Meaning of manquée | Babel Free

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Participe passé féminin singulier de manquer.

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““[…] and all things considered, I don't much regret⟳ that this affair with Miss⟳ Amory is manquée, though I wished for it once—in fact, all things considered, I am very glad of it.””

“Daniel’s major assignment in the novel, then, is to make⟳ sure that this actress manquée stays manquée: that Gwendolen’s performance, like⟳ the much more cooperatively antitheatrical Mirah’s, shrinks to fit the contours of an interiority (if not of a marital domesticity) whose only “width”—in a reversal of the first paradox—comes from the spiritualizing impact of humiliation.”

“In her hands, Rose seems at the show’s beginning more a garden-variety stage⟳ mother and actress manquée, a wistful but often affectionate nag⟳, than Merman’s elemental force⟳ of nature.”

“Miss⟳ Catley adored the English language, poetry and plays; I think⟳ she was an ‘actress manquée’.”

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