Sentences with phrase «very manipulative»

He's very manipulative and controlling.

She has used this my friends have explained to me in our relationship, she is very manipulative and lies even when I have caught her in them.

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.

Hans - Michael Herzog A Very Manipulative Business Internet Giants: Masters of the Universe, exhibition catalogue Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK March 2018

Yes, it's very manipulative, and yes, it's very hard to watch, but the performances by Brie Larson and especially Jacob Tremblay demonstrate why acting is an art.

This was a man who managed to separate his work and family life for so long that he was clearly a very manipulative and dangerous sociopath.

At the Formosa, Basinger said she experienced «the seduction of Curtis Hanson,» referring to his eloquence and deadpanning that he was «very manipulative.»

I hate how most movie trailers are edited nowadays, they give everything away and the music choices can really be very manipulative (like the overly uplifting music used in the last half of this trailer.)

This site is a very manipulative site that employs people to trick you.

He lies and is very manipulative.

There is something very manipulative about those ads since kids lack the critical thinking skills of adults.

Mourinho seems to me to be very manipulative and vengeful.

He was very manipulative.

Not exact matches

As Cuddy said, «If someone you're trying to influence doesn't trust you, you're not going to get very far; in fact, you might even elicit suspicion, because you come across as manipulative.»

People love to receive compliments even if they are very much aware of its manipulative usage.

Through Thibodeau, whom they spoke to extensively, the audience gets to see how someone could believably get roped in by Koresh, who is manipulative but charming, and a very convincing leader.

While people often link to, read and enjoy sources that link out manipulatively, very few of us will be likely to follow a Twitter account, friend someone on Facebook, or «like» something in a social site that's inauthentic, manipulative or spammy.

Your characterization of my comment as «guilt tripping» and «passive manipulative aggression» is pure bullshit and reveals your bias against me very clearly.

I learned from blacks, at a very early age, that whites were manipulative, selfish, always out for «their damn selves» and NOT to be trusted.

and its very scary how manipulative and pushy they are and there should be no tolerance for the overtaking mentality of the Muslim faith..

Without overlooking the manipulative and deceptive purposes of the mass media, it should not be forgotten that this same atemporal concept is used by those who make use of the fantasy of the media to communicate very effectively the fantasy of their own «gospel».

Perhaps, very few scientists today make such a claim so unambiguously, yet this confidence in science and technology and the instrumental, manipulative use of nature, is very much present in modern culture.

It's a way to let the parent see the baby as an individual from the very beginning, and it helps clear away ideas like «my baby cries because she hates me» or «she's manipulative,» when actually the baby might be super sensitive or prefer a certain position.

Shoes and powdered milk are very different products, but both are sold using manipulative marketing tactics.

«This is very exciting work,» says Ary Hoffmann, who works on similarly manipulative bacteria in fruit flies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

However, these well - liked people can be very controlling and manipulative behind the scenes, says Ray - Jones.

Sasha decides to prove Xavier's ex-girlfriend is still a lying, cheating, manipulative bitch person, but things take a very dark turn.

One of the reasons you need to be particularly careful when meeting people online is because scammers can be very clever in their manipulative techniques.

Shes very disrespectful and manipulative.

While some humorous amusement is to be had from these lighter threads, they degenerate into the manipulative, melodramatic hokum of those sappy «very special episodes» of sitcoms or, in the case of David, disease - themed afterschool specials.

The film is very schmaltzy, sappy, and emotionally manipulative, and some of it does work, but a lot of it fell flat for me.

Enter Berlin - based Yager Development, which went in a very different direction from the first game's emotionally manipulative debut trailer with its Dead Island 2 announcement at E3 2014.

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.

Also, the characters are just not very realistic, and their resulting conversations and interactions with each other come off as forced and manipulative, mere playthings for LaBute to toy with in order to achieve some thematic truths for the audience.

He said, «the SNL guy was loud and Cyrus is very quiet and manipulative... I don't see it, but more power to you.

Hanks» performance (which is surprisingly, but probably correctly used sparingly; he's very much a supporting player in the author's story rather than a secondary lead) also nicely walks the line; it's hardly warts - and - all, and he's an ultimately avuncular figure, but the actor does a good job at showing Disney's Machiavellian, manipulative side.

Under the Skin then takes its time with her encounters with three very different men — one as lost as she is, another as manipulative as she is, and the last as despicable as a person can be.

He wants to help her, but he is loyal to the feelings of his manipulative wife Lynette (Barkan, Everyday People), who is very reluctant to accept Sherry and the new dimension she brings to their lives.

As Harry and Penelope poke at the Marianne / Paul relationship in different ways, Fiennes and Johnson simultaneously play up their manipulative commonalities and their vast differences in style, befitting their status as family members who don't know each other very well.

There's Tony (Nicholas Hoult, who used to be that cute kid from About a Boy), the cool guy, handsome and smart but a manipulative jerk; Michelle (April Pearson), his girlfriend, also smart but very shallow and too willing to dismiss Tony's caddishness; Sid (Mike Bailey), the «loser,» who's sweet but insecure, and is also in love with Michelle; Cassie (Hannah Murray), an anorexic ignored by her parents, who appear to prefer her infant brother; Jal (Larissa Wilson), a serious student and even more serious classical musician; Chris (Joe Dempsie), who also has major parental issues (I won't spoil them!)

Users can easily zoom in and out, so ¸ the manipulative supports a very large range of numbers.

Because manipulatives, although often very well designed for teaching mathematical concepts, do not contain the contact steps within themselves, the meaning comes from the student making meaning of the materials and often contexts which are relevant to students need to be present for that student to truly make sense.

Very helpful but not manipulative like the stereotypical salesmen we all know and fear.

Viciously maligned by the western press of the time as the «Dragon Lady,» a manipulative, blood - thirsty woman who held onto power at all costs, the woman Min gives us is a compelling, very human leader who assumed power reluctantly, and who sacrificed all she had to protect those she loved and an empire that was doomed to die.

While it would be possible for a computer to do this automatically, it is not very elegant and even seems manipulative.

At times, Crested can be stubborn and manipulative; however, they are very bright and alert dogs that respond well to reward - based training methods.

The Australian Cattle Dog can be very obstinate, manipulative and willful.

I've always been very wary of the manipulative tactics used by companies that employ loot boxes and have never bought a single one because I personally don't want to encourage that brand of bullshit from developers and publishers.

She exposes it as being as manipulative as any other artistic medium, as the critic Roberta Smith pointed out when the Centerfolds made their debut in 1981: «The psychological weight of the work is so direct that at times it seems to free the viewer to see very clearly the formal manipulations which are at its source.

In that regard the decision to have this as a censored technical thread doesn't appear very understanding, as if Judith had fallen for the usual manipulative tactics.