Sentences with phrase «into grandstanding»

Meanwhile, Blake's storyline also veers from its emotionally grounded setup, and into grandstanding displays like the Michael Moore - worthy stunt from which the film takes its title.

Riggs put all his energy into grandstanding, supplying pithy commentary about how he intended to put the «show» back in «chauvinism,» and generally making a mockery of the face - off, with a goal of drumming up attention.

Thirteen spectators were also injured when debris from the accident flew into the grandstand.

His car was sent airborne into the catchfence after contact with another car and sent debris into the grandstands.

Although it's a shame for him and the team to miss out having come so close, Fernando probably couldn't care less about missing out on a single point, so he just wandered into the grandstands to meet the fans and give away bits of his kit.

He retired fairly late in the race while running 10th but instead of trooping back to the garage, he went up into the grandstand and saw the fans.

Father and son both got their wish and Cash was prominently featured in the post-race festivities, which included Bowyer asking for a beer while in the middle of a national television interview, then strolling into the grandstands where he celebrated with fans by chugging more beer.

Biniasz said his staff shut off their computers and moved deeper into the grandstand complex and watched roofing fall to the ground.

Not exact matches

We, a small group of theological educators, went to a Demolition Derby — a real one, with cars, and then trucks, smashing into each others in a muddy arena, and more than a thousand people watching from the grandstands.

I've believed in God my whole life, I'm a Christian, and I hate all this grandstanding because all it does is turn faith into a caricature.

After bogeying the 13th hole to go one over par for the tournament, White hit an approach into the rough at the par - 4 14th and flew his next shot over the grandstands and nearly onto the 15th tee.

Fans attending the Daytona 500 can begin filing into the Daytona Motor Speedway at 7:30 a.m. Grandstand gates will open at 8 a.m.

A few weeks before the match, as I hung on the outside fence near the 1/16 pole at Washington Park, suddenly there he stood, Swaps, all 1,000 gleaming pounds of him, with a face as finely chiseled as a cameo, gliding out of the grandstand shadows and into the afternoon sun.

On race day the huge grandstands are absolutely packed, turning the whole circuit into more of a stadium than a race track.

We imagine there was a collective gasp in the grandstands as his car backed into the wall.

Whether you're sat at home tuned into the F1 races on TV and following them on social media, or are sat in the grandstands, the fan experience has improved nicely this year — thanks to the first changes from new owners Liberty Media.

When he sank a long birdie putt on the 14th to pull within a stroke of Spieth on Saturday, the crowd in the grandstands broke into a sustained «Kooooooooooch.»

«Elements of the grandstand» will be incorporated into the new facility.

In less than 30 seconds, the 38 - year - old grandstand concert venue at the New York State Fairgrounds imploded this weekend into a massive pile of rubble and dust.

GEDDES, N.Y. — In less than 30 seconds, the 38 - year - old grandstand concert venue at the New York State Fairgrounds imploded into a massive pile of rubble and dust.

The estimates also do not take into consideration the possibility that the amphitheater takes the place of the New York State Fair grandstand, which could mean the state would share expenses.

The letter also takes a shot at the Council ahead of what's sure to be a heated oversight hearing on Tuesday, warning that tenants supposedly fear it's going to descend into «political theatre [sic]» and grandstanding.

Despite its marking off and unpredictability, these are very often chosen by many fashionistas who do not want to blend into the crow but to be in the centre of attention and grandstand.

What's most stunning about the anecdotes recounted by Dick's interviewees is how alike they are, and if his film doesn't delve quite deeply enough into the type of culture that breeds such conduct (specifically, the way in which the army projects strength as a masculine trait, thereby subconsciously disparaging female victimhood as an undesirable weakness), its spartan use of graphics and statistics conveys arguments with little grandstanding.

It's an unwittingly apt summary of a performance type that tends to excite awards voters, in which words are all but marshaled into action, pressed in service of grandstanding speeches and lump - in - the - throat line readings.

Stephan James's committed turn as Jesse Owens stops this grandstanding film about the 1936 Olympics from descending into cheesiness

In a city dogged by educational shortcomings for its poor children of color, the LA Unified board seems to be letting political grandstanding come before giving more of its neediest children access into a proven foothold of educational equity.

Strapped into your racing car you're very aware of the party going on over the Armco — the feral crowds, the crazy home - built grandstands, the campfires and general drunkenness: part Glastonbury, part Lord of the Flies — but only in brief moments of distraction.

If the details of the track have changed, its character hasn't, and all you need to grasp the concept of insanely fast, headlong charges into gut - busting right - handers is one strong launch from the head of the grandstand stretch.

The empty grandstands on either side of my peripheral vision blur into streaks, bookending the gray oblivion ahead of me.

Sadly, fans were denied a grandstand finish when Vilander pulled the # 51 Ferrari 458 Italia into the pits with unconfirmed technical problems during the 22nd of 24 hours.

The final, and grandstanding, arrival into the webOS family, loaded with the previously unheard of webOS 3.0 build, is the HP TouchPad.

Today President Obama is expected to sign the Financial Regulatory Reform bill into law, and while there are differing opinions on the possible effectiveness of the bill (personally I feel it is lame political grandstanding, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing), there is one area that is curiously untouched by the legislation, and that... View Article

The Heaven's Door Yurt Café, in Crystal Bowl, will be transformed into a lively grandstand for an outstanding view of all of the action.

Or at least if you do try to speak to me or quote me then you might actually take the 5 seconds it takes to read what I say, try to grasp what I'm talking about and not assume I'm talking about something else entirely so you can go on your little grandstanding crusade to try to impress the people on the interwebz into thinking you're a big shot

The game values intensity and precision over taunting and grandstanding, which tends to turn matches into dry, joyless wars of attrition that would make TV viewers doze off.

And while Roy Lichtenstein's Look Mickey (1961), his near - faithful reproduction of a Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck cartoon strip, was basically formalist commentary (produced as Lichtenstein had grown weary of the spiritual grandstanding of Abstract Expressionism), and from our contemporary list of artists, Housley's repeated use of the Snoopy and Woodstock motifs are receptacles for the artist's process - based experiments in the possibilities of paint; many of the artists working with toons seem to be engaging in the opposing struggle to pull the characters out of their own pictorial world and into our own.

Unfortunately, politically motivated shareholders don't care as much about that and significantly weight political grandstanding into their objective functions.

stevepostrel said «Unfortunately, politically motivated shareholders don't care as much about that and significantly weight political grandstanding into their objective functions.»

Thus it would seem that the public (at least in Britain) would tolerate so much grandstanding from politicians and public organisations, but not so much the intrusion into daily life that they demanded was necessary.