The cavernous Long Beach Terrace Theater echoes with classical Chinese music as more than a dozen dancers expertly manipulate colorful fans that sweep like wind and snap like fire.
There are also the glamorous young foreign women (often revealed to be prostitutes) who expertly manipulate an older man's vanity as an easy way into his wallet, or perhaps to gain British nationality.
Most were useless rather than venal.Far from expertly manipulating their firms' books, many could not understand them.
They include a violinist, a cellist, a double bassist and three people busily and expertly manipulating all kinds of objects to create sound effects.
The reader who has been gripped by Sweet Tooth has, by definition, already decided that being expertly manipulated by the novelist is a reader's privilege.
Al-Shabab positions itself as a defender of disenfranchised and marginalized clans, expertly manipulating and capitalizing on local and clan grievances to gain support — including gathering the support of anti-government leaders and militias.
Tyler Christopher Backer's winning performance proved that a real, vibrant child is always preferable to a puppet, even one as expertly manipulated as that in Anthony Minghella's beautiful production at the Metropolitan Opera.
While his right hand plucked the strings and his left hand expertly manipulated the sliding steel bar that sounds the notes and gives the pedal steel its distinctive twang, he gazed down at the instrument with an affectionate glimmer.
Fiona Shaw, who took the role in Dublin, London and New York between 2000 and 2003, thinks it is because Euripides, the Greek playwright who shaped her for the stage in 431BC, expertly manipulated his audiences' emotions.
What clearly mark this field out from a regular forest are the blue-and-black plastic moulds that are training the trees in pre-defined routes, where they are gently and expertly manipulated into the exact shape of a chair, a table, a lamp or a mirror frame.
