Sentence examples for aimed to provoke from inspiring English sources

She insisted her action had not aimed to provoke.

Said aimed to provoke, and his irritating prose style did just that.

Specially created for a contemporary arts festival in the north-east city of Figueres this autumn, the art work – called Oscillating Ideologies – aimed to provoke reflection on the continued presence of General Franco's ideas and attitudes in Spanish society today.

"Facebook and Twitter empower all groups — not just the pro-Western groups that we like," he wrote, pointing out that the Iranian government was also active online: "Not only did it thwart Internet communications, the government (or its plentiful loyalists) also flooded Iranian Web sites with videos of dubious authenticity... that aimed to provoke and splinter the opposition".

Devoid of Shame aimed to provoke conversation about intercourse and sexuality.

The prosecution argued that the officers aimed to provoke widespread civil unrest in order to justify a military intervention.

These designers aim to provoke debate about radically different futures.

Every song on my album aims to provoke an extreme emotion.

Batsheva's choreographies never try to depict a real situation, but instead aim to provoke an interior effect.

Might RH Contemporary ever sell work that aims to provoke or unsettle, instead of fitting comfortably into people's homes?

But any resulting movie, like the rest of Participant's output, will aim to provoke social or political action.