Sentence examples for a work of provocation from inspiring English sources

This was a work of provocation".

It is a combination that assures that this first novel by a disturbingly talented writer is more than a work of mere provocation.

After all, Courbet's Origin of the World is a work of genuine erotic provocation.

The result is an irresolvable drama about an irresolvable conflict – a work of compelling intelligence, provocation and wit.

There are no plans to mass-produce the Last Moment Robot or sell anything like it to hospitals, Chen told CNET's Leslie Katz; the Last Moment Robot is simply intended as a work of art, a thought experiment, a provocation.

According to James Martin Harding, the play is "based on a plot about a woman who 'is a man-hating hustler and panhandler' and who ... ends up killing a man" and is more a "provocation than ... a work of dramatic literature" and "rather adolescent and contrived".

Bertrand Wendling, the executive director of the tuna-fishing cooperative of which the Jean-Marie Christian VI was a part, called the Greenpeace protest "without doubt an act of provocation" in which "valuable work tools" were damaged.

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.