| 单词 | manipulative |
| 例句 | Programming, the installation of software, getting computers to speak properly to one another, all require very particular languages, protocols, and conventions—in sharp contrast to the emotional, visceral, manipulative drama of the political system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Until now, I have mostly avoided watching the news; it’s always so manipulative. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She says religious people are all twisted and evil and manipulative and just want money. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I was losing myself, becoming like other girls, frivolous, manipulative, using how I looked to get things. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If things had been a little different, it might have been some other creature whose intelligence and manipulative ability would have led to comparable accomplishments. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That their marriage would be manipulative and violent, I had no doubt—although those words were not mine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He gives amazing speeches, writes fantastic op-eds and now newspaper features, spearheads community warmth drives...and he dates a manipulative ditz. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “Why say suboptimal? Why not say what you really are? Thoughtless and confusing and manipulative?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z But the character he plays is dark and manipulative. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Shouldn’t we applaud any effort, regardless of how minor or manipulative, that makes even one child safer? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Nazis accorded music considerable esteem, hoping to shape the course of musical history by manipulative policies affecting the production and reception of music across the vast territories they eventually controlled. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But the Erudite are as meticulous as they are manipulative, so they wouldn’t leave it up to chance. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They have no manipulative organs, they make no engineering constructs, but they are social creatures. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From the very first day, Father saw Dr. Lange for the manipulative and evil human being he was. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Every time I suggested that Shawn was violent or manipulative in any way, Dad shouted at me: “Where’s your proof? Do you have proof?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “He can be very cunning, very manipulative. I would know.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When a father gets this involved in his kids’ careers, one hopes that it’s merely to protect his offspring from mercenary or manipulative forces, from rocketing into adulthood, from being exploited in some unforgivable way. The Twisted Legacy of the Stage Dad Joe Jackson 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z I read "Helter Skelter" when I was probably too young, so I did have an interest in that kind of manipulative, evil genius. "House in the Pines" thriller author on the "dark side of nostalgia" with a narrator no one believes 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z At the other end is quite hardcore emotionally manipulative men who use these interests to really mess about with women or men. What is a softboi? You might be dating one – and you don't even know it 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z At the time, according to Don Stewart, a retired professor who has mentored Simmons, he was manipulative and aggressive and did not acknowledge that he had done something wrong. Thirteen and locked up for life? 2012-10-02T20:27:00Z No, now it’s about the manipulative mother of a California crime family. Animal Kingdom: nihilistic feast of bros, bare butts and bad behavior 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z At its center are three sisters — variously wanton, manipulative and unfulfilled — and their sweet, goofy man-child of a brother. | 'Our Idiot Brother': ?Our Idiot Brother,? Starring Paul Rudd - Review 2011-08-25T23:52:36Z Was he the manipulative leader of a dangerous hate group? White pride in my classroom 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z It’s an idea that could have been exploitative, manipulative or literal-minded. Cleveland Triennial Is an Artistic Scavenger Hunt With Civic Pride 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Murderous babies with magically manipulative abilities are certainly out of the norm, but Ghazalla's depth and range as Mrs. Eaves cemented "The Baby" as a standout for the year. The best breakout TV performances of the year, from twins and vamps to werewolves and superheroes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z At one end is the manipulative Tristan Tzara, Dada’s founder, who begins adamantly, “To put out a manifesto you must want: ABC to fulminate against 1,2,3.” 12 Faces of Cate Blanchett: A Chameleon in the Armory 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Only at the end does Murphy become a mite manipulative as if wanting to give us a glowing, feelgood conclusion. Review 2010-04-20T00:48:00Z Dear Amy: The letter from "Upset Ex," the woman with a manipulative ex-husband who kept going after her for money, is someone who needs encouragement to seek therapy and support. Perspective | Ask Amy: Depressed couple is at relationship impasse 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s emotionally manipulative without understanding how human emotions actually work. Here's every single thing that is wrong with Collateral Beauty 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Although Swift was aware that her label would eventually sell the masters, she wasn’t expecting them to be sold to Braun, whom she claimed was an "incessant, manipulative bully" during their prolonged feud. Look what you made her do: The 8 takeaways from Prime Video’s Taylor Swift documentary 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z And a scene between the two mothers is painful, but in a manipulative, not heartbreaking way. “Ben Is Back”: Julia Roberts doesn’t save this uneven addiction drama 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Many of the people in Smith's life, from doctors to lawyers, and eventually the public, wrote her off as a manipulative, drug-addicted gold digger. The legacy of Anna Nicole Smith and why we need to retire the term "gold digger" 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Rather than the statesman being self-serving and manipulative, here Diarmaid MacCulloch argues he was an idealist with a plan for the modern nation state. TV highlights 24/05/2013 2013-05-24T05:59:01Z Princess Diana was melodramatic and manipulative; Britons want Charles to be the next King. We Three Queens: A Triad of Royal Biographies Debuts 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z It may be manipulative, but it is also irresistible. From commentary on money and race, the power of Ben Affleck's "Air" gotta be more than the shoes 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z But the mixture of showbiz, social comment and soap opera rings manipulative and false. The Nance: Gay Burlesque and Straight Plays 2013-04-17T09:45:36Z That problem adds to a more general enigma surrounding Miles, who is sweet but manipulative and eerily remote. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z But the full picture shows O'Keefe's partisan hit job—trying to link NPR to liberal elitism and scary Muslims—was manipulative too. Hatchet Job 2011-03-17T07:30:00Z Megan has recently given birth to her first child when she discovers a new resident in her home: the ghost of a famous children’s author, intent on settling scores with a manipulative former lover. New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘The Cult of We’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s easy to be cynical about this way of communicating, which favors a kind of dopey, manipulative warmth. Taylor Swift’s Netflix Special Is the End of an Era 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Little things like that are really manipulative, so the questions become more like, “What was the agenda?” Director Amy Berg on Why the Adnan Syed Case Still Matters 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z At first we don't know anything about Paul and Raluca's relationship, but something in their tentative talk of the future and in Paul's manner -- simultaneously cajoling and manipulative -- begins to fill in the blanks. "Tuesday, After Christmas": A sexy, slow-burning marriage drama 2011-05-27T19:28:00Z “It’s an unusual thing with conductors, that it’s not Machiavellian, that it didn’t feel manipulative,” Winokur said of the experience. A Conductor Comes Into His Own in the Opera Pit 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z It signals every punch it throws in telling the tale of an innocent first-year student at a Los Angeles university sharing her college room with a manipulative psychotic fellow freshman. The Roommate ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:36Z The movie holds your attention, but you leave discussing the manipulative plot rather than the moral issues it raises. In a Better World ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:31Z Alastair Miles was a very fine Daland, his bass voice flexible and resonant, making credible the old seafarer's mix of compassion and more manipulative qualities. The Flying Dutchman – review 2013-03-19T17:20:46Z The second comes to a close in more powerful, if also emotionally manipulative, fashion, with the last scene of “The Walkers.” Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Films without manipulative music, films shot in real time, films shot with real grit and dirt where you can’t tell the filmmaker’s agenda. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z And being, I think, more manipulative of that. Lucy Boynton on playing the misunderstood Marie Antoinette: "She had this rebellious streak to her" 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Both Lacy and Maria explain how they and scores of NFL cheerleaders before them were silenced for decades by manipulative tactics from leadership. "Nothing's more American than cheating workers": How NFL cheerleaders fought back 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Many contradictions reside within Shakespeare's portrait of Cleopatra, who must beguile even at her most irritatingly manipulative, as the play opens with an Egyptian-style bacchanal. Seattle Shakes' 'Antony and Cleopatra' a full-scale telling of fascinating classic 2012-11-06T00:15:09Z The film was in no way mawkish or manipulative, and for that we should thank whatever gods we need, because the last thing real drama wants is melodrama. Rewind TV: 7/7: One Day in London; Blackout; When I Get Older; Imagine: Graceland – review 2012-07-07T23:05:40Z Your mother is being cruel, manipulative and emotionally abusive. Perspective | Ask Amy: Daughter juggles relationship with two mothers 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z But onstage the insertion of tragedy felt deeply manipulative, and unearned, a feint at weighty matters that cheapened rather than charged everything around it. Dance Review: Raimund Hoghe and Takashi Ueno in ‘Pas de Deux’ 2012-10-11T23:17:47Z The series offers a portrait of Nancy Reagan as a powerful and manipulative behind-the-scenes player who was essential to her husband’s success. Was Reagan a Precursor to Trump? A New Documentary Says Yes 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Some said the husband was “controlling” and “manipulative” for buying his wife an exercise bike and that the ad suggested that he thought she needed to lose weight. Peloton 'wife' pops up in new advertisement 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Sherlock Holmes, say, used the same approach, but Columbo stands out because of the pleasure he derives — not that he would admit to that — from taunting suspects in manipulative mind games. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Columbo’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z In this much more manipulative and even conventional book, the shock value of the main characters’ secrets wipes out too much of the sublime subtlety and originality that distinguish Ms. Groff at her best. Review: Lauren Groff’s ‘Fates and Furies’ Features a Wife Who’s Full of Surprises 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z The network announced Wednesday that Spader will reprise his guest role as manipulative salesman Robert California when the comedy returns this fall. James Spader hired full-time for 'The Office' 2011-07-06T18:38:08Z As the violent, manipulative alcoholic and the vain, snobbish fabricator punch and counterpunch in “A Very British Scandal,” the opaqueness of the characters gets tedious and increasingly mystifying. ‘A Very British Scandal’ Review: Claire Foy Gives Up the Crown 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Either MacDonald has spent 34 years in jail for a crime he did not commit or he is a manipulative psychopath shamelessly asserting his innocence. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z Kate seems to be everything that Jean is not: strong, effective and manipulative. ‘The Widow’ review: Can she find love in a killer marriage? 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Hey, Carolyn: My best friend is getting married in about five months to her boyfriend of six years, a very manipulative and emotionally abusive man. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Being there for a now-distant friend in an abusive relationship 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Except it’s not a horror: this is Toy Story 4, and the sinister hench-dummies of a manipulative antique doll named Gabby Gabby. Doll parts: why there's always room for creepy toys in Hollywood 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z When it started back in 2004, the genealogy series felt fresh, offering unusual insights into the backstories of well-known personalities; but now it all just seems rather formulaic and manipulative. TV review: Who Do You Think You Are? The Flowerpot Gang; Death Camp Treblinka: Survivor Stories 2012-08-15T21:00:01Z And cheer up: Her collapsing for you to see is extremely manipulative and, therefore, just as selfish. Carolyn Hax: Telling someone their kid’s name is dumb. There’s a name for that. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z As befits a portrait of a great artist, her performance blends cool, sure-handed craftwork and volcanic fire, as Galactia seesaws between manipulative charm and uncontrolled anger, exacting calculation and sloppy sensuality. Review: ‘Scenes From an Execution’ Features Jan Maxwell as a Difficult Artist 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z This was the genius of the latest trailer for "Avengers: Endgame," an adroitly bombastic masterpiece of emotionally manipulative marketing. This is why the "Avengers" and "Star Wars" trailers made you cry 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z If my only interest was in talking with him about writing, would consenting to such a meeting—with all its implicit expectations—be misleading or manipulative? #MeToo and Encounters That Resist Easy Moralizing 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z His unfocused longing finds focus in his desire and in his role as protector; her reserve and her manipulative ways transform into strengths in his eyes. "Mad Men" recap: Women on the verge 2010-09-20T12:20:00Z Even if the show was corny and manipulative, audiences of every age returned each week to Waltons’ Mountain, finding an emotional authenticity in a family that seemed to embody the country’s best ideals. Earl Hamner Jr., Virginia-born writer who created ‘The Waltons,’ dies at 92 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Early in her compelling account of the downfall of the cyclist Lance Armstrong, Juliet Macur provides us with a glimpse of just how manipulative he remained, even as his world crashed down around him. Books of The Times: ‘Cycle of Lies’ Details the Fall of Lance Armstrong 2014-03-11T19:43:21Z "For me, what works well about Life in a Day is that it's emotionally affecting without being manipulative," Macdonald says. Kevin Macdonald: "I didn't understand Hollywood" 2011-03-17T21:30:00Z The story of the unemployed Thierry is only superficially affecting because of its flat, depersonalized, and yet manipulative drama. A Movie that Captures France’s Dystopian Employment Situation 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z It’s sweet, often cloyingly so, and shamelessly manipulative. ‘Starbuck’: a sweet delivery on one man’s baby boom 2013-04-11T20:41:06Z He's trying to renounce his violent, manipulative father, now doing life for murder; she's attempting to escape from a relationship with an abusive junkie. The Man Inside – review 2012-07-28T23:05:56Z Instead, it is as manipulative as it is illuminating. Exhibition Review: A Golden Age in Science, Full of Light and Shadow 2010-12-09T23:34:00Z "I get quite panicked at the notion that people are buying his rhetoric, because it seems very manipulative to me." 2010-01-09T11:23:00Z A long shot allows them to explore their characters in a theatrical way because I am not manipulative with the camera. "It is a civil war": "Heroic" director on how the Mexican military makes ordinary men into killers 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z As manipulative as “The Newsroom” ’s politics can be, I mostly share them. “The Newsroom” ’s Crazy-Making Campus-Rape Episode 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Q: What drew you to this movie, and playing such a manipulative boss? A Minute With: Christoph Waltz on being a 'Horrible Boss' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z There’s a way to tell this story that wouldn’t come across as soggy or manipulative. ‘Louder Than Words,’ on Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘Dead Poets Society,’ Starring Jason Sudeikis as the Idealistic Teacher 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z I don't want to let my kid run wild and unfettered as a manipulative "I told you so." Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Baby, don’t go — taking a 20-month-old on a night out 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z 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. A Nurse Ratched Origin Story Comes to Netflix 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z But how can they be expected to make sense of such manipulative distortions of reality? ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Then, after a deep sigh, he adds a manipulative kicker. “The Americans” Finale Was Elegant, Potent, and Unforgettable 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Far from being an objective record of reality, it was seen as agenda-ridden and manipulative. Walid Raad’s Unreality Show Spins Middle Eastern History as Art 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Mullen earned raves as middle-aged Maureen, who faces what could be her last chance to find love and escape her manipulative mother, Mag. Marie Mullen in 'Beauty Queen of Leenane': Daughter and mother, victim and villain 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But she soon learns the dangers of no longer having a murdering, manipulative, emotionally abusive man around to protect her, and the power of women collaborating to unleash havoc. "Birds of Prey" is a fantabulous, feminist grenade 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Fish Mooney will purr something sinister and manipulative with malicious relish. 'Gotham' Recap: Gordon Puts Everything Right, Before the Commercial Break 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z They are manipulative, petty and vindictive whenever they are not equally honest, loving and forgiving. Review: In ‘While I Was Waiting,’ a Man and a Country in Limbo 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z That revelation only complicates Beverly's tangled feelings about Matt, which could be summarized as, "Hate his guts for being a spoiled, manipulative, sexist pig/Find him strangely hot." What makes Matt LeBlanc's new show so good 2011-02-03T15:04:00Z If you're determined to make a fun, feelgood movie, a marriage between a manipulative bigamist and a terrified minor that spirals off into alcoholism, violence and ruination may not be the ideal subject matter. Great Balls of Fire! Jerry Lee Lewis biopic strikes wrong note on scandal 2012-08-23T11:49:00Z Mention is also made of a manipulative writer named “Mr. Newman.” Randy Newman cared enough about his new album to help pay for it 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Grace wrote him a long, emotional email – and received a three-line "cryptic and manipulative" reply. 'So I'm a transsexual and this is what's happening' 2012-07-22T19:30:00Z Snow falls, music plays, and it all feels very manipulative. In ‘A Wilder Christmas,’ Darkness Laced With Sentiment 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Hynes’s detractors, though, will have no trouble seeing them as manipulative. Television Review: ‘Brooklyn DA’ Begins on Tuesday on CBS 2013-05-27T21:42:21Z Forcing a victim to depend upon their abuser is a form of manipulative control. William Hurt and the silent epidemic of abuse 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Now that “Big Love” is over, after five years of playing the manipulative middle wife of a polygamist, she continues to embrace her outsider status by choosing unconventional roles. The ?It? Girl, Now a Woman 2011-07-01T20:49:29Z Soon, Sirena, a slyly manipulative installation artist, is inviting her to share a studio. Claire Messud’s ‘The Woman Upstairs’: reawakening, infatuation, betrayal 2013-05-08T21:18:30Z It's also a shade manipulative to accompany the performance of Farquhar's play with the triumphant sound of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Our Country's Good – review 2013-02-05T13:36:51Z It's a manipulative tactic, this oversharing and this manipulation to get somebody to share as much secret information before meeting, because that's how it works. Troll-fighter Carrie Goldberg: "I became the lawyer I needed" 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Carrie ends up with the debonair and manipulative Mr Big, largely because he promises her a walk-in wardrobe. Seinfeld and Simpsons – why your favourite TV show is problematic 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z In that quiet, Mom works her manipulative magic. Dennis Lehane’s ‘Since We Fell’ takes us into the heart of a tormented woman 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Not only that, in a shrewd nod to the way the actor's detractors see him, Cruise seems to enjoy the chance to play Cage as shallow, callow, self-interested and manipulative. 'Edge of Tomorrow,' Tom Cruise run loops around competition 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z And Bannon very proudly shows Heilemann an excerpt from his latest opus, “Trump @ War,” a manipulative propaganda film designed to stir up the Trump base leading up to the midterms. “The Circus” host calls Steve Bannon’s propaganda film “a cinematic reach-around” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The anthropological underpinnings of a manipulative ex’s machinations do not exonerate his bad behavior; however, articulating them may help to quiet the surrounding chatter. How to Get Over That Ex 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Yet that incongruous, almost childlike Tyson charm pokes through occasionally and makes you momentarily forget how ham-handed and manipulative the show is. Theater Review: ‘Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth’ at Longacre Theater 2012-08-03T02:00:00Z “Editing and scoring can be extremely strong and manipulative tools in moviemaking,” Novotny told me. The Power of the One-Take Film 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z They pick things up, but how can they be expected to make sense of such manipulative distortions of reality? ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Many of his characters are manipulative older men who think that captivating younger women will truly rejuvenate them. Review: David Gates Delivers More Havoc in ‘A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me’ 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z He accused me of being “manipulative” and “backing him into a corner.” Ask Amy: Dad reneges on help with daughter’s down payment 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z But Rhys Meyers reckons there was always a method to King Henry's madness, and learning how to tap into the monarch's manipulative nature has helped improve his own acting skills. Being a "Tudors" king changed Jonathan Rhys Meyers 2010-04-10T00:43:00Z The crowd sings the stirring, irresistible, howling chorus, corny and manipulative and earnest as it is. Tim McGraw sings. Jon Meacham talks. This is not your regular book tour. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z As a 17-year-old, could Carter really be this manipulative femme fatale? "I Love You, Now Die" and what we think we know about teenage girls 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z But Horn breaks through the movie’s manipulative scrim simply through the sheer force of his emotions. Brace Yourselves for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2011-12-21T15:15:09Z You don't have to have been a kid on a hit TV show to see how manipulative that is, and the ways in which "You are such a good sport" is used against people. "She taught me an eating disorder": Jennette McCurdy on why some moms "don't deserve" to be revered 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Now, you can decide that’s Kafkaesque brilliance or you can decide that it drives you crazy because it’s manipulative and implausible. Secrets of “Blood Simple”: The devious neo-noir classic is more complicated than it looks 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z A manipulative father torments his daughter with the knowledge that he has shot the pony intended for her birthday. Reviews: 'Pinter and Beckett,' 'An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein' 2010-05-20T20:13:00Z The first is that the evangelical tactics used at such camps are on occasions manipulative. Christian teen camps are wicked, innit 2011-08-10T18:14:02Z How far we let these manipulative aggressors go is up to us. Review: Denial Takes on the Bullying Bluster of Liars 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The sentimental ending, in which the family reharmonise at Thisbe's high-school musical, is quite as emotionally manipulative as any episode of Glee . The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z The British author’s latest book, “The Secret Commonwealth,” is set in a world of mystery, magic, witches and daemons — as well as untrustworthy politicians, manipulative charmers and fake news. Philip Pullman’s latest book is adventure for an anxious age 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z But she implied that Beijing’s version was one-sided in its black-and-white portrayals of patriotic Chinese resisters and manipulative British drug-pushers. Books: Highlighting Differences in Interpretations of the Opium War 2011-08-18T15:14:28Z "My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative," she wrote in one of several messages. Lisa Marie Presley read an early script for “Priscilla” months before dying and hated it 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z The second movement, innocently titled Waltz, emerged in this performance as a slyly luxurious, darkly manipulative dance. Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z “There is a manipulative tone that I don’t like,” Ms. Mockler said. The Chain Letter Is Back, and Just as Annoying as Before 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s clear that something is amiss, not only because of their chasmic age difference, but also because of Henry’s domineering, manipulative personality. Review: In ‘Elizabeth Harvest,’ Forbidden Rooms and Stylized Mystery 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z To some critics, Spielberg represents everything wrong with movies of the last 40 years: every manipulative, sentimental and infantile impulse used by him and endlessly exploited by her imitators. Spielberg's 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It's Tintinastic! 2011-12-21T18:03:02Z At times she can be manipulative, even repellent. The Makropulos Case 2010-09-22T20:59:00Z Many of the people in Smith's life, from doctors to lawyers, and eventually the public, wrote her off as a manipulative, drug-addicted gold digger. The legacy of Anna Nicole Smith and why we need to retire the term "gold digger" 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Does the casting of an actor with cerebral palsy to play a character with cerebral palsy on the ABC sitcom “Speechless” seem manipulative? A Wheelchair on Broadway Isn’t Exploitation. It’s Progress. 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z In between, the dispensing of calibrated micro-doses of information can seem manipulative; much of it could as easily be revealed earlier. Review: ‘American Son’ Puts Kerry Washington in a Maternal Nightmare 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z "Girls do such evil things to each other, they can be so manipulative and cunning," Unsworth says. Queens of noir 2012-08-13T19:00:10Z All kinds of behavior — manipulative, passive; charming, tough; talkative, silent — emerged, to the point that the show became expressively incoherent. Still Reforming Postmodern Dance, California Roots Intact 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z When it’s revealed that Amy has framed Nick, we get a classic tale about a manipulative, wicked woman who traps a hapless man in her web. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Is she an innocent victim or a manipulative perpetrator? "Devil in Ohio" creator on reinventing the Satanic cult and that ending: "Is she a force for evil?" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z “It’s about the most fully committed, emotionally deep, physically harrowing performance I’ve seen in a while,” he wrote of the actress’s performance as an alcoholic, manipulative mother in West Texas. Andrea Riseborough Can’t Believe She Was Nominated for an Oscar, Either 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z It won't be here, although I see the temptation; it's challenging to accurately assess Remember Me's merits without discussing whether the end is grossly manipulative or fair use of wrenching emotional material. Remember Me Review: Young Love, Hold the Vampires 2010-03-12T19:35:00Z For some critics, the opposition between the helpless, infantile Professor Julius Kelp and the coldly manipulative lounge singer Buddy Love represented a spiteful revision of the old Martin-and-Lewis dynamic. Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z By 1967, the author was an open critic, portraying the Kennedys as cold and manipulative in the essay "The Holy Family." Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z We don't want to sound manipulative – but we do want readers to care about these issues. Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide 2010-08-18T23:05:00Z The musical then pushes back against its own skepticism, depicting the powers-that-be as corrupt, cynical and manipulative, exploiting the anxieties of Judas and the other apostles. Review: In ‘Jesus Christ Superstar,’ an Old Story for (Yet Another) New Millennium 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Raniere claimed to have developed a “new mathematics” and called his manipulative techniques “the tech.” Nxivm Had a Cult Leader Made for the Internet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z In her review for The Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote that the movie is “treacly and manipulative,” but it has a few bright spots — including Julianne Moore’s performance as the title character’s mother. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Try Harder!’ and ‘Sheryl’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z But it's hard for this not to feel manipulative. Ted Lasso: great coach, bad ex-husband 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Sherry using her status as an accomplished performer to be manipulative and domineering? RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode 11 – the queens Whoopi it up 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z This news motivates Honor to weave a manipulative web that grows spectacularly tangled. ‘Honor Society’ Review: Ivy League Strategist’s Cynical Shell Is Cracked 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Beautiful, canny and manipulative, she makes him simultaneously want to have her, protect her and avoid her. ‘Every Night I Dream of Hell’ takes us deep inside a hit man’s life 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Furthermore, he is insinuating that you are at fault for the fact that he is a manipulative jerk, that your refusal is “anxiety,” and that your suspicions mean that you are “paranoid.” Perspective | Ask Amy: In this relationship, the ‘comfort zone’ is a twilight zone 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Donohue’s gift is the way in which he shows us his manipulative villains. Who’s pulling the strings in Keith Donohue’s fantastical new novel? 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z But “Lullaby,” the directorial debut of Andrew Levitas, a jack of all artistic trades, is the kind of manipulative, cliché-infested hokum that alienates moviegoers by its insistence on hogging all the tears. ‘Lullaby’ Features Richard Jenkins and Amy Adams 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z And I've read some reviews that call this maudlin or manipulative. Comics: Graphic novel 'Stargazing Dog' is emotionally wrenching 2011-10-17T16:03:37Z She called her father “a manipulative liar” for suggesting she’d been brainwashed. Scenes from Week 2 of the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z I quailed at all three of these statements, viewing them as manipulative attempts to assert worth. Circa Now: Bah, Humblebrag: The (Unfortunate) Rise of False Humility 2012-11-30T20:49:55Z Emphasizing Bruckner’s supposed victimization by manipulative editors, Haas presented his edition as the reclaiming of Bruckner’s pure original texts, purged of alien elements, for “Greater Germany.” Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z For me, playing a character so dark and manipulative, it was important to understand where it started for him. "He is a terrible man": Michiel Huisman on playing a cult leader in horror flick "The Other Lamb" 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z They're gloopy, cynically manipulative melodramas in which a boy falls in love with a girl and then someone dies, and they are bad. What we want from Hollywood in 2011 2010-12-23T22:00:01Z After his audition, the judges asked Medina to bring his fiancé in the room – an act of emotionally manipulative television, but not dishonest. ArtsBeat: American Idol: Notes on Pity 2011-01-27T06:39:07Z The story continues a decade after the first instalment, which concludes with the unnamed narrator realising his manipulative and aggressive companion, Tyler Durden, is his own alter-ego. Fight Club sequel due in 2015 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Reluctant Referee: In my big town, making demands on your time for the purpose of keeping you away from someone else isn’t “sweet”; it’s “manipulative,” “controlling,” “self-aggrandizing” and “obnoxious.” Be careful when letting others set your priorities 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z "I am not what they say I am," she said, seeking to rebut prosecution suggestions that she was a manipulative, sex-obsessed, pot-smoking "she-devil." Tearful Amanda Knox pleads for freedom 2011-10-03T16:30:15Z The filmmakers relish tarnishing Protess, painted as ruthlessly manipulative in his quest to free inmates. Breathless outrage accompanies investigation of 'A Murder in the Park' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The character's very name is a shorthand for manipulative viragos. "Ratched" gilds pop culture's most famous nurse into something unrecognizable and barely watchable 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z There’s nothing more emotionally manipulative than the defenestration of a small child. Lame of Thrones 2012-07-24T17:05:00Z Well, pretty much as we are: wise, cunning, manipulative and very clever too. How Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories became music to my ears 2013-01-04T09:00:06Z Or worse, hasn’t the term become a manipulative attempt to deflect judgment? Connections: Two New Books About Anti-Semitism 2010-07-05T21:57:00Z The Post promptly gets its hands on copies of the papers, and what follows is an exploration of the role of the press in keeping a secretive and manipulative government in check. Play on Pentagon Papers Goes On in Beijing, but Not a Talk 2011-12-03T02:27:23Z The title cut's subject is manipulative despite his charm. Aimme Mann turns to AM radio hit for inspiration 2012-11-20T17:13:09Z Not a gentleman’s croaking ho-hum, but a snarky, taunting voice, manipulative. A frat boy’s “gay experience” 2014-04-21T00:00:00Z Tory of the Express pegs Joyce as "just a bit crazy, eccentric, self-obsessed and self-involved and manipulative, and barking mad, probably." Tabloid: The Honey Blonde and the 'Manacled Mormon' 2011-07-14T21:10:00Z The film could be mawkish and manipulative, as could Williams himself, but this was tempered by its authentic irreverence. Robin Williams obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z According to Ms. Smith, Edith Gregor Halpert was a “formidable, feisty and sometimes manipulative self-starter with an ecumenical eye, a passion for art and an inborn instinct for sales and promotion.” Holiday Museum Guide: Where to See Art This Season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z They interviewed her about her past and learned of his manipulative behavior as far back as the first dates. Children of NYC mom who killed husband pen book 2012-07-14T18:01:05Z The term “family” has come to mean “for kids,” which has come to signify something trite, manipulative and saccharine. Perspective | Audiences love family films. Hollywood might be catching on. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z But it’s also razor-sharp in its examination of how working people can be turned against their own interests, and each other, by the crassly manipulative forces above them. 9 Movies About Work to Watch This Labor Day 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z It’s hard to think of anything sadder or more manipulative than portrayals of a dying child. ‘Red Band Society,’ Set in a Pediatric Ward 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z As a child I found it long-winded, melodramatic, and a manipulative kind of tearjerker, even if I didn't use those exact words. The harmful messaging of "It's a Wonderful Life" 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Writers learn to duck in and out of manipulative states of mind - athletes, too, perhaps? Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z Bergman plays Paula, a beautiful, shy woman who has been swept off her feet and married by the sinister, manipulative charmer played by Charles Boyer. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z This manipulative tosh is admittedly staged with sophistication by Rachel Kavanaugh. Love Story 2010-06-08T21:15:00Z 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. Ryan Adams Dangled Success. Women Say They Paid a Price. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z He wanted to abolish sex, thereby equalizing men and ridding society of women’s manipulative and bestial natures, and to lock women in concentration camps so they would die out. The Power of #YesAllWomen 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z In the first movie, her job was to show the evolution of Tree from a self-absorbed and manipulative jerk into an empathetic, genuine person. "Happy Death Day 2U": A rare movie sequel that surpasses the original 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Specifically, her role in a scrappy new comedy called Bad Therapy, an indie about a couple experiencing problems in their relationship who seek help from a manipulative therapist. Alicia Silverstone: 'I probably behaved not as well as I could have' 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z A natural stage animal, Heather Shipp brought a meaty mezzo to manipulative Phoebe. Prom 49: The Yeomen of the Guard – review 2012-08-20T11:30:57Z Our skewed system, instead, had catapulted to positions of national visibility marginally informed, manipulative people who need to write their “core principles” on one hand to avoid the “Oops!” moment. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z Major manipulative skills are required for these characters to get their way. DVDs: Painting It Red: Midcareer Minnelli 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z She was accused of being aggressive, timid, greedy, manipulative, and so on. Is Reddit’s Ellen Pao just too radical for Silicon Valley’s unequal terrain? 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z That word, “Silo,” refers both to the enormous subterranean city that shelters 10,000 people and to the practice of information siloing: filtering data through narrow, manipulative networks. ‘Silo’ Creator on the Show’s ‘Cautionary Tale’ About Tech 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z The comic Rich Hall struck a sensible balance when he wrote in his new memoir, “All jokes are manipulative, and audiences laugh when you reach a truthful kernel with the lie.” Stand-Up Sets Where You Can Choose Your Own Adventure 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Not as a manipulative or spiteful ploy, but instead as a resourceful adaptation. Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend’s outgoing personality unnerves introvert 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z As Calvin’s manipulative experiments continue, Ruby responds with alarming intensity. Movie Review: ‘Ruby Sparks,’ Written by and Starring Zoe Kazan 2012-07-24T21:46:52Z I assume—but I don’t know, of course—that Handke’s way of writing that book, of withholding all manipulative power, was a reaction to growing up in the shadow of Nazism. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z I hope this character will come across as a masterfully manipulative guy, so he needs to be seductive and charming. Paul Giamatti Had a Busy Year of Mad Guys and Bad Hair 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z PUAs like Blanc have long courted controversy for their seduction tactics, which many women have criticized for being manipulative and sexist. Pick-Up Artist Julien Blanc Has Been Banned From Singapore 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z 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. Michael Jackson Cast a Spell. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Breaks It. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z I found the manipulative final scene a musical and dramatic battering ram. Review: In ‘Dog Days,’ a Family Clawing for Survival 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z She is interested in and does well to expose the machinery — the propaganda, the economic authoritarianism, the military might, the manipulative diplomacy, the myriad aid agencies and NGOs — that made this possible. A Journalist Abroad Grapples With American Power 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z She said that the relationship was at times consensual, though Weinstein was emotionally manipulative, switching between “Jekyll and Hyde” personalities. The six women who accused Harvey Weinstein at his trial, and what they said 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Knox was described by the prosecution as a manipulative, cold-blooded she-devil who had grown apart from Kercher. New book gives intimate portrait of convicted Knox 2010-10-17T22:46:00Z Reluctant Referee: In my big town, making demands on your time for the purpose of keeping you away from someone else isn’t “sweet,” it’s “manipulative,” “controlling,” “self-aggrandizing” and “obnoxious.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: His girlfriend and friend don’t see eye to eye (and he has blinders on) 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z She fully expects it to be criticized as “manipulative and false,” though it instead wins her critical acclaim. Review: Dana Spiotta’s ‘Innocents and Others’ Explores the Dynamics Between Life and Art 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z “It’s not being fake or manipulative,” Ms. Anderson said on the phone, of the discrepancy. Pamela Anderson’s Garden of Eden 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Indeed, like Diane and Kit herself, Severin is one of those strong women Abbott typically writes about whose ambition is laudable but whose manipulative behavior reaffirms the worst stereotypes about female relationships. Review | Cliques, obsessive moms and now PhDs: Megan Abbott sets female rivalries afire 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “Alegría” is set in a mysterious kingdom where a character named Mr. Fleur, “a conceited, manipulative and unpredictable character,” says the press kit, “clumsily tries to impose his authority.” At Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Alegría’ at Marymoor Park, less is more 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Doing a scripted series also offered the “unique advantage,” Strong said, of putting the viewer inside of rooms with the Purdue executives “as they discuss their manipulative marketing campaigns.” ‘Dopesick’ Uses Drama, and Michael Keaton, to Give the Opioid Crisis a Human Face 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Well, I think one is how manipulative law enforcement can be for the good of the people that they're serving. “What is fair?”: Rosie Perez on the complexities of playing a federal prosecutor on "Your Honor" 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z "Fifty Shades of Grey," about a passionate relationship between naïve literature student Anastasia Steele and manipulative entrepreneur Christian Grey, was first published in 2011 and was James' first novel. Erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" breaks UK record 2012-06-28T14:30:38Z And in their world, the world of the somewhat seasoned Meyerist, the combination of performatively unshakable belief and devious, manipulative acts becomes all the more pronounced. “It’s not a cult!”: Scientology looms large over “The Path,” a sexy new drama about faith and doubt 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z One is blond, honest, self-sacrificing, the other dark-haired, manipulative, passive-aggressive and self-centred, and the story concerns the blonde seeing the brunette through an expensive, dangerous, illegal late abortion. Beyond the Hills – review 2013-03-17T00:05:37Z Your resolution is that you get to be free of him and his controlling and manipulative ways. Is It Too Late to Confront My Abusive Ex? 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Waltz took his first supporting actor SAG award for playing a manipulative Nazi officer in "Basterds." 2010-01-25T11:06:00Z People think I’m scathing, abrupt, aggressive, intense, passionate, smart, successful, secretive, stealthy, a baller, manipulative, funny. Bethenny Frankel Is Back on TV Because ‘I Know What People Want to See’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z “But, instead, I’ll have to be like, ‘O.K., this is manipulative. Barry Jenkins Is Trying Not to Think About ‘Barry Jenkins’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z She is overbearing and manipulative, and my husband admits the same.” Bride cancels her wedding just to spite mother-in-law 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z But its triumphant revenge narrative manages to balance out such shamelessly manipulative elements. Fictional Police Brutality, Real Emotional Toll 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z But so is his cynicism – most depressingly, in an old routine about manipulative women and their violent men. Doug Stanhope 2010-09-01T21:00:00Z But its reputation has since become more divisive, with critics who consider its torment of Jude to be manipulative and excessive. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “She was loving and maternal and fierce and complex and passionate and demanding and manipulative - a million, wonderful things,” said Moore, the newly crowned best actress winner at the Cannes Film Festival. LaTanya Richardson Jackson cheered at elegant tea 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Controlling, judgmental, manipulative — who wants a bedroom set like that? John Corbett Knows What You Want From Him 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z “I’m fat” can be an honest declaration of size or a manipulative, Regina George-like dare for you to contradict the person. Is it OK to call someone fat? 2014-01-20T14:30:00Z This is much tougher than working for Tyler, whose manipulative skills don’t amount to much. Review: In ‘Oh! You Pretty Things,’ Shanna Mahin Dishes on Hollywood Foibles 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Philip Pullman goaded believers last year with his take on the New Testament, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, which gave Jesus a manipulative twin brother. The best books of 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:05Z What might this talented young star achieve if she were in a film which was not fantastically manipulative and crass? The Fault in our Stars review – manipulative and crass 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z She’s blunt and manipulative, beginning with clear conjecture before dropping the hypothetical halfway through and gleefully concocting an account of Mark’s killing Danny. 'Broadchurch' Recap: Properly Angry 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z People lost their jobs, had to move to start anew, and those who continued became manipulative scumbags who were really decent people before entering the subculture. Punk, dance music and drugs 2013-05-20T00:00:00Z After she met Weinstein in the industry, she described a“manipulative” relationship where he coerced her, often angrily, into sexual acts. Weinstein trial: key witness gives powerful testimony on alleged rape 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z “A vast majority of the Reddit community believes that Pao, ‘a manipulative individual who will sue her way to the top’, has overstepped the boundaries and fears that she will run Reddit into the ground.” Is Reddit’s Ellen Pao just too radical for Silicon Valley’s unequal terrain? 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z But despite misgivings about the subject matter — the books tell the tale of a dominant-submissive affair between a manipulative millionaire and a naïve younger woman — library officials feel that they need to make it available. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ by E. L. James, in Demand at Libraries 2012-05-21T22:00:24Z It reminded me of a manipulative technology advert of the Kings of Leon video where they party with black families. Jason Russell: Kony2012 and the fight for truth 2013-03-03T00:05:34Z The judge said he had never had a case before in which a defendant "has so recklessly, wantonly, flagrantly and criminally acted in such a destructive and manipulative fashion as Cameron Douglas has." Michael Douglas' son gets 4 1/2 more years in prison 2011-12-21T21:31:04Z 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. Review: ‘What We Become’ Finds Zombies in Broad Daylight 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z In an effective, if transparently manipulative narrative element, the duo’s sled dogs are the prime casualties, and we witness their ranks whittle down in a variety of horrifying ways. ‘Against the Ice’ Review: Snow Buddies 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z But your use of “manipulative” suggests suspicion of a deeper motive: perhaps a desire to stay at her home exclusively or to deepen your commitment. Social Q’s: A Mystery in Father’s Clothing 2013-06-13T19:20:10Z And when the film gets cloying and manipulative with a last-act accident that threatens the life of one of Ben’s kids, the film becomes really unbearable. Worst of 2016: 10 movies that failed spectacularly to deliver on their promise 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z The more glaring exception is Washington, where there is apparently nothing sexist or old school about painting women as venal, self-serving and manipulative. