Sentence examples for intellectual grandstanding from inspiring English sources

He thought that there was too much intellectual grandstanding in modern music, and demanded that composers make themselves more useful to ordinary people.

And, for what it's worth, I much prefer that to the current wave of British mangers who have taken to engaging in a creepy sort of intellectual grandstanding.

Not only did Russell waste his intellectual gifts by abandoning highbrow philosophy for hack journalism (and political grandstanding), Monk says, but he caused enough emotional carnage in his own home to make the House of Atreus look like an average dysfunctional family.

Whether that makes it a success or a failure depends on whose metric you use, although there's a sense that, for all his grandstanding, Healy may know where his strengths really lie: "I'm the Greek economy of cashing intellectual cheques," he shrugs on Loving Someone, immediately after making a clanging reference to Guy Debord.

This looks like grandstanding.

Grandstanding and browbeating are.

Many resent his grandstanding.

It was pure partisan grandstanding.

It is political grandstanding.

This was no empty grandstanding.

Auden accused him of grandstanding.