Sentences with phrase «grandstand plays»

If the domestic manufacturers want to hit the import brands where it hurts, they won't do it through limited - edition grandstand plays, such as the Pontiac Solstice, Cadillac Escalade or even the Ford Mustang.

Furthermore, the smaller, more ad hoc groups not affiliated with established institutions had to indulge in grandstand plays in order to attract volunteers and money.

Even those who might have regarded Thompson's gesture as little more than a grandstand play could not ignore it — or the issue that precipitated it.

«A grandstand play, put on by people who don't like Trump or the GOP, regardless, that has nothing to do with climate change, alternative fuels or any other science.

Not exact matches

And will he help Arsenal to a massive three points and play a vital role in the title challenge as the season builds to a grandstand finish?

He had to gesture to the grandstands to pipe down as Phil went to play his next shot.

There are too many people and the play is often so far removed from the rope lines and grandstands.

Emily Watson, taking a holiday from grandstanding parts (e.g., the suffering heroines of Breaking the Waves and Hilary and Jackie), plays the title role, a ditsy security cop with one of the unlikeliest Chicago accents I've ever heard (more evidence that catering to Chicago viewers isn't a film industry priority).

Franco's adaptation, scripted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, could so easily have been a flimsy vanity frame for a grandstanding, look - Ma - I'm - acting performance — Franco in over-the-top Spring Breakers mode, playing Tommy Wiseau as a shallow narcissist, an obnoxious oddball, or a sad clown.

It's a role that she can play to perfection in her sleep by now, and yet every iteration of it, including this one, possesses a grandstanding ferocity, hiding deep - seated sadness and regret.

Complicating things even more are the (not always clear) conflicts within the revolution, with the grandstanding General Mongo only in it for personal gain and the idealistic Xantos playing the Gandhi of the Mexican Revolution, a pacifist who preaches non-violence while everyone is trying to kill him.

Cromwell, a terrific character actor, plays the one - note bigoted judge, while Dan Stevens grandstands as the prosecutor who has his own sets of biases.

The casting is terrific: John Travolta is hilarious as grandstanding Robert Shapiro, Cuba Gooding Jr. is a smallish presence standing in for O.J., Sarah Paulson is intense as Marcia Clark, David Schwimmer plays a panicked Robert Kardashian with a white streak in his hair, Courtney B. Vance is slick as Johnnie Cochran, and so on.

This might be his most dialogue - heavy film yet, filled with plenty of grandstanding and lengthy monologues that make it feel even more like a stage play.

With Hill grandstanding, featuring a weight gain and an uncomfortable laugh, and Teller playing his usual, there isn't much to brag about performance wise on this one.

The atmosphere, the tens of thousands of people in the grandstands, the anthems being played, being around everyone who you will be competing against for the next 24 hours... it always makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

This looks like grandstanding to me, another game he is playing: trying perhaps to keep in the public eye in a more responsible way than he has done recently.