Sentence examples for slightly manipulative from inspiring English sources

Every relationship becomes slightly manipulative, including your relationship with yourself.

Shadows is fluent, affecting, and with its calculated echoes of Zweig, Sebald and Némirovsky, ever so slightly manipulative.

Although at times some of the editing feels slightly manipulative, it is outweighed by the genuine honesty and emotion of the subjects.

The slightly manipulative narration of this-person-is-paying-attention is a version of something Lemov calls Narrate the Positive; Ball's preferred approach, acting as if the distracted student was actually just not able to hear was Lemov's Assume the Best; and getting and holding the floor by adopting a different persona — that was what Lemov calls Strong Voice.

Interestingly, the little boy at the movie's centre is an unspeakably obnoxious brat: imperious, manipulative, slightly obsessive-compulsive. Perhaps all film directors have a little of these qualities somewhere in their pasts.

"If a mom is slightly disempowered or emotionally manipulative in some way, it's because she hasn't learned to say clearly and openly what she needs," Hasseldine tells VICE.

Pink cites lots of great research showing that rather than seeing sales as a collaborative, mutually beneficial process of finding a fit between need and offer, as I've described above, people tend to see it as manipulative, pushy, inauthentic, slightly sleazy.

SMT spinal manipulative therapy (spinal manipulation).

Our study shows that manipulative therapy in addition to UMC accelerates recovery, is slightly more effective on the long term, but is associated with higher costs compared to UMC alone up to 26 weeks after initiation of treatment.

Moreover, Ferreira et al. obtained slightly better short-term function and perceptions of effects with motor control exercise or spinal manipulative therapy with respect to general exercise [ 13].

The story essentially revolves around Mr. Harding, a good natured but slightly weak episcopal minister, trying to find his way, alongside his extended family, amongst the catty and manipulative ecclesiastical hierarchy plying its "business" in the shadow of Barchester Cathedral.