Sentence examples for manipulative trick from inspiring English sources

It's a manipulative trick, and unfortunately, most of the constituents that find themselves manipulated by it, they know not what they do.

, recycling the same negative statements is a manipulative trick to make criticism appear more prevalent than it is.

Some might think that weeping itself is a manipulative trick, a childish ploy and shedding tears can indeed be exactly that.

Can the safeties not fall for Drew Brees's manipulative tricks?

Lukas, whose manipulative tricks and eventual repentance were vividly illuminated by the bright-voiced tenor Garrett Sorenson, sulks, drinks and flirts with other women.

But he will win over many a cynic with the match itself which is shot and edited with all the manipulative tricks he can muster.

He's not even the only one behind all this; the cheap manipulative tricks mentioned here are commonplace in reality TV formats the world over.

McCarey, however, skillfully balanced potentially maudlin moments with music and moments of low comedy, and he filmed scenes of sweetness and generosity with a calm simple detachment devoid of manipulative tricks.

Justin and Mila watch a fictional slushy-weepy on video and derisively deconstruct all the genre's manipulative tricks – but the movie finds itself doing some very similar things.

Just as F.D.R. appointed Joseph P. Kennedy as first chairman of the S.E.C. because that predator knew all the manipulative tricks, Bush chose Kissinger because the old operator can see through the secret obfuscations he mastered long ago.

By the nineteen-fifties, as Vance Packard recounted in "The Hidden Persuaders," his exposé of the manipulative tricks used by marketers, the height of packaging sophistication was "a box that, when the entranced shopper picked it up and began fingering it, would give a soft sales talk, or stress the brand name.