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Prime Time’s Other Women in Power 2014-05-02T12:00:01Z Then I read it, and I discovered it was this manipulative pirate and a character so full of colors and contrasts and contradictions. Sea Cruz: Pirate Penelope finds Depp a jolly mate 2011-05-11T15:01:06Z From the start of the scare in 1983 until its ending in the mid-1990s, untold numbers of children were subject to manipulative therapies and hundreds of innocent adults faced charges of ritual child abuse. Rape Culture is a 'Panic Where Paranoia, Censorship, and False Accusations Flourish' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “Unreal” is, historically, at its worst when it constructs desperate situations just to illustrate how bereft of morality its main, manipulative characters are. “Money. D*ck. Power.”: “Unreal” deconstructs fantasies — and asks what TV looks like with women in charge 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z What is your advice for handling this uneven and manipulative situation? Social Q’s: A Mystery in Father’s Clothing 2013-06-13T19:20:10Z S. Anand, a journalist who also runs a publishing house that focuses on caste issues, wrote a scathing article in Outlook magazine, accusing Khan's handling of caste issues as being "manipulative and fake". Bollywood superstar takes on real crusades in TV chat show 2012-07-31T04:40:20Z Reporters grumbled that this kind of unilateral determination after the fact was manipulative — the White House got to select only Trump’s more flattering moments, not the totality of what the president said. Analysis | Your A-to-Z guide to the media mayhem during President Trump’s first six months in office 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The Roys, damaged by their manipulative and withholding father, repeatedly fail to grasp this. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 7 Recap: The Scorpion and the Scorpion 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z It managed to be both informative and emotive, melancholic and angry, but without a cheap shot or manipulative moment ever coming near. TV review: The Secret History Of Our Streets: Deptford; EastEnders 2012-06-06T21:00:01Z Also new was Mr. Hennessy sewing himself to others in “Crotch”; I found the show both horrid and haunting — eloquent but creepily manipulative. Nakedness in Dance, Taken to Extremes 2012-08-16T12:00:00Z Glazer’s musical choices are seldom manipulative and are often counterintuitive. Mica Levi and orchestra go truly 'Under the Skin' at the Regent 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z If he is even passively stringing her along until she repays him, then he is being almost as manipulative as she is. Perspective | Ask Amy: New girlfriend wants to X ex’s texts 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z She is manipulative and scary, an endlessly needy black hole. ArtsBeat: A New Character, and a New Crazy, on ‘Girls’ 2014-01-20T03:30:15Z “They are tired of manipulative, cheap and sappy films filled with big romantic gestures that never happen in real life, ever.” Indies Invent a New Breed of Romantic Comedy 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z “There are a lot of things we just don’t talk about,” says Monty Brannigan, a former miner, but Mr. Brandestini knows how to listen without visual trickery or manipulative musical cues. | 'Darwin': A Town Built for 30 2011-08-12T12:22:01Z The great exemplar is the immediate post-war prime minister, Clement Attlee, whose memory is a silent reproach to our current manipulative, media-obsessed, self-aggrandising and increasingly unaccountable political culture. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z It manifests in four variations: “Nice and manipulative, nasty and manipulative, stubborn and manipulative, and playing the victim and manipulative.” How to Have a Disagreement Like an Adult, According to Deepak Chopra 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z But it does seem absurdly manipulative to trot out Martin Luther King every time a brand gets the urge to evoke the Pavlovian "human nature is AWESOME" feeling. Martin Luther King Jr., ultimate pitchman 2010-09-30T15:10:00Z But Walt has been such a horrible, manipulative Bad Daddy for so long that any affection Jesse still feels for him must be a result of conditioning more than authentic emotion. "Breaking Bad," 4x7: "Problem Dog" 2011-08-29T14:30:00Z Ms. Morahan’s Nora is more consciously manipulative, and, from the moment we meet her, she seems tainted by a dimly perceived sense of guilt and corruption. Theater Review: ‘A Doll’s House,’ With Hattie Morahan’s Frantic Nora 2014-02-28T03:00:01Z 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. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s cloying and sanctimonious, manipulative in all the worst ways, and it plays to almost all of Robin Williams’ worst impulses. 'It made my children cry': when real-life figures hate their biopics 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z 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. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z If being a manipulative schemer has backfired for Cersei, it’s nothing compared to how being a mensch has backfired for Jon Snow. The “Game of Thrones” Season Finale: Winter Is Here 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Mills almost finds a tender streak in a later scene between Richard and Anne, turning a sinister digital image to a flower as she approaches; it’s manipulative, yet hopeful. Review | My kingdom for a robot: Synetic Theater creates a dystopian, cyberpunk ‘Richard III’ 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z You have to be manipulative and politically savvy and you have to be ruthless. Cleopatra reborn 2011-02-24T10:41:18Z Some even saw in them a sign of Duch’s manipulative mind. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Suvari's character must also deal with her manipulative brother, who is on death row. Amazon adds Mena Suvari 'Hysteria' drama to third pilot round 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z You talk about that, how galvanizing that moment was to see her that vulnerable, or in the eyes of some, manipulative and playing to the camera. Meghan Markle "excites controversy" — Andrew Morton on the galvanizing power of the People's Duchess 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z If “I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive” were a shallow, emotionally manipulative melodrama, it might exploit the palpable erotic undertow in Thomas and Julie’s love-hate courtship. | 'I?m Glad My Mother Is Alive': ?I?m Glad My Mother Is Alive? - Review 2011-09-01T21:57:49Z The doctor prescribing Smith's Methadone at the time of her death also talked about how the doctor who referred Smith to him warned him how manipulative she was. The legacy of Anna Nicole Smith and why we need to retire the term "gold digger" 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The research suggests that informing teenagers about the manipulative nature of the food industry reduces their preference for sugary drinks and snacks. Teenagers more likely to eat healthily if they think it is rebellious 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The film's star turn is by James LeGros, as the manipulative actor Chad Palomino – a character possibly based on Brad Pitt, whom DiCillo had directed previously, in Johnny Suede. Fran?ois Truffaut ? the man who loved actors 2011-02-17T22:23:01Z The only unifying figure is Logan, the blustering, manipulative Kronos whose children vie to make sure he doesn’t snack on them first. ‘Succession’ Returns, With No Real People Involved 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z This is another of Mamet's manipulative female characters whose psychology is a function of plot. 'Race's' incendiary topic defused by Mamet's underwritten characters 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z In this case the headline-making price and the anonymous buyer made that paradox and its manipulative aspects especially clear. The Coy Art of the Mystery Bidder 2010-05-08T18:32:00Z Vince McMahon plays the cruel and manipulative corporate CEO and robber baron who cares about nothing but maintaining and expanding his power. It’s all just wrestling to Donald Trump: Everything the GOP front-runner knows about politics, he learned from the WWF 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Erika begins her investigation, but some of her reporting is halfhearted, some of it is manipulative, and some of it is simply dishonest, as when she surreptitiously tapes conversations after her subjects have declined permission. Review: In ‘Stet,’ Rape, Journalism and the Elusive Truth 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z And as intellectually lazy and emotionally manipulative as it was, Davis Guggenheim’s “Waiting for Superman” nonetheless focused serious polemical attention on the problems facing American education. Film: The Cinematic State of Things 2010-12-16T19:28:34Z This play however seems more concerned with emotionally manipulative fantasy. | 'The Wood' : ?The Wood,? at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:19:01Z Clay meets his match in a manipulative actress named Rain, who turns up at a Christmas party. Books of The Times: Bret Easton Ellis?s ?Imperial Bedrooms? 2010-06-23T22:38:00Z The words make plain, just shy of celebrating, her manipulative genius. When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z As he sees it, our relationship to books is excessively passive and primes us to be snookered by manipulative authors. Marginalia’s moment: Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and the joys of writing in books 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Although Pip’s mom isn’t the biggest narcissist we run into, she’s repellently manipulative, swinging erratically from lavish praise to pouty complaints, extravagant declarations of devotion and melodramatic claims of illness — and Pip loves her. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Friedkin was known for sometimes using manipulative tactics in order to elicit the most authentic reactions possible from his actors. 26 fascinating facts about "The Exorcist" 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z As Evita, Rachel Zampelli persuasively navigates the demanding songs, from the power pop of “Buenos Aires” and “A New Argentina” to the manipulative ballad “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.” Downscaled ‘Evita’ finds new ways to shine 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z A cynic might say that the cheering was a Pavlovian reflex set off by a piece of commercial entertainment in the hands of a skilled, manipulative director. Review: In ‘Creed,’ Rocky’s Back, as a Mentor, Not a Fighter 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z A series of manipulative Tinseltown men are certainly in her sights, but so too is the whole “business they call show”. Brave: Rose McGowan, the angry voice who pursued Hollywood’s beasts, tells her story 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z That said, by the end of this particularly lively and scathing essay, you may not think Picasso — a genius to be sure, but also portrayed here as a vain and manipulative Lothario — deserved much better. How Liz Taylor liked her pasta and other secrets from a ‘food detective’ 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Tony is antisocial and manipulative, especially towards his girlfriend Michelle, but suffers brain damage for the whole of series two after getting hit by a bus. How Skins went from teen noir to soapy despair 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z His partnering is inventive without being overly manipulative. Paris Opera Shows Off Its Brilliance 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z The comedian added that this process is particularly manipulative and misleading. Stephen Colbert rips into Jeff Sessions for separating immigrant families 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z So Clara’s Say Anything moment happens after she herself turns soldier, complicit in this Doctor’s apparently dangerous, manipulative ways, leading Maisie to her certain death. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode eight – Mummy on the Orient Express 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z 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. Making Talk TV for a Post-TV Generation 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z That open mind extended to Bundy, the paradigmatic American serial killer, a deeply manipulative man who propagated an image of a “normal” and suave charmer. 'They were not born evil': inside a troubling film on why people kill 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z When the book is sad, it's never so in a manipulative way. Hans Keilson: "Genius? I'm not even a proper writer!" 2010-11-21T00:05:00Z While she may have ticked a lot of the stereotype boxes – drug addiction, abuse, manipulative behavior, money-hungry – I have to believe that wasn't just all there was. The legacy of Anna Nicole Smith and why we need to retire the term "gold digger" 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z If, at the time, her mother usually felt too powerless to strike back, Norah gets her revenge here with precise and killing descriptions of these insecure, manipulative creeps. Review | Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Last week, Cleveland radio station Star 102 announced it was dumping the song from its playlist, claiming it now "seems very manipulative and wrong." Does “Baby It’s Cold Outside” deserve a second chance? 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z They believe in plausibility — up to a point anyway — and disdain cheaply manipulative effects. Life After ?Saw? Turns Out to Still Be Scary 2011-03-18T22:01:35Z In her manipulative, roundabout way, Maud is as much the abuser as Vilko is in this chilly, dark portrait of two control freaks locking horns. ‘Abuse of Weakness’ Stars Isabelle Huppert and Kool Shen 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Be prepared, though, as “Mud” — which reads like a thriller but is described as a fable — promises a more mysterious and manipulative McConaughey than even “True Detective’s” cryptic Rust Cohle. Watch these movies over Memorial Day weekend 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Later we meet Messalina, who remains a byword for manipulative awfulness. TV highlights 05/06/2013 2013-06-05T06:00:05Z "He is a sly, manipulative sociopath, a con man with no soul." The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions 2010-10-23T16:16:00Z She wasn't just some "manipulative" addict, or a washed-up model slurring through a stupor on the E! The legacy of Anna Nicole Smith and why we need to retire the term "gold digger" 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Not the blockbuster everyone was hoping for, this adaptation of Alex Garland’s gap-year-adventure novel cast Swinton as the manipulative leader of a colony of hippies living in secret on a Thai island. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z He is needy, clingy and afraid of losing his best friend, but instead of addressing his fears in a healthy way, he tries underhanded and manipulative tactics in order to force his will on her. “Ralph Breaks the Internet” has a lot to say about toxic online male behavior 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Winehouse’s stepfather, Richard Collins, added that the musician “was very strong, very charismatic, she was manipulative, she was loving, she was naughty, headstrong and she could sing — and it was obvious.” Looking Again at Amy Winehouse, 10 Years After Her Death 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Kelly Kapoor, meanwhile, evolved into a breakout character: selfish, manipulative, and superficial to the point of absurdity. Mindy Kaling: 'My biggest challenge is being frequently underestimated' 2013-03-22T14:00:00Z Ruby’s macabre, profane, manipulative, racist mother-in-law is a major insider with the criminal gang that the women are battling. “The Kitchen,” Reviewed: An Engrossing Mob-Wife Drama That’s Relegated to a Table Read 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s so effective when he does this that it can feel bullying or manipulative. Music Review: Pivoting From Patter to Poetry 2011-03-03T21:46:39Z It was really clear what we had to do this, and in ways that never felt manipulative. “There’s so much shame and stigma”: “Abortion Stories” director Tracy Droz Tragos pulls back the curtain on “super complicated” issue 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z “Right Now” is conscious of the manipulative powers of performance, although Ansari is not yet clear-eyed about who it is he wants to lecture. The Productive Ambivalence of Aziz Ansari in His Comeback Netflix Special 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z The best of this book, the latter half, is as gripping as it is manipulative. Books of The Times: Ken Follett Offers Second Volume of Century Trilogy 2012-09-16T22:11:55Z The musical is influenced by the classic Hitchcock film about a wealthy Englishman, his new wife and a manipulative housekeeper - all haunted by the hero's dead first wife, Rebecca. NYer accused of defrauding Broadway show 'Rebecca' 2012-10-15T12:28:09Z Beyond that, he unobtrusively conveys the personality of the various characters, including the manipulative Lizzie, irresolute Frank, ponderous Fawn, patient Lucy and, most gloriously, a fractious Scot, speaker of high-Caledonian argot. Review | The words of Martin Luther King Jr. as you’ve never heard them before 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z They typically emerge during middle school: one is positive and fun to be around, and the other is influential but also manipulative, says Brett Laursen, a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University. 