'manipulative powers' is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to a person or group of people who are able to influence others in a manipulative way. For example: "The politician wielded manipulative powers to convince the public to vote in their favor."
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.
Many strong, smart women get into violent relationships and stay for reasons that have more to do with the manipulative powers of hope and love than low self-esteem.
Third, and finally, the assumption of an upright posture has brought the distal portions of the hind, now lower, extremities back into the role of feet, while those of the front, now upper, extremities have developed remarkable manipulative powers and are called hands.
Arming his audience with voting cards displaying his own face on one side, and the slavering Dog on the other, Zaltzman boldly contemplates genetic modification, the Middle East conflict, rail disasters, the manipulative powers of the press, Republican politics, Ruskin and Francis Bacon.
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.
