Word: manquee
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Thomas' martyrdom was an irony More himself might have appreciated. Henry VIII, in Marius' view a frightened, defensive monarch, already tired of the mistress he was determined to marry, faced in his Lord Chancellor a holy man manque, with whip and hair shut, whose secret passion had always...
From time to time, Dick Allen joined in with an observation. He is a comic manque whose speech is marked by a habitual mirthful undertone, and his remarks brightened the somber atmosphere. Reagan himself was a hospitable presence, smiling at the jokes, contributing an occasional phrase, gazing with deep fondness...
*Barthelme gets the most explicitly hostile in "Shopgirls," which traces the exploits of a sort of Peeping Tom manque who, caught by one salesgirl after weeks of trailing two others, is dragged along by all three of them to a teasing and titillating group lunch. While he stares dumbly at...
The author picked a good time to stop this volume, leaving Odets before he enters into his tragic decline. He will never again match his early dramatic successes. He will move on to Hollywood as a screenwriter, at the time a well-known repository for manque artists. He will go...
2) Wilson is a don manque. He and his wife have always dreamed of retiring to one of the more luxurious and pretigious college masterships at Oxford or Cambridge. Wilson's chances of receiving such a plum would be immeasurably greater if he resigns and lets his friends into power...