6 Things You Should Know About Young Girls in School 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Her father was a drunk, her mother a manipulative parent who wanted a movie star daughter. Natalie Wood: reinvestigating the mysterious death of a movie star 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Zoë Winters shined as an efficient sports therapist in “Red Speedo,” a peppily manipulative religious leader in “The Harvest” and a hot mess grouchily attending a silent retreat in “Small Mouth Sounds.” Memorable Theater of 2016: Twining Twins, Bathroom Sex and Cod Kisses 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Some people find him pernicious and manipulative; others think he’s hopelessly corny. Andy Cohen Had a Year 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The motivating force that brings these five people together and points them toward a dark destiny is a manipulative, narcissistic young malcontent named Grange, played with maniacal zeal by James Kautz. Review: Dark, edgy 'Collision' leads to violence 2013-01-23T22:43:08Z Filled with ghosts, tanks outside Buckingham Palace and a coup orchestrated by a manipulative daughter-in-law, the play opened last spring to mostly excellent reviews in London. 'King Charles III' to Reign on Broadway in October 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The ignorant and manipulative are never going to stop being ignorant and manipulative -- and saying the same phrase over and over and over again is effective. Season of the witch: How the word, and the concept, made a big 2018 comeback 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Only its deftly manipulative style keeps “Watergate” from being mistaken for nonfiction. Review: ‘Finale’ by Thomas Mallon Moves Past ‘Watergate’ and Into the Reagan Era 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z She is a garrulous woman who was fragile and vulnerable, yet scheming and manipulative, a very Diana-ish combination. Tabloid revives memories of the 'Manacled Mormon' 2010-10-12T07:50:00Z It was an unhealthy relationship, she said, describing him as manipulative and mean. The Nude Pictures That Won’t Go Away 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z I didn’t understand it at the time, but I was beginning to be resistant to the manipulative set-up of 12-hour-long prayer sessions and the forced hyper-spirituality that these services triggered in emotionally charged teenagers. Faith in America: From evangelical teen rallies to the Women’s March on Washington, Christianity still informs my politics 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z And, if she is the manipulative, isolating and abusive partner you claim she is, your friendship with Mark might end. Perspective | Ask Amy: Must marrying couple invite groomsman’s abusive partner? 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z As much as I want to be supportive and so happy for her, I just can’t muster it, as I find her fiance to be an obnoxious, self-absorbed, manipulative glasshat. Carolyn Hax: She’s not a fan of her best friend’s fiance 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Feaver, a British art critic, draws on his conversations with the famously private painter, interviews with Freud’s family and friends, and more for this examination of a mercurial, manipulative and brilliant artist. 13 New Books to Watch For in January 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Missing Child Seems Found, but His Family Is at a Loss Like its smirking antihero and chief narrator, the serial con artist Frédéric Bourdin, “The Imposter” is slippery, manipulative, unstable and smoothly confounding. Movie Review: ‘The Imposter,’ About the Con Artist Frédéric Bourdin 2012-07-12T22:39:37Z Insulated by their exorbitant wealth, the Silicon Valley protagonists seem just mildly perturbed that the proletariat is up in arms over invasions of privacy, manipulative algorithms and underpaying gig jobs. Podcasts About Impeachment, Mr. Rogers and a Purring Cat: What’s New 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z At the same time, however, the scene was an object lesson in the manipulative power of cinema — especially its ability to compel us to identify with characters we would fear and loathe in real life. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z "The way they are manipulative and they fight, and they try to win - that's them," he said. 'Bachelor' host teases 'combustible situation' 2013-02-11T16:18:08Z Could Carter really be this manipulative femme fatale? "Trial by Media" summarizes but doesn't challenge how coverage fuels drama in landmark cases 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Recipients of this manipulative treatment eventually realize that while hope springs eternal, emotional wells do run dry. Perspective | Ask Amy: Daughter-in-law is a ‘second chance’ skeptic 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z This book, one of the outstanding novels of the postwar period, is about a gentle, submissive, gullible woman whose arrogant, worldly husband leaves her for someone strong and manipulative, but otherwise perfectly unprepossessing. Elizabeth Jenkins obituary 2010-09-07T17:43:00Z You think of your own happy times in malls and feel sad for the loss, and then feel stupid for getting all emotional about what was an artificial and manipulative experience built around shopping. An Ode to Shopping Malls 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z You get the impression that men and women find it hard to relate to each other except in terms of variations on the embrace, most of them manipulative. American Ballet Theater Opens its Fall Season 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z But, in the glare of the camera and thanks to Fielder’s gentle and occasionally manipulative style, their exasperated founders and employees inadvertently allow the experiment. Nathan For You: finding the comedy in awkward commercialism 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z "I loved her, yes, but I sometimes hated her, too. She was brilliant, funny, beautiful, generous, vindictive, deceitful, tender, manipulative, abusive, loving, and intimidating." Sherman Alexie, suffering from depression, cancels his post-California book tour 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z This character is usually portrayed as a young innocent, practically a boy, who is so humiliated when he is flogged for just being awkward and frightened that he becomes easy prey for the manipulative Claggart. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ at the English National Opera 2012-06-25T22:16:47Z Ramsay promptly wrote back, calling his father-in-law a manipulative and controlling "dictator" – but instead of posting the letter, he published it in a newspaper. Gordon Ramsay: appetite for destruction 2012-06-08T22:01:04Z The book alternates between Harker's efforts to find the boy and her memories of his manipulative and unpleasant late mother. New crime fiction: a trio of 'tartan noir' mysteries 2012-11-07T23:14:04Z The queasiest moment of this crass, manipulative claptrap is the mention that the bomb was named Little Boy. Review: ‘Little Boy’ is a Fable About Faith Versus Magical Thinking 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z It was more in response to the twist of the book, which I knew from the beginning would require somebody who was exceptionally manipulative. "House in the Pines" thriller author on the "dark side of nostalgia" with a narrator no one believes 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z The movie’s lack of imaginative freedom reduces personal identity to pictorial identity; the grandiose and maudlin melodrama to which the movie rises feels as manipulative as did the dénouement of “Infinity War.” Review: What “Avengers: Endgame” Could Have Been 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z My mother was very violent, controlling, manipulative and volatile. Must I be the ghostly girl? 2013-04-26T00:00:00Z Sidney might be manipulative and opportunistic but he wasn't all that bright. Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami – review 2012-11-23T22:55:04Z He starred as the manipulative Lonesome Rhodes in the movie "A Face in the Crowd." APNewsBreak: Andy Griffith widow to raze his home 2013-03-20T19:59:08Z I came to understand consent in the aftermath of a manipulative and abusive relationship I had with one of my teachers when I was 14. The simple message that could’ve stopped my sexual abuse 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z “All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years.” Taylor Swift vs. Scooter Braun and Big Machine: Who's the victim? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Nicholas uses every manipulative ploy in the book to confound his supposed family and the law. | 'The Chameleon': A ?Who Is It?? More Than a Whodunit 2011-07-14T22:46:18Z “Good looking, charming, with a massive streak of vulnerability and innocence despite being a manipulative thief.” Chris Pratt Is a Superhero in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Adams denied the characterizations of his behavior as abusive or manipulative and challenged the accuracy of the reporting, though he apologized on Twitter “to anyone I have ever hurt, however unintentionally.” Ryan Adams Album Release Canceled Amid Report of F.B.I. Inquiry 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Reality TV is far more emotionally manipulative than its calculating leading ladies, and UnREAL doesn’t pull its punches. 'Walter White in power heels': UnREAL is evil, twisted, unmissable TV 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z After she convinces Lenu to skip school and walk with her to the ocean, Lila suddenly decides to turn back; the show frames her erratic behavior as a manipulative attempt to get Lenu in trouble. HBO’s “My Brilliant Friend” Understands Its Source Material, But Its Diligence Feels Misspent 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Recently, I melted at viewing “Brooklyn,” which snuck up on me as its love triangle plays out in a wrenching but never manipulative way. The top 5 Valentine’s Day heartbreak films 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Most consumers of the copy have no actual referent; they have instead a manipulative blip that codes for “primal.” Raptor porn: The ridiculous proliferation of the red-tail call 2013-12-28T00:00:00Z The mother was mean and manipulative with her rages and tears. Motherlode Blog: Quandary Considered: Telling My Daughter About My Abusive Mother 2012-04-05T23:21:44Z “Any bitter and disgruntled female can rally against men, burning up her creative and manipulative energy in the process,” he writes. Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z Dear Amy: Responding to the letter from “Mom,” whose manipulative and chronically underachieving daughter was “miraculously” admitted to her expensive dream college: Perspective | Ask Amy: Child’s flying phobia has family staying home 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Marcia Davis, who edited Vargas in the Style section and became a close friend, says some bosses mistook his fear about his fragile immigration status for being manipulative. From journalism to activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s life on the run When I didn’t respond she became angry and manipulative, threatening to hurt herself. My heroin addict friend: 'When Shelly starts using again, I will be there for her' 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z This is quite a bit of manipulative ammo for an already-manipulative kid. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: A Knee-Jerk Reaction 2013-06-10T14:29:15Z As fans of the other "Wimpy Kid" books are well aware, Greg is lazy, manipulative, egotistical and prone to massive overstatement. Author Jeff Kinney's hot streak not wimping out 2011-11-19T07:49:23Z Mr. Shechter’s theatrics are intensely manipulative: Smoke hangs in the air, lights address the audience and silhouette the dancers, and the work ends in a “Liberty Leading the People” tableau. Talking About Love, Demonstrating Violence 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It sounds corny and manipulative and like the 5,000th thing that is not going to unite Americans of all colors and creeds. Tim McGraw sings. Jon Meacham talks. This is not your regular book tour. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z A manipulative, sexually-harassing boss, robbed of “work,” capers across the desktops of his office, laughing and tossing paper airplanes. Review: In ‘Before We Vanish,’ the Aliens Have a Lot of Questions 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z I mean, it is manipulative and maudlin, but in a way that seems fair and transparent. Review: ‘Lion’ Brings Tears for a Lost Boy, Wiped Dry by Google 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z How do you deal with a manipulative, bullying mother? Robert K. Massie?s Latest Subject Is Catherine the Great 2011-11-09T22:40:21Z From the first shot of Koresh, staring soulfully through his aviator frames at an incoming government helicopter, he registers not as a manipulative crackpot but as a true believer who got in over his head. Review: Taylor Kitsch Is a Charismatic David Koresh in ‘Waco’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Photograph: Nan Goldin I certainly think that my work comes from a humanistic vision of the world, rather than some kind of manipulative, theoretical version of art. Photographer Nan Goldin's best shots 2011-07-24T20:30:07Z Here goes: The audience in specials is fundamentally manipulative, a bullying intrusion on the relationship between artist and observer at home. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z And the show's biggest draw, Matt LeBlanc -- who plays a sleazy, manipulative, yet weirdly winning fictional version of himself -- was barely in the premiere, which ought to tell us something. What makes Matt LeBlanc's new show so good 2011-02-03T15:04:00Z He’s the supremely manipulative country bumpkin grinning his victims into submission. Review | In Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Rodham,’ Hillary doesn’t become a Clinton. And Donald Trump isn’t president. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Nina, beautiful, vaguely anorexic, eventually becomes an actress herself, her mother guiding the way and introducing her to Tony, a manipulative gay theater producer who can make Nina’s career. ‘Fallout,’ by Sadie Jones, a tale of passion and imperfect love in 1970s London theater world Others claimed she was aggressive and manipulative and preyed on people for her own gratification. A disturbing new image of photographer Diane Arbus 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Those fans — including the young and old, from Queensland, Australia to Moscow to Huntsville, Ala. — view “Leaving Neverland” as a manipulative, one-sided hit piece that rehashes old allegations from inconsistent sources. Michael Jackson Fans Are Tenacious. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Has Them Poised for Battle. 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z This sounds manipulative, but it is a deep, unconscious need. Perspective | Our 6-year-old’s meltdowns are taking over our family 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The associative structure of these stories feels neither random nor manipulative, just delightfully unexpected. Short Stories That Travel the World From a Deliciously Off-Kilter Perspective 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z It gives people the idea that this is a normal way of pursuing sex which is fine if its between two consenting adults but what happens if one gets a bit abusive or manipulative? Children's author's Fifty Shades fear 2012-08-24T10:25:11Z What would you tell critics who might say that the documentary is tendentious because of that clear perspective, if not manipulative? Director Amy Berg on Why the Adnan Syed Case Still Matters 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z White’s shrewd, interlocking essays yield no new juicy gossip about the occasionally wayward and chronically manipulative director, but they draw from the huge trove of revelations by Donald Spoto, Patrick McGilligan and other biographers. Review | In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ it’s the contradictions that made the man 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z “Daily News Blues” is an unflattering portrait of the manipulative way he believes tabloids operate. Up Close: James L. Dolan Says He Lets His Music Speak for Him 2010-06-17T00:47:00Z And when that happens, it’s always the power-mad, the manipulative, the greedy, the delusional who bid highest, who swarm into the vacuum, who impose their own self-serving reality on everyone else. Review | You’ve probably never heard of these artists, but they painted reality in a way we’ve lost sight of 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z They are jealous, possessive, dismissive of and bored by each other, sometimes in the emotionally manipulative style associated with lovers. When anti-violence backfires 2012-06-02T15:00:00Z But he's also an aimless, manipulative drug addict drifting toward self-destruction. 