Sentence examples for was there something manipulative from inspiring English sources

Was there something manipulative about this?

Or is there something in the gospels that reaches beyond manipulative institutions to echoes in listeners' experience, that challenges their deeply entrenched instincts (the imperative in all holy books to love your neighbour, to take just one, which cuts across our natural instinct for selfishness and self-preservation)?

He seemed to lose interest in fiction as an art form perhaps he thought there was something manipulative or inauthentic about literary device and authorial control".

"There is something manipulative about 'creating' a psychological belief that there may be 'life after death' or that 'my body is the only thing that dies, but some non-corporeal entity may live on,'" he says.

Something interesting was there.

There was something there, something unexpected.

There was really something there".

There's something there".

But there is something there.

"So there is something there"..

… There is something smaller in there, and there is something that drives that smaller thing.