But in doing so, we're firing past the true villains -- the Masters of the Universe who skillfully manipulate tribal prejudices to insure that it is their interests, and not those of the public, that are the ones always being served.
To manipulate an object skillfully, the brain must learn its dynamics, specifying the mapping between applied force and motion.
We manipulate the manipulations of 'reality'; skillfully depicting a society already living outside its own reality.
To this end, dollies, skillfully manipulated by the crew, transport the characters into view and out of sight.
The reaction against the French and the indigenous Jacobins became a great antiaristocratic movement, which the Bourbon monarchy skillfully manipulated to its advantage.
In fact, he skillfully manipulated the great powers, usually with the support of China, to ensure his survival as well as his country's independence.
Generally speaking, Robertson's characters are recognizable as individuals, his plots are skillfully manipulated, and his characters' dialogue is easy and conversational.
Mr. Molloy can draw, but his real vocation is sculpture and installation art, the artist skillfully manipulating found material and images to create symbolic, politically charged objects.
Driven by jealousy that has been skillfully manipulated, Othello takes the life of Desdemona, his doting wife, and then his own.
Updated by the director Brad Anderson ("The Machinist"), who wrote the screenplay with Will Conroy, it skillfully manipulates familiar tropes: innocents abroad, ominous glowering foreigners, conspiracy and duplicity, erotic intrigue.
"It skillfully manipulates familiar tropes: innocents abroad; ominous, glowering foreigners; conspiracy and duplicity; erotic intrigue," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in July.