'By Nightfall': Michael Cunningham's story of beauty's power to transfix and delude 2010-10-07T18:40:00Z Either way, there was something riveting about this peek into other people’s marriages, especially the sessions with the manipulative narcissist who made me fantasize about performing a citizen’s divorce. I Love Top Ten Lists 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It was touching, sweet, funny, messy, a little manipulative. The Office Watch: That’s What She Said 2013-05-17T13:18:33Z In an already emotive debate about disability rights, he has no time for the manipulative choral soundtracks so beloved of Hollywood. Girl X - review 2011-03-06T17:07:36Z It’s abusive, manipulative, and horrible, but arresting, too—both for its familiarity and for the enormous energy both actors bring to their performances. Best TV of 2015: The relationships, big and little, that made TV worth watching 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z This caused my friend to realize how manipulative she was being. Perspective | Ask Amy: Girlfriend wonders how to exit abusive relationship 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘Titicut Follies’ Tries to Deliver a Shock to Ballet 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The first Frank that I wrote wasn't as manipulative. "House in the Pines" thriller author on the "dark side of nostalgia" with a narrator no one believes 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z But the jury of seven men and five women, which included two African Americans, was introduced to a much more manipulative and scheming character. Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby sex-assault trial 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Some manipulators, you might say, are less manipulative than others. Review | Three lives forever linked by an act of violence in their shared past 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z It overlooks the faults and misbehavior of its eccentric characters to express a lighthearted optimism that doesn’t feel forced or manipulative. ‘Chinese Puzzle,’ a Comedy Directed by Cedric Klapisch 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z So when you became “cynical,” it may be that you are seeing into the true nature of people — that they can be duplicitous, shallow, manipulative, mean-spirited, self-destructive, conniving, etc. “Community” botches damage control 2012-05-24T16:00:00Z Seyfried plays Holmes as earnest, driven, vulnerable and hypercritical before she turns chilly, manipulative and despotic. Hollywood Bets Big on the Bad Entrepreneur 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Even Olive can be a selfish, manipulative brat when she's really on her game. "The Duchess" proves that not every stand-up comedian should get a series 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Faculty said the enrollment controversy was symptomatic of a larger problem — what they described as Hogan's arrogant, manipulative leadership style and bullying of people who disagreed with him. Departing U. of I. boss may get $285K as prof 2012-03-23T16:37:00Z "Fifty Shades of Grey", about a passionate relationship between literature student Anastasia and the manipulative entrepreneur Christian, was first published in 2011 and became a cultural phenomenon as it rocketed up the bestseller lists. Dakota Johnson, Charlie Hunnam to star in 'Fifty Shades of Grey' 2013-09-02T18:11:04Z The other pair, clearly without money problems judging by their fat houses and fat cars, are just horrible – vindictive, scheming, devious, manipulative, you name it. Canoe Man and Who Needs Fathers? | TV review 2010-04-01T05:45:00Z Then they would not need manipulative videos that invade privacy — that zoom close in on pain, distress and privation — in the name of helping out. People give for the holidays until it hurts — but then comes January 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z 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. ‘Parkland: Inside Building 12’ Review: Recounting the Attack in Painful Detail 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Vera might be a protective den mother to a community dedicated to privacy, respite and psychological wellness or she could be a charismatic, manipulative monster. A cult next door? “The Sinner” and the dark allure of retreating to a “utopian community” 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z He hides his intentions with excitable energy and a bright smile, which somehow feel less manipulative than the movie. Review: In ‘bwoy,’ Online Dating Gone Wrong. Very Wrong. 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Such novels sound to me to be what might be even worse than manipulative: trite, faux-deep. An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Whether manipulative or benign, they all sound the same to me. Modern Love: The Radiance, Then the Ashes 2011-06-09T20:54:29Z But "theatre" is reserved for the manipulative and the pointless. Why is theatre such a dirty word in politics? 2011-08-22T15:09:08Z The earlier novel depicted a primal showdown between newly returned World War II veteran Chip Mackinnon and his wealthy manipulative father. ‘All the Dead Yale Men’: a family’s legacy of troubles 2013-07-05T16:43:42Z As a purely emotional experience it succeeds without feeling too manipulative or maudlin. Review: ‘Lion’ Brings Tears for a Lost Boy, Wiped Dry by Google 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Others may believe she is simply an extremely manipulative individual. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Venus in Fur’ at the George Street Playhouse, in New Brunswick 2013-05-11T00:21:28Z Related: First look: Animal Kingdom TV adaptation moves the Cody family to California Is it still about the manipulative mother of an Australian crime family? Animal Kingdom: nihilistic feast of bros, bare butts and bad behavior 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z If Taylor as a woman plans something she is 'manipulative.' Taylor Swift's Music Video Director Fires Back at Critics 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Both sides are compromised, manipulative and varying degrees of unhinged. The next Homeland? The problems with Fauda, Israel's brutal TV hit 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z A creepy “therapist” tries to unravel his trauma, but she ends up being needier than her patient, as well as manipulative and controlling. A Freed Hostage Audits the Murky Business of Captive Negotiations 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z I remember I was playing this character in this movie, and this guy was very manipulative and kind of a player. Q&A with Tony Hale: Playing Mr. Benedict and Gary Walsh and the time an asthmatic named Buster inhaled his mother’s smoke 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Diane is a Jewish mother and she seems to know when to be pushy, when to lay a guilt trip on her son, when to be manipulative. Fran Drescher reveals the role she turned down out of principle: "Who am I if not my word?" 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Some said the husband was “controlling” and “manipulative” for buying his wife an exercise bike and that the ad suggested he thought she needed to lose weight. 'Bike not included': Peloton 'wife' in new ad selling gin for Ryan Reynolds 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s a play she knows well, first earning raves in the role of a middle-aged daughter trying to escape her manipulative mother and now playing the formidable mother. Essential Arts & Culture: A breathtaking art exhibit, Noh now, farewell Leonard Cohen 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z And Marie Mullen, who won a Tony Award as the embittered daughter of a manipulative terror of a mother, with the aptly monstrous name Mag, now takes on that formidable role. 5 Must-See Shows if You’re in New York This Month 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Ferrara achieves something remarkable: he turns the pain and the tormented inner life of a brilliantly manipulative predator into a frozen cinematic inferno. Starring Depardieu as D.S.K. 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The other announcement was a manipulative lie from Daemon. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 2: A Happy Announcement 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z To the uncharitable or suspicious, this could all sound a bit manipulative. Critic?s Notebook: Dungeons and Zombies, Sure, but Here the Trade?s the Thing 2011-04-26T18:42:01Z The manipulative widow Mrs. Clay is revealed not to be lawyer Mr. Shepherd’s relative but his former lover. Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z "If I plan something as a man I'm a 'genius.' If Taylor as a woman plans something she is 'manipulative.' Double standards. This is wrong," Kahn said in a tweet on Wednesday. Taylor Swift's Music Video Director Fires Back at Critics 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z One of his most recent and well-known characters was Frank Underwood, a manipulative and sometimes maniacal politician in the Netflix series “House of Cards.” Kevin Spacey Accused of Sex Offenses Against Teenagers in New Lawsuit 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z She's manipulative, and she wants to be right all the time. Juliette Binoche on her new Tuscan-seductress role 2011-03-12T22:01:00Z The series reboots itself as a supposedly less inflammatory teen murder-mystery that manages somehow to be boring, manipulative and toxic all at once. 13 Reasons Why: what the controversial drama gets wrong 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z His childhood had been overshadowed by his parents' divorce and his father's psychological abuse: in interviews last year, he said he had modelled the manipulative, controlling Archie Mitchell on his father. Life after death 2010-03-28T21:00:00Z And perhaps Zynga games like FrontierVille are not manipulative at all in the sense that they are so transparent about how they operate. Video Game Review: In Zynga?s FrontierVille, Going From Forest to Family 2010-07-05T21:48:00Z Is "How Do You Know" schmaltzy and manipulative and not entirely convincing as a portrait drawn from real life? "How Do You Know": A deliciously messy holiday rom-com 2010-12-17T01:30:00Z "He was manipulative, arrogant, and controlling .. Savile escaped justice because people didn't want to hear or believe what children were saying," Watt said in statement. British TV star Savile may have abused 500 children, youngest 2-charity 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z I suppose that makes us in the audience the victims: No chiropractor is as manipulative as the teller of a ghost story. Review: Death Is a Two-Way Door in ‘The Thin Place’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s manipulative in the most gentle of ways. Video Games: Reviews: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, FarmVille 2: Country Escape and Monument Valley 2014-04-22T20:57:56Z The seductive whispers and hint of evil in her voice reveal Cleopatra’s manipulative charm. Rosso: Italian Baroque Arias 2010-08-19T15:36:00Z Set in Minnesota, it will focus on a small-town insurance salesman preyed upon by a manipulative drifter. Fargo TV series to air on Channel 4 2014-03-10T10:58:30Z But detractors of the segments argued its decoys were manipulative, baiting men into escalating their fantasies to reality. 'Catch a Predator' Host Opens Up on Return to Television 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z His play depicts Abigail — who was, in real life, a girl of 11 — as a manipulative 16-year-old carrying on an affair with a married man. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Has a member of that profession ever been anything but manipulative and superficial in a rom-com? Review: In ‘Evolution of Mann,’ Fumbling Cuteness Goes Only So Far 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z And those initial audiences hated Fosca, the grasping, manipulative, unprepossessing third point of the show’s love triangle. 20 Stephen Sondheim Songs to Listen to Right Now 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z To be the victim of a manipulative madwoman, or to be abducted into a Gothic lair, is to suffer, but it’s also to be special, a hero or a heroine in your own way. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The frequent abuse of the phrase “political theater” to describe cheap and manipulative appeals to sentiment tells you in what regard our theater is reflexively held. Should the American Theater Take French Lessons? 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Although abrasive, manipulative and angry, his character has a likable side. ‘Camp X-Ray’: Acting shines through darkness of Gitmo tale 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z “Sleep” is rife with the hallmarks of Mr. Richter’s style: a clarity that can seem like superficiality; an earnestness and emotionality that often come off as more ersatz and manipulative than personal. On the Mattress for ‘Sleep,’ an 8-Hour Lullaby 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z The New Age jargon may put off some viewers, but Mr. Ferrante proves to be a compelling on-screen presence: at once honest and manipulative, hopeful and frustrating. The Bay Citizen: Showcases for Locally Made Documentaries 2010-10-08T05:05:00Z In fact this season and last season, I’m trying not to be emotional because I don’t want to be manipulative if it’s not truthful and doesn’t belong. Lauren Graham Says Her Character's Ending on Parenthood Is 'Satisfying' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Underestimated, manipulative, impulsive, she’s as comfortable skinning a rabbit as she is defrosting a roast. The Examined Life of Melanie Lynskey 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z “He was so mercenary, would do such disgustingly manipulative things for his own gain,” Blakeson said of Tatum. ‘Jackie Brown’ and Tangerine Dream: What ‘I Care a Lot’ Is Made Of 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Yes, it is a manipulative move on Cora’s part. Downton Abbey Watch: The Ballad of Sad Lady Edith 2012-02-06T14:25:18Z This is especially important in a culture that generates so many contradictory and frankly manipulative messages about drugs and alcohol. My Kids Say I Drink Too Much. Do I? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s polished, tough-minded and topical, delivering a strong, clean emotional punch without feeling manipulative. ‘Crisis Hotline,’ ‘La Parka,’ ‘Joanna’ and Other Short Oscar Nominees 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Rose’s lawyer, Mark Baute, depicted the plaintiff as a manipulative liar who preyed on the stereotype of black men in order to extract a fortune. NBA star Derrick Rose and friends cleared of rape charges 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z He reprises his guest role as manipulative Robert California, who over the summer was hired as the office's new regional manager. A new manager is named as 'The Office' premieres 2011-09-23T04:21:07Z He's a manipulative psychopath, smiling genially at one moment, sneering cruelly at the next. Accountant, prisoner duel in spellbinding 'Shade of Green' 2012-02-14T21:55:03Z "I'm turning into his Hannibal Lecter," Joyce added, referring to the brilliant but dangerously manipulative character best known from the Academy Award-winning movie "Silence of the Lambs." Depp's dog fight with Australian deputy leader continues 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z “There was a lack of transparency in what they were doing, and it was highly manipulative. In that sense the country was hijacked.” 'They've turned Michael Gove into a vacillating fool' – politicians on Brexit: The Uncivil War 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Overall, though, the show consistently hits the right notes: earnest but not preachy, moving without ever being manipulative. Sex Education: in praise of the raunchy yet heartfelt Netflix comedy 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z "We as a team do not deserve such a manipulative, hostile, and controlling culture." Spanish soccer chief won’t resign after World Cup kiss, despite players' refusal to play in protest 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z It's taken a while for women to join those ranks, but now the airwaves are fairly teeming with female characters as ruthless, ambitious and manipulative as any man. 'Murder's' Annalise and other TV women leap darkly into antihero scene 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z I confess I was being manipulative, playing to your prejudices. The booby prize 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z She’s very controlling and kind of manipulative, and kind of selfish and likes sex. Steven Soderbergh on turning The Girlfriend Experience into a TV show 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Knightley is a best supporting actress nominee for playing a manipulative movie starlet in "The Misanthrope." Stars compete for British theater's Olivier Awards 2010-03-21T11:32:00Z His Bill is the most blatantly manipulative of the characters, which means the most likely to succeed. Review: Chris Evans and Michael Cera Tell Lies to Live by in ‘Lobby Hero’ 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z "A word that goes back to Chaucer's time they will ask you to cut, but the manipulative and deceitful language of politics they use themselves." Loach in Cannes with spirited 'The Angels' Share' 2012-05-22T15:44:09Z It’s a haunting version of the Prince song, but in “Out of Context” its inclusion is manipulative — as if something is polished to appear raw. Dance Review: Distorting Everyday Actions, With Movements Awkward and Active 2010-10-20T21:14:00Z Why have the other Housewives characterized you as being manipulative? Lisa Vanderpump on What Makes a Great Reality TV Star 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Even stranger was his statement about how the days of manipulative marketing are “over.” Must be nice to live in Will Smith’s world, where movies have moved “from explosions and gimmicks to storytelling” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z The film is poorly written, conceived, and directed by Guy Nattiv, who won an Oscar earlier this year for his exasperating, manipulative short film, also titled “Skin,” about a white supremacist. In "Skin," a neo-Nazi turns from hate: Good intentions can't redeem this disaster of a film 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z 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. