Sentence examples for conscious provocation from inspiring English sources
Calling your new-music festival Darmstadt Essential Repertoire is a conscious provocation on multiple levels, as the New York composers Zach Layton and Nick Hallett surely realized when they chose the name.
What of the glorified, gratuitous violence in film and television--that which goes beyond art, beyond conscious raising provocation?
The provocation proved provocative.
The image felt like a metonym for the series, which, for five seasons, has waved a flag of provocation against a background of tender, socially conscious, occasionally gooey humanism, an opiate combination that has made it a secret addiction for many women of my acquaintance.
England have arrived in Brazil steeled to resist similarly aggressive tactics to those employed by Honduras in Saturday's tempestuous final friendly in Miami, with Roy Hodgson's players conscious of the need to retain discipline and not rise to provocation.
The hard, body-conscious pieces seemed to fly a black leather flag over a world when sexual provocation and deviation had become acceptable.
Opportunities for provocation and topical satire are squandered in this lazy, lumbering exercise in semi-self-conscious insult humor.
3.15am BST Provocation on provocation.
