How To Use might-have-been In A Sentence
- Still, there are few might-have-beens that taste as good as this one.
- Maybe the glimpse (s) of suburban Manchester he got in the early 1950s were quite enough to feed his fantasies of that “provincial” might-have-been life. Ballardian » “Enthusiasm for the mysterious emissaries of pulp”: an interview with David Britton (the Savoy interviews, part 2a)
- If so, a duo that could have created so much, and yet created so little, is just another might-have-been. Blair's job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism
- This opens up a lost world of might-have-beens.
- In some cases, a might-have-been can even be viewed, as this one once was, by Masters Wells, Verne, and Sigurdsson. The Dragon’s Apprentice
- The main theme rounded out, speaking of loss, reminding of might-have-beens.
- But the shoulders have widened and the appetite for victory sharpened by a few years' reflection on the might-have-beens.
- Given the ethical dilemmas, the future scenarios of many of the movies discussed here have been consigned to the realm of might-have-been sci-fi. Could Never Let Me Go give human clones a good name?
- Would-be, wannabe, might-have-been, Moss is an incarnation of that combination of boulomaic modality and subjunctivity level so common in Crime and Realism, that of failure, of events that "should have happened, but did not". Archive 2008-01-01
- Bacon's history is open to the world, from his boyhood to his death in old age -- a history consisting of known facts, displayed in minute and multitudinous detail; _facts_, not guesses and conjectures and might-have-beens. Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography
