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And in fact, faking madness is exactly the kind of cunning and manipulative act of a psychopath.
It's on the checklist: cunning, manipulative.
One of the items on the checklist is lack of remorse, but another item on the checklist is cunning, manipulative.
We need factually-based options, clearly laid out, not those of a few powerful and potentially manipulative corporations pursuing their own frequently narrow agendas, but accurate, unprejudiced information with which to make our own judgments.
In fact, if you overuse those devices, you're just going to come across as clichéd or emotionally manipulative.
My manipulative, jealous, stalker ex-boyfriend did exactly what he said he would do: he put up a website with my name on it, and he posted this.
If they're talking about the deceptive and manipulative use of language, they're on the right track.
By the end of the century, Shakespeare was using “Machiavel” to denote an amoral opportunist, leading directly to our popular use of “Machiavellian” as a synonym for manipulative villainy.
This time Marlene Dietrich is Concha, a manipulative, cold-hearted Spanish beauty.
Sister Theresa was overly sweet, even for a nun, yet appeared impulsive and slightly manipulative.
Everything in this movie rang false to me...the characters, the dialogue, the manipulative soundtrack, the corny narration, all of it.
A fine young cast is wasted in this empty, mawkish, manipulative film that tries to be a combination of both a cute comedy and an insightful drama.
That aside, this film is also profoundly disturbing in that it justifies the manipulative and psychotic machinations of a character that is profoundly disturbed.
The cinematography is so horribly manipulative and unoriginal and the montage jumbled beyond belief.
Or what about a manipulative, cloying, utterly wretched script?
Not only is it hokey, manipulative, and melodramatic.
The underlying theme of the series is that a silent majority of colonists enjoyed British rule; that the founding fathers were manipulative schemers whose only goal was to draw Britain into a violent civil war; that the American supporters of the revolution and the militia were racist, violent louts, duped into the struggle.
director/writer Paul haggis' has managed to get great reviews with his manipulative, self righteous writing, but it doesn't fool me.
We quickly figure out this will be a manipulative, sappy tale illustrating a bunch of jaded people set in their ways confronted by "nice victimized" refugees and that it will have a happy ending where the jaded people realize the error of their ways and accept these people.
Instead of punishing the youngest child for being manipulative, they let her get away with murder.
This show tells the already manipulative preteens that watch it that the "divide and conquer" technique is the best way to get their parents to "cave."
This is the worst kind of film-making - manipulative and childish.
Highly manipulative picture doesn't give us a very realistic familial unit (with young Justin Henry certainly not resembling the product of a marriage between Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep!), but the dynamics are intriguing and involving, and director Robert Benton keeps the pace popping with lots of cleverness, marvelous classical music, canny editing and surefire bits of humor.
You could describe Fosca as manipulative, but what if it is really serious, that she gets ill when the love she is sure of isn't answered.
Here is a film which tackles controversial topics of the day (namely racism), and refuses to give easy answers and show them in a manipulative fashion.
Excellent introspective / interpersonal piece that really had some teeth to it without feeling hopeless or worse, manipulative & artificially gratifying.
i was moved at several points, and not in some manipulative Hollywood way with driving music and flashy mise-en-scene, but allowed to discover the horror and implications along with the characters.
The 1995 version has more dramatic power largely because it sharpens many of the characters -- in the 1995 version Lady Russell is snobbier, more manipulative, less truly looking out for Anne; Sir Walter is even more vain and vapid; Elizabeth is nastier; Mary is more insufferable; Mr. Elliot is more smarmy; Lady Dalrymple is much more stupid -- but I think the characterizations in this 1971 version are closer to the book, to Austen's vision, and to the real people of the time.
Call it manipulative drivel if you will, but I fell for it.
Liv Tyler plays a manipulative woman who tries to get her own way by flaunting her body to every man she meets ,all of which fall under her spell.There are a few funny moments in this but they get fewer and fewer as the film deteriorates into a comedy farce.
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