Sentence examples for manipulate situations from inspiring English sources

And the statement did little to address allegations from Bob Jaffe, a former program producer, that he was asked by his studio bosses to manipulate situations and create drama between the contestants where none existed.

"The Matt LeBlanc in the show uses the fact that people assume I'm dumb because I played the dumb guy on 'Friends' — he uses that to manipulate situations to his advantage," Mr. LeBlanc said.

In my view, there is far more celebration of those who will break their word at will and manipulate situations to their own ends, than those who feel that it is morally right to honour an agreement both in word and spirit.

Trying to impress, manipulate situations and people, they will exaggerate and even resort to seductive behaviors.

We stay quiet, manipulate situations, tell people what they want to hear, don't express our truth -- no wonder we all feel so bad!

I feel that if I don't really understand what motivates me, what I am afraid of, how my personality plays games to get what I want, how I manipulate situations and people, then I have no clue about what is really running me and cannot take full responsibility for my behavior.

Cyrenaic, adherent of a Greek school of moral philosophy, active around the turn of the 3rd century bc, which held that the pleasure of the moment is the criterion of goodness and that the good life consists in rationally manipulating situations with a view to their hedonistic (or pleasure-producing) utility.

Directed by Yael Hersonski, "A Film Unfinished" dissects a Nazi propaganda film that purported to depict life among Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, but was later discovered to have manipulated situations to help reinforce negative images of Jews.

"'Laguna Beach,' they really just manipulated situations and put us in situations that we normally wouldn't have been in," Cavallari said.

He had an uncanny way of manipulating situations and conversations to make me feel like the worst person in the world.

So I told a few female colleagues, and we just manipulated situations so I didn't have to be alone with him.