Sentence examples for crass manipulation from inspiring English sources

It can ill-afford such crass manipulation.

And the side that has the courage and freedom to speak out against such crass manipulation will win.

Greed, ambition, aspiration, obsession, love, lust, envy, anger, encouragement, friendship, pettiness, and crass manipulation fill our screens in a way that's capable of generating real conversations about many of the things that matter in our lives.

Sitting all the way through the movie's crass manipulations made one feel a little sordid.

This crass political manipulation will have the opposite effect, weakening Russia in the eyes of the world and eventually its own citizens.

There's little crass audience manipulation in Eastwood's depiction of the harrowing plane landing and the surprising investigation that followed – he's the type of director who just gives it to you plain and simple.

Feel free to call it crass capitalistic media manipulation if you will -- but that's kind of what we do here at this column, so you'll just have to excuse the overtones of terms like "branding".

Having leveled his opposition, and insured his longevity with crass and artful manipulations of the judicial system, his fate still seemed to be sealed by his own excesses: clownish ignominy, if not prison.

In McConnell's case, add to it a megadose of the cynical manipulation and crass opportunism characteristic of most of his political career.

Although they could doubtless fall prey to political manipulation, it would be crass to deny that good might come from their intentions.

Director David Fincher describes the character as a "Machiavellian taking you under his wing and walking you through the corridors of power, explaining the totally mundane and crass on a mechanical level to the most grotesque manipulations of a system that is set up to have all these checks and balances".