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"manipulative" Definitions
  1. (disapproving) showing skill at influencing somebody or forcing somebody to do what you want, often in an unfair way
  2. (formal) connected with the ability to handle objects with skill

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Take care in being too emotionally manipulative -- or depressing.
Even with Eleven, whom she calls Jane, Kali is manipulative.
Which is almost laughable, given how manipulative it can be!
Snow falls, music plays, and it all feels very manipulative.
" If Taylor as a woman plans something she is "manipulative.
"Political activist" covers more than half of Bay's manipulative accounts.
Sidney sounds more and more like a manipulative crazy person.
He told me stories and was thoughtful, inquisitive, and manipulative.
Speidi come across as manipulative villains, while Lauren seems genuine.
"I used it as a manipulative tool, unfortunately," she says.
Manipulative timing is a key element of dark pattern design.
Michael is by turns charming and intelligent, manipulative and vulnerable.
He was astounded by my suggestion that this was manipulative.
Maybe. She definitely has this manipulative aspect to her personality.
Pay close attention, people can be shady and manipulative today.
Granted, having her drugged and hallucinating felt a bit manipulative.
Every aspect of "Fairview" has a slyly manipulative raison d'être.
Granted, much of horror still remains cheap, manipulative and schlocky.
Now, some candidates themselves are turning to such manipulative tactics.
You are negotiating with a manipulative, erratic, and murderous dictator.
"He was manipulative, vulgar, selfish and greedy," Mr. Solomon said.
It's more effective than ruinous empathy or manipulative insincerity, definitely.
Related: Taylor Swift Slams Scooter Braun for 'Manipulative Bullying' After He Acquires Her Music Catalog "All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I've received at his hands for years," she continued.
She's just as manipulative as they are (if not more so).
So yes, some chimpanzees, like some humans, are just manipulative assholes.
Trump has long used manipulative techniques to get what he wants.
The agenda of these clubs is exercised through subtle, manipulative devices.
In truth, most Libras have no idea how manipulative they are.
"We knew that our boss could be manipulative", they go on.
Like eventually, it always becomes manipulative, no matter what you do.
These manipulative user interfaces intentionally limit understanding and undermine consumer choice.
At least Jughead sees the manipulative dynamic for what it is.
Was Lisa Vanderpump manipulative and obfuscatory and impossible to pin down?
This was like a manipulative, like, 'I wanna break you' thing.
But I understand that could have felt a little bit manipulative.
The film closes with snapshots of LaBeouf with his dad; manipulative,
But dogs can also be sneakily manipulative when they're super hungry.
NEWARK — David Wildstein is a serial prankster and a manipulative liar.
Be careful for a tricky (or even manipulative) conversation this evening.
It is also more manipulative — gestures designed to generate a response.
Swift, meanwhile, often reads to the public as manipulative and controlling.
Domestic ideologues adopt the manipulative distribution tactics used by foreign propagandists.
The character was psychotic, manipulative, dishonest, and had very murderous tendencies.
Or would such a move be petty, short-sighted, and manipulative?
It's a safe, sanitized environment which is often critiqued as manipulative.
" Twelve months in, "How to End a Controlling or Manipulative Relationship.
They've warped politics, they've been manipulative, they've breached privacy too often.
He is elusive and conniving, earnest and manipulative, brutal and desperate.
He orders his son to perform fellatio like a manipulative general.
They are puckish, emotionally manipulative, charming, scatalogically fixated, hilarious, and resilient.
Isn't this album a shameless, conniving, manipulative slice of feelgood escapism?
Then there's Trish's troublesome relationship with her controlling and manipulative mother.
Abusive relationships, all the sleazy manipulative tactics abusers use, and also kaiju.
Since we are dealing with actual beings, there are also manipulative beings.
" Meanwhile, Caelynn tells Colton that Hannah B. is "manipulative", "deceitful" and "toxic.
"Each lesson takes a brief turn for the frighteningly manipulative," Hayden writes.
"She was quite in charge, quite demanding and quite manipulative," he said.
And having a star image doesn't make a celebrity manipulative or fake.
I found the manipulative final scene a musical and dramatic battering ram.
They're both manipulative, but neither of them was ever straight-up evil.
" Meanwhile, Caelynn told Underwood that Hannah B. is "manipulative", "deceitful" and "toxic.
He was biblically evil, absolute in his cruelty, manipulative like the adder.
And of course marketing and consumer research is always a bit manipulative.
First, he pulls the dead mom card, which is horrible and manipulative.
Aren't there subtler and more manipulative ways to get under someone's skin?
Political journalists sometimes turn against campaigns that they feel are too manipulative.
But for some cinephiles, Williams represents Spielberg's most manipulative and sentimental instincts.
Power struggles will definitely come up, and manipulative tactics will be employed.
At least Angela gets the last laugh at her awful, manipulative boyfriend.
The business model isn't necessarily malicious, but it is manipulative and dishonest.
At first glance, Nas seems strong, complex and even a bit manipulative.
He probably had serious mental problems and some kind of manipulative disorder.
Vanity sizing is shady, manipulative, and — let's be honest — just plain irritating.
So try one that's more manipulative,' or whatever we got to do.
The stridently theatricalized violence is horrific only because it's so abjectly manipulative.
The manipulative incidental music is abundant, as are the heart-wrenching scenarios.
Name Withheld Your friend treated her spouse in an appallingly manipulative way.
Such people, he said, might be overly emotional, unpredictable, manipulative and exploitative.
" Nicholas Bouchard described him as "in very subtle ways extremely emotionally manipulative.
"That to me feels very manipulative, and I resent it," Fischer said.
It's an idea that could have been exploitative, manipulative or literal-minded.
An especially manipulative co-worker keeps rising at the expense of others.
We have a manipulative liar with autocratic tendencies as the American president.
"Covert, manipulative behaviours have no place on our service," the company said.
This problem is exacerbated in an age of manipulative polarization and tribalization.
Here, Alaska can be mean, jealous, and manipulative, all with a glance.
It makes women seem ignorant, passive and easily duped by manipulative men.
Pluto has a dark side, though, and can be greedy or manipulative.
Dispatches from Elsewhere is emotionally intelligent, but in a dark, manipulative fashion.
Zero arguments show the dangerous bias & manipulative character of this editorial. Shame.
But he was so manipulative, you didn't think about it another way.
People call Scorpios manipulative, but like, have they ever met a Gemini?
Amma strikes me as someone who is very good at being emotionally manipulative.
They both give the same answer: The other is manipulative and a liar.
Moves like that show that Facebook is grappling with its most manipulative propagandists.
Rooted deeply in realism, his work is moving without being manipulative or melodramatic.
James has his ups and downs, but they aren't manipulative, cheap, or calculated.
Alas, that is more of another broken reed and a blatantly manipulative attempt.
Number one, I was fairly good at this kind of silly manipulative exercise.
Why would you want to be dating someone who's being that manipulative anyway?
Nope. It was just his way of being nice — and it felt manipulative.
The researchers found that was largely because participants felt their partners were manipulative.
I had one friend in particular in grade school who was horribly manipulative.
I'm now dating a very wonderful man who isn't the least bit manipulative.
In Jhabvala's fiction, gurus are, to a man, grifting, lecherous, manipulative—and successful.
Where Symes was manipulative and cool, Ampleford is perhaps best described as cruel.
In other words, these films come off as transparently inauthentic, trite, and manipulative.
The entitled, manipulative narcissists for whom lying is a means to an end.
At home, it seems, Mr. Schneiderman was a sexual sadist and manipulative misogynist.
I didn't realise the extent of Harvey Weinstein's manipulative and calculated predatory behaviour.
But its triumphant revenge narrative manages to balance out such shamelessly manipulative elements.
"And, in capital letters, abusive and manipulative and toxic in his personal relationships."
As a purely emotional experience it succeeds without feeling too manipulative or maudlin.
Not a syrupy, manipulative empathy but a rigorous one, meant as a corrective.
As the nexus of the play's drama, Felt capably inhabits the manipulative Abigail.
Mars is impulsive and quick to act, while Pluto is shady and manipulative.
Hassan is convinced that Trump is more than just a manipulative, charismatic politician.
Investors claimed they lost money as a result of the exchanges' manipulative conduct.
The gaslighter may not even know he is doing anything strategic or manipulative.
Friends and family describe her as brilliant and charming but also greedy and manipulative.
No doubt, in her desire to get what she wants she can be manipulative.
We are being pulled apart by manipulative forces that we then give in to.
"His reactions were out of proportion and manipulative," one former actor told BuzzFeed News.
Their affair was consensual, Marnò said, but manipulative and an abuse of his power.
Arnaud's character on Midnight, Texas, Manfred Bernardo, is lacking Cesare's dastardly, politically manipulative ways.
He emphasized that the US does not view these programs as "manipulative" or threatening.
However GDPR requires consent to be informed and freely given, not baffling and manipulative.
Everyone is way too hard on Sansa Manipulative and opportunistic, but never without reason.
You can avoid manipulative people by getting a second opinion from a trustworthy friend.
So do the manipulative business practices of platforms, as well as their anticompetitive behavior.
Contracts between farmers and their partners are opaque at best, and manipulative at worst.
She was brilliant, funny, beautiful, generous, vindictive, deceitful, tender, manipulative, abusive, loving, and intimidating.
"We know that human nature is still there because he's very manipulative," says Derick.
The show's plot twists — and there are a couple — never feel manipulative or forced.
I don't respect her, and I think she is a self-serving, manipulative opportunist.
"[Belafonte's] kindness quickly turned sour as he became controlling, manipulative and abusive," she said.
So she traded (imperfect!) journalism for really manipulative entertainment that sometimes poses as journalism.
Yoga students and studios are grappling with inappropriate, manipulative and exploitative teachers and teachings.
But Sierra is manipulative and nasty underneath the facade of a nice, shy girl.
Manipulative as a cattle prod, Michel Legrand's score nudges Max toward Eva's secret past.
Snakes have evident associations — erotic, menacing, manipulative — that inform the tensions within each image.
Name Withheld You must know that what you're doing is horribly manipulative and disrespectful.
Celeste refuses to comply — an important step in her defying his emotionally manipulative behavior.
" In 2008-2009 he played a manipulative polygamist on the HBO series "Big Love.
Social media companies must step up efforts to combat manipulative behavior on their platforms.
On bad days, Venus is vain and vulgar and Pluto is manipulative and shady.
But things are shaky by the end—be mindful of obsessive or manipulative behavior.
People with this condition are frequently described as arrogant, self centered, manipulative and demanding.
It was disappointing to see, as well as manipulative — an underhanded ultimatum in itself.
He added that Mr. Madsen was manipulative and lacked empathy and feelings of guilt.
He was manipulative as far back as we can look in his personal history.
The associative structure of these stories feels neither random nor manipulative, just delightfully unexpected.
As reprehensible and manipulative as she is, Madame Satan is also a subversive delight.
Carrie Fisher played Rob's blunt, manipulative mom, with whom Sharon shares a mutual aversion.
Or, is it manipulative for companies to try to use empathy to sell products?
This is intentionally manipulative behavior on behalf of the insurance company to reduce cost.
The Truth Campaign portrayed tobacco companies as manipulative entities that took advantage of teenagers.
They've gone around doing manipulative and deceptive things and striven to keep them secret.
Intimate issues come to the fore, and yes: Do watch out for manipulative behavior.
"I think the jury's out," Mr. Sorofman said, referring to native ads as manipulative.
All of this was either spectacularly tone-deaf or purposefully manipulative and agenda-driven.
I know it was manipulative to sell ... I know it's to sell to women.
Meanwhile the development of new technologies could cause the tech firms' manipulative capabilities to rise.
It's entirely likely that all ecosystems feel the impacts of at least one manipulative parasite.
Emily has her flaws: She's a total snob, she's controlling, she's manipulative, and she's difficult.
Machiavellianism— The belief that the ends justify the means, no matter how manipulative or callous.
This is a story of a man blinded by paternal pride and a manipulative cult.
Is Hardin a manipulative jerk molded in the style of Christian Grey, as some say?
And the team's leader, a brusque and manipulative psychologist, has ulterior motives for her crew.
He is sort of manipulative, he's clever, he's quick, and he's quite cutthroat as well.
Watch out for jealous or manipulative vibes, but do break out your favorite leather underwear.
Or, he's going full Kill Bill on a manipulative academic who sleeps with his students.
People will be hungry for attention and affection; watch out for obsessive or manipulative energy.
I don't mind an ironic critique of media conventions, but it feels slightly manipulative here.
Just passive aggressive, manipulative — it feels like women can be sometimes smarter in those situations.
Once a lovable underdog goofball, Kyle comes into FR as a heartless, lying, manipulative… pirate.
The parts were imbued a knowing, manipulative intelligence, as if possessed; they played with you.
There's also a narrative twist that's unexpected and clever, but pretty shamelessly manipulative as well.
