Sentence examples for a provocative gesture from inspiring English sources

It was a provocative gesture in Russia, which recently passed a law prohibiting homosexual "propaganda".

And she believes the distinctive paint job is a provocative gesture that has riled neighbours.

It's unbelievable to think now that that was such a provocative gesture but I don't think I'd ever seen that before in my life".

"Well, I don't know if I went into it with the intention to provoke, but I understood that it would be a provocative gesture," he said.

The pictures of 17 dead Iraqi soldiers line the entry hall of a nearby Iraqi Army office, where a mourning banner for a revered Shiite imam hangs from the facade — a provocative gesture in a largely Sunni area.

In calling the expulsions a "provocative gesture of solidarity," the Russian Foreign Ministry was perhaps accidentally a bit too honest in revealing what Moscow finds most troubling in the move.

In a particularly provocative gesture, Mr. Toledo introduced a retired general, Francisco Morales Bermudez, who was the last military president of Peru, to speak to the crowd.

Another photo showed the victim making a sexually provocative gesture.

The timing of the test meant that it would be seen inevitably as a highly provocative gesture.

It was a highly provocative gesture that did nothing to assuage fears that Morsi's election marked the gateway to a more extremist Egypt.

Under almost any circumstances, that could be reasonably interpreted as an overtly provocative gesture.