Sentence examples for designed provoking from inspiring English sources

She said that onstage, "I want to wear jeans, but all the men complain: 'You've got to wear Cambodian dress!' " That night she had worn a slinky green-and-gold silk number that she had designed, provoking one audience member to declare her "unspeakably sexy".

However, in spite of this aparent development, heritage preservation still faces a minor impact over the general curricula of Brazilian schools of architecture and urban design, provoking specific disarticulations of theory and practice in built heritage conservation education.

What began as a pet project in this small European nation has put Belgium's built fabric in the international spotlight, highlighting that country's widespread flair for unique and individualistic design, provoking the mutual admiration and ire of architecture aficionados and prompting some soul-searching and snickering back home.

The Villa Muller's innovative design provoked a sensation in avant-garde circles.

If the argument for God from cosmological design provokes such responses from its opponents, will it provoke others to view belief in God as reasonable enough to consider?

The term design provokes the idea of a conceived new object of desired function, based on an intuitive understanding of the properties of the materials from which the object is to be made.

The publication in 1608 of Magdalena de San Jerónimo's Razón y Forma de Galera (prison purpose and design) provoked the construction of women's prisons with clearly reformatory purposes.

"This resolution was designed to provoke Iraq in every detail".

It looks designed to provoke sectarian or ethnic tensions".

— and that ambiguity is designed to provoke conversation.

Words like "conman" and "fake" did seem designed to provoke a reaction.