorts of notions.
From Los Angeles Times
And in reality, the disruptions caused by his return were minor and temporary and were largely spurred on by the grandstanding of bitter senior officials.
From Slate Magazine
There was no audience, no corporate sponsorship, and no grandstanding; it was just a lively meeting where people came to ostensibly solve obesity.
From The Atlantic
It has become clear that they are driven by political grandstanding about big government.
Operational benefit is deemphasized in favor of computational grandstanding, data collection, and centralization.
From The Atlantic
The musician's dialog had that subtlety, but when it came to grandstanding about culture, it came with a wink and an elbow jab.
From Chicago Tribune
It's the "less mature" politicians, he says, who will continue to participate in the grandstanding.
From NPR
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