Sentence examples for Mere provocation from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, of course, this is mere provocation.

It is sure to eclipse mere provocation as a sore spot for local art worldlings.

Her racism is not mere provocation, but provides the novel's capital irony.

He also refuses to see his poetry and lyrics as mere provocation.

But the ambitions of Japan's new right-wing activists go beyond incendiary characterizations of the war, or mere provocation.

It might all amount to mere provocation had Mr. Little and Mr. Vavrek not delivered a taut, nuanced work that clawed beneath the surface of every situation.

There is more to these two writers than mere provocations, however.

When Mr Boehner says that Mr Obama has "sabotaged" the chances for immigration legislation, what he is saying is that his Tea-Party faction is a creature of whim and slight, uninterested in policy but hot-tempered at the merest provocation, and that the announcement of new policies has wrecked his chances of hushing the beast long enough to get some sensible legislation past it.

When Gore Vidal said of Truman Capote that his death was a good career move, it was mere waspish provocation, but the same assertion could be made without irony about Jean Harlow, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe.

And Ms. Kane's aim is not mere entertainment, or even provocation; it's revelation — of how men and women revert to feeding their most basic hungers when their existence is threatened, or when exposure to brutality has corroded their humanity.

It's harder than ever to decipher a mere break-the-internet provocation from a game-changing, artistic innovation.