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  • "" McDonald's may have won the bat - tle, but they lost the war, '' says London PR - company boss Quentin Bell.

    A Pyrrhic Mcvictory 2008

  • Quentin Bell, in his biography of his aunt, Virginia Woolf, described her sleepness nights and their aftermath: “After such nights the days brought headaches, drilling the occiput as though it were a rotten tooth; and then came worse nights; nights made terrible by the increasing weight of anxiety and depression.”

    Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993

  • Quentin Bell, in his biography of his aunt, Virginia Woolf, described her sleepness nights and their aftermath: “After such nights the days brought headaches, drilling the occiput as though it were a rotten tooth; and then came worse nights; nights made terrible by the increasing weight of anxiety and depression.”

    Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993

  • Quentin Bell, in his biography of his aunt, Virginia Woolf, described her sleepness nights and their aftermath: “After such nights the days brought headaches, drilling the occiput as though it were a rotten tooth; and then came worse nights; nights made terrible by the increasing weight of anxiety and depression.”

    Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993

  • Quentin Bell, in his biography of his aunt, Virginia Woolf, described her sleepness nights and their aftermath: “After such nights the days brought headaches, drilling the occiput as though it were a rotten tooth; and then came worse nights; nights made terrible by the increasing weight of anxiety and depression.”

    Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993

  • While acknowledging that this Ruskinian moral view does turn up in functionalist discussions — Quentin Bell mentions Muthesius and Vandervelde in this connection — I meant to suggest that Ruskin's ideas are more directly sympathetic to post-modern architecture, that is, to those in reaction to the Bauhaus.

    Ruskin's Originality Bletter, Rosemarie Haag 1979

  • Wilfred Stone's work on Forster contained a good deal of new material; Quentin Bell is writing a biography of his aunt Virginia Woolf; and Michael Holroyd's life of Lytton Strachey, due shortly to appear here, sorts out the highly complicated relationships, homo - and heterosexual, in the group in which, so it used to be said, all couples were triangles and lived in squares.

    The Survivor Annan, Noel 1968

  • And it’s not as if I see myself as Quentin Bell writing about Virginia Woolf, either.

    Dreaming of the Bones Deborah Crombie 1997

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