Sentence examples for manipulative ways from inspiring English sources

There are those who use his AIDS in obviously manipulative ways.

Your resolution is that you get to be free of him and his controlling and manipulative ways.

They abandoned him when he balked at their manipulative ways - and now they have surfaced again, adding intrigue to the sometimes moribund heavyweight division.

So Clara's Say Anything moment happens after she herself turns soldier, complicit in this Doctor's apparently dangerous, manipulative ways, leading Maisie to her certain death.

Ms. Flanagan is mesmerizing as the matriarch, Rose, a shop steward at the town's ailing sewing factory and a doting mother who has her own manipulative ways and secret life.

Metro Manila/United Kingdom, Philippines (Director: Sean Ellis, Screenwriters: Sean Ellis, Frank E. Flowers) — Seeking a better life, Oscar and his family move from the poverty-stricken rice fields to the big city of Manila, where they fall victim to various inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily part of city survival.

"Daily News Blues" is an unflattering portrait of the manipulative way he believes tabloids operate.

It is certainly a rather manipulative way of trying to disqualify public criticism of corporate behaviour altogether.

The manipulative way the interviews appeared to have been gathered for the UniMac segment alone discredits the entire film.

It reinforces it, by leaving open the possibility that there might be a less flagrantly manipulative way for an intelligentsia to determine the lives of the common people.

The problems with internal polls may run deeper than the tendency for campaigns to report them to the public in a selective or manipulative way.