Or will that make you look greedy, manipulative, and uninterested in the job you have?
He was sweet, caring, manipulative, controlling, appealing, repulsive, daring, reserved, creative, unoriginal—all at once.
They will help protect farmers from some of the most manipulative practices in the industry.
Thankfully, Archie realizes he's drowning in privilege and cuts things off with the manipulative Blossoms.
People hate her because she's a terrible, manipulative person who uses sympathy as a weapon.
Addison could grow up be a high school english teacher instead of a manipulative adult.
Do we need another excuse for the media to be branded as fake or manipulative?
Teenagers were found to choose healthier snacks once they better understood manipulative food industry practices.
While unbearably sad — but also beautiful — at times, the show is not mawkish or manipulative.
Both sides see a manipulative villain at play (liberal media lies vs hostile foreign propaganda).
But when misused or abused, personalized choice architecture can turn into a destructive manipulative force.
Warner cited an earlier version of Facebook's Messenger app as an example of manipulative interface.
Passion is important, but don't bet on someone who is manipulative or can't be trusted.
Which means it's expert at extracting outcomes from people by applying these manipulative dark arts.
Manipulative advertising, marketing, and self-help industries claim happiness should be ours for the asking.
Taylor Swift, they declared, was a manipulative, cold-blooded snake and this video proved it.
The trick is shamelessly manipulative, but it lends the movie an ominousness that's powerfully magnetic.
She is highly intuitive—but can use that power for evil sometimes, becoming emotionally manipulative.
His fortune is dwindling, a manipulative girlfriend wants what's left, and family unity eludes him.
It seeks to achieve dominance through a whirlwind of individually meaningless but cumulatively manipulative statements.
I won't repeat what he said because it's deliberately misleading and designed to be manipulative.
Manson's songs may have been doggerel, but he was a master of manipulative hippie jargon.
In many war movies, this is handled in a way that feels manipulative and false.
In reality, abortion providers were the only people I found who weren't manipulative and coercive.
He was extremely emotionally manipulative, so I call K. and fight back tears before class.
It is time to expose Senator Mitch McConnell for the manipulative politician that he is.
They are manipulative, petty and vindictive whenever they are not equally honest, loving and forgiving.
In China, the English initials PUA refer to both the man and his manipulative techniques.
Savage's posts accuse the embattled singer of controlling and manipulative behavior as well as abuse.
The prose is vivid and compelling, it's a page-turner without the glaring, manipulative tricks.
They made suggestions about inclusivity, protecting users from manipulative attackers and limits on data collection.
He supposedly practiced osteopathic manipulative medicine but in truth, he was simply a master manipulator.
Dumbledore and Harry's relationship was important and empathetic but also deeply manipulative on Dumbledore's part.
The louder and more manipulative something is, the longer it dominates our little glass rectangles.
It's an effective story, although the ending is a bit overly manipulative for my taste.
The briefing will offer regulatory views and enforcement actions against spoofing and other manipulative trading activity.
She's an egomaniac, shrewd, and manipulative — but also fascinating, complicated, and in her own way, loving.
Kaiser appears in various guises, which vary from idealistically naive to stupid, from knowing to manipulative.
The project seems very manipulative and intended to create a sort of false sense of meaning.
Children, the elderly and people with mental and cognitive disabilities must be protected against manipulative nudges.
Watch out for a manipulative conversation, but be open to seeing things in a new light.
Far from being an objective record of reality, it was seen as agenda-ridden and manipulative.
It takes a political ideal and uses it in manipulative support of some other political ideal.
In addition to being rude, egotistical, and manipulative liar, Colin is also a demeaning, sexist asshole.
That means he isn't just violent and cruel, but also manipulative, and capable of manufactured emotions.
And it is as simple as forcing manipulative organizations to simply, and clearly, state the facts.
It wasn't important anymore that bitter internet trolls were calling me a manipulative money-grubbing ingrate.
Towards the end of our relationship he started to become very possessive, manipulative, and quite abusive.
The act is manipulative and painful, and no one should have to deal with it alone.
Over the next decades, the friendship is tested by excessive candor, manipulative men, and hurtful revelations.
"Beauty Queen," the story of an Irish spinster and her manipulative mother, begins performances on Jan.
"Looking back, it's one of the most manipulative things anyone's ever done to me," he remembered.
The SEC's Rule 206(4)-1{here} prohibits advertising practices that are fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative.
You're perfect"), "manipulative and abusive comments" ("[The guys he assumed I was dating] are all boys.
Call in a third party to help mediate if you sense that manipulative moves are afoot.
Choose wisely, for the game serves emotionally manipulative responses, eliciting feelings of frustration, triumph, and shame.
Throughout Size Zero, Dauxerre characterizes the agent who scouted her as venal, manipulative, incompetent, and misogynistic.
"I don't think he was doing anything deliberately dishonest or manipulative," Mr. Skinner said of Brandergy.
That effort makes "Actually" a rich and disturbing case study, if one that is also manipulative.
Unfortunately, manipulative people are often aware of this, and they can use this to their advantage.
The manipulative method wasn't as "obnoxiously apparent," said Ms. Franklin, because it happened over Facebook Messenger.
"Your decision to assault was precise, calculated, manipulative, devious, despicable," she told Dr. Nassar in part.
But his magnanimity was studied, and he could be ruthlessly manipulative when he needed to be.
Mars opposes Neptune on this day, so watch out for lazy, sleazy, lying, or manipulative people.
She became manipulative, two-faced, and condescending towards me for reasons I'm still unsure of today.
The one quality that binds together all of ITs psychologically manipulative powers, and makes IT possible?
Oracle has engaged in "poorly informed and often manipulative speculation" about the bidding, it told reporters.
I mean, it is manipulative and maudlin, but in a way that seems fair and transparent.
They are baptizing a new generation into a stream of destructive theology through emotionally manipulative music.
Be clear that you're also not manipulative or jealous, with yourself and with other parties involved.
The machinations were of a piece with the manipulative habits of the two egos in chief.
For them to propagate this analogy in the name of human rights is cynical and manipulative.
So when Fogelman handles this sort of plot well, it's manipulative, yes, but it's also cathartic.
How can policies allow for civically "good" bots while stopping those that are repressive or manipulative?
Braun, she declared, was an "incessant, manipulative bully," and now he owned all of her masters.
One could argue that Nintendo's strategy here is more manipulative than what most other game companies do.
Because we even see Conrad's mom saying that she had specifically warned him about manipulative young girls.
The groups say kids are also provided access to adult content and exposed to manipulative advertising practices.
She implies that they wanted the relationship to happen, and are being "manipulative" now to "blackmail" Kelly.
I wouldn't love somebody that I would say preys on the weak, is manipulative, is a liar.
Indeed, talk of ''how you get ahead'' seems to acknowledge the manipulative nature of what's going on.
When those conversations are used in a manipulative way that's not intended, then I've got a problem.
" But while he found the situation "sleazy and manipulative," he said "it was not … intimidating or pushy.
"Honestly, I think it's fucking stupid that people think that's manipulative," Paul says in Dawson's latest video.
Pluto is a complex planet: Its energy can be transformative, and it has a shady, manipulative side.
Mercury is the planet of the mind, and Pluto is an intense energy, often obsessive, jealous, manipulative.
They are strong and they are free; they are also imperfect; they are manipulative and complex characters.
" I asked her if she had found the event manipulative, and she said: "Of course it was!
You don't have time for manipulative people who abuse their authority—so don't give it to them!
Someone we think is a total sweetheart in public can be a manipulative dick behind closed doors.
But enough advertising today is already manipulative and misleading, albeit in a grossly inept kind of way.
She tried acupuncture, osteopathic manipulative treatment and several other pain-relief methods before finally turning to opioids.
You wouldn't like this kind of emotionally manipulative behavior if a human was doing it to you.
Sharon told me that she has never used manipulative techniques to persuade women to continue their pregnancies.
"He's an ignorant, amoral, dishonest and manipulative, misogynistic, philandering, hyper-litigious, isolationist, protectionist blowhard," Mr. Vlock said.
And it was as manipulative as anything the Deus Group ever did, albeit on a smaller scale.
All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I've received at his hands for years.
Technology enables not only high quality production values and manipulative advertising, but instant communications through social media.
She described his actions as manipulative, especially since she was willing to do partial nudity or lingerie.
What's more, his ruthless, manipulative boss, the aforementioned Walter Burns, has no intention of letting Hildy go.
The overall effect is an unsettling equation of being bisexual with being untrustworthy, manipulative, and morally bankrupt.
Finally, as if with fresh eyes, I saw how manipulative and pathetic all of his tactics were.
"I bought small manipulative toys for motor skills practice," Rosie Wilson, a preschool teacher from Pennsylvania, said.
Has a member of that profession ever been anything but manipulative and superficial in a rom-com?
His Bill is the most blatantly manipulative of the characters, which means the most likely to succeed.
The second movement, innocently titled Waltz, emerged in this performance as a slyly luxurious, darkly manipulative dance.
Cardi's fans on Twitter called Offset selfish and manipulative, and wondered how he could be so audacious.
So yes, it was very manipulative; I think clearly it was a strategy to gain various advantages.
Your resolution is that you get to be free of him and his controlling and manipulative ways.
In a season where the Bachelorette demanded bullshit-free honesty, Mike delivered with endearing, non-manipulative pathos.
He applied his strategy when probing former trader Kamaldeep Gandhi, who admitted to manipulative futures trading practices.
"She wasn't manipulative," said Lisanne Sartor, a former Yale student who is now a writer and director.
"He's charismatic, smart, manipulative and a clear threat to the old Fatah guard in Ramallah," he said.
Just be sure you're not being manipulative or overpowering—Pluto can grip onto things way too tightly.
This part is called the "take away" and just thinking about it makes me feel so manipulative.
But then something happened that makes sense only from a manipulative mindset: Prices soared to over $3,800.
"We could be calling Aries tyrannical, or we could be calling Cancers manipulative wet noodles," she says.
Some of the questions raised by Ms. Pelosi and the Democrats are manipulative games for political advantage.
If you grew up in an emotionally manipulative family, it is an incredibly difficult habit to break.
This pretend FBI is manipulative and power-mad, missing altogether what's most frightening—the banality of bureaucracy.
She may be a manipulative narcissist, but she's behaving more honorably than any other former Trump appointee.
Depending on who you ask, Abel is either a manipulative nuisance or the Donatello of derisory deception.
She described him as "arrogant, deceptive, cynical, manipulative asshole," adding in a "fuck you" for good measure.
The suit, which is seeking class action status, claims the parties engaged in manipulative precious metals futures trading.
The problem when it comes to manipulative parasites is this bias seeps into our understanding of these manipulations.
Cersei clawed her way into becoming Queen of Westeros by wielding her ruthless, manipulative intelligence at every turn.
I said I wouldn't read the whole thing there because it felt really manipulative, got up, and left.
Kwan's novels are bursting with singular, unforgettable characters — like Rachel's Singaporean best friend, and Nick's cold, manipulative mother.
She knew the man in the back of her car was a criminal, likely a violent, manipulative one.
He was a lying, manipulative, dangerous, spineless mouthpiece for the most destructive and racist president in recent history.
If they do not want to host content they deem abusive or manipulative, they do not have to.
If they kill off my favorites, I expect those deaths are going to feel arbitrary, manipulative, and cheap.
Hubbard was manipulative and physically abusive toward his partners, beating and punching them on more than one occasion.
But pretending that viral fame is simply a matter of "deciding your destiny" isn't just simplistic; it's manipulative.
"The economic and manipulative aims that feed disinformation are rooted in a thirst for power," the Pope says.
Laurel might be the smartest member of the Keating Four; at the very least, she's the most manipulative.
It could be a classic comeuppance tale, but something about this public dispute is both manipulative and retrograde.
Unfortunately, in Beyoncé's case, when her lyrics aren't warmed-over and cliched, they're vulgar, ugly, manipulative and destructive.
At 6:01 PM, it clashes with power planet Pluto in Capricorn, so watch out for manipulative behavior.
Pluto has a reputation for being manipulative, but let's be real—you know how to manipulate the manipulators!
Both men are powerful, manipulative, and more often than not, deem women as objects to possess and control.
We got Kenya arriving at LAX after Matt aired their dirty laundry on Instagram and called Kenya manipulative.
The last thing fans saw was an upset Jordan calling Moore "manipulative and fundamentally deceptive" before speeding off.
This time it's something much scarier, and much more dangerous: the cocky, manipulative slut-shaming high school boy.
Another specific prejudice about people with bipolar disorder is that they can't be trusted—that they're manipulative liars.
I had horrific, horrific abuse, and an absolute barrage of private messages from men, really manipulative, grooming messages.
But Taylor emphasizes the story's twists and turns instead, which ends up just making the film feel manipulative.
Pluto is transformative, but as the lord of the underworld, it's also shady as hell, obsessive, and manipulative.
