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Among their virtues, these movies offer viewers a chance to acquaint themselves with actresses many won't know, including Lizabeth Scott (a Lauren Bacall manqué) and Cleo Moore (a somewhat stilted Marilyn Monroe type) who between them appear in five of the pictures.

Bad Girls of Film Noir David Mermelstein 2010

Rev. Sizer sounds like a relatively typical Anglican leftist politician-manqué who has the expected knee-jerk bias in favour of Palestine and against Israel.

Anglican vicar complains to police to shut down blogger « Anglican Samizdat 2010

But for the moment it was enough that, as applied to foreign filmmakers, the theory allowed us to see that a movie director is, at least, an artist manqu é and that his work has the right to be judged by the same standards as that of a novelist or poet.

Seduced by Subtitles Richard Schickel 2010

Further to my post of last October about three deaths in an Indian-manqué sweat lodge: the self-styled shaman who charged nearly $10K per head for the experience has been charged with three counts of manslaughter.

Archive 2010-01-31 Bas Bleu 2010

Further to my post of last October about three deaths in an Indian-manqué sweat lodge: the self-styled shaman who charged nearly $10K per head for the experience has been charged with three counts of manslaughter.

Sweating spirituality 2 Bas Bleu 2010

But Mr. Zell, Trib management and Chandler essentially concocted a buyer, and used various for-hire valuation opinions to justify that their buyer-manqu was getting a good deal.

Zell's Hell 2010

A huge number of high-fliers have been grounded, including accused Madoff-manqué Allen Stanford, who was shocked to discover that ordinary travelers have to remove their shoes when passing through security.

And It Can't Count on a Bailout 2009

Science itself has nothing to say about the validity of either view and neither – as a scientist – does Dawkins even though he does like to play the theologian-manqué much of the time.

Richard Dawkins, raving incoherently « Anglican Samizdat 2009

Rowan Williams, economist-manqué « Anglican Samizdat

Rowan Williams, economist-manqué « Anglican Samizdat 2009

He dominates the Manhattan-manqué skyline, beaming out from row after row of glass pyramids and hotels smelted into the shape of piles of golden coins.

Johann Hari: The Dark Side Of Dubai 2009