Even as a fresco painter his manipulative power was not great.

"I didn't want to create a character who had a real handle on the manipulative power of her beauty," the writer said.

Somehow this history has congealed into the daughter's desire for luxury, protection and sly, manipulative power.

While not beautiful, she has great charisma and is described as having enormous power over men, being both seductive and manipulative.

Salter Station was powerful evidence of the effectiveness of that manipulative power.

Should never have told her...I knew of her manipulative powers.

And the same manipulative power can be used to escape reality altogether, to create an entirely fictional image.

The manipulative power of the popular commercial culture is summoned up with something like a repulsive reverence.

The man in the street is no longer naïve about the manipulative powers of the camera.

Their theme is the manipulative power of hidden political, economic and social forces.