White suspenders and crazy, poufed-up hair on a string bean must be more manipulative than I thought.
And we like to use broken versions of that to show how ridiculous and manipulative that can be.
Aside from that the ATM operator said online exchanges are vulnerable to manipulative trading activity and fund hacks.
"It was done exactly according to the rules," Mr. House said, denying claims of underhanded or manipulative tactics.
" It also found Moore's use of case law in the order to probate judges "incomplete, misleading, and manipulative.
He does this while dealing with his emotionally manipulative mother, his shockingly normal sister, and his homicidal father.
Hawk, naturally promiscuous and more than a little manipulative, doesn't want the cozy monogamy that Tim yearns for.
Savage also says Kelly was "manipulative" and told her repeated lies that she believed because she was young.
With one disturbingly manipulative move, Brady has bullied Tabitha into keeping a deeply personal image on the internet.
She fully expects it to be criticized as "manipulative and false," though it instead wins her critical acclaim.
Both people have failed and both people have done manipulative or negative things, or have committed some infidelity.
Underneath, he lacks conscience and empathy, making him manipulative, volatile and often (but by no means always) criminal.
It's not a conscious decision that these girls, or boys, who end up in manipulative relationships are making.
In Butler's sly portrayal, Peggy's manipulative insistence on her woes leaves her blind to how she strikes others.
Reiser played Carter Burke, an untrustworthy and manipulative corporate representative who sends the main character Ripley into danger.
As the party has become unmoored from positive belief, it has grown manipulative, demagogic and contemptuous of truth.
Pluto rules transformation and power, but it's still the lord of the underworld—obsessive, power hungry, and manipulative.
Many times, moments of authentic emotional divergence from the social script make the characters callous, manipulative, indifferent, mean.
I know such scenes can be mawkish and manipulative (Little Nell, etc.), but they get me every time.
He's funny, personable, and he treats our daughter well, but he's manipulative in a hipster-nice-guy way.
The New New World In China, teaching men the manipulative ways of the pickup artist became big business.
She said she decided to publicize the texts because, among other reasons, she felt Kavanaugh's communications were manipulative.
In interviews with The Times, seven women and more than a dozen associates described patterns of manipulative behavior.
Watch for obsessive thoughts or manipulative tactics; the energy could also be healing, especially if you're in therapy.
The women claim the son of legendary director John Landis has a pattern of manipulative and vicious behavior.
There are many culprits in Ms Mekhennet's stories: meddling Western governments, oppressive Arab rulers, manipulative preachers, poverty, Islamic tradition.
I don't know that she was aware enough, or cognizant enough, to be aware that she was being manipulative.
Be super careful today: The vibe is shady, manipulative, and obsessive, and people could lie straight to your face.
He will most likely push Lexie out first because the manipulative relationship he built with Harry is much stronger.
The Orlando-based water park operator responded to the film by calling it false, misleading and "emotionally manipulative" propaganda.
Because they are experts at controlling the narrative and spinning public perception, Scorpios can be manipulative and self-interested.
Trump's second problem is that his record of boorish and manipulative behavior is starting to catch up with him.
This became clear later in his career when he took on the manipulative polygamist Bill Henrickson in Big Love.
" An ex-member says that in hindsight, they see how true that is: "So much of it was manipulative.
These providers have additional training in hands-on, manipulative medicine to alleviate pain and restore function to bodily systems.
Freya is not only alive, but the embodiment of overprotective motherhood, one that is desperate, manipulative, weak, and secretive.
In a series of tweets, McElrath makes eerie comparisons between Trump's words and the common manipulative tactics of abusers.
Pluto is the planet of shady business, and it will expose you if you're being manipulative, vengeful, or dishonest.
Actually, seeing a highly intelligent, manipulative, and dangerous man like Ed in the first place is an awful idea.
Such emotionally manipulative tales of childhood maladies can race up Amazon bestseller lists, while spreading mistrust of medical science.
"You don't think she's ... manipulative?" she asks Rob afterward, trying to sell it as a joke but obviously failing.
But all that money was squandered, both on his lifestyle and on manipulative, false friends—people he invested in.
Rachel Weisz had a lot of fun playing the manipulative duchess of Marlborough in the Oscar-nominated The Favourite.
The first episode also features a kidnapped child -- perhaps the most manipulative device one can employ in these settings.
Cookie placates him, but she's really trying to placate her emerging feelings for the manipulative, good-for-nothing Lucious.
And, to be fair, Caelynn and Cassie have been presented, at least in this episode, as manipulative co-conspirators.
When these two planets clash, the vibe can be shady and manipulative, so keep an eye out for that.
Nevertheless, as she's shown in the past, she can be manipulative when it comes to her interactions with others.
So you call up your friend and he, like many manipulative people, knew you were in a vulnerable spot.
"Bibi Netanyahu is an arrogant, deceptive, cynical, manipulative asshole," she wrote, referring to the prime minister by his nickname.
It's no wonder that the show inspired "UnREAL," a scripted Lifetime series about, well, a manipulative reality dating show.
He built his career on manipulative videos that fed into fantastical right-wing narratives, particularly surrounding race and abortion.
Enforced by decades of sensationalist news stories and manipulative political platforms, punitive paranoia is inextricably tied to American culture.
His aunt, Kathryn, is his manipulative guide as she tries to take control of the family business Valmont International.
Weisz was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the manipulative duchess of Marlborough in The Favourite.
"I think it's one of the most manipulative kinds of people as it tends to just be a lure."
"All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I've received at [Braun's] hands for years," Swift wrote.
Crosby is not an emotionally manipulative writer: She wants her readers to understand her pain, not to pity it.
In the interest of journalism, I spent over $60 flirting with emotionally manipulative anime characters, and it fucking ruled.
Beyond that, Virgos are known to be manipulative—all tied up in being ruled by the planet Mercury, a.k.a.
Watch out for shady or manipulative people; bringing in a third party to help mediate is a great idea.
Zac Efron's portrayal of Bundy is in that same continuum, with his manipulative charisma and persistent claims of innocence.
Sentimental literature, in Solomon's view, is "tasteless, cheap, superficial and manipulative," which can also be said of Christmas films.
For Owen, it's his brother Jed (Billy Magnussen), a manipulative imp; for Annie, her estranged sister, Ellie (Julia Garner).
It's fine for a show to be emotionally manipulative — we know what we're getting, we're along for the ride.
It could be read as manipulative, that he's using Sam's emotional state to influence how Jon receives the news.
"It is problematic enough when everyday citizens help spread false, malicious, or manipulative information across social media," she writes.
"It's manipulative and cruel to do that, because there are people who could fall for it," Jennifer Bolshaw said.
Jules (Hunter Schafer) opens the series with a manipulative trip to adult man Cal Jacobs' (Eric Dane) motel room.
While the writing may be manipulative, the satisfaction persists because Negan still has to live with his own defeat.
From the beginning, I saw Donald Trump as a con man of the highest order: manipulative, dishonest, unprincipled, amoral.
He hides his intentions with excitable energy and a bright smile, which somehow feel less manipulative than the movie.
Pamela ultimately proves more manipulative than independent, engineering her parents' reconciliation, though Ms. Laing's performance has a beguiling mischievousness.
It's difficult to think of another a character as psychologically manipulative as Amber since Tom Ripley; she is thrilling.
Asked if he felt Sessions was being political or manipulative in using the term, Cornett threw his hands up.
Friends, associates and former tenants speaking in the news media have variously depicted the couple as misunderstood or manipulative.
In contrast, today's widely held caricature of an avaricious, selfish and manipulative crook is to me just plain wrong.
Based on what you&aposve told me, this man you&aposve been having an affair with is indeed manipulative.
Westbrook called Charles's choice to film a SugarBear ad just the latest in a string of crass, even manipulative behavior.
His example highlights the blurred line between a legitimate reputation campaign and one that crosses into unethical or manipulative territory.
We've all known someone who is manipulative, mean, and downright evil but what do you do if it's a child?
I hope this character will come across as a masterfully manipulative guy, so he needs to be seductive and charming.
You can easily see a different, past season, where the athletic leader who betrayed fewer people beats the manipulative schemer.
Not to spoil anything, but Beatrice might just be the smartest and most ingeniously manipulative survivor in the entire series.
The manipulative design choice echoes recent conversation around dark pattern design and likely explains why free filing services remain underutilized.
For all the tropes about manipulative professors, academics still seem to believe that graduate students are often their greatest enemies.
Shockingly, neither Frankie nor Mason was actually under the disguise — and neither was Cora's manipulative criminal boyfriend J.D. (Jacob Pitts).
The following is an excerpt from Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative And Emotionally Abusive People —And Break Free by Stephanie Sarkis, PhD.
But the character of a liberal and manipulative media — in cahoots with the Democratic Party — helps resolve the dissonant information.
He taught me that it's important leave a relationship that's tanking, especially if the partner in question is emotionally manipulative.
If you have the feeling you're being manipulative, it's time to exit whatever situation is making you act that way.
Vaping companies have had to get creative in how they market as to not "be seen as inappropriate and manipulative."
The CFTC first won new powers to go after manipulative "spoofing" in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law.
Throughout the series, Steve is not a textbook bad guy or nightmare boyfriend – but he's still unequivocally abusive and manipulative.
Scorpios are deeply loyal, brave, and passionate, extremely sexual and mystery, people but also they are secretive and sometimes manipulative.
It's rude and manipulative, especially from a reality TV pro like Ramona, who's been with the show since Day 1.
Thailand's foreign ministry in a note at the weekend criticized foreign journalists' coverage, describing some reports as "manipulative and provocative".
Ultimatums aren't always manipulative like this, though, and they can be a healthy way to solve a conflict, Derhally says.
" As if anticipating my puzzlement over what Patrick was getting out of this, Alig continued, "It isn't a manipulative relationship.
But the public needs to tell regulators now to strengthen safeguards, and not cave in to telecommunications carriers' manipulative tactics.
"The Leftovers" is full of grifters, too, among them Kevin's father, Kevin, Sr., a manipulative narcissist with a prophet's beard.
These malevolent actors continuously create manipulative content and shower the internet's leading platforms with their subversive falsehoods around the clock.
The worst place to be is the manipulative insincerity square, which is characterized by neither caring personally nor challenging directly.
But the American people were just given more information about how deceptive, how manipulative her people and her campaign were.
Evangelists like Jacobs are extreme in their methods and many regard them as manipulative at best and deceptive at worst.
She's certainly no stranger to manipulative men, but Littlefinger is a lot less easy to grasp than someone like Ramsay.
Pluto is the lord of the underworld—it's shady, mysterious, a fantastic detective, and, sometimes, manipulative and hungry for control.
This is especially important in a culture that generates so many contradictory and frankly manipulative messages about drugs and alcohol.
This commission would serve as a counterweight to the corrosive political influence and manipulative marketing practices of "Big Food" manufacturers.
A manipulative, sexually-harassing boss, robbed of "work," capers across the desktops of his office, laughing and tossing paper airplanes.
Judalon does a great job pretending to Diane Sawyer that she's not crazy, Oziel that he's not a manipulative monster.
All kinds of behavior — manipulative, passive; charming, tough; talkative, silent — emerged, to the point that the show became expressively incoherent.
It's focused on a master of manipulative marketing who has spent a lifetime selling a phony image to benefit himself.
It didn't matter that I had left my manipulative husband, the one who had become involved with the drug MDMA.
Lawmakers have become increasingly concerned about the potential havoc that manipulative media such as "deepfakes" could wreak on American society.
Manipulative and deceptive, Trump is renowned for his lies and for a commitment to them that seems profoundly self-destructive.
You used manipulative attempts and threats of self-harm to control Mr. Urtula and isolate him from friends and family.
Ukraine's top state arms conglomerate Ukroboronprom, which was also named in the investigation, issued a statement calling the report "manipulative".
"Our office has zero tolerance for fraudulent or manipulative conduct that undermines our financial markets," Underwood said in a statement.
How did we get to this place where "content" that solicits you to consume it feels invasive, manipulative or basic?
We also investigated claims of manipulative behavior by the musician Ryan Adams and the escape attempt of a Dubai princess.
Here's a closer look at some of the more manipulative ways that Google and Android harvest and funnel user data.
A film that deliberately amplifies Bundy's vainglorious courtroom showboating and manipulative sexual appeal is exactly what he would have wished for.
CA's tactics have also come under fire, because their use of psychographic targeting is seen as emotionally manipulative rather than persuasive.
"I will not fund another dime to allow (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to continue its manipulative tactics," she later added. Rep.
But her eyes may have served as a convincing, if not manipulative tool that allowed her to get away with it.
It's hard to know at this point whether Facebook did or did not offer a manipulative targeting product to its advertisers.
These scenes might sound silly or manipulative on paper, but they're more engaging than many of the MCU's digital action sequences.
Does the fact that it was done in-camera make it any less manipulative than if it were done in post?
