And I said, Manipulative.

It's on the checklist cunning and manipulative.

Nothing could be more manipulative or unjustified.

And in fact, faking madness is exactly the kind of cunning and manipulative act of a psychopath.

Hare said the reason why is because capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior the lack of empathy, the glibness, cunning, manipulative.

He said, You know what, one of the items on the checklist is lack of remorse, but another item on the checklist is cunning, manipulative.

In retrospect, three successive British prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron were on overly familiar terms with a manipulative business leader. Cameron now talks about the need for a healthier relationship between politicians and media owners.

There is a conceptual barrier to understanding the problems that officials might face in regulating crowdfunding, owing to the failure of prevailing economic models to account for the manipulative and devious aspects of human behavior. Economists typically describe people s rational, honest side, but ignore their duplicity.

Thus, the Security Council's de facto usurpation of the powers of the Assembly would continue unchecked and, together with other manipulative undertakings, would weaken the Assembly, which should be the true decision making body, since it is the only organ in which all Members of the Organization are represented.

Alexander Pushkin, Nicolai Gogol, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky were all suspicious of the Poles, calling them cold, distant, and manipulative, and seeing Poland as always on the side of the West, rather than standing with its Slavic brothers. Indeed, Pushkin s friendship with Adam Mickiewicz ended in acrimony over the 1830 Polish insurrection against Tsarist rule.

Israel needs to decide whether it is a regional superpower or a Jewish ghetto waiting for an imminent pogrom to begin. History in the hands of manipulative politicians and incorrigible ideologues can be either a dangerously inebriating weapon to mobilize the masses, or, as James Joyce put it in Ulysses, a nightmare from which it is difficult to wake.

The metaphor, overwhelmingly endorsed by voters, stood for Roosevelt s mandate to fix the ailing economy along lines that were innovative but still essentially capitalist. Some of his administration s initiatives, such as the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, seemed anti business to some at the time, but have long since been accepted as a boon to competition and dynamism by hemming in unfair or manipulative behavior.

It is not so much Sarkozy s performance as president that most Frenchmen reject it is his essence. At a time of rising unemployment, with France dominated by fears about the future, the French need a reassuring father or mother figure, not a jittery and manipulative leaderready to compromise ethics and France s proud tradition that every citizen is entitled to equal treatment under the law.

Europe s 500 million citizens may not be surprised by what is playing out in the corridors of power, but they ought to find it very disturbing. The issue is not only what could be lost in the race to the bottom in which many EU national governments are now engaging, but also the manipulative anti EU sentiment coming from many quarters of the European press, which appears intent on pushing various national leaders into another budget showdown.