Sentence examples for Provocative word from inspiring English sources

Psychosis is a very provocative word, suggesting extreme madness and disassociation with reality.

I appreciate that it's a provocative word and I apologise if it gave people the wrong impression".

Ronnie O'Sullivan, never a man short of a provocative word or three, lambasted Stephen Hendry in 2002 for repeatedly asking for a shot to be replayed.

The N.B.A. lockout did not end Thursday night, but it edged ever closer to a finale, amid tense smiles, light-hearted quips and provocative word choices by the men who are negotiating a new labor deal.

Attention turned to President Dwight Eisenhower, and to his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, who was known for his stern views on Communist ideology and used the provocative word "liberation" in connection with Eastern Europe.

In London, which critics disparage as "Londonistan" for its willingness to accept dangerous radicals, Abu Hamza al-Masri, a one-eyed imam at the Finsbury Park mosque, preached to Zacarias Moussaoui, the would-be September 11th hijacker.It would be wrong, though, to seek to exclude or lock up every imam who has uttered a provocative word.

Some especially provocative words were brought to my attention by Scott Sherman, who writes for The Nation.

The other is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a hard-line nationalist whose vivid personality and provocative words have won him a considerable following.

His provocative words continue to reverberate in Twitterland — at this writing, mainly in Portuguese: "Para viciados em informação, o Twitter é crack".

But such provocative words could not distract the media and public from another domestic concern for Trump – the growing perception that his predecessor has acted to his disadvantage.

Take a handful of provocative words and add the question of whether they have been mangled in translation from American English to Israeli Hebrew.