Through his firm, Merlo says, candidates can commission all kinds of manipulative digital content and know that there's almost zero oversight.
And the problem is that there is such a giant mountain of manipulative and deceptive crap that nobody has enough time.
"Generally, people who engage in what we will say is this bad behavior are greedy, devious, narcissistic, manipulative, sociopathic," he said.
The other thing that makes watching The Bachelor great on Twitter is that the show, from the very start, IS manipulative.
I'd encourage women to consider sales as a career path — sometimes images of manipulative used-car salesmen types push people away.
The coalition had previously asked the FTC to investigate developers of children's apps aimed at preschoolers who were using manipulative advertising.
Its twists are manipulative, but they build directly onto the movie's themes, enhancing the central ideas instead of diverting from them.
On May 27, Mars reenters Scorpio, which is when people will really start playing dirty and being manipulative and passive-aggressive.
It's one of several steps that still need to be taken to eliminate manipulative, deceptive and retaliatory practices across the industry.
Pluto can be manipulative, jealous, or greedy—be grateful for everything that you have and understand the reasons you want more.
For him to give the young, manipulative Anika a stunning speech about her influence over Empire and a new job title?
Rita (April Bowlby) may have been hard-nosed and manipulative, but she was playing by the patriarchal rules of classic Hollywood.
Furthermore, while the "powerful political aide skilled in the dark, manipulative arts" is a common trope, Bannon isn't just any aide.
The more of these manic manipulative characters there are, the more we get used to seeing complex women in lead roles.
And because Steve is a fully realized character — blessed with desires, faults, and merits of his own — it never feels manipulative.
But it doesn't have quite the same manipulative magic as Facebook when it comes to generating revenue out of those users.
Instead, "Love & Friendship" provides us with a manipulative, vain and conniving protagonist who is more than willing to give into temptation.
Kathleen's sister, Constance Zamperini, reads a withering statement to the judge about the documentary itself, calling de Lestrade biased and manipulative.
She displays a wide array of moods and emotions and is convincingly vain and generous, manipulative and gullible, brave and frightened.
However, it could be quicker to catch manipulative behavior thought to contribute to them, potentially saving market watchdogs time and money.
It's not just manipulative and cynical, it diminishes the deep wisdom of our Christian faith, and that is offensive to us.
PK, whose shares have quadrupled to about $225 in over the counter trading this year, citing concerns including "potentially manipulative" transactions.
But toss in the manipulative producers of said shows (and Constance Zimmer) — à la "unReal" on Lifetime — and I am hooked.
The cube is farm-themed with a fun manipulative scene on the top of the cube and activities on each side.
But we don't fully understand just how manipulative she is until the finale's rolling credits abruptly shiver into a chilling montage.
After the Winklevoss rejection, the agency reiterated its mission to prevent fraudulent or manipulative acts or practices and to protect investors.
"This is about the manipulative nature of the Freedom Caucus," said one GOP lawmaker who's been following the Jordan saga closely.
Vulture writer Alex Jung wrote about this moment being a cultural peak for LGBTQ representation but with a very manipulative caveat.
Full disclaimer: I make most of my income helping clients using such beautifully manipulative strategies—all for good causes, mind you.
He was allegedly jealous, manipulative, and physically abusive (though Franklin was, until the end, reticent about those years and their relationship).
The only exception was the graphic description of murders, which also happened to be the most manipulative part of the address.
A film which deliberately amplifies Bundy's vainglorious courtroom showboating and manipulative sexual appeal is exactly what he would have wished for.
Males who use verbal or physical coercion to obtain sex often use a manipulative, deceptive game-playing style in intimate relationships.
The concept is pretty astutely designed to tug at the heartstrings, even if it does so in a brazenly manipulative way.
He had to take a long look at how he'd internalised what he'd later pinpoint as low-key manipulative gendered behaviour.
We cannot conceive of the manipulative use of a "war on drugs" to go after black communities and the antiwar movement.
Although a computer that knows how you're feeling and can respond accordingly sounds manipulative, Fernandez says that can be a positive.
What would you tell critics who might say that the documentary is tendentious because of that clear perspective, if not manipulative?
Be careful with your words, and similarly, don't connect with people, images, music, or words that are stressful, violent, or manipulative.
Before last fall, I can't remember hearing a statement like that — a voluntary admission of coercive or manipulative behavior with women.
"All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I've received at [Braun's] hands for years," Swift writes on Tumblr.
Love Actually's "To me, you are perfect" scene is arguably one of the creepiest, most manipulative scenes in rom-com history.
Hendrickson concedes too that Wright was a manipulative, serial liar; a cheat who soaked unsuspecting employers (Louis Sullivan) and clients (D.
Right now, only the political advertisers and platforms know who is receiving what message; this allows manipulative messaging to go unchecked.
While technologists and users are cleaning up the malicious, manipulative past, they'll need to go far beyond making social media healthier.
It enables manipulative advertising and political messaging in ways that make it a lot easier for the messengers to be unaccountable.
And the fact that these businesses are manipulative, that they build addictive products and they have extreme amounts of centralized power.
On Tuesday, communication planet Mercury squares off with Pluto, stirring up deep conversations and revealing secrets—look out for manipulative people.
So this is yet another example of a manipulative message being put out by a company that is also the controller of a platform that enables all sorts of unknown third parties to experiment with and distribute their own forms of manipulative messaging at vast scale, thanks to a system designed to facilitate — nay, embrace — dark advertising.
Cibele, for example, does shockingly good work at getting the player into the emotional headspace of a relationship that's uncomfortable and manipulative.
The family drama can veer into the overly schlocky, to the point where it doesn't seem believable, but it does seem manipulative.
Davos has survived many years in the hellhole that is Westeros, not by being cunning or manipulative, but by trusting his instincts.
This is how she'll tell her story, she says, and then the public can decide just how manipulative the original series was.
The year after Fatal Attraction, Close was nominated for playing another masterfully manipulative woman in Dangerous Liasions, capping off an eventful decade.
His 2012 documentary "The Imposter," about the shape-shifting con artist Frederic Bourdin, was as manipulative and deceptive as its sly subject.
But it seems that the cunning ambition and manipulative behavior that set Slytherin apart aren't really on display in any of them.
He called for Rejlander's "manipulative and overly theatrical" process — which involved printing from numerous negatives to create one photograph — to be abandoned.
It was the most manipulative thing I've ever done, and I don't feel too good about it, but it worked really well.
Past O'Keefe footage has also been found to contain manipulative editing to show an intended narrative, as the conservative website TheBlaze wrote.
Nick: At times, I felt like this season had bounced back from its gory, manipulative premiere with a true sense of purpose.
Or, I should say, Ed Westwick, the man who brought Gossip Girl's most beloved manipulative bad boy-turned-romantic hero to life.
She also allegedly used manipulative attempts and threats of self-harm to control him and isolate him from his family, officials said.
"The trimmed mean is less sensitive to erroneous or potentially manipulative transactions of plausible size, or data reporting problems," the BoE said.
Even Vanderpump said, "I'm just sorry if people think I'm manipulative" and that she regretted maybe not being supportive enough of Foster.
When Pluto is tangled in a rough alignment with sweet planet Venus, it's especially easy for people to become envious or manipulative.
Given Google's dominance of digital ad spending in Europe it stands to gain the most from websites' use of manipulative consent flows.
Appeals court revives lawsuit accusing tower research capital of conducting manipulative 'spoofing' trades on korea exchange 'night market' — court ruling 2Nd u.s.
It paints an elaborate portrait of an insecure woman who got caught up in a manipulative world of sex, power, and control.
The whole thing turns June off: Clearly, Cam is a manipulative nightmare, as Andrew hinted to Harry back at the club earlier.
He also tried to gain sympathy by comparing himself to a murderer, which is bizarre at best and emotionally manipulative at worst.
Earlier on Wednesday, Pitt's lawyer spoke out against claims Jolie made about him not paying child support and called the accusations manipulative.
To say they're manipulative is a poor defense on the part of companies who should be paying more attention to accounting regulation.
To make it unlawful for companies to not create this type of relationship with their users goes beyond simply mitigating manipulative design.
People who study online disinformation generally look at three criteria to assess whether a given page, account cluster, or channel is manipulative.
Exchanges monitor their dealings for manipulative or disruptive trading practices, such as spoofing, to protect investors and inspire confidence in the markets.
It includes a toy rocket and several manipulative play features like a blast-off elevator, a spinning black hole and a slide.
On this screen Facebook attempts to convince them to turn it on — using manipulative examples of how the tech can "protect" them.
The first is that its commissioned score by Sufjan Stevens is a coarsely orchestrated array of manipulative clichés (now Broadway, now minimalist).
All of which is to say that yes, it is absolutely one of the most cynical, manipulative devices I can think of.
In a New York Times story released Wednesday afternoon, seven women accuse the singer-songwriter, 224, of being manipulative, controlling and obsessive.
"The question that is proposed by the government is against the law ... it is manipulative," said Igor Janusev, VMRO-DPMNE secretary general.
"Covert, manipulative behaviors have no place on our service — they violate the fundamental principles on which our company is built," said Twitter.
"The biggest concern we have is that there is some manipulative scheme that we are not even aware of," he told Reuters.
Without Avedon's immense intelligence, energy and manipulative charm, the portraits would lack the impact and psychological complexity that make them so prized.
This, after all, was Plato's objection to the arts and every kind of artistic effect — that it was manipulative and potentially mendacious.
Congress should instruct the FTC and CFPB to use their existing unfairness authority to prevent manipulative and biased big data business practices.
Calloway disputed a viral tell-all essay written by her former friend Natalie Beach, which accused Calloway of being a manipulative friend.
At first glance it seems unfair that Scott calls "Manipulative Insincerity" the worst of all traits, because it is so coded female.
By reviving the idea that women are emotional and manipulative, some coverage of this study affirms misogynistic and paternalistic perspectives of women.
And in the further reaches of the back catalogue is one of my favorite sad, arguably emotionally manipulative movies: Mr. Holland's Opus.
Machiavellianism, named after the Italian diplomat and writer of the Renaissance era, represents manipulative behavior, while psychopathy manifests a lack of empathy.
Occasionally I think about my purity pledge and the letters to my mystical future husband, and find those practices naïve and manipulative.
Those who expect requests to be expressed directly, for example, may perceive someone being vague as being manipulative, or even passive-aggressive.
It's clear that something is amiss, not only because of their chasmic age difference, but also because of Henry's domineering, manipulative personality.
In between, the dispensing of calibrated micro-doses of information can seem manipulative; much of it could as easily be revealed earlier.
We are encouraged by reports that, as a result of our advocacy, YouTube will no longer serve manipulative behavioral ads to children.
All we know is that she's smart, rebellious and manipulative, and she's not cut out to be a barmaid for much longer.
Example No. 1: Bill Conti's theme to "Rocky," as brash and manipulative an accompaniment to a workout montage as ever there was.
If he is even passively stringing her along until she repays him, then he is being almost as manipulative as she is.
Journalists use manipulative language like this all the time to subtly shape readers' perceptions of political candidates and public policy alike. Sen.
I suppose that makes us in the audience the victims: No chiropractor is as manipulative as the teller of a ghost story.
Two weeks ago, an Instagram account and crowdfunding page on Patreon in Savage's name had accused Kelly of being controlling and manipulative.
But I told him to look the card meanings up himself as I didn't want to sound like I was being manipulative.
" One woman's "older, abusive and manipulative first boyfriend" of five years "constantly criticised [her] and compared [her] to his exes and porn stars.
But things get difficult as Mercury and Mars oppose Pluto on June 19; watch out for quick tempers, jealousy, and even manipulative behavior.
Alas, it appears he'd rather return to his sister's manipulative chaos than roll around in the bed furs with a wholesome lady knight.
Return to the central plot, before finishing -- last season, anyway -- with some sort of giant cliffhanger, however irritating and manipulative that might be.
"Questions have also arisen concerning potentially manipulative transactions in the company's stock in November 2017," the SEC said in a Monday press release.
Following years of family tragedy and a string of manipulative boyfriends, all Cassie wants to do is dream, as the words above say.
Mostly because in those days, a woman openly admitting to networking for a career could have been easily misinterpreted as calculating or manipulative.
His leading men are always either abusive and manipulative, or good-hearted men who may or may not be down on their luck.
The movie certainly has its manipulative little charms, the rom-com moments designed to make us root for the two as a couple.
In a New York Times story released Wednesday afternoon, Moore was among seven women who accused Adams of being manipulative, controlling and obsessive.
She is remembered at the ARC office in Bath as being a "joyously manipulative" person to whom it was impossible to say no.
"Despite looking a bit like Dobby the House Elf, he is a ruthless and manipulative tyrant," Johnson said, writing in his Telegraph column.
During the manipulative split, the "race car driver" announced he planned to pursue runner-up Lauren Burnham, whom he had already reconnected with.
