Sentence examples for a love of provocation from inspiring English sources

Marian Evans (the novelist George Eliot), writing alongside Huxley on the rationalist Westminster Review, an influential magazine at the cutting edge of 19th-century literary Britain, saw his brilliance as counterpoised by a love of provocation.

Parisians pride themselves on what they call "gouaille," a kind of cheeky wit, based on free thinking and a love of provocation, that always stands in opposition to authority.

He was married to the seminal abstract expressionist artist Joan Mitchell and a kind of comrade-in-arms of the writer Norman Mailer, with whom he shared a love of wine, women and provocation.

With his juvenile love of provocation, it's easy to forget that Lars von Trier is, first and foremost, a film-maker, and a truly remarkable one at that.

Another example of Boltzmann's love of provocation is his article on Schopenhauer which he entitled "Proof that Schopenhauer is an empty-minded, ignorant, nonsense-spreading philosophaster who thoroughly degenerates heads by selling hollow talk", but was published, after editorial intervention, as 'On a thesis by Schopenhauer' (Boltzmann 1905, 240).

He could channel his aggression and his love of provocation, and he could do it live on stage.

This was a work of provocation".

It began as a bit of provocation.

Freedom is not possible without a dose of provocation, maybe".

He added: "It was a kind of provocation".

The decimal point is a bit of provocation.