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When the person you date keeps testing you 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z They target children with manipulative imagery and stressed-out parents with "easy" solutions for feeding and satisfying their family. The world is hooked on junk food: How big companies pull it off 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z If the editing of “Dating Around” is manipulative, it is a constructive kind of interference. Netflix Finally Brings Romance to Reality TV 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Some of those mini-games are more manipulative in trying to extract real money from players than others. Video Games to Play With Your Kids That Won’t Drive You Crazy 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z How could a manipulative, ham-fisted drama that provoked white liberal guilt pull an upset over Best Director-winning Ang Lee’s sensitive and tragic love story between two cowboys? Top five most unjust awards: Tales of Oscar outrages past 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Adams, 44, was responding on Twitter to a New York Times story in which seven women, including his ex-wife actress Mandy Moore, accused him of manipulative behavior and of pursuing female artists for sex. Singer Ryan Adams calls accusations in New York Times 'inaccurate' 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z That her silence is both the result of trauma and one of a roster of manipulative behaviours is explored with increasing pathos as the novel evolves. Mouse and the Cossacks by Paul Wilson – review 2013-06-28T17:00:00Z The tone of these messages is always manipulative and incredibly self-centered, i.e., My creepy dad emails too much 2012-11-22T01:00:00Z Jonathan Tropper’s slick, manipulative new novel is about a lovable sad sack named Drew Silver. Books of The Times: ‘One Last Thing Before I Go’ by Jonathan Tropper 2012-08-15T20:45:56Z He was a horrible, manipulative bully; he would mimic people when he was shouting at them. 'It was like tending to a disgusting baby': life as a Harvey Weinstein employee 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Yet these manipulative and frequently preachy sequences allow the actors to add layers to their characters; as Charlie, Booth, particularly, grows in power and appeal. Lessons shoehorned into 'Kinky Boots' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z If the testimonies are intended to certify the director’s sincerity, they only make what came before seem even more like violent, shamelessly manipulative entertainment that is not to be trusted. | '5 Days of War': More Than One Kind of Deadline 2011-08-18T22:42:32Z As played by the chronically inexpressive Josh Hutcherson, Nick is a willing deer in the headlights of Escobar’s intimidating physicality and manipulative charisma. Review: ‘Escobar: Paradise Lost’ Stars Benicio Del Toro as Drug Lord 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z "Profile" may be manipulative, but it does create a thrill-ride vibe for viewers who fall under the film's spell. In the tension-filled "Profile," a journalist goes catfishing online to get recruited by ISIS 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The danger is that manipulative demagoguery flourishes in an environment polluted by the anxiety driving the assault on expertise. Why MacArthur fellowships matter: In modern culture, expertise is under fire 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z A Sister Shows Up, and Stereotypes Settle In Family and children are on the playwright Chad Beguelin’s mind in “Harbor,” a comedy about a gay couple and the manipulative sister who came to stay. Theater Review: ‘Harbor,’ Chad Beguelin’s Comedy, at 59E59 Theaters 2013-08-08T22:13:00Z Still, it’s a hilarious performance, as if some great manipulative genius out of classic literature — Gilbert Osmond, say, from “Portrait of a Lady” — had been juiced up with electronic circuits and shot into space. “Prometheus”: Ridley Scott’s dazzling, sci-fi spectacle 2012-06-06T20:09:00Z For all of Marhoul's bold conception and presentation of the misery, he is thankfully, never manipulative. "The Painted Bird" is a brutal masterpiece depicting the horrors and inhumanity of war 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Without any of the human participants acknowledging or even realising it, Project Nim was effectively a manipulative experiment in human sexual behaviour and family life. Project Nim ? review 2011-08-11T21:09:00Z Throughout, experts and employers say that American manufacturing was doomed not by open competition but by manipulative actions of governments like China’s and by the profit demands of Wall Street. Movie Review: ‘American Made Movie’ Ponders U.S. Manufacturing’s Decline 2013-09-06T00:58:41Z Sure, it’s a jarring aural-visual contrast, but it felt manipulative and a bit smug, as if the show is too enamored of its own capacity to disturb. 'The Leftovers' Recap: What Kind of Despair Drives Self-Inflicted Pain? 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z “Beauty Queen,” the story of an Irish spinster and her manipulative mother, begins performances on Jan. 11 at BAM’s Harvey Theater. BAM Unveils Its Winter/Spring Season 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z She is the most infuriatingly manipulative woman in Western literature. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z “Voluntaries” — though by no means universally admired and often considered unmusical and manipulative — has been staged by a wide number of companies worldwide. Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z Aimée Kelly plays the role with a winning blend of caustic humor and narcissistic self-pity: She’s highly strung, manipulative and insecure. ‘Boy Parts’ Review: Onstage, a Dangerous Woman Isn’t Enough 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z The loudest theory in the court of public opinion, it appeared, is that she was a manipulative liar and Johnny was railroaded. Perspective | The trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was too much and not enough 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z She was a sympathetic character at first, unable to get past the loss of her child, but eventually was revealed to be manipulative as well. Showtime’s ‘The Affair’ Expands Its Points of View 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z "It was so manipulative," Madden told the Times. These Are the Women Accusing Harvey Weinstein of Sexual Harassment 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Yes, she's extremely manipulative and cheeky, but she does believe in the rule of law and she will be a stand-up law enforcement person. “What is fair?”: Rosie Perez on the complexities of playing a federal prosecutor on "Your Honor" 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z “The picture surrounding her is nothing but crassly manipulative.” Divergent sequel Allegiant struggles at US box office as fans tire of Hollywood's split ends 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Though she lacks magical powers, Greenwood’s deadly dowager gradually emerges as one of the great witches of modern literature, insidious, cruel, hypocritical and inveterately manipulative. ‘The Deadly Dowager’: A new look at one of the great villains of modern literature 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The 1980 Julian Kaye was an arrogant, manipulative sharpie, background unknown, whose ability to feel an honest emotion was uncertain right through the film’s final shot. ‘American Gigolo’ Review: Can You Take the Escort Out of the ’80s? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The cast members of that HBO crime drama, leading players and supporting performers alike, became synonymous with the menacing mobsters and manipulative family members they portrayed. How the ‘Many Saints of Newark’ Stars Remade Key ‘Sopranos’ Roles 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z A dying father, a suicidal mother, the bullying and manipulative stepparent known as addiction — these figures weave in and out of “My Feelings” like the shadows in a haunted house. Review: Looking Inward in Poetry Books From Ron Padgett and Nick Flynn 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z But they find few converts, because desperate, grieving people prefer any answer — even a bogus, manipulative one — to no answer at all. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Starts Over Beautifully in Season 2 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Quite quickly Judy turns out to be incredibly manipulative and starts messing up their marriage. "I like weird things": Alicia Silverstone on her career, from "Clueless" to new film "Bad Therapy" 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, “The Social Dilemma” is remarkably effective in sounding the alarm about the incursion of data mining and manipulative technology into our social lives and beyond. ‘The Social Dilemma’ Review: Unplug and Run 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z They live in a “manse” in a comparatively well-off neighborhood, not far from the hotel that houses Logan’s mother, a manipulative schemer who, as she nears 90, is still called “Girly.” ?City of Bohane,? by Kevin Barry 2012-03-30T23:27:18Z Even Pop Idol winner Will Young insists that talent shows are "cynical and manipulative". Has Britain got talent show fatigue? 2013-03-16T06:00:00Z Anonymous I am not sure whether you are lazy, miserly or manipulative, Ex-Husband. Social Q's: The Gravy Train Ends Here - Social Q’s 2012-07-26T22:18:49Z Lord knows they're a bunch of manipulative brats only out for the money. Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Philip Glass’s taped music is manipulative to the extreme, climbing in the finale to that worst Hollywood-soundtrack shtick, a chorale of heavenly voices; and Ms. Tharp’s vocabulary is relentlessly big and forceful. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Returns to City Center - Review 2011-11-09T22:54:34Z Colman’s performance isn’t easy to pin down: in some ways the Queen is as wily and as manipulative as the two celestial seductresses in her orbit. The Top 10 Movie Performances of 2018 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z For this slyly manipulative production knows exactly how, and how hard, to push the tenderest spots of most people’s emotional makeups. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Raises the Bar for Broadway Magic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Treating every exchange with women like a manipulative math problem is ¾ stupid, ⅝ sad, and 100 percent guaranteed to make you into an ex variable. 18 hilariously terrible sex tips that all men should ignore 2014-02-21T13:05:00Z Example No. 1: Bill Conti’s theme to “Rocky,” as brash and manipulative an accompaniment to a workout montage as ever there was. Review: ‘Score: A Film Music Documentary’ Gives Composers Their Due 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z And it's not bardic mysticism but good psychology for any artist to be free-floating rather than manipulative during the first stages of creation, and only later to apply the fixative. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z A lawyer for two accusers called Cuomo’s response “laughable” and “manipulative.” EXPLAINER: Where does harassment report leave Andrew Cuomo? 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z At 82 years old Danielle is not sweet, considerate or looking to impart wisdom on friends and family; she is manipulative, conniving and determined to get her own way by any means possible. What films best portray old age? 2012-07-04T16:41:52Z Reynolds looked right at home; there was something touching about seeing him, polyester-clad and sympathetic—if exuding a hint of manipulative, amoral sleaze—comfortably owning the era whence he came. The Friendly, Sexy Stardom of Burt Reynolds 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z She confided in me about her struggles with her sometimes abusive and manipulative family. I had a fake online girlfriend 2013-01-18T16:15:00Z Isabelle is her junior, and Christine appears to be mentoring her; but also attempting to get kittenishly close emotionally, while remaining dishonest and manipulative. Love Crime – review 2012-12-13T22:00:18Z Toxic as he is, it’s apparent that he’s developed a manipulative personality in response to his circumstances. Tracy Chevalier’s ‘New Boy’ illuminates the peculiar trials of our era 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “This is my worst case scenario,” the “Shake It Off” singer wrote, and accused Braun of “incessant, manipulative bullying.” Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber at odds in spat over her music catalog 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z “But they are a little more wary now. They are afraid that maybe you are manipulative.” My Boyfriend Has Two Girlfriends. Should I Be His Third? 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Imelda Staunton was a wonderfully manipulative Momma Rose in “Gypsy,” but she was just as compelling at the stage door when a lovely young woman gushed and sought her advice on acting. Lost in the Magic of London’s Theaters 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z I never perceived him as using a part as being manipulative. Ann Reinking on Her Life as Bob Fosse’s Muse, Lover, and Friend 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z A manipulative cello interrupts the play’s minor-key tone far too often. | 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?': A Test for Humanity in a Postapocalyptic World 2010-12-03T22:31:00Z As their senile, widowed landlord, Edith, is in danger of losing her home to her manipulative son, Owen, the residents rally protectively around her. Novels by Kathleen Alcott, Vu Tran and Alaa Al Aswany; a Memoir by David Payne 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The young writer finds a father figure in the “immensely vitalizing, manipulative genius,” a Champagne-and-caviar-loving bon vivant, mired in despair, exposing the brutal and grotesque in his work. Six New Books, Including One by Christopher Buckley 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z “Never believing that one’s language is an X-ray of a character’s soul, but rather trying to show the manipulative potential of language.” Jonas Hassen Khemiri, the Playwright Behind ?Invasion!? 2011-09-09T07:30:35Z The series is manipulative in that some of the tried-and-true high-tension moments it serves up at a steady pace are red herrings. Review: In ‘Blindspot,’ an Amnesiac’s Tattoos Are the Clues 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Commanding Daphne du Maurier adaptation with Rachel Weisz on top form as a mysterious and manipulative widow with designs on a country estate. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: 50-41 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z People tend to say she’s manipulative and evil, which always makes me laugh, because I think women and power are still problematic, especially in this country. Legal Drama Has a Change of Venue, From Cable to Satellite 2011-07-19T22:15:19Z It’s a bold performance of a manipulative character. Review: Falling Hard for a Master Manipulator in ‘Of Human Bondage’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z His manipulative twists expose and play on human faults. ArtsBeat: ‘Fargo’ Recap: Making Way for Marge and Lester 2014-04-16T16:19:16Z Tarantino is being manipulative here, and it is both obvious and distracting. "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" shows off Quentin Tarantino's best and worst moves 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Maybe your folks are indeed loving and you’ve overemphasized their “very particular” — holy wow, chaotic, volatile, manipulative — side. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A second child, demanding grandparents and a husband who’s had enough 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Moore’s role, as that of Griffith’s manipulative and sometimes absent mother, is hardly the only one to be subjected to extensive revisions. ‘Hey, Mr. Living Composer’: ‘Champion’ Takes Shape at the Met 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z At least at the beginning of the film, at least, she's pretty manipulative. Juliette Binoche on her new Tuscan-seductress role 2011-03-12T22:01:00Z At first glance, Nas seems strong, complex and even a bit manipulative. Archie Panjabi: Goodbye, ‘Good Wife.’ Hello, Spy Life. 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Grammer stars in "Boss" as Tom Kane, the brooding, manipulative, fictional mayor of Chicago who will do anything to stay in power. Kelsey Grammer ditches comedy for dark drama "Boss" 2011-07-30T00:10:51Z I don't think people understand just how greedy people can be, and how manipulative companies can be. Netflix's "Painkiller" puts a face on the "greedy evil" at the root of America's opioid crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Shiny surfaces, manipulative plots, half-baked artistic intentions — with Murray-Smith nothing is ever what it seems, or entirely credible for that matter. Despite star Laura Linney, 'Switzerland' an unconvincing stab at noir 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, their instincts are often wrong, a testament to many of the contestants’ manipulative skills and charm. Can Cads Be Redeemed? A Raunchy Dating Show Investigates. 