manqué

• Still, it's hard to avoid the feeling of fine dining manqué with Sullivan's, from the dully dressed Caesar salad ($6 or as part of the $18 business lunch) to the faux library theme of one of the three dining rooms to the lack of information on the menu regarding the quality grades of beef served (this is a steakhouse after all) to the table service which was absolutely well-meaning, if a bit unpolished. —  Baltimore City Paper
• The vivid hilarity of Mr. Huston's hippies manqué and stumblebum, Hollywood-obsessed tough guys is this book's hallmark., —  LA Observed
• A television show about a chemistry teacher moonlighting as a methamphetamine manufacturer may not seem to hold many lessons at first blush, but "Breaking Bad" reveals what can happen when a manqué - a person of unrealized potential - attempts to feather his family's nest egg with ill-gotten gains after he discovers he has a terminal illness. —  Mackinac Center Commentaries
• And even if some of that movement feels like jogging in place, better those than the woozy, somewhat nauseated-sounding Aphex Twin / Boards of Canada manqué moments like "Galag-A" and "Köln" -- not to mention the acid casualty "Flaash", which feels like getting stabbed and / or bludgeoned to death with a rusty 303. —  Pitchfork: Latest News
• Scott's vision is really a budget submission manqué. —  newmatilda.com - Comments

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