" He also said that he believed his kids would describe him as a loving dad "if they weren't in such a manipulative environment.
Many viewers believed the police used manipulative tactics to force the confession out of the 16-year-old, who ended up in prison.
The horrific event was orchestrated by Reverend Jim Jones, a charismatic and manipulative preacher from Indiana who gained prominence in the Bay Area.
The conversation around sneating is two-sided: Some say that going out with someone purely for a free meal is manipulative and rude.
"The reason why Fortnite is really popular isn't necessarily because it has a potentially manipulative mechanic in it like loot boxes," he explained.
But in reality most children watch the main site and are exposed to the same "manipulative design" as their 40-year-old uncles.
" Vanderpump was open to moving forward — admitting that she preferred the side of Rinna when "she's not calling me an evil manipulative bitch.
But they cannot buy shares at the best offer available, because that could cause the company's shares to move and be deemed manipulative.
According to Wired, Amazon plans to eventually have Alexa recognize emotions of users, which critics have suggested could lead to manipulative marketing tactics.
Not naming your desires, or worse, being manipulative, won't get you what you want, and you'll end up looking dishonest, flaky, or hypocritical.
Instead, it prohibits "manipulative or deceptive devices or contrivances" -- language that is startlingly vague and addresses fraud and manipulation rather than insider trading.
The second, deeper story is about catfishing — the kind of systematic, continual deception you sometimes encounter when manipulative individuals obscure their identities online.
As Noisey writer Sarah McDonald puts it, Drake's music embodies the competitive, manipulative and emotionally forward traits of his sign to a tee.
Mitchell's character is like a middle-aged, even more downtrodden Mark Corrigan, while Webb's Andrew is a slicker and more consciously manipulative Jeremy.
But there's a twist — each photo has a caption that plays off anti-immigrant rhetoric, which often paints immigrants as dangerous or manipulative.
But some part of it was also because the ads were probably manipulative, and they were kind of manipulating him into buying stuff.
In simple terms, seeking consent from users in a way that's not fair because it's manipulative means consent is not being freely given.
It was a good strategy, if a manipulative one: In the face of this final bit of pressure, many of my clients caved.
While crows usually use their smarts to procure food, they can use them for their own manipulative pleasure, like to instigate cat fights.
Be careful: Pluto might be the planet of transformation (which we love), but Pluto also brings out manipulative, shady, obsessive, and jealous vibes.
The revelation comes one day after several women accused Adams of sexual misconduct and manipulative behavior  in a story published in the Times.
Singer Ryan Adams has been accused of sexual misconduct and manipulative behavior by several women in a New York Times report published Wednesday.
In truth the consent flow is manipulative, and Facebook does not even offer an absolute opt out of targeted advertising on its platform.
Listening to Molyneux for hours on end, O'Connor convinced herself that her parents didn't really love her and were instead abusive and manipulative.
" Zoldak added: "Asking women to take sides by gender is a failing Democratic ploy that is consciously manipulative and a disservice to women.
It used big data analytics to infer the personality type of each of these users and then sent them psychologically manipulative political ads.
A trio of Democratic senators is pushing for the Federal Trade Commission to probe manipulative advertising practices on phone apps aimed at children.
The one aspect I owe directly to the election is Mother, a creepily cheerful manipulative figure who in my mind is Karen Pence.
Zuckerberg does not come across well in The Social Network—he's portrayed as a cold, manipulative, petty, and status-hungry, but brilliant robot.
He's extremely manipulative, in the way that most cult leaders are, and will even resort to violence to keep members in the fold.
He would talk shit about me to his friends because of how 'crazy' I was, completely disregarding the manipulative shit he was doing.
There were 232,453,596 accounts challenged, or proactively detected for possibly being spammy or manipulative, in the first half of 2018 by the company.
Other legal woes related to allegations of manipulative trading practices in precious metals markets, including a proposed class action, weigh on J.P. Morgan.
The two young women see themselves in Rue, the stumbling, manipulative teenage drug addict that Zendaya plays in "Euphoria," the new HBO show.
A devious and manipulative person, Bundy created a myth of himself as charismatic, handsome, and smart: A myth that, arguably, still endures today.
I've even had to pull up certain men in my life who think they're the 'nice guy,' and don't realize they're being manipulative.
The discovery provides another glimpse of the manipulative tactics used by groups to promote their articles, videos, groups and other content on Facebook.
A creepy "therapist" tries to unravel his trauma, but she ends up being needier than her patient, as well as manipulative and controlling.
But his personal weaknesses keep him from confronting, intellectually and then publicly, the sort of manipulative monster that has ended up in power.
The full moon lights up your house of career, but its gentle connection with shady Pluto points to potentially secretive or manipulative people!
Which is why Littlefinger's usual manipulative game plan feels so much more despicable now that it's directed toward pitting one against the other.
It doesn't prevent them from using arcane and manipulative rules, as long as those rules aren't built around certain kinds of personal data.
The relationships were found to be manipulative and emotionally abusive, and had a significant negative impact on their personal lives and subsequent relationships.
Depending on whom you ask and when, the seducer is either a manipulative villain exploiting innocents or a heroic figure of sexual liberation.
Any diplomatic breakthrough with Tehran — as unlikely as it may be — would dwarf in significance the stumbling negotiations with manipulative and petulant Pyongyang.
Bystanders often look at self-harm, which can include cutting, burning, or hitting oneself, and wrongly assume it's attention-seeking or manipulative behavior.
Does the casting of an actor with cerebral palsy to play a character with cerebral palsy on the ABC sitcom "Speechless" seem manipulative?
It could not rid itself of hate speech and manipulative political advertisements aimed at promoting right-wing candidates, even if it wanted to.
He was the real thing, vicious and manipulative to the core, and the moment Lori's grief curls into a smile, he is vanquished.
A pernicious bond between the middle-aged Carl (Toby Jones, credibly crushed) and his manipulative mother, Aileen (the grand Anne Reid, passively domineering).
"Coca-Cola is abusive, manipulative," said Martin López López, a local activist who has helped organize boycotts and protests against the soda company.
There was an attempt to delay the treaty [via] rules and procedures… manipulative moves that governments make to throw some agenda in there.
Who controls such banal details as air-conditioning, or the aural and visual atmosphere of a world saturated in manipulative media and advertising?
As "Leaving Neverland" shows, Michael Jackson spent his life shape-shifting from best pal, father figure and beneficent idol into cruel, manipulative rapist.
Deep transformations are what Pluto is all about, and, on a bad day, its vibe can even feel sneaky, manipulative, or even dangerous.
Jobs was my absolute hardest interview because it was always manipulative and personal and I just felt ... I super-respected what he did.
She has unearthed some haunting human dramas: the story of three bloggers persecuted by a manipulative prosecutor who wants to turn them into collaborators.
It's the manipulative ex who runs hot and cold, depending upon which move bequeaths him or her the most powerful position at the time.
To Bilham's credit, it's always nice to be reminded that we've been living inside the well-oiled, manipulative machine that is the sugar industry.
But his feelings about Pearlman are complicated: He was a manipulative monster, but he was also the "big kid" who gave Bass a career.
"Food company sponsorship, whether or not intentionally manipulative, undermines public trust in nutrition science," wrote Nestle, a longtime critic of industry funding of science.
Celebrities are taking sides after Taylor Swift released a scathing note that accused Scooter Braun of "manipulative bullying" after he acquired her musical catalog.
On a bad day, Pluto can bring out the shadier, more manipulative side of people, and even darling Venus can be vulgar and vain.
Combine that with the awful and very manipulative relationship I had to make believable through the chemistry between myself and Wilson, that was hard.
Glowing portentously, this pretentious presentation perversely — if pleasingly — gives to reproductive technology an aura of sanctified "original" that is visually manipulative and conceptually ridiculous.
That said, it's a wide-open question whether Stone is able to grill Putin, or if he'll fall for the notoriously manipulative leader's spin.
But her blithe references to the eugenics-tinged theory of hereditary criminality, combined with Cotillard's steely composure, suggest a colder and more manipulative figure.
Do I think Elizabeth is being self-consciously manipulative when she gives Christian a giant embrace immediately before telling him she's upended the strategy?
Joe's manipulative tendencies are, if not necessary for his big-picture obsessions with new, open forms of communication, at least an unfortunate side effect.
His girlfriend, now wife, Heidi Montag was seen as caught in the middle between her manipulative, douchey boyfriend, and her best friend, Lauren Conrad.
"I think she's more manipulative than anybody," Rinna said of Foster, having indicted her for crimes including poor time management and … illness-related privileges?
The banking authority, meanwhile, began an investigation into JPMorgan Chase, because of what it described as the bank's "manipulative" advice to sell the lira.
These scandals, say detractors like Guillaume Chaslot, a former Googler who worked on YouTube's algorithm, are the bitter fruits of the site's "manipulative design".
At a time when pop culture is incredibly intertwined with politics, it suggests that talking about politics in pop culture is artificial and manipulative.
" Farley continued by referring to her ex as "manipulative" and "irresponsible," traits that meant their "children are the ones who suffer as a result.
It is also clear that Nasdaq is working with firms and exchanges with their SMARTS Surveillance technology to detect manipulative activities such as spoofing.
But gun rights enthusiasts are not mistaken to see a somewhat manipulative strategy at work — even as their baroque conspiracy theories remain utterly false.
He also wants to tackle the manipulative behavior, address privacy issues and content around hate speech His first bill, introduced with co-sponsor Sen.
To reveal Jordan's huge secret: that his his mother, Brandy (Tanjareen Thomas) the woman now behind bars due to Nina's manipulative stunt, is alive.
Pluto can have a manipulative or sneaky side; with a square aspect to Pluto, shady behavior is always something to be extra careful of.
In a 50-page final judgment against him last year, phrases like "grossly inconsistent with his duties" and "incomplete, misleading and manipulative" leap out.
This preening young aristocrat is so blatantly shallow, selfish and manipulative that he doesn't seem to warrant a tumble much less a mortal sacrifice.
The narrative structure of Three Identical Strangers is notable, because our journey toward understanding is so controlled, to the point that it feels manipulative.
Huffman told NBC News that the company has multiple teams dedicated to addressing the spread of misinformation and protecting the site from manipulative behavior.
Manafort is portrayed as an amoral, manipulative, elitist jerk whose very existence runs in opposition to the grassroots, populist campaign that Lewandowski helped build.
At home and abroad, Russian state-sponsored media outlets push disinformation and politically manipulative narratives, amplifying them through social media bots and paid trolls.
Osmo claims its kit for pre-schoolers is based on Friedrich Froebel's and Maria Montessori's manipulative with advanced computer vision for a personalized experience.
She also wrote that Lacey had masturbated in front of her on Skype and had been emotionally manipulative towards her online for years afterwards.
Emotionally intense conversations arrive around midday: Be patient and don't succumb to being manipulative to get your way, or falling for anyone else's games.
The company has been removing advertising rights to those that use manipulative techniques, like misleading headlines or fake videos, to remove such financial incentives. 
And it certainly didn't waste any time before getting back down into the manipulative, deeply satisfying muck that is the genius of this show.
If you find yourself being manipulative, ask yourself how you'd feel if you were called out (which you probably will be at this time).
Steven can't get a job to save his life — we find out his resume is awful — and he treats Becky with emotionally manipulative abandon.
The problem is unfettered data exploitation and its potential deleterious consequences — among them, unequal consumer treatment, financial fraud, identity theft, manipulative marketing and discrimination.
Above all, we have to more fiercely call out and refute manipulative liars — as well as the people who insist on believing their fictions.
The main narrative thrust of the show's third season was the battle between Gerald McRaney's manipulative and malevolent tycoon George Hearst and, well, everyone.
It's the planet of death and transformation, but its influence can draw out people's dark sides, so watch for manipulative people and shady behavior.
And Perry (a pen name for the writing team of Karen Gillece and Paul Perry) is good at conveying the young woman's manipulative neediness.
With Chapo's wife, Emma Coronel, watching impassively from the courtroom gallery, Sanchez portrayed the cartel boss she once loved as manipulative, overbearing, and ruthless.
They found the prosecution's idea that Harris held what the district attorney described as "a leadership position in the warehouse" manipulative, infuriating and absurd.
It's a subject that's, literally, more than black and white: It involves pitting minority groups against one another, using historical concerns for manipulative ends.
"He was so charismatic and so manipulative, but once you were in his sphere you couldn't shake him," Ms. Woodward said in an interview.
If, months into a relationship, every deep, emotional conversation feels manipulative or forced, that could also be a sign that things aren't quite working.
"We are encouraged by reports that, as a result of our advocacy, YouTube will no longer serve manipulative behavioral ads to children," Golin said.
Simon Pegg voices the manipulative skekSil the Chamberlain so well that his portrayal is practically indistinguishable from Barry Dennen's version in the original film.
"I was a part of a culture that was so manipulative and so controlling and so wrong," Goucher said in an interview last week.
