Meaning of manquée | Babel Free

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Participe passé féminin singulier de manquer.

Examples

““[…] 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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