Sentence examples for a provocative idea from inspiring English sources

Roger Lowenstein triggers a provocative idea.

BEIJING — It's a provocative idea — and a disturbing one.

This was still, even in the 1930s, a provocative idea.

The end of lying was a provocative idea.

"It's a provocative idea that has lots of different angles," he said.

It's a provocative idea that's soon lost amid the self-consciously deployed clichés that finally do the movie in.

The study refutes a recent claim that some of those galaxies have little or no dark matter--a provocative idea that flew in the face of leading theories of galaxy formation.

Like Ms. Reza's "Art" this play consists of a superficially provocative idea slapped onto an almost-probable situation and whipped into a froth of hyper-articulate nonsense.

"It is a very provocative idea," says William Bonner, a molecular biologist with the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

All fears of computers taking over the world aside, today HAL remains a truly provocative idea: the computer having an awareness of itself and the people who interact with it in the 3-D space we live in.

In the early 1990s, Wolf Singer advanced a very provocative idea: Different features of an animal's world are represented by distinct cell assemblies that can be bound together by oscillatory synchrony (Singer 1993; Singer and Gray 1995).