Sentence examples for conscious manipulation from inspiring English sources

It will be a conscious manipulation of sound.

"I was too intent on self-fulfillment, and rather crude about it, with all my harlequinade and conscious manipulation of your pity," he wrote.

Another difficulty is that political change is not simply a reaction to "objective" factors such as economic forces but also the product of conscious manipulation.

Due to a decade of tri-annual BBC2 exposure, dogged Dantean circuits of provincial comedy venues, conscious manipulation of vulnerable broadsheet opinion formers and undeserved good luck, I am now popular enough to have caught the eye of touts or, as we now dignify them, Secondary Ticketing Agents™.

He lived and worked in that precise moment between the collapse of the classical cinema (which Demy worshiped in its most abstract and elevated form, the Hollywood musical) and the birth of modern cinema, with its conscious manipulation of archetypes and ambiguities.

While such conscious manipulation may at times occur, a lifetime in public and private organizations has convinced me that our leaders actually believe the collective delusions they tend to fuel.

My sense is that Isaacson's own career as an executive within the media world has given him an affinity for Franklin's self-conscious manipulation of multiple versions of himself, an empathy for Franklin's always enlightened and often playful duplicities.

"Wendy and Lucy" is a work of self-conscious manipulation, in which Reichardt filters out the cinema's subjectivity and personalism in order to intensify the viewer's sympathy with a cipher.

They are heavily shaped by hierarchically structured network of social relations, the public nature of obligations, and self-conscious manipulation of face [ 42].

The picture's self-conscious manipulations of tone and chronology might have seemed fresh and witty 10 years ago, but probably not even then.

Hector, with his mythic name and his almost surreal imperviousness to injury and physical pain, sometimes feels more like a symbol than a human being, and the deaths that pile up around him — including those of his father and several girlfriends — can feel contrived, like the self-conscious manipulations of an author intent on exploring the equation of fate and free will.