Instead, what became known as the ''Truth'' campaign told Floridians that they were being controlled like puppets by big tobacco's masters of manipulative marketing.
Public skepticism about the impact of the strike suggests that at least some Americans suspect the President is up to his manipulative tricks again.
The French-based charity, L'Arche International, revealed that its founder, Jean Vanier, had engaged in "manipulative sexual relationships" with women from 1970 to 2005.
They argue he was so powerful, manipulative and menacing that the women, seeking a break in the entertainment industry, felt compelled to go along.
And he is also Jewish, so is easily cast in the role of the shadowy and manipulative international financier, once reserved for the Rothschilds.
Many of these growth strategies have led to Facebook's current issues, including how foreign nations were allowed to sway U.S. elections with manipulative content.
Kevin Reader, who cohosted Tank's Cubby House podcast, described their relationship as toxic, and a former partner of Dylan's, Raymond Smith, said Dylan was manipulative.
I was a manipulative person and I think I did put pressure on people, although I certainly didn't see it that way at the time.
We face a seemingly never-ending onslaught of examples that, in the midst of that fight, women are perceived as rude, angry, manipulative, or petty.
Robots have been built to imitate the dash of a cheetah, the dexterousness of an opossum's tail and the manipulative grasp of a human hand.
His supporters see him as a forward-looking technology devotee and an astute student of politics, while critics call him a calculating and manipulative politician.
Communication issues will pop up this evening (watch out for manipulative behavior, or for someone playing dumb), and you'll make some unexpected plans late tonight.
So to me, this show looked like the most manipulative, manufactured tear-fest of all-time, trying to capitalize on the This Is Us audience.
Facebook detected the manipulative network that it disclosed on Friday about a week ago, according to the Nathaniel Gleicher, the company's head of cybersecurity policy.
The community grew out of the pickup artist (PUA) movement, which advocates manipulative strategies to pick up women, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
He's the manipulative, selfish, absolutely electric antagonist of a movie that will bury itself under my skin just as much as that one scene did.
"Blue balls" is more than just a manipulative reason dudes offer for why you should sleep with them, although it can absolutely also be that.
Sometimes they don't do so in an overtly manipulative way, but simply to turn an "objective" lens on all the worst things they can find.
The "ME!" singer expressed her disgust regarding the situation in a lengthy Tumblr post in which she accused Braun of "manipulative bullying" over the years.
At its worst, Sierra and Veronica look highly manipulative and could be used to discredit a whole gender and the entire demographic of teenage girls.
Equal parts terrifying, manipulative, whip-smart, and hilarious, they're always (whether hero, villain, or something in between) three-dimensional people with inner lives and flaws.
Why Erik might have been indulging in such fantasies was never questioned; instead, the screenplay was evidence that the brothers were greedy and manipulative masterminds.
Instead, he let his kids watch them and explained to them how they work, and the ways in which they can be manipulative and misleading.
It's not clear who is right about the anti-Nike protest — whether it was a manipulative influence campaign or a grassroots marshaling of conservative grievances.
" That doesn't mean Nash is simply trying to crib This Is Us' style, a style creator Fogelman recently defended against the label of "emotionally manipulative.
Instead, we are happy to draw emotionally manipulative narratives from isolated incidents, or alternatively to ignore broad trends of facts in favour of particular narratives.
This pageant drama colors the rest of "Week 3," with both women spending the episode trying to convince Colton the other is a manipulative liar.
Scott "Scooter" Braun's name made headlines on Sunday when Taylor Swift slammed him for alleged "incessant, manipulative bullying" amid his purchase of her musical catalog.
In Ward's telling, they are manipulative, calculating and insincere, cannily propping up an image of themselves as moderating influences on the president without real gains.
As Dobias once recalled for me, Trump was "the most manipulative" boy he ever encountered and through his wheedling and pleasing, got everything he wanted.
It's not manipulative or a chart an artist has to check boxes in but James and the seldom seen musicians on this LP did it.
So when I had her, I got this new tidal wave of resentment towards my dad because of his irresponsible behavior and manipulative mean streak.
While these examples seem relatively benign, they demonstrate how digital platforms are able to quietly design systems to direct users' actions in potentially manipulative ways.
A bad ultimatum would be something that's used to hold control or power over another person in a hurtful, manipulative, and disrespectful way, she says.
It's the same manipulative shit she always pulls, and this time the exhausted, incredulous group straight-up quits on her: Michaela, Connor, Laurel, then Asher.
If anything, this is a precautionary step to not allow the star to become the manipulative lech the season seems designed to let him become.
" Catherine is cautious and manipulative: "One must do things in such a way that people think they themselves want it to be done this way.
The Court also thoroughly reviews Oracle's allegations about the potential conflicts of interest, which have been the subject of poorly-informed and often manipulative speculation.
Our stories -- and the stories of many other juvenile confessors who are subject to manipulative techniques -- should make anyone with a conscience scream out loud.
" Or: "She's still the same scabrous and manipulative opportunist that she was when she deflowered a 14-year-old boy at the age of seventeen.
We don't know if Adora suspected her daughter and thus took the rap, but one thing we know about Amma is that she's incredibly manipulative.
The world can continue to pray for a time when Assad magically makes the transformation from a manipulative and sociopathic war criminal to a conciliator.
"She told me that I was faking my asthma attack, that I was trying to be manipulative because I wanted a break," she told me.
It also removed and archived 130 accounts tied to the Catalan independence movement in Spain, and 33 accounts engaged in manipulative behavior related to Venezuela.
It's a step up from more manipulative tactics we've seen in recent seasons, and it makes "Bury Me Here" an unexpectedly moving hour of television.
Justin Rosenstein, the creator of the Facebook "like" button, deleted the product from his phone and spoke out about the industry using psychologically manipulative advertising.
But a prep school applicant curated by elite counselors, tutors, essay writers, and a manipulative school profile is routine, even though it inspires less backlash.
The season six finale was terminally boring, and the cliffhanger was insulting; the premiere, with its litany of guess-who's-gonna-die moments, felt manipulative.
This is the lure intended to lead the reader on, but it feels manipulative, particularly after the fact, when the author's false leads are exposed.
A troupe of commedia dell'arte clowns, headed by the Leading Player (originally Ben Vereen), the charming and manipulative M.C., are the guides to Pippin's adventures.
In the wake of Germany's defeat in World War I and the subsequent economic crisis, Jewish people were cast as powerful, manipulative agents of disaster.
You're also figuring out who you can trust as Mars opposes Neptune during this full moon, finding you facing lazy, shady, or downright manipulative people.
The genre is so emotionally powerful, it can even become a little bit manipulative — working to make us believe stuff we don't actually agree with.
It came right after Victoria had just blamed Peter, in a plainly manipulative move, for all the drama she said he brought to their relationship.
We might have been confused at points as to whether Hot Priest's back-and-forth with Fleabag was irresistible sexual tension or, at times, manipulative.
Polinesso (like Ariodante, a trouser role, here nailed by the hearty contralto Sonia Prina), sensing opportunity, feigns love for Dalinda in an audaciously manipulative aria.
One user said FDS helped them block a manipulative guy they'd been seeing for years; another said the community helped her leave an abusive relationship.
Lysa Arryn (Kate Dickie) Catelyn Stark's twisted sister murdered her own husband and helped start a war — all at the behest of the manipulative Littlefinger.
When he was alive, Cecilia's husband Adrian was charismatic and manipulative enough that no one would believe her when she told them about the abuse.
Private messenger apps and secret Facebook pages allow the microtargeting of manipulative messages so stealthy that no one but the intended recipients ever see them.
If only all the other characters got similar sequences – I want to see inside the making of Dusty Jackson (Jessica Lange), TV's most manipulative grandma.
" She did not name the partner who allegedly abused her, but described him as "a magnanimous person" who "could be charming, funny, manipulative (and) devious.
I was a dual French-Colombian citizen running for president, thus suspected of serving foreign interests, and I was a woman, therefore manipulative and difficult.
He argues that reason and religion can coexist because we are meant to use our intelligence to reject manipulative and myopic interpretations of the scriptures.
Jordan appeared to be frustrated by the process of reality TV, calling Moore "manipulative and fundamentally deceptive" when producers tried to film an argument of theirs.
Villanelle stokes the fire, encouraging Gemma to do anything in her power, no matter how manipulative, to seduce Niko and break him up from his wife.
This is manipulative leaking, the major figures covered in this report have been given a draft of it to look at and to offer their input.
The scant literature that did exist dated back to the 1960s and painted a brazenly negative picture of manipulative children who clammed up in stubborn defiance.
Scientology, dismissed as a manipulative cult by its critics, has fought a series of legal battles across the world to have itself recognized as a religion.
With Charlie (Florence Pugh) now on board with the manipulative Kurtz's (Michael Shannon) mission to take down a Palestinian terrorist, the real "show" can officially begin.
It's not just the effects this could have on celebrities and other public figures who already are subjected to all manners of manipulative forgeries and hoaxes.
He may be incredibly smart and manipulative, but we can't help but think he may have bitten off more than he can chew this time around.
Which is most people, probably, unless you're one of the cynics who believes that dogs are, in fact, the most manipulative creatures on God's green earth.
But, as the Cambridge Analytica controversy shows, modern social media data can twist the technique in at best unethical, and at worst, deceitful and manipulative ways.
A person with narcissistic personality disorder, for instance, can initially come off as charming and fun, only to be revealed as manipulative and abusive over time.
Astrologers have accused you of being manipulative, Scorpio, but as hard as it might be, I want you to prove those astrologers wrong on this day.
Muting the usual cacophony of manipulative musical cues and assaultive sound effects — for long stretches, the movie is almost hushed — Mr. Mikkelsen stirs claustrophobia into panic.
This memoir continues from Lawless's previous one, "Chanel Bonfire," which saw her growing up under the fearful reign of a glamorous but alcoholic and manipulative mother.
It's emotionally manipulative and mean — two things you never want to be, especially if you're asking someone to spend the rest of their life with you.
In the early 1950s, journalists were also faced with how to cover a manipulative demagogue — Senator Joe McCarthy — and traditional evenhandedness wasn't serving the public interest.
The fluctuating tone can feel a bit jarring, but even recognizing the ways in which the movie is emotionally manipulative, it's hard to completely resist them.
"Bibi Netanyahu is an arrogant, deceptive, cynical, manipulative asshole," wrote Simone Zimmerman, a former J Street student activist, in a March 2015 post, obtained by Freebeacon.com.
If Radical Candor felt like a revelation to me, it's because I know that Manipulative Insincerity is the gold standard of management in many work places.
Tensions around your work—or feeling seen and appreciated for all you've accomplished—are weighing on you, but avoid manipulative tactics to get what you want.
The survey results are clear: Most crime survivors find the Trump administration's approach to safety and justice at the very least misguided, if not outright manipulative.
Back then, comedians had a pass for brash, crude and sexist humor, just as directors had a pass to subject female colleagues to manipulative power plays.
So the great movie lost the best picture win to "Crash," an emotionally manipulative ensemble drama that examines racism and sexism among residents of Los Angeles. 
I, for the most part, try to avoid those things in performance—it seems manipulative—but in this case it is in service to the character.
In December 2019, Perry&aposs fellow YouTuber Stephanie Soo posted a video accusing him of manipulative and abusive behavior when the two collaborated on a video.
During the Ukraine crisis in 2014, manipulative and often outright invented news poured in from Russia on satellite television and websites and into sympathetic local newspapers.
This is not the first time Google has been accused of using manipulative design practices, known as "dark patterns," to trick users into clicking on ads.
And those who try to discredit the work of journalists are creating a space where information-disarray will allow manipulative persons to deceive in the chaos.
Starting over the weekend, a series of posts on the Patreon page accused the embattled singer of controlling and manipulative behavior, abuse and more serious allegations.
It's possible I feel that way because, like many former evangelicals, I'm allergic to anything to do with the church that feels glossy or emotionally manipulative.
Then there's the emotionally manipulative death scene, where Rey is led to believe her own lack of control over the Force led directly to Chewie's demise.
Read more:The TV characters cheaters fantasize about the most, according to Ashley Madison dataI'm having an affair with my best friend's partner, and he's become manipulative.
Platforms, governments and citizens must step in and consider the purpose, and future, of bot technology before manipulative anonymity becomes a hallmark of the social bot.
Unfortunately, Pluto can sometimes bring out the shady, manipulative side of people when they're unable to deal with the realness and intensity that the planet brings.
Instead, it suggests that the dominant family structure — literal or metaphorical — remains patriarchal, frequently manipulative, and, especially to those victimized by it, incredibly (if often invisibly) toxic.
Jason Isaacs has played plenty of sinister, manipulative characters during his career, from Harry Potter's platinum blonde Voldemort sympathizer Lucius Malfoy to The OA's mad scientist Hep.
