Today’s “Word of the Day” is “grandstanding“ and it is a noun meaning “a way of speaking or acting to get attention from the spectators (people) and then influencing them”.
Example Sentence: The perceptible (noticeable) rise in politicians’ engagement with the game has not been merely tub-thumping (rhetoric/trumpeting) nationalism or an exercise in personal grandstanding – though there has been plenty of both of those – but has increasingly made football an object of state intervention.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Abramovich is but one in a long list of tainted owners. Is there no end to sportswashing? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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