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• n  someone who performs with an eye to the applause from spectators in the grandstand

• A political grandstander and heir to a peerage, Hogg renounced his coronet to run for Commons in 1963, but with his new post has accepted a life peerage.
• Those who don't like Graham say he is an opportunist and a grandstander.
• It is clear that Noguchi, a naturalized citizen who emigrated from Tokyo in 1952, is a habitual grandstander.

News & Articles

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• Kelsey Climbs Kilimanjaro, Receives Motivational Message from Heavens
  Sen. Brian Kelsey, the legislature's champion grandstander, claims to have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro this summer. And guess what? It taught him a lesson in… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  Oct. 1, 2013 - Nashville Scene

Quotes

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• Trey Grayson in Politico
  I think he'd be more of a grandstander,Grayson said standing in an airport hangar before a giant R/V with a Grayson banner across it. "I want to be a leader for Kentucky. I'm running to be a United States senator from Kentucky, I'm not...
• Charlie Crist in St. Petersburg Times
  I'm not a grandstander,Crist said while campaigning for governor in Orlando, explaining his silence. "The bill didn't pass until the last night of the session : let's be fair."
• Vince Gill in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  I am not a grandstander,Gill, 49, said in a phone interview from a tour stop in South Bend, Ind. "I'm not comfortable doing that and I've never been a great promoter of myself. I have a kind of self-deprecating sense of humor, and I've...