Sentence examples for shrewd manipulation from inspiring English sources
Instead, it's the author's shrewd manipulation of imagery that seems to make the novel work.
Indeed, Mr López Obrador is beginning to resemble Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Zapatista guerrilla movement, in his shrewd manipulation of the media to draw attention to himself while actually delivering very little.Meanwhile, Mr Calderón is quietly preparing the transition.
But to take Emin in particular: she may have loathed Thatcher in the 1980s, and may even, for a time, have resisted the idea of Charles Saatchi buying her work because of the part he played in Conservative election campaigns, but her generation of Britartists, with their cunning commercialism and shrewd manipulation of the media are (it is not new to suggest) absolutely Thatcher's children.
Prices were also affected by the company's shrewd manipulation of demand: De Beers has many convinced that the proper price for an engagement ring is two months' salary.
We must be able to distinguish between pent-up hatreds that date back centuries and shrewd political manipulation.
Hedda has strong emotions but she is too guarded and conventional; she cannot show them except through manipulation and shrewd malice.
Her enemies wrote her history, reducing her shrewd politics and managerial competence to sexual manipulation.
In "The Elementary Particles," shrewd links were proposed between sexual liberation and spiritual emptiness, Judeo-Christianity and genetic manipulation.
It's the kind of bored manipulation you come to expect from the Plastics, the pack of hallway-shrewd and glamorous teenage queens who use subtle terror to rule the high school that Cady (Ms. Lohan) attends.
He is extraordinarily shrewd, monumentally ambitious, industrious, driven, astute about others' strengths and weaknesses, and supremely artful in his manipulations.
