Sentence examples for manipulated toward from inspiring English sources

There's some of Gogol's and Bulgakov's diabolical humor, in the way this cast of debauched characters is manipulated toward some mysterious end.

The network can be manipulated toward falsehood, but we know how to take that into account: we ask around, monitor social situations, shut down the rare false rumor.

Stable intrachain and interchain H-bonds are identified as a function of temperature that could possibly be manipulated toward rational destruction of crystalline cellulose.

Early on, we had too simply labeled the violence as a clash of ethnic groups, roughly equal in their responsibilities to reconcile, when in fact they had been manipulated toward war primarily by Serbian nationalist leaders.

Tim Parks, writing in The New York Review of Books last year, complained of novels that made him feel "manipulated toward goals that are predictable and unquestioned: the dilemma, the dramatic crises, the wise sadness, and more in general a suffering made bearable, or even noble through aesthetic form, fine prose, and the conviction that one has lived through something important".

A more nuanced portrayal is Green Room, which is less interested in fascist ideology than in how ideologues are manipulated toward violence.

The sensitivity analysis utilizes non-linear models that accurately calculate the steady-state contribution of a set of potential manipulated variables toward satisfying the control objectives optimally.

For much of American history, demagogues have manipulated irrational fears toward people of minority religious beliefs, particularly Catholics and Jews.

The fixation on the man, prompted Bruno S. Frey, a Swiss economist who attended the conference, to say he was insulted that the news media kept implying that Mr. Lomborg had manipulated the panel toward an anti-environmental agenda.

Comparisons to the film industry rarely fit the music industry neatly, but this would be similar to a case in which the view tally of a movie trailer on YouTube were being manipulated to count toward the movie's box-office sales.

She thinks it could be used to manipulate people toward the Bundy cause.