svengali
IPA: svˈɛŋgˈɑɫi
noun
- One who manipulates or controls another as by some mesmeric or sinister influence; especially a coach, mentor or industry mogul.
- Alternative letter-case form of svengali [One who manipulates or controls another as by some mesmeric or sinister influence; especially a coach, mentor or industry mogul.]
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Examples of "svengali" in Sentences
- Late Late Update: I used the word "svengali" to describe Power when I meant "guru."
- He's been called their svengali, but his contributions tonight feel entirely convivial.
- Such was her perceived hold over the Blairs that she was frequently described as a "svengali or Rasputin" character.
- Last year, CREW launched this website www.bermanexposed.com to introduce the public to Richard Berman, the PR svengali.
- But the acting glory is stolen by the incredible Michael Shannon as their crazed svengali producer Kim Fowley – a wild, hilarious and monstrous character, his every line quotable.
- It's at this point that the best sequences occur when her admirer, the Tory MP Airey Neave (Nicholas Farrell), and her svengali, the TV guru Gordon Reece (Roger Allam), take her in hand.
- But Elisabeth – wife of PR svengali Matthew Freud – has fallen out with her brother James over the handling of the phone-hacking affair, and no longer believes he is right to take over from Rupert at the helm.
- McKenna's Ingenious group is a specialist tax and financial adviser to media companies, helping back Spice Girls svengali Simon Fuller, advise Robbie Williams on a £50m record deal with EMI, and part financing films such as Avatar.
- This line, from a chapter on "The Economics of Museums" in the "Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture," flashed into my head yesterday when I finally got to go to see "Experience," the New Museum's blockbuster retrospective of Belgian relational aesthetics svengali Carsten Höller.
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