Sentences with phrase «little grandstanding»

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

Upset scenario: This year's Oscar acting favorites are all BIG performances, with plenty of EMOTING and SHOUTING and, yes, a little grandstanding.

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.

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For one thing, the grandstand will face south, an innovation designed to put a little sunshine on the pallid faces of punters.

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.

Winkfield rode in afew races in Warsaw in 1920 — he has no idea where those horses came from — andonce rode before a U.S. visitor named Herbert Hoover, who made a little speechin the grandstand.

After Raikkonen's lap one exit, the TV cameras zoomed in on a little kid wearing Ferrari kit crying in the grandstands.

So, telling drivers apart is really easy and it makes watching the races that little bit less confusing — whether you are in the grandstand, or sat on your sofa.

The detached statistical world of counter-terrorism and the angry grandstanding world of politics have little in common with the human experiences of those who've actually been affected by political violence.

What he finds «a little hard to swallow,» he said, is the possibility of leveling the grandstand and tearing up the track, considering the motor sports heritage intertwined with that configuration for more than a century.

Oh, lucky little poor little Peyton.Dierks Bentley's Monday night show at the Erie County Fair grandstand was the 5 - year - old boy's first - ever concert.The country rocker set a standard that nobody will ever meet.That's not just because Bentley and his five - piece band were impressive.

Environmentalists say it will continue to cut off the flow of water and wildlife in a changing climate but is little more than political grandstanding that won't keep out people.

I will say that I have very little interest in grandstanding — and very little use for those who do it — especially when it involves simply spewing a lot of rhetoric bashing an organization that does a lot to help animals.

Green energies have in fact been primarily driven by activism and political - environmental grandstanding, and it had little to do with systematic project infrastructure engineering, i.e. analyze, plan, engineer, test, improve and then implement.

That is just grandstanding and when you look behind the headlines you tend to find little substance or just a fresh lick of paint on an existing broken model.