But Bill Bauerle, who runs the greenhouse, recently picked his fourth crop since January thanks to the manipulative powers of his energy-efficient, color-changing LED lights.
Menon said the central bank is exploring the use of machine learning algorithms to identify manipulative trading behaviors in capital markets or to detect money laundering transactions.
He also alleged that Singer would be willing to trade sex for work, a manipulative scenario we're hearing more about in the wake of Harvey Weinstein's downfall.
Most "sitters" are posing happily — these could very well be straightforward portraits, but in the context of The Captured, they suggest manipulative façades covering up illicit actions.
Redditor -lCrackers suggests that, maybe, Penny's manipulative ways got people to act as the Black Hood for her, allowing her to distance herself from any dirty work.
Now that we've seen the report itself, we know that Barr's four-page summary -- which he later claimed was not actually a summary -- was misleading and manipulative.
When the result is that you end up doing something that extreme [like proposing to someone], I still think that's pretty — I don't want to say manipulative.
It's also hard to care who comes out on top, since they seem to have no discernible character traits, besides being manipulative and dedicated to their jobs.
So even though the plot of Alpha is ultimately predictable, with an ending that barely avoids careening into the outright manipulative, its trappings are anything but expected.
It's worth taking some time to pick at D'Souza's take on American history, which is rancid and manipulative, but totally in keeping with D'Souza's long revisionist career.
Meanwhile, the company is regularly announcing the removal of accounts used by political operators around the world who use Facebook to drive an agenda in manipulative ways.
Madeline is a manipulative housewife in the wealthy town of Monterey, CA. Her persona is the exact opposite of Elle's cheerful heart of gold in Legally Blonde.
The pulsing electro-pop soundtrack, the '70s action film camerawork, and the emotionally manipulative script are designed to evoke every emotion it can: sadness, joy, nostalgia, awe.
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Narcissists can be complicated and manipulative people, so being in a relationship with one — whether it's romantic, professional, or just platonic — can be a very loaded situation.
Claire has always been the show's most complex character: She's even more diabolical, cunning, and manipulative than her husband, but she's also, horrifyingly, just what democracy needs.
It's manipulative either way, sure, but it showers players in so much premium currency that even refilling stamina or topping off coins doesn't require a real transaction.
Incentivize the detection and deterrence of manipulative and fraudulent acts and practices, including partnering with regulators and particularly the CFTC to share or refer information, as appropriate.
Following the "cult" report, Jezebel published an interview with "a woman in R. Kelly's inner circle," who provided further details of Kelly's alleged manipulative and abusive behavior.
Roth in the post wrote that Twitter is focused on combatting "misleading, deceptive, and spammy behavior," aiming to differentiate between legitimate political discourse and manipulative misinformation campaigns.
Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Wednesday announced that he will introduce legislation banning "manipulative" online game features he says can push children to become addicted to technology.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Veterans of Zimbabwe's independence war made a significant break with President Robert Mugabe for the first time on Thursday, calling him dictatorial, manipulative and egocentric.
Just because Gladys was a little manipulative didn't extinguish the fact that she was a worthy person for whom Arty had a lot of respect and affection.
Children typically start by showing signs of perceptual and manipulative intelligence — the ability to see, hear and smell the world, and to manipulate physical objects around them.
As Andrew Rannells, who plays Whizzer, explained, Mr. Borle helps to make sense of a character everyone seems to adore, even as he acts in manipulative ways.
He said his daughter was really manipulative, that she was unstable and I didn't know what she was like; he really tried to blame everything on her.
Creepy, manipulative murderess Dahlia Hawthorne has a name that evokes the Black Dahlia murder case, while Dick Gumshoe plays on two common slang terms for a detective.
The proliferation of fake news is almost certain to get worse, as we see left-leaning groups racing to adapt manipulative techniques that helped conservatives in 2016.
They are distillations of some of the most selfish, manipulative, and generally bad impulses that can come out of love, something that was once precious and beautiful.
But it wasn't the media overkill that upset me; it was the sneaking suspicion that I was more manipulative and desperate for help than I had realized.
It's manipulative too: Directing a crowd's empathy toward one victim can cultivate anger and aggression toward other targets, even if they're not responsible for the victim's suffering.
But Manson exploited the drug-happy, freewheeling goodwill of the era, by bonding with his would-be followers and then luring them into imbalanced and manipulative relationships.
He is likely to be indicted on corruption charges related to three separate cases, which, if they are accurate, indicate that he is greedy, vain and manipulative.
You think she's being unpleasantly manipulative; she may think she's reminding you that you're on probation, that you have further to go to earn back her trust.
Bland, indecisive, and downright manipulative, Pete has come a long way from the fantasy suites in the windmill last season — and it hasn't been a positive trajectory.
When she was 15, and a student at an elite Northeastern boarding school, Jo was coerced into a sexual relationship with a charismatic and manipulative English teacher.
As if afraid of boring anybody, Mr. Knappenberger lays on a percussive synthesizer score so insistent and manipulative that it's like watching the movie with electrodes attached.
At the same time, the heinousness of the act implicates the form in which it's presented: the manipulative, splayed-leg duets that are troublingly ubiquitous in ballet.
When she reads his chillingly manipulative email — "I'm tough on you because I'm gonna make you great" — we can almost see her spine straighten with renewed ambition.
As Dark Crystal fans know well, the Chamberlain often plays the fool to get what he wants, until he reveals his truest nature: crafty, ruthless, and manipulative.
It can be brutal, manipulative, yes, but it's also matter-of-fact in the way it looks at power relationships and how they are expressed through sex.
However, Pluto can also bring out the shadier side of people, so watch out for manipulative behavior, and remember: Now's not the time to be sneaky, Gemini.
So I understand that in the moments before you get behind the camera, there is a sort of dance, there's an exchange, sometimes more manipulative than others.
If you've always wanted to join in This Is Us mania but couldn't get past the emotional platitude-heavy dialogue and emotionally manipulative tendencies — the music cues alone!
"I do have some concerns about whether the complaints as currently drafted make out a plausible case of collusive or manipulative conduct," Gardephe said at a court hearing.
On the other side are Styles' fans, who aren't so keen on the parallel between Hardin Scott, prone to controlling and emotionally manipulative behavior, and their boy Harry.
Both looks seem to aim to make her look innocent despite the litany of charges — a ploy that's just as manipulative as the crimes she's been accused of.
The actress, who plays manipulative dating show executive producer Quinn on the Lifetime series, is trying to convince Taylor Lautner to join the show for its third season.
Her husband Perry Wright, played by Alexander Skarsgård, was an abusive, manipulative man who used his looks, charm, and wealth to trap his wife in a terrible relationship.
Josh Hawley (R-MO) announced that he would be introducing a bill banning "manipulative" design features in video games with underage audiences, including the sale of loot boxes.
P.S. Of course, all of this would be plausible if we were talking about Tyrion or Littlefinger or anyone with a streak of manipulative tendencies in their characters.
It is a historical fact that monastic and other self-isolated communities have always had their fair share of human weaknesses, from ruthless power struggles to manipulative relationships.
The characters on Billions experience no such lag; their tongues are intelligent comeback machines, always prepared with the exact manipulative sentence necessary to further their own personal goals.
Things get intense once more as the sun opposes Pluto on July 313, stirring up big egos and control issues, so watch out for shady or manipulative behavior.
Amber Heard has been called a lot of things in the months since she accused Johnny Depp of domestic abuse: manipulative, twisted, a liar, to name a few.
As internal documents seeped out in the 1990s, a picture emerged of an industry that was stunningly duplicitous, callous and manipulative in its efforts to sell Americans cigarettes.
First impression based on the trailer (embedded below) Those of us who are suckers for emotionally manipulative medical shows (slowly raises hand) might have something in New Amsterdam.
From the beginning I knew there was something about him that came across as manipulative, and I had a feeling he wasn't with her for the right reasons.
When there are bisexual characters on TV, Cruz says they are disproportionately portrayed by women who often fall into negative stereotypes like being manipulative, devious, or overly sexualized.
Human beings, in all their manipulative glory, are thus, if the chain of events Dr Thomas and Dr Melott are suggesting is correct, the children of dying stars.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday temporarily halted trading in Neuromama, whose shares last traded about $56 over the counter, citing concerns including "potentially manipulative" transactions.
"The link between these illnesses and unhealthy food and drink is indirect and accumulates over time ... and there's a powerful and at times manipulative industry involved," he said.
"People are right that Google and Facebook do have a lot of data and there are nuances where they can use this data to be manipulative," says Hersh.
Taylor Swift is holding nothing back in her disdain for "manipulative" Scooter Braun upon learning that the manager has acquired her musical catalog in a $300 million sale.
It's both as manipulative and hokey as that sounds, but occasionally it works well enough that you might find yourself getting choked up against your better judgment. B-
He claimed she was an ambitious and manipulative social climber who seduced him before turning on him when she did not get a permanent position in the Vatican.
That included Carrie potentially losing custody of her child, a rather manipulative way to showcase the difficulty of work-life balance when the gig is in counter-terrorism.
But after a subsequent visit to a flag factory in New Jersey, reporters started writing about (and discussing on the news) that this was a cynical, manipulative strategy.
Obama had to weigh the esteem of his office and the trust he's earned over the years against the risk that his remarks would seem manipulative and overblown.
Denise's death was certainly unexpected, but it also felt casually manipulative — the show diving into her personal struggles simply to make the audience more invested when she died.
However a new study published Thursday in Scientific Reports suggests "puppy dog eyes" may not be meant to be manipulative, but are simply a reaction to human expression.
The over-the-top sentimentality, the emotionally manipulative plot twists, the obviously melancholic music — the whole thing felt pretty cheesy, a family-friendly sitcom of soap-opera proportions.
On Marketplace, Hemmings says that hiring managers who pile on the homework only to hold out on a job offer without ever giving any feedback aren't intentionally manipulative.
The vibe today is intense—watch out for suspicious, manipulative people (and for these feelings within yourself), but also note that super hot sex could go down tonight.
The ideology of male supremacy, according to the SPLC, represents all women as "genetically inferior, manipulative, and stupid" beings who exist primarily for their reproductive and sexual functions.
"It's a term for patterns that are manipulative, that you are doing on purpose to get one over on users," Mr. Brignull said when I recently called him.
With the elections heating up and news feeds brimming with ads for this candidate and that cause, voters need to be adept at recognizing persuasive from manipulative microtargeting.
Gillian's rough childhood left her to raise a son on her own at 13-years-old, but her incestuous and manipulative relationship with Jimmy is all her doing.
"What I know, there's a lot of trouble from the girl that sounds a little manipulative," Del Toro told the New York Daily News' Confidenti@l on Tuesday.
A barbell is attached to the top of one sturdy-looking prototype, so we know it lifts, but other than that, no cargo or manipulative capacity was shown.
The popular YouTube Kids app has been criticized for allowing bad actors to manipulate algorithms so that manipulative, bizarre and sometimes disturbing videos get recommended to young viewers.
This might sound harmless, but according to Tremblay, the movie is presented in a manipulative manner — one that robs the subjects of their ability to represent themselves honestly.
Swift went through a series of scandals in the summer of 2016, and all of them revolved around the idea that she is a sneaky, calculating, manipulative person.
He's been accused of racism, of selling poorly made makeup (an outright sin in the beauty community), of being a manipulative jerk to his friends and enemies alike.
"He is not prohibited from making that statement as long as it is truthful and not manipulative" said Tom Gorman, a partner at law firm Dorsey and Whitney.
"Natasha" is about as twisted and uncomfortable a coming-of-age film as you're likely to find, with a startlingly manipulative teenager, the title character, at its center.
She says that this atmosphere, combined with Hall's power as the leader of the band, gave rise to a romantic relationship that she now sees as implicitly manipulative.
He's the kind of creep who buys you an ice cream from Mister Softee before asking for sex, rather than calling you a "manipulative slimehead," as Wallace does.
The Circle pushes its contestants to behave as clout-chasing, manipulative shut-ins for the privilege of appearing on a streaming service and the chance to win $100,000.
Among other things, he argued that she failed to prove that surveillance capitalism is a "soul-sucking" rebirth of totalitarianism that makes people puppets of manipulative data wizards.
" Kukors said she is sharing her story "for the little girls and boys whose lives and future hangs in the grasp of a horribly powerful and manipulative person.
Manipulative people are all around us, and regardless of their individual motives, they have the ability to wreak havoc on our relationships with ourselves and those around us.
Absolutely. Many mainstream wines are produced without having to resort to the manipulative production techniques that gave those crowd-pleasers we recently tasted such an aura of artificiality.
Constance: Yeah, I think Cursed Child is much more willing to explicitly discuss how manipulative and unbalanced Harry and Dumbledore's relationship was than the books are, in general.
Communication is a big theme for you this summer, too, as you consider the ways you've been manipulative with your words or delusional about the messages you're sending.
