A persistent strain, also, of rebelliousness, of provocativeness, of "orneriness", in Crane, in Stein, in Baldwin, in Cage, who in 1967 dedicated a book "to us and all those who hate us, that the USA may become just another part of the world, no more, no less".Then there is the drive always to make something more; it could never have been a true American who said, "Poetry makes nothing happen".
Leconte de Lisle's theories, reacting against Romanticism and stressing the need for impersonality and discipline in poetry, were expressed with deliberate provocativeness and exaggeration.
Not all are equally mellifluous — despite my attachment to German, I'd have to say that, really, Raumschlüssel is less beautiful to my ears than la chiave della camera — but, again, it is variety, and the rich provocativeness of variety, that we lose if we give up foreign languages.
He doesn't worry that his provocativeness will alienate customers or critics.
"I'm drawn to the provocativeness of the darkness of life," he agreed, but suggested that the viewer's reading of the work is always his or her own: "If you read something as being dark, well, maybe you, too, are a little dark.
Mr. Deacon creates a cardboard provocativeness, not much better than a London sex shop, with leather pants that zip down the rear, see-through lace with dog collars, and black mini-sweatshirts that in no way justify the expense of putting a Lesage-embroidered animal of prey on them.
But, with some provocativeness, Payne assigns Lewinskian disempowerment not to the younger woman, but to the older man.
But her deep voice could do with more variety and I missed something of the teasing provocativeness I've seen in other Hildes.
But for all the provocativeness of the idea and the moments of raw feeling it reportedly generated – "you bastards, bastards, fascists", Tom Lubbock of the Independent heard people shout from the watching crowd during "the first mounted police charge" – the event seemed to place Orgreave in a museum as much as bring it back to life.
Her cards are butterflies, fish, birds, seashells, leaves and flowers, and she shuffles them and deals them to us, with audacity, provocativeness and vivaciousness". The works where she deals with butterflies and birds show an artist trying to find her approach, her vernacular.
