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Reviewers declare his play about a 40-year-old virgin and her mother "more immediate and vital than any new drama in seasons" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Dissenters call McDonagh a "sadistic manipulative writer with an unappealing ruthlessness toward his characters" (Charles Spencer, the London Daily Telegraph ).
Sugarcoated and manipulative is how critics describe this Garry Marshall film about two mentally handicapped young adults (Giovanni Ribisi and Juliette Lewis) who fall in love.
Rorty has no truck with campus PC and is by all reports a humane, thoughtful, and decent man, not the kind of self-promoter or manipulative careerist Brooks posits.
Tripp is said to be a meatier character--genuinely caring at times, staggeringly manipulative at others.
In 1975 the National Institutes of Health sponsored a multidisciplinary research conference on status of spinal manipulative therapy [ 27 ] . The orthopedic, osteopathic, and chiropractic representatives reported on the understanding and use of the terminology in each respective profession.