Sentences with phrase «manipulative mother»

«There is no doubt that the trial judge had evidence of a willful, manipulative mother who was focused on control of Nathan's relationship with his father and the alienation of Dr. Cox from her son's life.

From there, it's a propulsive jaunt through Harding's life, from a childhood in which she endured the cruelty of a manipulative mother (played with fuck - you glee by Allison Janney) on into adulthood, and the attack against her teammate Nancy Kerrigan.

Ruthie's struggles to fit in at a new school, the ease with which she gets the approval of a Queen Bee classmate (using the tactics she learned from watching her manipulative mother), are intriguing, but dropped in favor of following Rita through her addiction and recovery issues.

It finds Mia Wasikowska as young India Stoker, suffering with a disaffected, emotionally manipulative mother (Nicole Kidman) following the loss of her father in a car accident.

Everyone else in the stellar cast around her is great as well: Barbara Hershey as her emotionally manipulative mother, Mila Kunis as a sexy, threatening yet alluring rival dancer, Vincent Cassel as their brilliant but lecherous director, Winona Ryder as the bitter former prima ballerina of the company...

Not exact matches

My mother uses her religion as an excuse, an excuse to act hateful, cruel, manipulative and biggoted towards others, and myself.

So to suggest to a mother who MAY THINK she is having supply issues to supplement as her first and only option is not correct / legit information and is yet another manipulative formula marketing tactic.

Mothers of young toddlers testing limits will say, «She's so manipulative all of a sudden.

In fact, thanks to manipulative marketing efforts by the baby food industry, infant formula has essentially been regarded as equivalent to breast milk, or even better, because anyone can feed the baby with it, freeing the mother from this work.

«In contrast to most previous studies, in which the animals learned from peers, the present study tested piglets after they observed their mother or their aunt in the process of solving a manipulative task,» explains Ludwig Huber, the director of this Messerli Foundation - financed study.

Oh sure, his father's a manipulative bastard and, as a child, David witnessed his mother's suicide but it's a little too much of a leap to say these explain a penchant for interstate crossdressing and homicide.

And yet complex, compelling heroines have been a fixture of McDonagh's work from the very start — his debut play from 1996, «The Beauty Queen of Leenane», centres on the destructive relationship between a depressive fortysomething and her manipulative elderly mother.

Elizabeth is portrayed, initially at least, as cold and unfeeling, Prince Philip (James Cromwell) as callous and elitist, Prince Charles (Alex Jennings) as manipulative and paranoid, and the Queen Mother (Sylvia Syms) as dotardly and self - absorbed.

M.V.P.: Among a wondrous cast, including J. Smith Cameron as Lisa's mother, John Gallagher Jr. as her hapless prospective beau, Kieran Culkin as a manipulative, callous rival, Rosemarie De Witt as the prickly, paranoid wife of Mark Ruffalo's character, Stephen Adly Guirgis as a long - suffering cop, Michael Ealy as a smart - as - a-whip attorney and Lonergan himself as Lisa's hen - pecked absentee father, it's the great Allison Janney (also the best thing in «The Help «-RRB- who lingers in a one - scene cameo as the victim of the bus accident which sets the plot in motion.

She was a cruel and manipulative ogre who made Faye Dunaway's Joan Crawford in «Mommie Dearest» look like Mother Theresa.

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- Publishers Weekly «Annie is manipulative and has issues with authority, Lexie is an enabler, their mother is distant, and Sam is annoyingly needy.

Manipulative, selfish and misguided mothers make for some of the most memorable characters in fiction.

Do you see her as a manipulative wife and mother or a woman trying to protect her family?

She found that while the father did suffer from some alcohol problems, the root cause was the relationship with the mother and her abusive, controlling and manipulative behaviour towards the father.

Based on the fact pattern described — Father appears very manipulative and controlling and the child appears more closely bonded to Mother — this was possibly the correct result.

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The mother has not engaged in this manipulative process.