In practice, Col Gaddafi's critics insist, this gives him the freedom tomanipulate outcomes and operate as a virtual dictator at the head of a powerful elite.
We use it tooperate the cooperative but competitive system of social exchange that is a society: to charm, forgive, manipulate, bewitch, embroider, exaggerate, diminish, disparage to choose just some of the verbs from the key paragraph of Dr. Pagel's (beautifully written) book.