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Jolie’s role is another of her manipulative, free-spirit numbers, but taken somewhat to extremes: weepy/needy one minute, overpoweringly seductive the next. Every Angelina Jolie film performance – ranked! 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The manipulative incidental music is abundant, as are the heart-wrenching scenarios. On ‘The Good Doctor,’ the Anti-Antihero Is In 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z “To be sentimental is to be kitsch, phony, exaggerated, manipulative, self-indulgent, hypocritical, cheap and clichéd. It is the art of religious dupes, conservative apologists and corporate stooges.” People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z It’s a manipulative stance, one I try to soften with humor and self-deprecation. Steven Church talks essays, and his new book 'Ultrasonic' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Although she is manipulative and uses men to her advantage, she gains the audience's sympathy when she is deserted by her lover. Isuzu Yamada 2012-07-11T14:39:36Z The two young women see themselves in Rue, the stumbling, manipulative teenage drug addict that Zendaya plays in “Euphoria,” the new HBO show. Watching ‘Euphoria,’ Two Young Recovering Addicts Saw Themselves 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z I made her very aware of who her audience is and what the demand is about her life, and then I just made made her a savvy, maybe mildly manipulative businesswoman. Gabrielle Union: 'Bring It On' Cheers Come Back Like 'Muscle Memory' 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The film also underscores the manipulative parts of the piece, especially when characters we barely know die. Mark Ruffalo Stars in Larry Kramer’s ‘The Normal Heart’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The stridently theatricalized violence is horrific only because it’s so abjectly manipulative. Review: ‘Where Hands Touch,’ Set in Nazi Germany, Is a Disturbing Misfire 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Alicent showed a bit of her father’s manipulative streak, sending a page from the history book she and Rhaenyra used to study together as a prop to be used during the negotiations. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1 Finale Recap: The Angriest Dragon 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Could this famously manipulative genius have survived in the #MeToo era? Bergman: why are the great director's women all tragi-sexual goddesses? 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z The “Book of Kings” project certainly verges on the manipulative. It’s written all over their faces 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Instead, he blames Alex for her own situation, a typical manipulative tactic by abusers to make victims remain victims. Netflix's "Maid" shows all the ways that our society – and the men in it – enable abusers 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Frank was always a very manipulative character who evolved a lot over the course of the writing. "House in the Pines" thriller author on the "dark side of nostalgia" with a narrator no one believes 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Despite hefty warning signs — Anna is violent and manipulative — the two ultimately marry. ‘Whore of New York’ Reflects on Sex, Love and Labor 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z And the women — the wives, mothers and sisters — are often narcissistic and manipulative. American Stories, Coast to Coast 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Naturally she’s angry, but using her anger to convince him it’s acceptable to go save her boyfriend is just as manipulative as the things that Nick must have done to keep himself in heroin. Fear the Walking Dead: Season one, episode two – So Close, Yet So Far 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z The pair investigate our culture’s narcissism and manipulative streak, its hazy relationship with truth and facts in a deeply unsettling way. Review: What’s Past Is Prologue in ‘While You Were Partying’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z She once dated a manipulative man she calls “the Claw,” whose “brutality is, on a good day, part of his allure.” Katie Roiphe Feels Ambivalent About Feeling Ambivalent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Abrams isn’t coy or gratuitously manipulative when it comes to pleasing his audience. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ gets the nostalgia-novelty mix just right 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z While unbearably sad — but also beautiful — at times, the show is not mawkish or manipulative. Review: New York Musical Festival Is a Smorgasbord 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z On one level, McDiarmid gives us a neat display of manipulative irony and handles the potential military insurrection with an amused guile. The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-27T23:24:00Z How do I find the line between thought-provoking and manipulative? Carolyn Hax: Trust your feelings, and not just his, in a budding relationship 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Bill Pullman, of course, stole the show as manipulative psychopath Oswald Danes; his character might give us one of the most compelling narratives. Torchwood: Miracle Day ? episode one 2011-07-09T05:00:00Z As for Robert Ford, the more despicable and manipulative he becomes I am sort of on his side. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z She’s tremendously effective; the picture surrounding her is nothing but manipulative. Oscars 2017: 11 female performances too good to be overlooked 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z "Yes, it is manipulative and it is shocking," says Richard Jordan, the company's British producer. Audience: witchhunt in the aisles 2011-08-10T21:45:01Z Facebook, for example, developed a bureau of talent known for “growth hacking” – design that prioritized as much “user” growth as possible to rake in ungodly profits, algorithms that elevated emotionally manipulative, divisive content. 'A climate change-scale problem': how the internet is destroying us 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The tactics used by CPCs to ensure that women don’t seek abortions elsewhere can be downright manipulative and unethical. Women are often told that abortion can cause breast cancer and mental health problems. Support shams: Anti-abortion clinics masquerading as pregnancy support centers 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Their relationships were at once symbiotic and manipulative. L.A. Dance Project delivers mesmerizing debut at the Wallis 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Needy, untalented, reckless, manipulative — but highly entertaining — she may be the model for the movie stereotype film critic Nathan Rabin dubbed the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. 50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Warm and soft and benignly manipulative — the movie’s sole death is scandalously opportune — “Summerland” brims with genteel sentiment and British briskness. ‘Summerland’ Review: A Writer’s Life, Past and Present 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z By now, most of us had a fundamental mistrust of the TV company – feeling they were manipulative, divisive and disruptive. How Castaway made my life hell 2010-08-11T19:00:00Z Fox owns the unabashedly manipulative role, probably because the executive producers tailored it to him after he said he’d love to be on the show. ‘The Good Wife’: Ranking the best recurring characters 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z I am sorry I haven’t made it clear before today that it is important not to profit personally, if at all possible, from the manipulative person your relative is struggling to leave. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Just say no to gifts from relative’s abuser 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z As the nexus of the play’s drama, Felt capably inhabits the manipulative Abigail. Review: A ‘Crucible’ for the Modern Mob 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Though the perpetrators’ situations were starkly different—one was a manipulative doctor and trusted friend, the other a violent, masked intruder—both got away with their crimes for years because survivors were initially not believed. Three Podcasts to Listen to in October 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The courtroom theatrics are so manipulative and implausible they would make Perry Mason blush. Betrayals and Barristers: Broadway’s New Dramas 2013-10-29T09:45:58Z So all of that feeds into his outsize ambition and is also what drives him to be so manipulative. Robin Lord Taylor on His Charismatic ‘Gotham’ Penguin 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Still, it's through Billy's voice — wily, seductive, manipulative — that we see all the action. 'Three Delays': A blissfully wayward tale of impossible love, South Florida version 2010-06-09T23:48:00Z In the context of ordinary repertory, it would matter more that the leisurely “After the Rain” number is little more than manipulative schmaltz and that the fast-and-furious “Infernal Machine” feels synthetic. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Erring on Side of Variety 2014-01-27T22:26:31Z Though the show of generosity and spontaneity felt manipulative to me, the audience loved it. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z It has engendered criticism that it is manipulative and overly sentimental. Zach Braff moves on to a parental state in 'Wish I Was Here' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Shedding that shell, she became a ghostly but manipulative figure. Zoe/Juniper’s ‘BeginAgain Installed’ at 3LD Art 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z He is elusive and conniving, earnest and manipulative, brutal and desperate. A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z He was also, not to be forgotten, highly intelligent, profoundly manipulative, contrary, slippery and a superb performer. Love Is the Devil: the view from the art world 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z "Genius: Aretha" walks some of this same territory in portraying Franklin's tumultuous relationship with an abusive, manipulative husband and her father, pastor C.L. Capturing how Aretha Franklin could "alchemize her pain into sonic gold" 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z In Nick’s case, the confusions of a broken home have made him canny, manipulative, and chronically afraid, as well as incapable of recognizing a good thing. This Week in Fiction: Joshua Ferris on the Ease of Self-Sabotage 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z So it’s easy to forget that McCoy gave one of the most layered portrayals of the Doc — comical warmth that barely concealed a dark, manipulative streak. Doctor Who: A Longtime Fan Looks Back at a Show That Became an Obsession 2013-11-22T21:04:46Z But of course bad language is manipulative language. Ken Loach bemoans censors' cuts 2012-05-22T15:42:09Z Mia Farrow is a manipulative, narcissistic sociopath, the ultimate "woman scorned." Alec Baldwin Skewers Trump. And Supports Allen and Toback. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Powerful and manipulative, Patty is a cut-throat litigator, always thinking two steps ahead. Damages 2010-05-28T07:00:00Z As manipulative, obvious and sentimental as it is, this show is also tough to resist. Theater Review | 'Black Angels Over Tuskegee': An Elite Squadron, Before It Was Airborne 2010-02-17T21:55:00Z Apple is no longer the Lucky Little Company That Could but a looming, secretive, manipulative corporate giant. If Apple wants to be a major player it needs to start behaving like one 2010-07-24T23:55:00Z Her rendition of “Losing My Mind,” from “Follies,” transformed a middle-aged woman’s torch song into the saucy retort from a young woman to a manipulative boyfriend. Review: Marissa Mulder Trusts Her Intuition at the Metropolitan Room 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z That effort makes “Actually” a rich and disturbing case study, if one that is also manipulative. Review: In ‘Actually,’ a Case of She Said, He Said and They Said 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z He came to see that his years researching and writing The Game had made him manipulative and selfish, “following a shallow path to self-esteem”, as he describes it now. Neil Strauss: 'My thinking was: If this woman’s going to be naked with me – I must be OK. It doesn’t last’ 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Catelyn Stark’s twisted sister murdered her own husband and helped start a war — all at the behest of the manipulative Littlefinger. ‘Game of Thrones’ Deaths: Every Major One So Far 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The show, or rather what’s in it, is a button-pushing marvel: ethereal and gross, graceful and utterly manipulative, and poised on a line where fashion turns into something else. Art Review: The Shock of Fashion, When It Turns Into Something Else 2011-05-04T23:32:08Z The quietly imperious, deftly manipulative, secretly feared and despised young matron carries herself as if living life on a tightrope among onlookers who’d be eager to see her fall. Whit Stillman’s “Love & Friendship”: Subverting the Social Order with Style 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z "For months, the media political industrial complex put us through a high-stakes emotionally manipulative simulation designed to frazzle our nerves and exploit our anxieties," Stewart says. Jon Stewart sifts through midterms chaos in a special episode 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z She sees the same pamphlet Velvet sees: “It was sentimental and flattering to white vanity and manipulative as hell,” Ginger says. Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’: A bracing, tender take on motherhood and guilt 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z But if Lila is often manipulative and undermining, she can also be generous and devoted. Review: Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ the Finale in a Quartet 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Gus is a sweet dweeb – but he is also controlling, manipulative and cruel. From Love to Girls – what TV's most toxic couples can teach us 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z But the manipulative and deceitful language of politics they use themselves. Cannes: Ken Loach brands BBFC hypocritical over cuts to the c-word 2012-05-22T19:04:01Z 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. Review: Rupert Everett Brings Oscar Wilde to the Stage in ‘The Judas Kiss’ 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The New York Times "utterly manipulative... poised on a line where fashion turns into something else". McQueen exhibition comes to London 2014-04-25T10:27:05Z In 34 states, they are funded by taxpayer money. The centers are notorious for lying to women and relying on purposely manipulative tactics to draw them in, away from real medical centers. “I feel like I was tricked”: New documentary uncovers how crisis pregnancy centers lie to women 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Khan, originally played by Ricardo Montalbán, is charismatic, highly intelligent and manipulative, the "best" of the superhuman dictators who nearly destroyed the planet. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" ventures into the wrath of Khan's legacy through his descendent 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Expect a manipulative wedding planner, a beautiful female warrior and a recurring role for a unicorn. ‘Galavant’ Goes Medieval for the Biggest Laughs 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z To emphasize the manipulative skills of Mr. Bourdin, Mr. Layton framed him so that his head appears larger and he looks directly at the audience, more so than other subjects. ‘The Imposter’ and a Sense of Balance 2012-07-06T14:30:00Z By the final act, “The Power” reveals a double meaning with its title, with Faith introducing a feminist-bent social commentary — it refers not just to electrical power but the manipulative kind. ‘The Power’ Review: Night Terrors During a London Blackout 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Even Andrew’s efforts to contact his father about what he knows is manipulative with miscommunications used to generate suspense. “The Kill Team” offers atrocities, but little insight into wartime murders of civilians 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z That manipulative emotional “beat” – that surface improvements are a conduit to self-love – is part of all reality shows. Antidepressants work – but we need to talk, too | Rhik Samadder 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z The following, the crying and the demands for you to hold her are not manipulative. My 18-month-old is constantly trying to control my every move. What do I do? 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z "And when this happens in this industry, it is kept extremely secret, and it is compounded by contracts and manipulative power scenarios that actually include this very situation that we are all in right now." How can sexual abuse survivors get justice when the system fails them? 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z |
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