Sentence examples for manipulative tricks from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

For all their gripping readability, his first two novels, "Presumed Innocent" (1987) and "The Burden of Proof" (1990), relied on manipulative narrative tricks to string the reader along, and his last novel, "Personal Injuries" (1999), harbored few compelling secrets, revealing up front who the bad guys were and how they'd been working their scam.

During his adventure, Moebius, a manipulative sorcerer, tricks Kain into orchestrating the destruction of the vampire race: Kain is left the last surviving vampire in Nosgoth.

Self-proclaimed psychic mediums John Edward and Char Margolis have made their fortunes by using manipulative psychological tricks and other devious methods to pretend that they can communicate with people's deceased family members.