1. Might have been the other way around: Stalin acting as a Svengali on Lenin.

2. Firstly by the theatre; secondly by what he called his Pygmalion, even his Svengali, complex.

3. He thinks that you are some kind of Svengali and that you're gonna hypnotize me into your cult.

4. Karl Rove, once George Bush's Svengali, ascended in part by helping Texas businessmen fight trial lawyers for control of that state's highest court.