Leandro recognized this for the manipulative trick it was, but it still always made him feel squirmy, guilty, about eight years old.

The screenplay's insistence that her Violeta is "a man" in spirit is its most blatantly manipulative trick.

Sure, on a per thousand basis, the manipulative tricks you might decide to use seem to work, but people don't have to show up in the first place.

It's fair enough to be proud of what you do, but if people are using irritating, manipulative tricks (Where is Charity Lane?

Justin and Mila watch a fictional slushy-weepy on video and derisively deconstruct all the genre's manipulative tricks - but the movie finds itself doing some very similar things.

And letting me know you can see right through every little manipulative trick in my repertoire in the process.

You might be his daughter only in name, but you've certainly learnt all his nasty, manipulative little tricks.

Such manipulative, adrenaline-stimulating tricks are all too commonplace, and sometimes they work.

"It converts participation into a manipulative trick to involve people in struggles for getting what the powerful want to impose on them."

Wasn't this one of those little manipulative tricks of the director's trade?