Sentences with phrase «to play to the gallery»

Instead of playing to the gallery and trying to grab attention, why don't we commit to working for the good of all?

This lack of professionalism is exhibited in wanting to play to the gallery at home so as to impress the fans.

The party said that Governor Ayodele Fayose must be ready to face justice and stop playing to the gallery on his allegation that his predecessor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, was plotting to use the Judiciary to remove him from power.

A demand for Britain to withdraw troops from Afghanistan ahead of schedule prompted Mr Cameron to praise the «great power and great force» of his rhetoric but warn him not to «play to the gallery on this issue».

They should avoid playing to the gallery like the report of the AVM Jon - Ode arm probe panel whose member was caught red - handed with over $ 1mn cash, exotic cars and illegal firearm in his residence (Link4).

It is either lack of analytical skills or just playing to the gallery as Merson is fond of doing.

Your point on IHT is fascinating and raises a good question about how we avoid candidates playing to the gallery in primary elections.

With a tight fiscal background and given George Osborne's penchant for playing to the gallery, so much is predictable.

He seeks to play to the gallery with the meaningless statement that «the pound is as much Scotland's as the rest of the UK».

«Fayemi is only playing to the gallery.

The EFCC, all the time playing to the gallery, is said to be carrying out plea bargain, which is the exclusive preserve of the courts and not part of its legitimate functions.

Does it not amount to brigandage and playing to the gallery by naming himself the National Publicity Secretary when the position is still enmeshed in controversy?

«A situation where the Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District, David Umoru politicized the killing in Niger state is a disservice to the country as any political gain from playing to the gallery would be short lived and could potentially come to haunt the state.

«It shows that inevitably, all composers play to the gallery, and I think it has underestimated the power that the gallery exerts on cultural evolution,» he says.

«These sitters dominate the front of their settings, as if playing to the galleries, while behind them various details suggest activity in the backgrounds,» Rudolph and Soltis write.

Entitled Playing to the Gallery, the artist's series of four lectures has now been revised and published in a book of the same name by Penguin Random House.

Instead of emotive finger - pointing and ethnic scape - goating, therefore, it is time to find lasting solutions, instead of playing to the gallery.

Fed Govt stop playing to the gallery, start the cleanup.

The prime minister rejected Mr Galloway's arguments, however, telling the Commons» latest addition: «I urge him not to play to the gallery on this issue but to speak up for the work that our forces are doing to make Afghanistan a safer country.»

As Jonas Barish points out in his sharply observed monograph The Anti «Theatrical Prejudice (1981), terms such as theatrical, operatic, melodramatic, and stagey tend to be hostile or belittling, as do phrases like play «acting, putting on an act, making a scene, making a spectacle of oneself, playing to the gallery, and so forth.

To assured themselves of beating Brendam Rodger's Bus parking & counter attacking strategy against the Boss and the Gunners, the Gunners MUST eschew all form of lakadiasika displays that often leads to playing to the gallery.

That is playing to the gallery.

If indeed Henry wants to justify his job as a pundit he should apply objectivity rather than playing to the gallery.

A break from this his conservative beliefs to embrace the contemporary beliefs in football management that places emphasis on winning titles instead of to be playing good entertaining football without winning the PL and the CL titles which amounted to playing to the gallery will be most welcomed next season if Le Prof will change from his conservative thinking to contemporary thinking..

Playing to the gallery and incensed by hysterical Daily Mail headlines about Christianity being «under attack», Pickles announced that the «general power of competence» in his new Localism Act would «effectively reverse» the high court's ruling on council prayers.

But whether Obasanjo should have sought audience with Buhari and delivered his message or gone public in what some would consider another show off and playing to the gallery, the way he has done is another matter entirely.

According to the Tamale North lawmaker, the Finance Minister came to Parliament to play to the gallery, as the issues he responded to were never part of the motion which summoned him to the house to provide full disclosure on the controversial bond.

It is a fact that each of the newly built schools come with a shuttle which conveys the kids to and fro.This could have easily been cross-checked at the Ministry of Education but clearly you failed to heed to the ethics of your profession and play to the gallery.

He refuted allegations that the APC masterminded the violence and advised the PDP to stop playing to the gallery.

All he's interested in is playing to the gallery and he measures the success of his policies by the column inches he generates.

According to him, a time will come when NPP members of will see him as someone without credibility because they have themselves pushed him to play to the galleries to endanger his political future.

Gove, by contrast, has rarely tried to play to the gallery and does do detail.

So perhaps it is no surprise that he, as a perennial darling of the Liberal Democrat conference, is eager to play to the gallery.

«As Governor of Ekiti State, I have no reservation about reviewing and reforming our electoral process but I am reluctant about the sincerity of purpose deploy each time we display such political hallucinations under the guise of reforms, this has amounted severally to playing to the gallery and this committee just like others that have embarked on several wild goose chases in the past is not likely to be different.

Shehu advised her to rise above pettiness and sentiments, and to resist the temptation to play to the gallery, when the country's national security is under threat, adding that «seeking to make political capital out of a chaotic situation is highly unbecoming of her and of the reputation she has worked hard to build over the years.»

Nobody in her position should elevate mobs to the status of rock stars for the sake of playing to the gallery.»

Playing to the gallery of the liberal media (or is it the Liberal Democrats?)

Playing to the gallery... There's a lot to be said about the side - scrolling brawler; once a leading genre, now more of a home for the whimsically nostalgic and the arcade enthusiast.

He stuck to this phrase throughout his life, meaning not that art is uninfluenced by society, but that it can not be used as a tool within society, that once an artist begins to play to the gallery his work descends to propaganda or pot - boiling.

He won huge plaudits for his 2013 BBC Reith Lectures «Playing to the Gallery», as good an introduction to the often perplexing world of modern art as you could wish for.

He will present a series of four lectures, entitled «Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery», Grayson will explore the role and place of art in the global, digital landscape of the 21st Century.