Sentence examples for a provocative man from inspiring English sources

Touré is not a provocative man — not off the field, anyway.

A thoughtful, provocative man with a strong interest in humanity and the things that lurk beneath it, he was more than your average wreckhead cosmonaut – he was an advocate, an architect, somebody whose work concentrated on the long-term good, rather than the short-term buzz, that drugs could provide.

A thoughtful, provocative man with a strong interest in humanity and the things that lurk beneath it, he was more than your average wreckhead cosmonaut he was an advocate, an architect, somebody whose work concentrated on the long-term good, rather than the short-term buzz, that drugs could provide.

Indeed, the joke on the novel's TV execs – who think Hitler is an actor being a clever satirist when in fact he is himself and deadly serious – seems at first also to be a joke on the novel itself, which rarely allows its antihero to be any more disturbing than an amiably provocative man of the people, a kind of Nigel Farage with added swastikas.

Complete looks from two of his recent, and provocative, men's wear shows are being presented on rotating mannequins, including some very kinky accessories, like the tribal-meets-bondage leather masks from his fall 2012 collection entitled "Lust Never Sleeps".

It also exposed a growing tension between men and women by raising a provocative question: Do men feel that women have become their social oppressors?

Mr. Hoffman being Mr. Hoffman — one of the best stage and screen actors of his generation — he creates a provocative portrait of a man burned to an ashen, angry nihilism by years of unrewarded service.

Instead, they have been content to make a superficial biography of a provocative but largely unknown man named Daniel Ellsberg and opted, for obvious commercial reasons, to mistitle it "The Pentagon Papers".

A provocative investigation of young men's testosterone-fueled fantasies of pinup girls, fast cars and heavy metal music, the show earned the two artists reputations as insouciant bad boys who courted controversy and reveled in bad taste.

His latest project is a provocative comedy about a young man born deaf into a family whose articulacy compounds his isolation.

Thus a provocative image of fully clothed men pulling their penises and women jiggling their breasts to the beat of James Lo's score suddenly looks playful, even innocent.