The amount of scrutiny companies like Facebook and Google — and Google's YouTube division — face over presenting inaccurate or outright manipulative information is growing every day, and for good reason.
Aside from the fact that she's a murderous and manipulative snake in the grass, Cersei Lannister would be the most annoying kind of friend for a very simple reason.
For Cinthia, it felt no different than watching CNN or reading the paper — something Cinthia had stopped doing as regularly, because she felt as that all news was manipulative.
By 2600, Benjamin Spock, the media's favorite pediatrician, wrote a letter saying he hadn't bothered to read Skinner because his work was "fascist and manipulative," according to The Atlantic.
In 220 FINRA also sent "report cards" for layering and spoofing activities to firms as a compliance tool to complement firms' supervisory systems to detect and deter manipulative conduct.
Sexting with minors and soliciting nudes from them — as Adams allegedly did with Ava — is illegal, but otherwise, there is little legislation against being gross and manipulative and demeaning.
When viewed holistically, these manipulative activities call into question the capacity of social media to serve as a true marketplace of ideas—and this is not a new concern.
These Facebook takedowns indicate an effort to create a quantifiable framework for detecting and managing manipulative patterns, whatever the source—and despite the risk of near-certain political blowback.
"It would not be a stretch nor surprising to find that manipulative activity is behind the recent runup when the underlying market mechanics are similar to before," Griffin added.
Where Trump is a singular figure, Windrip is portrayed as the figurehead for a calculating and manipulative advisor, who eventually gets tired of his cultivated ignorance and deposes him.
The Walking Dead has been brutal and hard at times, and while it's never been kind to its characters, it has never been manipulative or cruel to its audience.
The researchers hope to use this information to inform future manipulative experiments using microplastics at ELA, which could entail floating collars that form a sort of huge outdoor aquarium.
" Shortly after the sale, Swift called Braun — importantly a public ally to Swift enemies Kim Kardashian and Kanye West — an "incessant, manipulative bully" and called it a "nightmare scenario.
Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said last week he plans to introduce legislation banning manipulative designs targeting children online, as well as algorithms that can steer them to harmful content.
It's so easy to get mired in the Meyer Way of doing business, and to think that it's normal — or even preferable — to be manipulative, petty, myopic and vain.
Sansa's toxic relationship with Baelish is probably unparalleled in depicting a person dually aware of how manipulative power is leveraged and of the truth, and attraction, of that power.
Pluto is shady, obsessive, and manipulative, and when it's combined with Jupiter's bloated, over-consumptive vibe, the energy can feel very yucky—like someone just sneezed all over you.
Editorial Facebook is once again struggling with revelations that manipulative characters exploited the vulnerabilities of its platform during the 2016 election to put Donald Trump in the White House.
You could interpret a lot of songs as manipulative or coercive, but isn't the larger picture that however flawed they may be, these songs are trying to express love?
It was a vivid display of the kind of manipulative, underhanded tactics the oil industry has been using in California for years, demanding concessions, getting them, and demanding more.
The episode cuts to black with his fate still hanging in the balance, the latest in a long series of manipulative cliffhangers designed to goose easy, short-term suspense.
I see this as manipulative behavior; I believe that he doesn't actually care about her and is only ensuring her loyalty in case he needs it in the future.
Plus this kind of "just testing" BS is manipulative no matter how you spin it, because he is quite literally doing stuff just to create a reaction in you.
His wife, Claire Underwood (Robin Wright), cunning and manipulative in her own right yet long suffering under her husband's oppressive ego, found herself in position to seize the presidency.
"Platforms, governments and citizens must step in and consider the purpose — and future — of bot technology before manipulative anonymity becomes a hallmark of the social bot," the authors cautioned.
And a lot of times, it's sort of like sad cases, too; very manipulative, to try to win favor with these people, get them in an emotionally unguarded moment.
He was visually impaired and attended a school for the blind, where he was known as a manipulative leader of other students, a role he continued with Aum Shinrikyo.
He has proved to be very manipulative, and he hasn't shown much care for anyone beside himself given how willing he was to torpedo Diane's career to save himself.
Soon enough the play has fallen back into the worn grooves of manipulative formulas, and if we follow its lead, we don't have a chance of thinking for ourselves.
I'm a sucker for fictional forbidden love, and The Bold Type never wrote Richard as condescending or manipulative; he genuinely cared for Sutton and was a successful single man.
She also said that Fred's behavior is manipulative, as he needed Serena to further their once-shared political agenda and he increasingly threw her under the bus for it.
Democrats in Congress have long warned about the economic threats posed by China and their manipulative practices on currency, as well as the failures of NAFTA for outsourcing jobs.
Does it feel really crass and manipulative for a company to say that a technological product driven by machine-learning algorithms will help us remember our lost loved ones?
Incorporating the theme could be seen as emotionally manipulative, but the result is a sweet commercial about a family trying to get through the holidays after a hard loss.
In interviews, seven women and more than a dozen associates described a pattern of manipulative behavior in which Adams dangled career opportunities while simultaneously pursuing female artists for sex.
He gets his way, in part, because he could be as manipulative as he could be affectionate, but also because each woman feels, in her way, maternal toward him.
In reality, the poisonous M&Ms analogy is a more manipulative version of the general tactic known as the "I know not all X are Y, but [flawed generalization]".
They include characteristics like glibness and superficial charm, emotional shallowness, unwillingness to accept responsibility for actions, a tendency to boredom, promiscuous sexual behavior, cunning/manipulative tendencies, impulsivity, and irresponsibility.
The video contained no narration, but it demonstrated the manipulative nature of beauty advertising on both a level that ad giant Ogilvy & Mather intended and one it probably didn't.
It was in one of these post-doc exchanges that Alex March, an empath educator, told me that she'd struggled with manipulative people in the community in the past.
Pluto is a hugely transformative energy; it's the planet of death and rebirth, but it's also the ruler of hidden things, and it can bring out sneaky, manipulative behavior.
That's especially true when Jeri decides to side against Jessica by taking Greg on as a client, in spite of all the red flags that say he's a manipulative creep.
In the 1962 novel and, later, the 1975 film starring Louise Fletcher in the Oscar-winning role, Ratched is the cruel, manipulative head administrative nurse at the Salem State Hospital.
More than one assistant and young female actress accuse him of sexist and manipulative behavior; he was apparently happy to share sundry details of his sexual exploits with all colleagues.
There are so many egos and there is so much manipulative behavior, dishonesty (and dishonesty about the dishonesty) that it is very difficult to explain it as a straightforward history.
When my niece talked about it, she rolled her eyes, not because she denies inequities in the world but because the whole setup was so stagy and manipulative and solemn.
It exists in a state of continuous and seemingly never-ending war, its institutions are notoriously revisionist and manipulative of public perception with no regard for historical facts or truth.
Aside from the fact that we clearly have not moved past the "manipulative and mentally unstable ex-wife" archetype yet, this film marks Heigl's first leading film role since 2012.
Those hearings in April 2018 were widely publicized, with congressional offices circulating sound bites and clips of lawmakers laying into Zuckerberg over his company's privacy violations and manipulative business tactics.
Oftentimes film scoring takes the front seat — the audience hears music that the characters cannot — and we're left with an emotionally manipulative piano solo or an anxiety-inducing violin screech.
Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) introduced a bill aimed at banning large web platforms from using manipulative design features meant to capture users' consent or data.
Cambridge Analytica developed supposedly hyper-targeted "psychographic" profiles of voters during the 2016 presidential election, producing results that were described as manipulative — although it's unclear how effective they really were.
Having bad things happen to deplorable people with the hope that the audience will care about them feels manipulative, and doesn't work to excuse the bad actions they've already taken.
In the show, Black Lives Matter is presented as a kind of boondoggle organized by the manipulative villain, and the only police shown directly abusing black people are black themselves.
It's No. Cardi doesn't have to take Offset back because of a grand gesture that was deliberately manipulative, disrespectful of her boundaries and took away her shine as a headliner.
The dark side of Libra is that it can be a little too charming if given the platform — with enough power, that Libran gift of gab can turn downright manipulative.
But then this isn't Steel Magnolias, and it seems clear that most of the established relationships on this show are manipulative and superficial (small Southern town bingo card almost full!).
While the audience may have caught on more quickly, examples of Luke P.'s manipulative behavior were peppered throughout the season long in advance of Brown losing patience with him.
"So far, platforms have been unable to address the challenge posed by disinformation and some have turned a blind eye to the manipulative use of their infrastructures," the document says.
Although Rafael's move to cry cancer to get Luisa back to Miami was brilliant (and manipulative), it was actually one of the most predictable things the show has ever done.
American society is designed to bolster her, believe in her, and give her countless opportunities, even if time and time again she has shown herself to be fake and manipulative.
It's also being used in a hilariously manipulative way to make the argument that because there were no net neutrality rules in the 1990s that we don't need them now.
Either way, be careful of manipulative behavior or obsessive thoughts, and keep an open mind—the way you see the world is changing, as is how the world sees you.
Rachel, the unpredictable and manipulative producer who's the closest thing to a protagonist we've got, is pressed against a floor-to-ceiling glass window, having sex with the suitor's manager.
" He concluded, "Now, I do realize that when the song was written in 1944, it was a different time, but now while reading it, it seems very manipulative and wrong.
Not so fast, says Olivia's Mouth, which along with her body and manipulative mojo are full-blast "WINNING!" no matter what life sets out for them to conquer/eat alive.
"Now, I do realize that when the song was written in 1944, it was a different time, but now while reading it, it seems very manipulative and wrong," he wrote.
The tendency toward artistic surprise on the one hand and a highly manipulative familiarity on the other came together and created the tastes and expectations of moviegoers for a generation.
"The concept of biblical first fruits is real, but as I read your article I can't help but feel as though you're being manipulative," Heather Norton told White on Twitter.
After months of saying no to her sexual advances and wandering hands, she became manipulative and verbally abusive so that I'd agree to let her do sexual things to me.
It's not completely unreasonable in her grief for her to ask (though, as commenters pointed out, her language was manipulative), but even sisterly duty doesn't extend to parting with pets.
After releasing House of Balloons, a mixtape about tripping off drugs, manipulative love, and an alarming head-to-head with mortality, he chose to forgo immediate fame for prolonged anonymity.
Some leaders were there for the power, but I think a lot of people involved were genuine and didn't necessarily realize that what they were doing was manipulative or unhealthy.
Not only do psychopaths "have diminished levels of corporate responsibility" and Machiavellians tend to "focus on maintaining power and using manipulative behaviors," but narcissism has been linked to unethical behavior.
But the 22009 VMAs laid the groundwork for a counternarrative that would turn out to have some surprising endurance: Was Taylor Swift secretly being kind of manipulative with her response?
The researchers, out of Washington State University and the University of Colorado Boulder, call this the "femme fatale effect" — femme fatale being a term for a seductive yet manipulative woman.
In her Tumblr post, Swift accuses Braun of "incessant, manipulative bullying," in particular citing an Instagram posted by Justin Bieber in which he, Braun, and Kanye West are on FaceTime.
The credits cite the involvement of the Nobel Prize organization in the movie's production, but Von Einsiedel's sentimental purview and manipulative scoring suggest his main goal is winning another Oscar.
That's actually a hard question to answer because when it comes to online political discourse, it can be very difficult to discern between manipulative disinformation and authentic, organically shared content.
The actor stops short of naming the partner in question who allegedly abused her, but describes him as "charming, funny, manipulative, devious," and also as being younger than she is.
Ms. Paulson will play the title character, tracing her evolution from a low-level nurse into the severe, manipulative tyrant who terrorizes mental institution patients in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel.
Google, meanwhile, went directly for the emotional jugular in a spot so blatantly designed to tug at your heartstrings it was immediately uncomfortable to the point where it felt manipulative.
She seems like a cruel and manipulative individual, but I feel that a verdict such as this has a highly dangerous potential that makes the civil libertarian in me squirm.
And it suggests a cathartic, ongoing wrestling match with the show's own tricksy position, drawing a line between this coarse and manipulative Ilana and the endearing hustler whom fans love.
So it's your call whether a story is just emphasizing and interpreting facts in a way you disagree with, or whether it's using the outright manipulative strategies we've discussed above.
But in its practical use by the alt-right at large — most frequently to harass women online — the common implication is that progressive men are sexually disempowered by manipulative women.
They began dating and having sex, but within months, Nourn says, Barker became manipulative and controlling, restricting his teenage girlfriend's movements and attempting to isolate her from friends and family.
He basically publicized a litany of private details about their lives in an attempt to paint Quinn as a manipulative abuser, citing "evidence" culled from private chats, texts, and emails.
Music cues provide unnecessary goosing; cheap re-enactments trace the shooter's whereabouts; and the director, who is sometimes on camera, intersperses good questions with manipulative prods to his grieving subjects.
But another woman, who is no longer in her relationship, said that she hadn't seen a positive change, that her partner remained both abusive and manipulative after completing the class.

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