Manque

The gluten-free wassen-manque is fine if somewhat bland. ❋ Desayunoencama (2008)

I conceived of Duncan as a kind of academic manque - if his particular field of interest had been Conrad or Gerard Manley Hopkins or someone, he'd be gainfully employed in a university. ❋ Unknown (2009)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ la méfiance (f) = distrust; le manque (m) de chance = unluckiness; une vie (f) de chien = dog's life ❋ Unknown (2009)

French Vocabulary chez la (le) vétérinaire = at the veterinarian's manque de chance! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hell, if you want people to burn down bookstores, just throw a bishie Mohammad manque into the mix, a la Super Best Friends. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Max Baucus is a deal-maker and John Kerry will play the statesman manque . ❋ Unknown (2011)

Le peuple gabonais pendant ce temps manque de tout. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A elle seule, cette ville de quelques milliers d'habitants concentre tous les maux d'un peuple: pauvreté, chômage, pollution, sous-développement économique, manque d'équipements et d'infrastructures, répression policière. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But it's nonetheless instructive to see which of the Senate's statesmen manque think the U.S. can no longer compete with the rest of the world without protective tariffs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He wrote the screenplay for I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry – but says it was rewritten by star Adam Sandler; that had to sting – and produced the effervescent Ed Helms comedy Cedar Rapids, a Payne movie manque. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Peruvians have now taken a big gamble with that success by electing their own Peronist manque, in the form of national-socialist candidate Ollanta Humala. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Allen remembered answering, not bothering to correct him, service brat manque that he was, shutting Ben up by throwing cork to close out a game of 501. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Waverly continues to learn about the slings and arrows of life through her songs, like the solo piece God Give Me Strength, and through her family life, spanning an early relationship with songwriting partner Howard Cazsatt (Eric Stoltz), a remarkably accurate portrayal of pregnancy, and the freewheeling 70s with a complicated Californian marriage to Brian Wilson manque Jay Phillips (Matt Dillon). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Four years in the making and remaking, Nobody's Daughter is Love's comeback album manque. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This Moliere manque, this grossly non-preening cockatoo who burps and farts his hour upon the stage and then, God help us, is heard some more, is clearly one of the great tour-de-farce roles of my lifetime. ❋ Gwen Davis (2010)

Je suis sûre qu'il n'y a pas d'Américain âgé de plus de 20 ans qui n'ait jamais souri ou éclaté de rire en regardant un dessin représentant Maxine, cette femme politiquement incorrecte, qui dit ce qu'elle pense, manque de compassion et n'essaye pas de se rendre sympathique. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)