Mr. Netanyahu was granted a grand platform before a joint meeting of Congress, and his speech had many of the trappings of a presidential State of the Union address.
Desirée Rancatore was an exquisite Gilda, despite a rather grand platform manner that didn't always suggest mangled innocence.
Its roof is a grand viewing platform across the city, lined by the Banc de Trencadís, a delightful bench that snakes around its perimeter and is clad with candy-coloured ceramics.
You can feel free to use this as a grand integrated platform, if that's what you want.
One of the more spectacular rites was cremation, which for the wealthy involved erecting a grand, roofed platform to host a sarcophagus for burning — an example of which is on display.
The union, forbidden to strike, is threatening to picket outside the convention, being held in the Fleet Center, turning the event into one grand platform for airing its grievances.
As Turgeon explains, "The giant typewriter through our nighttime projection of characters onto the 'paper' screen as people walk around the keyboard provides a platform for self-expression on a grand scale using a platform that everyone is intuitively familiar with". .
"There are other times before an election where candidates make promises, and they come up with grand platforms and ideas, and attract people.
They then proceed down a grand staircase to a platform lined with BMW cars.
Cyclists will pull a grand piano on a platform designed by sculptor Andy Plant up a six-mile hill, while pianists perform a musical cycle.
