grandstander

So what's the best way to bargain with a grandstander like that?

A grandstander, a man who plays to the crowd instead of playing the game for what it's worth.

They see a grandstander trying to make a name.

He's simply a grandstander in the way he does things and that makes it impossible for him to ever be a truly big man.

Many of his colleagues thought he was a self-centered grandstander.

Is he really the corrupt grandstander Cogswell makes him out to be?

Lefty is a cheap grandstander, and I'll settle with him myself.

They said he's deliberate, not a grandstander, even dry.

Calnan is an irresponsible grandstander, and cannot be replaced in council too soon.

Ms. Mucha was in large part responsible for the ouster of a woman she considered a grandstander.

But a spirited grandstander makes a superb heroine for a movie folk tale.

But he is not a grandstander, he insists.

He still gets points with the public simply for not being a grandstander like his predecessor Brian Mulroney.

"I recently presented a board with a few ladies, and the 'Carly' question came up: Is she a grandstander?"

"They are going from being the region's wallflower to becoming something of a grandstander - very uncharacteristic of them."

He wasn't a grandstander, but he wasn't a backshooter, either.

Wilde, of course, was a notorious grandstander.

McClellan, in turn, painted Gregory as a grandstander.

Considering the political-psychological needs of the potential grandstander, this should be as demeaning as obtaining a note from his or her mother.

John Ashcroft, the attorney general much favored by conservatives, whom White House officials saw as a grandstander, is out.

"Davis is not a grandstander," Marin said.

Understand, when I say he's a grandstander I don't mean that he isn't sincere in his crusade to clean up the city.

This relentless grandstander could not resist bantering with the crowd and spooling out additional routines.

Sometimes Mr. Torricelli comes across as a bumptious grandstander.

He's not a grandstander.