Sentence examples for a provocative exercise from inspiring English sources
After cumulating these forces in a "provocative exercise in subtraction," Mr Gordon forecasts that the standard of living for an American in the bottom 99% of the income distribution will barely increase for one hundred years.
A film exploring a world in which white people don't have nice things (or Vibranium, the nicest thing in this case) is a provocative exercise in our time, when nations around the world are gripped by a rise in white nationalist movements and the accompanying devaluation of ethnic groups.
Although many, including the superintendent of schools, found it disturbing, the assignment is just a provocative version of the familiar exercise in which you are asked to write an application for a job you're not really interested in or a letter to a congressman in support of a position you don't hold.
A provocative new study finds that some of the benefits of exercise for brain health may evaporate if we take to the couch and stop being active, even just for a week or so.
Russia also sends a provocative message to NATO suggesting that if the alliance conducts training exercises at Russia's doorstep, Moscow will mobilize its advanced weapons system.
Combine this with a provocative thesis and even-sided handling, and what you get is a thought-provoking intellectual exercise with his Christians.
"A provocative 'exercise in subtraction' suggests that future growth in consumption per capita for the bottom 99 percent of the income distribution could fall below 0.5 percent per year for an extended period of decades," he writes.
Roger Lowenstein triggers a provocative idea.
A provocative way of looking at things.
