At stake is no less than the survival of the relationship: Will Celine's professional goals be compromised to assuage Jesse's personal regrets, or will she refuse to be manipulated and walk away from their life together?
But he also thinks that audiences who feel manipulated might be shying away from a fact of modern life: that in a world of political spin and untrustworthy media, "we are being manipulated all the time".
She's the older woman who infiltrated the Beatles and was blamed for breaking them up, who drove her husband away and manipulated him back, who let Annie Leibovitz photograph her clothed while the pop idol curls around her naked.
In the original incarnation of Skins, Effy was a high-achieving, hard-living, nearly mute enigma so socially able she could lie, screw and manipulate her friends away from crisis, even when that meant absorbing the emotional fallout herself.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck says Sarah Palin is "manipulating" the media away from giving attention to Mitt Romney.
Attempt to manipulate your nightmare away.
Accountants want to know which accounts I manipulated and how I got away with it for so long.
Here's an industry that had instituted payola, routinely manipulated shady contracts to take away publishing from songwriters, and engaged in questionable accounting practices to deny royalties from record sales to the vast majority of its artists".
Instead, Mr. Hatch brilliantly manipulated the others and walked away with the $1 million prize - and a future that now includes auditioning to become the host of a syndicated game show.
The world seemed far away, too far away to manipulate, and he couldn't fathom going home and dealing with his girlfriend, who would want to know why he was acting so detached, like he was high, like he was in one of her dreams.
