I mean, Lars might see himself as some master manipulator, but that's not how he comes across.
But now, Meg had set her sights on a master manipulator.
He saw in Lincoln a master manipulator of images.
Plekhanov knew history well, and he was a master manipulator.
And Chewning, in particular, is nothing if not a master manipulator.
"My father's a master manipulator, Nick," she had told him over and over again.
No, Justinian couldn't possibly be that much of a master manipulator.
The character is a master manipulator and planner, with decades of genetic research at his command.
But things go wrong, and their lawyer turns out to be a master manipulator.
She is also a master manipulator, much like the original Terra.