Many films whip up tension with cunning and manipulation.
Through cunning statistical manipulation.
Mourinho's cunning strategy and manipulation of the game — and the news media — earn Drogba's unadulterated praise.
It can be rendered as glibness and superficial charm, manipulation, cunning, coldness, grandiose sense of self-worth, lack of remorse and empathy, emotionally shallow, calculating, and refusing to take responsibility for their own actions (Boddy et al. 2010; Williams et al. 2002).
She is a cunning master at manipulation and a great leader, using fear to control her subjects and friends alike, reserving loyalty solely for her father.
But to take Emin in particular: she may have loathed Thatcher in the 1980s, and may even, for a time, have resisted the idea of Charles Saatchi buying her work because of the part he played in Conservative election campaigns, but her generation of Britartists, with their cunning commercialism and shrewd manipulation of the media are (it is not new to suggest) absolutely Thatcher's children.
Encourage the belief that all true wealth comes from skillful manipulation and cunning, or from sudden, brilliant and lucky strokes that leave the plodding, ordinary worker and saver in the dust.
Beneath that patent cynicism, though, and beneath her paranoia, her cunning, her crude self-promotion, her manipulations, both clumsy and deft, is a weird sincerity.
