Some people I know liked it; others found it calculating and emotionally manipulative.

Eleanor, ruthlessly cunning and emotionally manipulative, takes every opportunity to get one over on Sarah.

Fallon described the funeral plot line as "pure, classic Glee: Egregiously random, emotionally manipulative, wholly unnecessary to plot development, and, in the end, deeply moving."

Bart becomes successful after creating a segment called "Bart's People", which Lisa immediately disapproves of due to its sappy, emotionally manipulative content.

Mr. Stone's purpose supposedly is to satirize violence in America, and few film makers use the medium with such visual and emotionally manipulative brilliance.

They criticized the New Side/School's revivals as being emotionally manipulative and shallow.

He had successfully outlasted her primitive and emotionally manipulative interrogation techniques.

She portrayed the character of Binodini, an emotionally manipulative widow, struggling with her sexual desires in early-20th century Bengal.

It is an emotionally manipulative exercise in visual codes.

It asserts that emotionally manipulative techniques that exist within Charismatic and Pentecostal churches are not necessarily evidence of the work of the Holy Spirit.