Sentence examples for calculated provocation from inspiring English sources

Marc Quinn's is a world of calculated provocation.

Far from being a teen with raging hormones immaturely flexing his biceps in front of a mirror, China's move is a calculated provocation.

But then, the setting allows him to reel around in a disarrayed fencing outfit that resembles a dangling, half-done-up straitjacket, like a calculated provocation to those who would prefer to think him mad.

The Twittersphere is a torrent of initial gut reactions, calculated provocation, flashes of brilliance coupled with flashes of anger, jealousy, compassion, manipulation, candor and connection, brilliantly funny jokes, and miserably failed attempts at jokes, poetry, news, commentary.

The stunt also reflected the party's strategy of "calculated provocation" around the explosive subject of the role of the Holocaust in German history, he said.

Just last week, AfD lawmakers walked out of a Holocaust commemoration in Bavaria's state legislature in what analysts said was a "calculated provocation" around the explosive subject of the role of the Holocaust in German history.

Granted, it is widely agreed that the wisdom of Georgia's actions was doubtful, notwithstanding the series of likely calculated provocations they were subject to.

When perception is so refined as to lose sight of manifest facts, or when the flames of outrage or desire are banked by comfort or fear, calculated provocations can have a salutary effect on sensibilities, and the passions they arouse always run the risk of spilling over into the danger zone — energy is never fully constructive, nor constructive from the start.

But in his efforts to turn this portrait into a calculated political provocation, Ridley bumps up against the limits of his artistic vision.

However, critics say that it is a calculated, anti-Semitic provocation.

But "Klown" is a very different sort of movie — messier, less calculated in its provocations and more personal.