sortie

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"I came to La Grande Sortie while thinking about my personal experience with anticipation and anxiety in connection to important projects," Prager said in her directors' statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2015

Their new short film, "La Grande Sortie," explores the transaction between a performer and her audience, as a ballerina slips between live-show tension and hallucinatory visions.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2015

Fortunately for his reputation, the painter of "Bunker Hill" and the "Sortie from Gibraltar" did not often recur to Walter Scott for subjects.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

Rembrandt did this much later than Holbein, when he painted the "Night Watch," or as it is more properly called, "The Sortie."

From Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke

This picture is generally known as "The Night Watch," but it is really "The Sortie" of a company of musketeers under the command of a standard bearer.

From Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke