Don't make a manipulative "Gossip Girl" story line out of it: Love me or else!
Sarah, who is sprawled on her couch watching television, replies, "Tall, thin Natalie, or Natalie Bishop Sarahah is childish, narcissistic and manipulative — "Mean Girls" meets Larry David.
Serena's mother is named Lily, and she is engaged to a billionaire named Bart, a sly reference to Lily Bart, the heroine of "The House of Mirth," who is socially ruined by, among others, her manipulative BFF Bertha Dorset.
But the network, home to the journalists who resigned from the embattled station of the media tycoon Vladimir V. Gusinsky, says business is booming and the real source of the suit is a manipulative Kremlin.
After all those years of being accused by feminists and poets of ruining romance, setting women back and encouraging them to be coy and manipulative, Ms. Fein seems to want quiet, to be under the radar even on her wedding day.
Drawing from the language of gangsterism, sports, accountancy and marketing (as one commentator put it, the White House tapes read like the proceedings of a minor advertising agency in hell), the most secretive and manipulative White House of modern times gave the world a unique insight into the rugged vernacular of power, from which more sculpted rhetoric was never to recover.
Butler has since retracted the confession, and his defense team argued that a manipulative FBI agent essentially dictated the statement to the exhausted scientist.
The STABLO series is a great case study in manipulative Discogs hype.
Supporters of conservative Sen. Robert A. Taft ("Mr. Republican") charged that they had been unfairly denied delegates by Ike's manipulative Eastern Establishment backers.
This cathartic exchange which had been a long time coming arrives during an overproduced celebrity quiz show, directed by an emotionally manipulative JD Salinger.
