When I was looking for feedback, the energy behind my tweets and posts was needy and manipulative.
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However, in its place, a new and manipulative science of predictability risks becoming even more subtly intrusive than advertising was.
But naked short-sellers don't borrow the shares, and manipulative naked short-sellers use the tactic to drive a stock into the ground.
In business circles he is viewed as cynical, eccentric, tactical, and manipulative.
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Particularly worrisome is the Ortega government's selective and manipulative use of "international observers" in a transparent attempt to obscure the rigged character of the election.
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But in order to make money out of those users and satisfy the denizens of Wall Street, it has to become ever more intrusive and manipulative.
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Mr Putin's admirers in the West hope that he will also go after Boris Berezovsky, a clever and manipulative Kremlin insider with interests in oil, aluminium and the media.
He said Petrino also "engaged in a pattern of misleading and manipulative behavior designed to deceive me and members of the athletics staff both before and after the accident, " Long said.
Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigator Gary Aguirre is slated to testify at a hearing Wednesday as the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up the issue of hedge funds and manipulative short-selling.
One of the things the Internet has revealed to us as it has spread through our culture is just how uncivilized, narcissistic, and manipulative we, in general, can be when it comes to our relationships.
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Furthermore, it can be disingenuous and manipulative.
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"They described Tamerlan as very controlling and very manipulative of their friend, " Sullivan said.
His brand of raw rhetoric on the hustings and his manipulative skills should thrive in these conditions.
Primal and unashamedly manipulative, cliffhangers are the signature gambit of serial storytelling.
Shuttling between the opposing camps is Kate Sullivan, a young lawyer with a devious mind and good legs: she represents the wire-and-cable company, but she and Larry are manipulative soul mates, and in the course of negotiations their enthusiastic gamesmanship evolves into a weird kind of courtship.
Respondents to the survey said over-exposure to negative media and advertising portrayals of Africa and developing countries in other parts of the world was "depressing, manipulative and hopeless".
U.S. officials draw a distinction between cyber espionage and cyberattacks, which have a destructive or manipulative purpose and could be considered an act of war.
He described her as a capable, manipulative and intelligent woman who acted of her own free will.
During a divorce, narcissists can be manipulative and exploitive, feeling neurotically entitled to get whatever they want.
The film suggests the agency can be held responsible for the deaths, manipulative and unbalanced though Koresh was.
The youngest child is usually the most creative and can be manipulative to get his or her way.
Many critics blame its removal for unfettered and at times manipulative short selling at the height of the crisis.
Another loser is Mediobanca, a secretive, manipulative and hitherto all-powerful Milanese investment bank.
Manson has a history of manipulative and controlling behavior and has a record of mental health issues, including schizophrenia and a paranoid delusional disorder, Robles said.
He is also vengeful, manipulative and cleverer by far than almost anyone else he encounters, including and especially the high-born aristocrats who surround Henry and who despise Cromwell on the grounds - absurd to modern eyes, but the universally accepted wisdom in the early 16th Century - that he is an upstart of humble birth, and that only they are fit to govern.
Perpetrators of dangerous and obsessive offences frequently had a "highly manipulative personality" and could persuade criminal justice officials they are "misunderstood and deserve a second chance", he told peers, arguing that changes were needed to counter this.
She had harsh words for the industry's manipulative practices and put new restrictions on the way cigarettes can be marketed.
The most valid critiques in my mind are that Invisible Children simplifies a complex situation, is emotionally manipulative, and advocates a military solution.
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