"I believe he's trying to use this as sort of political grandstanding," he said.

And the film, for all its grandstanding, never goes any deeper.

I've had about all the grandstanding I can take for one night."

It also means, this being an election year, a certain amount of political grandstanding.

In the hard years ahead there will be little time, energy and money left over for British global grandstanding.

As is the grandstanding of the presentation on the front page.

The board's other members said the resignations were political grandstanding.

He really would have to cut out this grandstanding.

I am unimpressed by the grandstanding of certain European leaders.

The stakes on both sides are too high for diplomatic grandstanding.

These workers need practical help from the West, not the usual moral grandstanding.

That's a great opportunity for some political grandstanding, but a terrible way to demonstrate leadership.

It called the subpoena "political grandstanding," and said the Council had never asked for the chief by name.

To ask for witnesses now is sheer hypocrisy and political grandstanding.

His mother's not dissimilar grandstanding has had a like effect - she made the cover of your magazine.

"Grandstanding and news conferences don't get us any closer to the truth."

Many on the right interpreted the move as little more than a clever bit of partisan grandstanding.

The first half-hour of the Congressional hearing was taken up with the usual political grandstanding.

This is not an issue for political grandstanding or, indeed, promoting pet projects.

To some extent, that's the grandstanding of a Comptroller who would be mayor.

It was, he said, just election-year grandstanding, and dangerous at that.

Others said it was something far more innocent, and accused the schools of pious grandstanding.

It's usually the books themselves, though, rather than their authors' grandstanding, that cause a commotion.

And somebody in Carnival took a lot of lives by authorising grandstanding.

Thus, any grandstanding was cut short by the testy German chancellor.