"manipulative power" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a person's power, usually in a negative way, to manipulate or control others. For example, "The CEO used his manipulative power over all the employees to get what he wanted."
The trope of seduction in which Richard displays his manipulative power with Lady Anne is used again with Elizabeth.
Nothing better illustrates the slick, manipulative power of euphemism than the fact that our dialogue takes seriously this non-term.
The manipulative power of the popular commercial culture is summoned up with something like a repulsive reverence.
And in acting out the exercises he required the dancer to try — what she calls his manipulative power games — he appears to be doing penance.
The actor's achievement is to marry this manner to the chillingly hypnotic, manipulative power and psychopathic emotional dissociation we saw in his recent brilliant portrayal of serial killer Fred West in the TV play Appropriate Adult.
Using various techniques, like convincingly staging the postwar interrogation of one Nazi cameraman as if it were real, she calls attention to how deceptive documentary footage can be, as well as the manipulative power of film itself.
Mr. Siegel proved the standout of the show, his clarion, expressive tenor and compelling theatrical nuances resulting in a richly drawn interpretation of Siegfried's manipulative, power-hungry foster father.
And it is audience-winning, especially in the giddy, humorous interplay between Portia (Kate Forbes as a sexy, manipulative, power-driven modern woman, as much shrew as shrewd) and Nerissa, Veronica Wattt, an affectionate and assertive maid and friend).
They know that Caleb and Camille are weakening, losing their once-formidable manipulative powers.
The man in the street is no longer naïve about the manipulative powers of the camera.
The view of women as wielding considerable manipulative powers offers an interesting counterpoint to the usual descriptions of male dominance.
