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According to Kermode, Smith employs a "laborious accumulation of detail" to back up her diagnosis that the late princess "was unpredictable, egocentric, aggressive, insecure, manipulative, paranoid, possessive, easily bored, uneducated and a habitual liar."
Critics call this tear-jerker manipulative and trite, deriding its mandatory sing-along-to-Motown-hits female bonding scene, stiff-upper-lipping by Sarandon, etc.
The little identifying cards psychologist Gordon sets beside each item display an impressive mastery of the manipulative arts.
A profile of Patricia Duff traces her career as a manipulative, self-destructive femme fatale . After she failed at three marriages and at attempts to leverage wealth and connections into a career as a political powerbroker, she wed Revlon CEO Ron Perelman.
Leaving a Doll's House and What Falls Away seem less like vindictive, manipulative performances than like baby steps in the right direction.