'Which means the old boy's one clever manipulator.'

I told myself that this man was of my own time, a clever manipulator of his fellow mortals.

So that we would know who "they" are, those clever manipulators who had subverted the American national interest?

Gunther again faces a killer who is a clever manipulator, working anonymous mayhem to settle old grudges.

If we move fast enough, we can sneak up from behind and take this clever manipulator by surprise.

Not much, except to note that Ms. Semmes is an engaging fantasist and a clever manipulator of architectural space.

Some saw him as a clever manipulator, willing to take risks to underpin his regime.

Mr. Gorbachev then became a clever, almost Mephistophelean manipulator.

Blackstone, as we all know, is a clever manipulator.