How To Use Bloomsbury In A Sentence
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Even to the unprejudiced eye, the ‘Mysore Generation’ seems to be as variously gifted as the ‘Bloomsbury Group’ - and yet there is a whole shelf of books on the latter, not one on the former.
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An uncelebrated poet whose best-known work was his satire on the Bloomsbury set, he and TS Eliot were early mutual admirers.
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Janine di Giovanni is contributing editor of Vanity Fair and author of the forthcoming Ghosts by Daylight (Bloomsbury)
Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt
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Bloomsbury said that Cezanne is a great painter.
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Many of the 4,000 books in the auction www.bloomsburyauctions.com have Davidson's bookplate affixed—a simple line drawing of the Mediterranean rascasse fish, the essential ingredient of bouillabaisse, of which Davidson wrote a hilarious essay called "The Harlot of Marseilles.
A Culinary Man of Letters
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The address of a house in Bloomsbury was engraved on the disc.
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While an undergraduate he became romantically involved with various members of the Bloomsbury group.
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There were occasions when Bloomsbury House pulled out all the stops on behalf of children who were clearly gifted - usually in the arts.
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The Bloomsbury Conservation Area is characterised by a planned pattern of streets and squares developed mainly during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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They were back home in the drawing room in Bloomsbury, with the countryside burning in the grate and the curtains drawn.
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A stream of complaints to Bloomsbury House led to the sacking of the more objectionable roughnecks.
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On the evening of his third day in London, Phelps, returning by way of Chancery Lane from Bloomsbury to the Inner Temple, where he was quartered on a friend, encountered Mr. Lane, who in the wintry twilight passed him without recognition.
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Bloomsbury shares would be a wizard idea for a present.
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Harry Potter continues to spin his magic, doubling publisher Bloomsbury's profits to $ 8m.
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I was going to say that it is not the type of book that I would normally have much time for, because it is published by Bloomsbury, and their stuff is usually a bit highbrow for me.
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FLOWERS: The bride carried a bouquet of gypsophila with diamante from Bloomsbury,
Whitehaven News headlines
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All this may seem like an incitement to profligacy, consistent with Keynes's rather bohemian private life as a charter member of the Cambridge Apostles and the Bloomsbury group.
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After the London Institution he moved into speculative building, progressing from Highbury villas to Bloomsbury and Belgravia.
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The light-hearted tone of Elaine Blond characterised Bloomsbury House policy of not taking minor problems too seriously.
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He was slightly gassed during the ninth Polish air raid on Berlin, and this no doubt accelerated his death in Bloomsbury, the tuberculous London slum in which his book was completed.
The Shape of Things to Come
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What she has to say about the Victorians, or Bloomsbury, Yates, the Pre-Raphaelites, or more modern writers has at times an oracular quality.
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The Bloomsbury Group is only one of dozens of such groups, albeit one whose antics have been chronicled at numbing length.
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The latter is St George's Bloomsbury which, several decades ago, just missed out on demolition in a grandiose and, this being England, unexecuted scheme for extending the British Museum precinct southwards.
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The Bloomsbury area near Russell Square is an oasis of calm near the British Museum.
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But then I found in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang a very similar entry supposedly dating from the 1980s in Britain.
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Senate House and a nucleus of colleges were built in Bloomsbury in the late 1930s.
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From September, 500 out-of-print titles from authors such as Clark, the outspoken Conservative minister, the Labour politician and biographer Roy Jenkins, Booker prizewinner Bernice Rubens and poet and critic Edith Sitwell will be available globally via a new online service to be called Bloomsbury Reader.
Bloomsbury brings Edith Sitwell to the ebook
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Orwell wrote, in his great wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, that ‘the Bloomsbury highbrow with his mechanical snigger is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel’.
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He trained at Edinburgh, went to the Royal College of Surgeons and then moved to superintend the natural history collections of the British Museum in Bloomsbury.
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Many former refugee children report never having seen a Bloomsbury House representative.
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Autobiography used to be the preserve of hammy actors, gammy lieutenant commanders and superannuated hangers-on to the Bloomsbury Group.
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I would leave at about noon and walk to Bloomsbury.
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From September, 500 out-of-print titles from authors such as Clark, the outspoken Conservative minister, the Labour politician and biographer Roy Jenkins, Booker prizewinner Bernice Rubens and poet and critic Edith Sitwell will be available globally via a new online service to be called Bloomsbury Reader.
Bloomsbury brings Edith Sitwell to the ebook
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Chelsea and Bloomsbury have taken the place of Hampstead, Notting Hill Gate, and High Street, Kensington.
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Harry Potter continues to spin his magic, doubling publisher Bloomsbury's profits to $ 8m.
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Last week I saw Chris Addison at the Bloomsbury, and having only seen a ten minute set from him before and Lab Rats, which still frazzles my brain by being awful and entertaining and charming and groan-inducing all at the same time I was really interested to see how a full show would work.
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Bloomsbury, J. K. Rowling's publisher, does not declare the price at which it sells the books to retailers, but it is likely to be 55 per cent lower than the cover price.
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Landladies were among the more frequent visitors to Bloomsbury House as the records indicate: Often, lodging and employment went together.
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There are plenty of houses and churches where you can soak up the carefully arranged atmosphere of bygone Bloomsbury.
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Bloomsbury House was Hailey's finest achievement.
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Bloomsbury House reacted sceptically with a half-hearted inquiry as to the Home Office attitude to refugee medical students.
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Robert Sackville-West's Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles Bloomsbury relates how, since 1604 when Thomas Sackville, first Earl of Dorset, acquired Knole, the house has witnessed a tangled inheritance, with the ceding of ownership from 1946 to the National Trust requiring of Robert, Baron Sackville, "a delicate balance of power".
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If you fancy a trip to London, you could stay at the central four-star Grange White Hall hotel in Bloomsbury from £67.50 per person a night (including breakfast).
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The heads of a household may inhabit a neighbourhood for years without becoming acquainted even with the outward aspect of their neighbours; but in the lordly servants 'halls of the West, or the modest kitchens of Bloomsbury, there will be interchange of civilities and friendly "droppings in" to tea or supper, let the master of the house be never so ungregarious a creature.
Birds of Prey
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Keynes was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and a noted patron of the arts.
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Skilly dear, I'm in a fierce Bloomsbury boarding-house -- bores -- except for a Phe-nomenon -- little man of 35 or 40 with embryonic imagination & a virgin soul.
Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man
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A previously unknown letter has surfaced, detailing the "shriekingly funny" Dreadnought hoax of 7 February 1910, when members of the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists donned beards and costumes to disguise themselves as Abyssinian princes and gained access to the pride of the British naval fleet.
How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' hoaxed the navy
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But then I found in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang a very similar entry supposedly dating from the 1980s in Britain.
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There must be some brave and adventurous types at Bloomsbury.
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In Seduction and Betrayal, for example, she located Virginia Woolf's special and claustral narrowness, her aggravated femininity, less in her situation as a woman than in the aestheticism and androgyny of Bloomsbury.
On Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)
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Autobiography used to be the preserve of hammy actors, gammy lieutenant commanders and superannuated hangers-on to the Bloomsbury Group.
